MORRISVILLE LIBRARY NEWS November 22, 2002
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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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November 26, 2002