23 July 2014

23 July 2014 The Summer Reading Program is winding down. It officially ends at 5:00 p.m. on Saturday July 26. All reading records need to be turned in by then so that the times can be tabulated on Monday. We cannot accept late submissions. The end of Summer Reading party for the Teen segment of the program will be held on Tues. July 29. Games and prizes as well as treats and music from various decades will be featured for this program. The End of Summer Reading Program for the Children will be held at the Methodist Church from 2-4 on Thursday July 31. I want to thank all of the students who participated in the program this year. The attendance at the special programs was very good and everyone had a good time. Among the favorite programs this year were the Binder Park Zoo, the Kalamazoo Air Zoo, the Robotics demonstration and the Science Fair. Unfortunately, we did not have power for the Doctor Who program but that will be held in August. I would like to say that the new season of Doctor Who starts on Saturday August 23, on BBC America.------------During the month of August our staff will be planning out programs that we will be having during the last of summer and through the fall. For the adults we will be working with PNC bank to have a couple of finacial programs geared toward adults. These programs will be held on Saturday morning and will only last about two hours.------------During August we will also be getting the bugs worked out on our new circulation system. With the summer reading, it was impossible to give any time to doing this earlier.----------The Library Board is looking for people who would like to work on a fundraising campaign for the library. The last time any major work was done on the library was back in 1986 and after nearly 30 years it is time for a facelift. No dollar goal has been set yet and not plans are drawn-up. We want our patrons to give us imput on what they want to keep, add, or do away. When the addition was put on in 1986, computers for public use in the library was a science fiction fantasy but today it is a reality. So we know we will need to address the question of how many workstations do we need and are they currently in the best place. So plan to attend the next Library Board meeting on Thursday 21 August 2014 at 6:00 p.m. in the basement meeting room. I will be attending a grant writing workshop so that we may be able to obtain a matching grant to help in our fundraising goal.----------You may have noticed the dashes in this blog post. I have found that as I type the blog when I go to start a new paragraph I am not able to get this program to recognize the new paragraph with spacing alone. With the dashes I hope that it will act as the needed break between paragraphs and make my blogs more readable.----------It has been an amazing summer! Not a warm as normal but it has been very pleasant without too many high heat/high humidity days. The high heat is okay but the humidity is what makes the days miserable. The Taste of Vicksburg was a fun time and a lot of good food was servered up now this weekend we have the Lions 41st Summer Festival. It starts tomorrow, the 24th and runs through Saturday. It will be at the Historic Village area so come out and have a good time with the family.------------That is all for this week and I hope everyone will have a safe and fun weekend.----------John