MORRISVILLE LIBRARY NEWS
by Mary Brown

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Happy holidays to everyone from Barb and the staff of the Morrisville Public Library! Don't forget that the library will be closed from December 25th until after New Year's Day. We will re-open on January 2nd.
When the library re-opens in January, it will be open five additional hours each week. The new library hours will be from noon until 8 p.m. on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, from 10 a.m. till 1:30 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays and from 10 a.m. till 2 p.m. on Saturdays.
Our other news this week is that Barb Fogg has been appointed Library Manager by the library's Board of Trustees. Barb was previously the Assistant Director of the library and has been serving as Interim Director since the end of September. Congratulations, Barb!
The annual Holiday Silent Auction was a big success again this year! We'd like to thank the following people who donated all those wonderful items up for bid. Thanks to Barb Fogg, Donna Dockray, Teresa Lemery, Ethel Crane, Jan Ghent, Kay Christman, Nancy McPherson, Eva Pecor, Bette Slocum, Grant Jackson, Bob Milner, Pat Congdon, W. Ralph Murray, Maxine Hunter, Battisti's Flower Shop, Morrisville Big M, New York Pizzeria of Morrisville, Carla Kutzuba, Dougherty's Pharmacy, Jennifer Caloia, Lynde LaFever, Joan Gregory, Jean Puddington, Susanne Farrington, Emily Marshall and Mary Brown. Also, a big thanks to all those people who bid on the items.
Get ready for the New Year, and put these nice events on your calendar> Coming up on January 8th will be the first session of Spanish Language Tutoring from 4-5 p.m. in the program room; this program will continue on Wednesdays throughout January. On Saturday, January 11th, a Pine Cone Bird Seed Feeder Project, led by Janine Ashcraft, will be held from 10:30 - 11:30 a.m. for children up through third grade.
Three new videos have arrived, just in time to enjoy over the holiday break: 1940's House, Ice Age, and The Lord of the Rings, the Fellowship of the Ring are all ready for you to sign out.
Some nice new books are also in this week. Best-selling novelist, Patricia Cornwell's Portrait of a Killer is a true crime book about the case of the infamous Jack the Ripper. She applies modern investigation and forensic techniques to the crimes that horrified London more than 100 years ago. By all reports, this is a fascinating book. Prey by Michael Crichton is a scary thriller about a swarm of microscopic machines that escape into the environment and threaten human life. Geisha, a Life by Mikeko Iwasaki is the memoir of the famed geisha who was the chief informant for Arthur Golden's Memoirs of a Geisha. She relates the story of the hard, endless training she had to undergo--learning how to speak a special dialect of Japanese and how to sing and dance gracefully while wearing a heavy kimono and six-inch wooden sandals-as well as learning and practicing the elaborate rules of the art.
Merry Christmas from all of us to all of you wonderful patrons of the Morrisville Public Library.

 


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October 4, 2002