Tuesday 10-5, Wednesday 1-5, Thursday 1-5, Friday 10-5 and Saturday 10-1
Check out our “Wish List” page. I have added the magazines that are coming up for renewal with a price for a one year subscription.
Remember, anyone who sponsors a one-year subscription to one of these magazines will have your overdue fines waived for the next year! (or extended if you previously sponsored a magazine for us).
Contact me at the library or through the email link at the right of the page to find out how you can help us.
As the economy continues its slump, libraries nationwide continue to play an important role in communities everywhere, as people turn to them for free entertainment, to connect to the Internet and look for jobs. This spring, the Pember Library, the American Library Association (ALA) and Woman’s Day magazine want to hear your thoughts on why the library is important to your community.
From now until May 9, women ages 18 and over can submit their story in 700 words or less to womansday@ala.org. Up to four stories will be featured in the March 2011 issue of Woman’s Day or on womansday.com. Official rules are available on the Woman’s Day Web site at womansday.com/ala.
“People of all ages and backgrounds come to the library to work on resumes, gather for book discussions, attend story time with their children, get help with homework, check out books or movies or just spend time together. With so many resources for everyone, the library is truly the heart of the community,” said library clerk Jo-ann Nadeau.
For information on free resources at the Pember Library, visit http://pember.sals.edu .
This initiative was developed by Woman’s Day magazine and the Campaign for America’s Libraries, ALA’s public awareness campaign that promotes the value of libraries and librarians.
The Pember Library is located at 33 West Main St in Granville NY.
Wiley Publishing has an annual display contest. They ask participating libraries to create a black and yellow eye-catching display showcasing ‘dummies’ titles. The reward is greater circulation of titles in this popular series and the chance to win For Dummies books for the library’s collection, as well as a trophy and a pizza party for the staff!
Some of the older titles have the phrase: “a reference for the rest of us.” The new slogan is “making everything easier.”
The photos here are the ones we entered in the contest. 
The books from the display will be available for checkout after April 1.
This was a lot of fun to create. 
Have fun looking through the books. The contest is over May 1 and we should know soon after that if we have a winning entry.
Email has not been available for the Southern Adirondack Library System and libraries since early Friday morning, February 26, 2010. They are currently working on the problem.
The SALON audiobook help system is also unavailable.
Due to the bad roads and nasty weather, the library will be closed.
A meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Pember Library and Museum will be held on the first Wednesday of each month at the Pember. This is a regular meeting and open to the public.
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.
Check out our “Wish List” page. I have added the magazines that are coming up for renewal with a price for a one year subscription. “Ladies” Home Journal” is buy one year, the second year is included.
Remember, anyone who sponsors a one-year subscription to one of these magazines will have your overdue fines waived for the next year! (or extended if you previously sponsored a magazine for us).
Contact me at the library or through the email link at the right of the page to find out how you can help us.
The library will be open Tuesday 9am-5pm and Wednesday 1pm-8pm. We are closed Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and the following day re-opening on Tuesday December 29.
Next week, the library will be open Tuesday 9am-5pm and Wednesday 1pm-8pm. We are closed New Year’s Eve, New Year’s Day and the following day re-opening January 5 with regular hours that week.
Due to the bad roads and nasty weather, the library will be closed. Any fines because of this will be waived.
The craft program scheduled for this evening will be held on a Saturday in January.
Just a little blurb to let everyone know that if the weather is too bad to be on the roads, the library will be closed. We will do our best to let you know by posting it on the website, letting the School Closing Networks know, and changing the answering machine to reflect the closure.
If the Granville Central School is closed, we will also close for that day.
Thank you for your patience if we need to be closed due to bad weather.