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Wednesday, June 6, 2012 All aboard at Gospel Center
The Press-Dispatch What's new at your library?
took a joy ride in the train at Gospel Center's Promise Express Vacation Bible School. Come ride along 9 a.m. till noon this week June 4-8.
Ava Aaserud, Gracie Pauw and Kayla Lamar
about George Washing- ton in the Consumerist. It starts out by saying George was "just as bad as the rest of us". It seems that the first President checked out two books: "Law of Nations" and "Common Debates, Vol. 12" on Octo- ber 5, 1789 (this was care- fully noted in the ledger of the New York Society Li- brary), but there is no in- dication that they were re- turned on the November 2, 1789 due date. In fact, there is no indica-
I just read an article By Ginger Rogers
ride in the train at Gospel Center's Promise Ex- press Vacation Bible School.
Serenity Fulcher and Ava Sturgeon took a joy
in the train at Gospel Center's Promise Express Vacation Bible School.
Justus Edrington and Kota Sutt took a joy ride
was a cartoon tacked to the staff bulletin board that had a librarian (recognizable by the grey hair in a bun, glasses on her nose, long granny dress and sensible shoes, of course) stand- ing at someone's door de- manding that a book be re- turned, gun in hand. We're not that desperate to get books back. But the truth is: it's to your benefit to return
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tion that they were returned at all, and since the library (still functioning, but at a different location) has the entire Common Debates se- ries, except for Volume 12, the shocking conclusion is that President Washing- ton may have been just as careless as the rest of us about returning his library books. Head Librarian Mark Bartlett joked that the fines would be to the tune of around $300,000 by now, but they would be happy just to get the books back. At our old library there
Evergreen Consortium (through which we can get materials for you from all over the state), we on- ly charged a nickel a day for over due fines. But Ev- ergreen has its own rules. Patrons are now charged a quarter a day for over due books. It doesn't take very many days for a stack of books to add up to a few dollars worth of fines. Even so, most of our patrons cheerfully pay their quarter a day fines without a fuss. The problems come in,
books in a timely manner. Before we joined the
because we recently, out of curiosity ran a report on the amount owed to the library for overdue items. The number is absolutely shocking. We could buy a brand new library van with the amount owed. It was so surprising that we're go- ing to run it again just to be sure. Unlike the classic Sein-
generally, when materi- als are not returned. If a books is missing for 45 days, the Evergreen sys- tem considers it lost, and now charges a $10 process- ing fee for the many jobs involved in the attempts to retrieve and/or replace a missing book (overdue no- tices, reordering, re-cata- loging, re-processing the book, etc.). And of course, the patron would need to also pay the price of repur- chasing the item. Just one book not re-
turned after 45 days would add up to $11.25 in overdue fees, the $10.00 processing fee, and the price of the book. Even an inexpensive paperback book could add up to over $30.00 in fees. But, like the Head Librar-
ian at the New York Society Library, we really just want the books back. If a book is returned, we forgive the $10 processing fee, there is no need to pay to replace the item, and your abili-
feld episode where Jerry had not returned a book he checked out in high school, we do not have a Library Cop. So for now, we'll leave it up to you: If there is a missing book or outstanding fine on your re- cord, take care of it. President Washington
had many admirable attri- butes, but in this case, we'd prefer you follow President Lincoln's example, he's the guy who reportedly walked over 20 miles to return some books he borrowed. Now who wouldn't forgive a fine in that case? Summer Reading began
this week include: Preschool story time to-
Kids begins at 10 a.m. at Petersburg. Mother Goose on the
ty to continue to use the li- brary remains intact; which is a much nicer outcome for all of us. I'm writing this today
Tween/Teen Crafts at 2 p.m. at Otwell. Friday is also Family
movie night at Winslow at 7 p.m. On Saturday Denim and
Van will be at St. Peter's church in Stendal from 1:30-2:30. Plum Fun book club will
T's meets at Winslow at 2 p.m. Monday, the Outreach
meet at Petersburg at 2 p.m. and Computer Class- es will be by request from 6-7 at Petersburg. Next Tuesday the
1 p.m. at Winslow and the Tween Teen Crafts are at 2 p.m. at Winslow. Friday there will be
Tween/Teeen Crafts will meet at 2 p.m. at Peters- burg, and Creative Kids meet at 3 p.m. at Winslow. Next Wednesday Pre-
school story time is at Pe- tersburg at 10:30 and at Winslow at 3 p.m. We are grateful to the Pe-
this week, so the library is getting busy again! Activities at the library
day at 10:30 at Petersburg, and 1 p.m. at Winslow. On Thursday Creative
Loose begins at 11 a.m. at Petersburg. Preschool story time is at
tersburg Hardware/Rent- al Center/Phone Guyz for their donations of Child- rens' prizes for all three libraries, and to the Chi- na Wok for a very nice gift certificate to be used as a prize. Also we appreciate Pami-
da who absolutely over- whelmed us with the gift of books to the library, which will be used in a variety of ways and also to the whole Pamida staff who came out and loaded up the library van, and to the individual who brought over what the van could not hold. Pamida has always been good to us.
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