Month: February 2010

Amnesty Days

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If you have been dreading returning that long overdue copy of Twilight or the GED Study Guide that’s been on your bookshelf for months, now is your chance! And as long as it’s in good condition, it won’t cost you a cent in late fees.

The Pember Library is holding “Amnesty Days” starting today and running through March 5. During this stretch, library patrons can return materials without incurring any fines.

Free Clipart picture of a Stack of Fat Books

Library users can return any overdue materials belonging to the Pember. The library materials must be in good condition. That means more money in your pocket while the library gets back its books and other items. (If you have overdue items from other SALS libraries, bring those in; we’ll get them sent back to their rightful owner.) The main reason for “Amnesty Days” is to get books and videos back on the shelf so that other people may read or view them.

Return your items without penalty and make items available for public circulation again. The amnesty restores borrower privileges once overdue materials are returned. The amnesty does not pertain to overdue fines still on record from previously returned or lost materials.

Check it out!

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Check It Out with the Adirondack Phantoms!

Phantoms Partner With Southern Adirondack Library System

GLENS FALLS, NY – The Adirondack Phantoms, proud AHL affiliate of the Philadelphia Flyers, announced today that they have partnered with the Southern Adirondack Library System to present Check it Out.phantoms

Check it Out! is a program that offers Southern Adirondack Library System cardholders $2 off an adult ticket, and $1 off a child’s ticket for the remaining Wednesday home games at the Glens Falls Civic Center. Five eligible games remain between February 10 and April 7. Simply show your library card at the Glens Falls Civic Center box office to receive special Check it Out pricing. For more information on Phantoms hockey, check www.phantomshockey.com.

The Phantoms remaining Wednesday games are as follows:

February 24th vs. Syracuse Crunch
March 17th vs. Hamilton Bulldogs
March 24th vs. Albany River Rats
April 7th vs. Binghamton Senators

Dear Reader

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Dear Reader books for the week of February 15:

CATS: The Nine Lives of Innovation by Stephen C. Lundin, Business
City of Strangers by Ian MacKenzie, Fiction
Rose House by Tina Ann Forkner, Good News
First Family by David Baldacci, Mystery
The Lassa Ward by Ross I. Donaldson, NonFiction
The Murderers’ Club by PD Martin, Romance
On Beale Street by Ronald Kidd, Teen

If you use Dear Reader and have 5-minute reads delivered to your inbox, please let the Friends of the Library know that you appreciate their donation of this wonderful service to the library.

Black History Month

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As Morgan Freeman says, “Black history is American history.” I found this blog post with a list of books to celebrate Black History Month. Many are available at the Pember and others can be requested from other local libraries.

A recent addition to Granville is the Haynes House of Hope. But how many people actually know the history of Lemuel Haynes (1753-1833) for whom the Haynes House is named? The Haynes House was built on the site of the home Rev. Haynes occupied here in Granville (see correction in comment below). We have a couple of books about Reverend Haynes available at the Pember.

haynesBookThere are two copies of Black apostle to Yankeeland : egalitarian catchcolt who overlived his caste by Paul Douglass (written in 1972). One is available for checkout. The other should be used in the library along with a second biography of Rev. Haynes, Sketches of the life and character of the Rev. Lemuel Haynes, A. M. : for many years pastor of a church in Rutland, Vt., and late in Granville, New-York written in 1837 by Timothy Mather Cooley.

Be sure to check out Morris Rote-Rosen’s articles on Lemuel Haynes from the December 17 and December 24, 1936 issues of the Granville Sentinel. They are available on microfilm at the Pember.

If you check on HeritageQuest, there are 33 hits for Lemuel Haynes. Not all hits are about the Lemuel Haynes from Granville and some are just a mention in someone’s genealogy of a marriage with “Rev. Lemuel Haynes officiating.” I find it interesting that he lived at Granville MA for a time. He is also mentioned in a family history of another preacher who “could repeat more Scripture than any man I ever saw, except the Rev. Lemuel Haynes.”

Rev Haynes spent the last eleven years of his life in Granville, NY and is buried in the old Lee Cemetery along SR 149.

Add your voice to SnapShot NY

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Ryan

On Wednesday, February 17, from 1:00 to 8:00 P.M. the Pember Library will be taking part in “Snapshot: A Day in the Life of a Library” by collecting statistics, comments, and photographs from one day to provide tangible proof that libraries consistently provide invaluable services to our communities. All statistics will be forwarded to the New York Library Association to help them advocate for reducing funding cuts to library services statewide.

Join us at the library on Wednesday to show your support. You can fill out a short survey telling why your library is essential in your life.

People of all ages use libraries for life-long learning, to educate themselves, and improve their lives. Libraries can be a starting point for any question, any area of interest, any search for new knowledge. Libraries are the base for early childhood education, for literacy, for scholastic success, and adult studies. Libraries give you access to genealogy and local history information that just isn’t available elsewhere.

Parents bring their children to the library to introduce them to the joy of reading. When seniors want to learn how to get online, they visit their library. Throughout our lives, we search for knowledge and information and turn to our libraries to continue learning. Throughout New York State, libraries are seeing an enormous rise in use by people doing job searches, filling out online job applications and renewing their job search skills in resume writing and successful interviewing. A large percentage of jobs listings are now online and many prospective employers only accept online job applications.

A recent study by the American Library Association (ALA) shows that 73 percent of public libraries are the only source of free, public Internet access in their respective communities —in New York State it’s closer to 80 percent.

Libraries bring diverse people together. Libraries provide fun family activities. Libraries provide free access to information and resources, to computers and the web, to collections of books, DVDs, periodicals, CDs, audio books and downloadable resources, to classes and programs that open new opportunities and broaden horizons. Many people across the state can’t imagine living in a community without a library and recognize the value—both tangible and intangible—libraries bring to their lives. Put simply, libraries are recreation for the mind.

Worst Book Ever

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Many people have a love-hate relationship with books. People tell me “oh, you HAVE to read insert title here ” and I know full well that it just isn’t for me. Nearly anything on Oprah’s list is too gut-wrenching for me. There is enough sadness in the world without reading more. Many people use reading to escape from their problems.

I recently read a Publisher’s Weekly blog titled  Worst Book Ever.

People are definitely enthusiastic about the books they like but are truly passionate about books they hate.   Wuthering Heights has got to be one of the worst I have ever read. What on earth did Catherine see in Heathcliff?

How about you? What do you consider the worst book you ever read?

Dear Reader upcoming titles

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This wonderful service is provided by the Friends of the Pember Library. We would love to have your feedback on this. Have you read books you would never have picked up otherwise? What is your favorite genre? Have you shared these books with friends and family?

If you haven’t tried it yet, click on the online book club link to the left to get started getting five-minute reads in your email.

Voluntary Madness by Norah Vincent, Audio
Inside Drucker’s Brain by Jeffrey A. Krames, Business
The Grift by  Debra Ginsberg, Fiction
When You Need a Miracle by Ann Spangler, Good News
Evil at Heart by Chelsea Cain, Mystery
The Guinea Pig Diaries: My Life as an Experiment by A. J. Jacobs, NonFiction
The Shaking Woman or a History of My Nerves by Siri Hustvedt, PrePub
His Captive Lady by Anne Gracie, Romance
The Sword of the Lady by S. M. Stirling, SF
Lifting the Sky by Mackie d’Arge, Teen
Collision of Evil by John J. Le Beau, Thriller