MORRISVILLE LIBRARY NEWS
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MORRISVILLE LIBRARY NEWS
by Mary Brown
It's a new week at the library, and we have some
other "NEW"'s to report as well.
There is a new face in the library! As a result of the
recent search for a new library assistant, we are happy to welcome
Grant Jackson to the library's staff. Grant will be working
about thirteen hours a week, at the circulation desk and in other
varied capacities. He is a political science graduate of SUNY
Oswego and is in the process of changing his full time career
field. He is currently a Horticulture student at SUNY Morrisville.
Grant says that he has appreciated and enjoyed libraries his
whole life and hopes he can offer his talents successfully to
the Morrisville Library.
The second NEW to report is the new roof ! Campany Roofing
of Oneida finished it up efficiently and even beat those random
snowflakes that have been seen floating about Morrisville.
Under the new roof there is plenty of activity going on.
Coming up this Friday, November 1st, Roxanna Pisiak will facilitate
the Adult Book Talk discussion of Susan Vreeland's interesting
novel, Girl in Hyacinth Blue. Copies are now available for sign-out
at the circulation desk. It's a rather short novel; you can
still sign it out and read it by Friday evening. The Pre-School
Story Hour with Grandma B series will be have its final session
of the fall series at 10:30 a.m. on November 12. The art exhibit,
Susanne Farrington -- Retrospective: 1962 - 2002, is continuing
through November in the Program Room.
A big thank you goes out this week to volunteer, Joan Zazzara,
who faithfully does the weekly overdue notices; we really appreciate
her doing that "not-so-much-fun" job for us.
The final NEW for this week is the nice batch of new books
recently donated to the library. Remember, you can "order"
any of the books mentioned in this column by going to our webpage
at www.midyork.org/morrisville and following the directions for
signing out books.
The first group of new books was generously donated by
the library's good friend, Moors Myers. Veiled Courage: Inside
the Afghan Women's Resistance by Cheryl Benard tells about the
terrible plight of Afghan women and efforts of the underground
resistance movement, the Revolutionary Association of the Women
of Afghanistan, to work for women's rights. Mosquito by Andrew
Spielman and Michael D'Antonio gives all kinds of information
about this interesting, pesty and sometime killing insect and
its impact on people throughout history. Ridin' High, Livin'
Free: Hell-Raising Mortorcycle Stories by notorious Hell's Angels
biker, Ralph "Sonny" Barger, relates rough, violent,
romantic and sometimes humorous true and not-so-true biker stories.
Shutterbabe by Deborah Kogan follows the author's adventures
as an international photojournalist and adventurous female spirit.
The Town Below the Ground by Jan-Andrew Henderson relates the
maybe true, maybe fictional story of Edinburgh's underground
city and its poor, lonely, sick and hopeless inhabitants.
Thanks also to the anonymous donors who have given the following
books to the library recently. Maura Stanton's Do Not Forsake
Me, Oh My Darling, winner of the 2002 Richard Sullivan Prize
in Short Fiction, is a collection of ten diverse short stories.
Melinda and Robert Blanchard's A Trip to the Beach is a colorful
account of the ups and downs of building, maintaining, and operating
a restaurant on a tiny Caribbean island. The Founding by Cynthia
Eagles, set during the War of the Roses, is the first book of
this author's 22 volume Moreland family saga. Nicola Griffin's
Slow River is a biotech science fiction novel that combines
the main character, Lore van de Ouest's search for identity with
an often disturbing sci-fi world. Filling out the New Books
cart this week are Shakespeare's Language by Frank Kermode, and
Sick of Shadows, Lovely in Her Bones, and the PMS Outlaws, all
by Sharyn McCrumb.
New faces, new roof, new books…a whole new world for
you to explore at your local library. Stop by this week and
see how interesting that world can be!
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Public Library
October 28, 2002