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Director's
Corner
by Kay Zaharis
As I approach my
one year anniversary at the library, I want to extend a big
thank you to my staff. Each person has accepted new
responsibilities and had learned new procedures for many of
their tasks. The staff has had to adjust to a new direction
for the library along with the personality of a new
director. They have been incomparable with helping me learn
patron and community needs.
With their
dedication to the library and their cooperation with the
changes, my position here is very satisfying. Thank you
staff.
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Programs
We are proud to continue our “Chapters
in Time” series. This series of four programs depict
times and places in history. They are free of
charge and intended for all ages.
Our third Chapter in Time will be presented on
June 8, 2004 at 7:00 p.m. in the Children’s Room.
A Southern Belle’s view of the Civil War
For a living history performance, wearing one of
her own creations, you are invited to join Linda Wiley on
her “balcony” somewhere in the South. The people in the
audience are, of course, her dear friends who have come to
visit during the tragic 1860’s. Based on true stories from
diaries and letters, she talks about her family, those gone
to war, life at home, and more. This is done in “first
person” character. The stories are interspersed with songs
of the period appropriate to the story just told.
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Linda may sing traditional Civil War songs such
as “Southern Soldier Boy,” maybe something Irish such as
“Oh, Danny Boy,” or break into the classical “Panis
Angelicus.” Some Stephen Foster or Robert Burns –
certainly!
[This event is made possible with funds from New York
State Council on the Arts decentralization grant program
administered regionally by the Cultural Resources Council of
Syracuse and Onondaga County, and the Cortland Morning
Rotary Club.]
Our
final chapter will be held
October
5, 2004
“Tales of Wonder, Magic, and Mystery from around
the World.”
Watch for further details.
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New This
Month
Thanks to a devoted volunteer, Stan Brown, our
audio books have been moved to a new location, have been
separated into Biography, Fiction, and Non-Fiction, and have
typed spine labels for easier access.
Also, the first drawer in the “subject” card
catalog contains two sets of catalog cards which match the
audio books: one set is TITLE cards and the other is AUTHOR
cards. Now,
when you are looking for a specific audio book, you can look
up a title to see if we own it and you won’t have to
strain your neck looking sideways on each spine.
We are working to
help our patrons find the material in an easier manner.
Please let us know how you like the new set-up.
Speaking of audio books…we have signed up to
purchase two new
audio books each month.
We will post the anticipated titles on the lobby
bulletin board in the event you wish to place a reserve
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Children's
Room Notes!
Starting
June 28, children ages 3 to 14 can sign up and participate
in the 2004 Summer Reading Program. This year’s theme is “New York is read, white, and
blue.”
Participants
who read 10 books can choose 1 prize; and those who read 20
books can choose a second prize.
The program ends August 7, but prizes may be picked
up through August 14. Everyone
who earns a prize will be entered in a raffle; the drawing
will take place August 9.
Programs
scheduled during July are:
July
7 beginning at
1:30 – 2:30
The Tin Can Fantasy Factory, a traveling theatre from
the Ithaca Youth Bureau, will perform
July
14 beginning at 2:00 – ?
Children’s Room Fun Day will include face painting,
folk songs, crafts, and more
July
21 at 1:00 – 2:00
Lime
Hollow Nature Center will present “Snakes, Frogs, and
Other Gross Things”
July
28 at 2:30 – 3:00
Magician Aaron Isaacs will appear!
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Reminders
The library will be closed for Memorial Day on
Monday May 31, and for July 4th on Monday, July
5. We will reopen on the Tuesday following these holidays at
10:00 a.m.
Due to varying stipulations from member
libraries, we do NOT
interlibrary loan audio
books.
Increased fines:
$.10/day/book –Adult;
$.05/day/book - Children
Books Sales
We thank all of
you who supported and worked on our annual book sale held in
April at the Salvation Army.
The library proceeds were nearly $3,000.00, all of
which will be used to purchase new books for your reading
pleasure.
We are planning a
summer used book sale
to be held in July. It will be held at the library either
the weekend of the CNY Fireman’s Convention, July 17, or
during the Downtown Sidewalk Festival, July 31.
Watch for our announcement coming soon.
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Do you know
what's here?
We receive
newsletters from many local agencies and magazines from
organizations. They are located on the same shelves as the
periodicals…after the last magazine “Yoga.” Some of
these publications are:
-Mental
Health Association for
Cortland County
-Caregivers
Support Net
-Cortland
Family Fun & Resource
Center
-Virgil
Newsletter
-The
Clatter (Rotary Club of Cortland, New York)
-Cortland
County Connection
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-Cortland
Rural Cemetery
-Finger
Lakes Trail
-FLLS
News (Finger Lakes Library System)
-The
Land Steward (newsletter of the Finger Lakes Land Trust)
-Grassroots
(voice of the New York Farm Bureau)
-Kaatskill
Life, a regional journal
-Bridges,
exceptional family resources (Onondaga County Department
of Mental Health, et al)
-Society
for New Music (from Syracuse)
-Elks
Magazine
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-Rotarian
-Bowling
Magazine
-Appalachia,
Journal of the Appalachian Regional Commission
-Human
Ecology, the New York State College of Human Ecology at
Cornell
-Volunteer
Firefighter, the official publication of the Fireman’s
Association of the State of New York
-Rochester
Review (from University of Rochester)
-Syracuse
University Magazine
-The People, published by the Socialist Labor Party
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