| What's
New At The Library - November
6, 2009
by Joan Huff
What’s New at the Library
by Joan Huff
The Book Sale is over and we’re
having a great time spending
the money. Thanks to Sandra
Davis, Jenni Wolf, Vicki Warr,
Terri & Bob Lacher, Marrisa
Jones, Phyllis Osburn and Liz
Clark the library made over
3 thousand dollars, a new record.
A special thanks to all of you
shoppers and book donators who
made this possible. Jenni is
busy processing our recently
bought new books and covering
them like a professional. She
and Sandra do not allow me to
cover new books. They didn’t
say it but they hinted that
my results are not good enough
to be put into the library.
As a child I hated covering
new school books with the John
C. Roger’s Drug Store
brown covers. I could never
do it right. My friend, Vickie
War, on the other hand was an
expert and I was secretly jealous
of her handiwork.
Sandra is still perusing the
catalogues for new children’s
books while I have been writing
grants to secure more money
for new nonfiction books. This
area has seen a significant
increase in circulation in the
last year. We don’t know
if we should attribute our increase
in circulation of books and
computer use to a down turn
in the economy or to an increase
of library participation by
Wal-Mart shoppers. We have new
and previous library members
who live throughout the county
and in surrounding towns in
both Texas and Louisiana who
now make regularly scheduled
shopping trips to Center. Fortunately
for us, they also use this time
to visit the library. This phenomenon
reminds me of Saturdays during
my childhood in the 1050’s
when everyone from the surrounding
areas shopped on the Center
“Square”. If you
think traffic can be bad at
Wal-Mart on Saturdays, you should
have tried to negotiate two
way traffic on the “Square”
during peak shopping time back
then.
New Bestsellers
Connelly, Michael – 9
Dragons
Cornwell, Patricia – The
Scarpetta Factor
Ferguson, Craig – American
on Purpose
Gabaldon, Diana – An Echo
in the Bone
Irving, John – Last Night
in Twisted River
Parker, Robert –The Professional
(audio)
Patterson, James – Alex
Cross’s Trial
Steel, Daniell – Southern
Lights
Williams, Andy – Moon
River and Me
Woods, Stuart - Hothouse Orchid
(audio) |