Library: News

Library News

by Kathy Gilmore

November 15, 2007

-- LIBRARY NEWS --

Watch Us Grow

Exciting times for your Library are beginning in July! In case you haven't heard, the Olney Community Library was the recipient of grant funds from the Priddy Charitable Trust in Wichita Falls in partnership with the North Texas Library Partners based in Fort Worth. The Olney Library is one of five area libraries chosen to be an example to other rural libraries across the state as we remodel, repurpose, and expand the Childdren's area to make it ADA accessible and up to date. A teen center, The Cubs Den, will also be remodeled from the computer lab to serve our Junior High and High School students with technology, a study lounge, and some exciting teen programs. This opportunity is a culmination of hours of planning and dreaming. Please feel free to stop by and ask about the plans we have and share your ideas.

Summer Reading Clubs

Both children and adults may sign up any time for the summer reading club. Children will enjoy activities through June on both Tuesday and Thursday mornings. Adult and young adults should sign up and enjoy some of the many new books purchased at the end of school and others arriving daily.

TexasCollection

The Olney Community Library recently received $4,291.00 from the Tocker Foundation to furnish our Texas Collection Room (the old snack bar / distance learning room). We have selected some handsome new chairs, a desk, table, and a glass display cabinet which will be arriving shortly. We hope to display local photos and artifacts within our new collection. By the way, new glass doors have been installed so that the room may now be used for small group meetings or testing, as-well-as, for listening to music. UPDATE: All furnishings have arrived but decorating continues!

Another feature of the Texas Room is our new Crosley 4-in-1 record/ CD/cassette player-recorder which has the capacity of transferring older formats of sound recordings to CDs. It will be available for patrons to transfer recordings here in the library. Blank CDs are available for purchase here for only 50¢.

Final Report, August 8, 2008.

Texas Room Pictures

Preschool book give-away

Calling all preschoolers. The Olney Community Library, in conjunction with the Library of Graham, is offering enrollment to all Young County preschoolers in Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library program. Children who qualify, simply by being a Young County resident, will receive one new book per month, mailed directly to his or her home. To foster a life-long habit of reading, parents or caretakers must agree to read with their preschoolers, from birth until their fifth birthday. Again, this is a free program which you may inquire about at your library. Pick up your registration form today.

Book Cart Sale

Did you know that the library has a little garage—rather a book-cart—sale going on near the east door of the building. Funds from the sale of unusable donated books and movies and quality discards from our own collection will go toward purchasing highly requested movies for your enjoyment. Garage sale prices mean there should be something for everyone from “The Best Little Book-Cart Sale in Olney.”

K12 Databases

Thanks to the continued efforts of our legislators in Austin and the encouragement of people in the library world, every public school student in the State of Texas will now have access to the TexShare Databases to use with their parents and teachers in school, at home, in the library, or anywhere there is internet service. Teachers will be trained in database use and will be passing their knowledge along in the classroom. Your library staff is also a competent source from which to learn scholarly research. So now, there is a little more to offer when Google just won’t do.