MORRISVILLE LIBRARY NEWS
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MORRISVILLE LIBRARY NEWS
by Mary Brown
Happy Thanksgiving from everyone at the library! The
library will be closed from Thursday, November 28th - Saturday,
November 30th for the Thanksgiving Holiday.
Thanksgiving means that it's nearly time for our annual Holiday
Silent Auction. Donations of new gift-quality items, art work,
crafts, gift certificates or antiques with a minimum value of
five dollars are being collected now for the auction. Among
the many nice things already donated for the auction are restaurant
gift certificates to Charlotte's Creekside Inn in Oneida and
Rosie's Tuscarora Inn in Erieville, some nice collector dolls,
and a brand new rice cooker. The Holiday Silent Auction will
begin on December 2nd and end on December 16th. Please donate
something someone would want to bid on for a gift, and then come
in and bid on one or several of the great items up for auction.
Come in on Sunday, December 1st from 2-4 p.m. to help the
Friends of the Library make holiday decorations and decorate
the library for the holidays and for the Annual Holiday Open
House that will be held on December 13th from 1-5 p.m.
Coming up on Friday, December 6th is the next evening in
the Adult Book Talk series. Professor Roxanna Pisiak will facilitate
a discussion of Leif Enger's Peace Like a River. Copies can
be signed out at the circulation desk.
The next Library Board of Trustees meeting is at 6:30 on
December 17th. The discussion will be about revising the library's
policy manual and constructing the new library budget. These
board meetings are all open to the public. Consider attending
one and see how your library works.
In a recent Zogby poll taken for the MidYork Library System,
several questions were asked to find out what people in New York
state thought about and wanted from their local libraries. For
the next few weeks, we will publish results of answers to some
of the questions, so that you can see what others are thinking
about their libraries. In answer to the question: How willing
would you be to increase your taxes to support your public library?,
large percentages indicated "very willing" or "somewhat
willing". 83% of those polled in the New York City, 73%
in suburban areas, and 70% in upstate areas, for a total of 75%
indicated such willingness.
We have some new books to report this week. Remember, you
can "sign out" any of the books you see mentioned in
this column at the library or on the library's website. Go
to www.midyork.org/morrisville/news.html. This will take you
to the online version of this column; just click on the name
of the book in the column and you will be able to reserve it.
Then, all you have to do is stop by the library and pick it
up.
Thanks to Moors Myers for Dark Horse by Tami Hoag and Dark
Matter by Philip Kerr. Dark Horse is about a former cop who
tries to find a missing women amid the dark side of the horse-show
world. Dark Matter is an historical thriller in which Sir Isaac
Newton uses his scientific method to solve murders in 17th century
London. Thanks to an anonymous donor for Barbara Taylor Bradford's
Triumph of Katie Byrne, a novel about a young actress who, in
spite of losing two friends to violence, struggles to succeed
on the stage. We are still looking for more book donations and
adoptions; they certainly help us stretch our budget further!
On the New Books cart this week is James Patterson's Four
Blind Mice, another Alex Cross thriller. In this one, Alex gets
involved in his partner's effort to save the life of an old Army
buddy who's facing execution for a horrible and mysterious murder
spree in North Carolina. Iris Johansen's Reap the Wind tells
a tale of intrigue and danger as Caitlin Vasaro hides the secrets
she knows and pursues an ancient statue. Purity in Death by J.D.
Robb (aka Nora Roberts) is the latest in her "in death"
series. Eve Dallas pursues techno-terrorists who use a computer-generated
virus to kill pedophiles and drug dealers. Janet Evanovich's
Visions of Sugarplums has Stephanie Plum, the zany New Jersey
bounty hunter, starring in this hilarious holiday mystery/comedy.
If you would like to see the library purchase a certain
book, tell Barb. She is always looking for suggestions since
she wants to fill our shelves with books that patrons really
want to read.
Stop in the library before Thanksgiving to stock up on books
for the long weekend and to drop off your donations for the silent
auction. Then, return after the holiday to enjoy the December
events and bid on some of the great auction "finds".
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Public Library
October 4, 2002