MORRISVILLE LIBRARY NEWS September 7, 2001
by Mary Brown
It's nice for us to have a chance to be good neighbors. The
Hamilton Library's re-opening date is now October 1st. We welcome
our neighbors, the patrons of the Hamilton Library, to continue
to order and sign out books as well as return books at our library.
Also, we remind the Hamilton folks that there will be no overdue
fines on Hamilton items renewed until October 1st.
Our library is starting to gear up for the fall season. The latest
Mini Book Sale is now underway in the front hallway. This time
"Q" books, large format books and some mass market
paperbacks are on the sale cart. But they won't be there for
long with the unbelievable sale prices of one dollar for paperbacks
and two dollars for hardcovers. The mass market books are 75
cents each or three for two dollars.
The opening session of the fall Book Talk series is also ready
to go. On October 19th at 7 p.m., Professor Roxanna Pisiak will
lead a discussion of Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World. Sign up
for a copy at the circulation desk, so that you will have plenty
of time to read the book before the Book Talk.
Thanks go out this week to the Crouse Community Center for its
generous donation to the library.
New videos that have come in this week are Stanley Kubrick's
Barry Lyndon, Macbeth with Orsen Wells and Roddy McDowell, and
The Apu Trilogy.
There are no new books to report this week, which leads us to
remind our patrons to consider sending Governor Pataki one of
the post cards available at the circulation desk of the library.
Tell him how important your library is to you and your community,
and urge him to support more state funding for local public libraries.
State funding for libraries, including ours, has not kept pace
with inflation, and local budgets are stretched to the limit.
We need more tax dollars for such things as electronic materials
and connections, extended hours, updating of our collection,
building renovations and family reading programs.
Libraries are an important part of the neighborhood. Come in
and visit your friendly neighbors -- Traci, Barb and staff -
at the library this week. You'll be happy that you did.
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