May 21, 2008 Citizen
News Library Column
Please take note that the library will be closed for
the Memorial Day Weekend – Saturday, May 24, Sunday, May 25, and Monday, May
26.
New Web Page
The New Fairfield Library has a new online look! Our website still has many of our “old” links
and also incorporated some new very helpful links. Would you like us to email you when new
audiobooks, dvds, fiction, mysteries, or non-fiction
items come in? Sign up online and we’ll
send you a list of the new applicable materials. Click on a link and you can reserve books
with just a few strokes of your keyboard.
Need to ask a librarian a question 24/7?
InfoAnytime is available to you by going into the “state catalog” link. Bookflix is now located under “kid stuff” in
the Children’s Library link. Peruse the
site to look for your old favorites and discover some new ones as well!
Volunteer Applications for Summer Reading
The application for summer reading program volunteers
is now available on the library’s website, www.newfairfieldlibrary.org, or
if you happen to be in the area, at the Children’s Circulation Desk. Volunteers must attend one training session
out of the two that will be offered. The
first training session will be held on Monday, June 2 at 4 pm. The other session will be on Wednesday, June
11 at 6:30 pm. The summer reading
program will run from June 25 to August 6 and all volunteers need to be in
place in order for this program to work.
Volunteers need to be twelve years old and up in order to
participate. Community service hours
will be given for the training session and other hours worked during the six
weeks of the summer reading program.
This year we are doing something extra special by joining forces with
Park and Rec at their August 8th evening under the stars drive-in
night at Squantz Pond for our end of summer reading finale. We usually hold this event at the Senior
Center but since this year’s theme is “Catch the Reading Bug” and Park and Rec
will be showing the movie “Antz,” we thought it would be apropos if we joined
forces. The raffle prizes will be drawn
before the movie begins so it should be a fun evening for everyone!
Sunday Hours
Please bear in mind that we are now closed
on Sundays until September. If you take
out movies on a Thursday, they will be due on Monday. Research needs to be done from Monday –
Saturday.
Correction
In one of the recent columns written by
First Selectman John Hodge, he erroneously reported that the Friends of the
Library were going to donate $12,500 toward the architectural fees for the
library renovations. It is the Library
Board of Trustees that has agreed to contribute $12,500 along with the recently
passed approval of town funds for the other $12,500 toward the fees. The Friends have been very generous to the
library but since they no longer can hold as many book sales as in the past,
their income has dropped considerably.
Please consider a donation to this worthwhile group when their annual
appeal letter appears as an insert in the Citizen News.
Friends of the Library
Calling all cooks! The Friends of the Library need your
help. They have decided to publish a
community cookbook filled to the brim with the best recipes from the best cooks
in town and they need your favorite recipes.
All profits from the sale of the cookbooks will benefit the New
Fairfield Library. Please stop by and
pick up several of the recipe forms at the library and return to the collection
boxes located in the Adult and Children’s departments by June 1. Thank you very much!