MORRISVILLE LIBRARY NEWS October 25, 2002
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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 Motorcycle 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 at Morrisville Library.
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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October 31, 2002