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MORRISVILLE LIBRARY NEWS
by Mary Brown
The income taxes are sent in, the heat wave has
let up and now is the time to take advantage of the many events,
books and much more at your local library.
On Tuesday, April 30th at 10:30 a.m., the Pre-School
Story Hour with Grandma B will be an hour with elephants (Will
they really fit in the library, Grandma?) On May 7th, Grandma
will explore the real and fictional world of frogs. Bring in
the little ones for this delightful, popular series.
The May 3rd Book Talk for adult readers will focus on
Barbara Kingsolver's Prodigal Summer. This selection promises
to prompt an interesting discussion. Copies of the book are
available for sign-out at the circulation desk.
The library will be holding an Amnesty Month throughout
the month of May. Bring back your long-lost books and pay no
fine.
May 21st may mark a new beginning for your local library.
On that day, residents of the MECS school district will vote
on a proposition to charter our public library as a School District
Library. Now we are chartered just as a village library with
some support from the Town of Eaton, but those people who use
the library come from a wider area still. The new charter would
more fairly represent all the people we serve and would provide
for a more equal distribution of funding for the library from
all areas in the Morrisville-Eaton School District. This would
enable the library support to come from a wider, more equally
distributed base and would provide increased funding, staff and
services. Please vote YES on the Morrisville Library Proposition
on May 21st.
At the same time, the library will put up for a vote
candidates for the Library Board of Trustees. Anyone interested
in running for a spot on the board can pick up a petition at
the library. You need 25 signatures on the petition to run for
a board seat. Consider this as a great way to help your library
and your community
To find out more about this proposition so vital to
the existence of the library, go online to the Morrisville Library
website(www.midyork.org/morrisville) and click on "Information
on the School District Library Proposal", pick up one of
the informational brochures at the library circulation desk,
or attend one of the presentations on the proposal to be held
at various sites. Presentations will be held on April 23rd at
one p.m. at the library, on May 1st at 7 p.m. at the elementary
school library (with seniors invited by the Office for the Aging),
on May 9th at 7 p.m. at the Town of Nelson offices, on May 13th
at 7:30 at the Community Center in Peterboro, and on May 14th
at 7:30 at the MECS high school.
This charter initiative, which will put us in place to be
part of the state's "New Century Libraries" initiative,
is just one step in bringing the library into the 21st century.
Keeping up with the changes of the new millennium has been a
challenge for our library staff in many ways. In the technology
area, Barb has worked hard at creating, improving and maintaining
a website for the library. Beside looking at the presentation
on the new library charter proposition on the site, you can,
among other things, direct order any of the books mentioned in
this column by clicking on the book's title in the online "Morrisville
Library News". Take a look. Join the many people who use
our site. The number of people using the site has grown and
grown. In the last three months, our library website was visited
3172 times, and more than 1300 different people visited the site!
Thanks this week to Audrey Howard for doing some spring
tending of the library's gardens and to Joyce Nelson for joining
our marvelous group of library volunteers. A big thank you also
goes out to Jan Ghent for adopting Hunting Season, Nevada Barr's
latest Anna Pigeon mystery, in which Anna finds endless obstacles
to her investigation of the death of Doyce Barnett whose body
turns up in Mississippi's Natchez Trace and Brad Meltzer's Millionaires,
a thriller which pits an ambitious young money manager against
a corporate villain, whose intricate financial tricks accidentally
put a huge amount of money in front of a man who desperately
needs it. "What would you steal if you couldn't get caught?"
is the novel's main question.
Other new arrivals this week include Daniel Silva's English
Assassin, an exciting action novel set within the secret world
of the Swiss banking system from WWII to the present. In it,
Gabriel Allon, an art restorer and sometimes Israeli spy, becomes
involved with a secret Swiss society, long-ago collaboration
with Nazi Germany, and a quest to recover art treasures plundered
by the Nazi's in WWII. The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin
and Nicola Kraus is a blistering satire based on their real-life
experiences as former New York City nannies; this novel is an
hilarious examination of the upper echelons of Manhattan society
and the unlovable Park Avenue X family. James Patterson's and
Andrew Gross's Second Chance reconvenes the Women's Murder Club,
four friends who use their networking skills, feminine intuition,
and professional wiles to solve the murders of two African Americans,
a little girl and an old woman, who all bear the signs of a serial
killer.
The library is a treasure in our midst, a gold mine of information
and entertainment for so many area people. Vote "yes"
to the library proposition on May 21st and help your library
keep up and even improve the wonderful service it offers everyone
in our community.
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