We Are Here

Well we are back from the holidays and everyone managed to survive all the accompanying holiday madness. Hopefully everyone else did too.
Since school is out for holidays and some of you might have a little extra time on your hands we just want to encourage you to come in and check out a good book (pun intended). I'm sure we can find something that will interest you and help to fill in your spare time.
The sun is shining brightly today and preventing us from having a white holiday season, but hopefully everyone will enjoy it anyway.

Ciao!!

He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away. ~Raymond Hull

I had the same idea..

... about updating our blog. I was just beaten to it. Well, it's a new day and I can still do a new message.

We apologize for the inconvenience of not having an after hours drop box, but we are glad to say that it is finally fixed!!! We are very excited to have our box back in use.

There are only 5 days to Christmas and what better time to come in and check out a Christmas story to read. We have holiday books on display and many more on our shelves. Come on in and find a good one to curl up with by the fire, or just with a cup of cocoa.
We hope everyone is having a great holiday season and will be able to enjoy time with loved ones.

Happy Holidays!

It's been a loooong time...

...but we're still here! We've been busy, but to tell the honest truth of the matter, none of us are really very good at writing things like articles, journals, term papers or blogs. Oh, we'll do it (and do it well) when we have to, but if there's not a deadline we tend to space it. I'm not usually the one to update this page, but I'm at the desk, it's a quiet Monday and I'm procrastinating shelving books at the moment.

Currently the Friends of the Holbrook Library are selling custom quilted book bags at the library. They're gorgeous! Only $15 for a custom quilted canvas bag -- it's quite the bargain.

Had to put a little plug in there. I think it's because today is the day for me to write the newspaper column and I do stuff like that in it.

Well, I think that's all I have to say today. The sun is shining, the roads are dry, it's still chilly enough to curl up with a cup of cocoa or coffee and a good book. Come and see us!

April Dawn

Fun At The Library

Lately we have been getting ready for the Medieval-Fantasy Festival that is sponsored by the Friends of the Library. It will be this Saturday and I hope all of you will show up. There will be many things to do, see, and purchase so don't miss out!
Now for my blonde moment of the day. I was supposed to bring the library vehicle around to the front of the building to pick up my boss and some posts so we could put out a sign for the Festival. My brain got distracted and I was driving down the street when I got a call on my cellphone. It was my boss. I had forgotten to pick her up. Oops!!
Blonde moments behind me for now (I hope) the rest of today and tomorrow should be just regular library doings mixed in with last minute Festival items that need helped along.

Carpe Diem!!

Unfinished Projects

Hurray!! Thanks to our lovely volunteer many of the little projects we have been working on are finished! We now have drinking fountains for those of you with parched throats and we've even managed to get televisions up in our study rooms. Alas, our volunteer is leaving us for a two month bike trip so our project finishing may slow down a bit.

Our next event in the works is going to be our Medievil Fantasy Festival, which is coming up next month. Anyone who attended last years' knows that this one will be just as aweome so make sure you mark it on your calendars.

I'll leave you with my thought for the day.

"Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you criticize them, you are a mile away from them and you have their shoes."
-Jack Handey-

Drowning in mud. That's what's happening around here today. This morning the skies were blue and it promised to be another extraordinarily hot Arizona day. And then, in what seemed like ten minutes, it was black outside and rain was pouring down so hard you couldn't see out the windows. Now, except for all the water, you wouldn't even know it had been storming out. I guess the old saying 'If you don't like the weather in Arizona, wait ten minutes' is still true.

On account of the rain we are rather slow today. All of us here are using the time to sort through donations for cataloging.

A gentleman is a man who can play the accordion but doesn't. ~Author Unknown

The devil is in the details. The smallest jobs make the most impact. Many thanks to those who shelved today!! ~W

Library Update

The Rites of Passage went great! Because of school conflicts we only ended up with three teams but they did a good job. They racked up teams points picking up pebbles with chopsticks, pulling gummy-worms out of pudding without their hands, running relay/obstacle courses and more. Congratulations to team Blondes for their winning score!! Stay tuned for future events. We plan to make this contest a regular activity.

All is quiet on the home front today. We are trying to get a bunch of donated books ready to checkout. Y'all should come by and see if we have new ones by your favorite author; we're shelving them as fast as we can get them ready!!



Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless. -Jamie Paolinetti- thinkexist.com

Well here we are again, just another day at the library. Those of us still here are missing those who have left us for bigger and better things. We hope she is having a blast getting settled into her new place.

With school starting this week it is really quiet around here in the mornings but on Thursdays all the little ones coming for story time keep us on our toes.

For all those that are ages 12 to 18 don't forget to come join us tomorrow night for our RITES OF PASSAGE!!!! I can't tell our secrets but it is sure to be a blast, so come and have fun!
We are, of course, still pulling all the details together but things always seem to work better when the planning for them doesn't get finalized until the last minute. With that reasoning, those of us who are expert procrastinators are totally justified in putting everything off until the last minute!!!

I totally agree with the last writer in that I don't have pearls of wisdom. Any wisdom that I spout is definatley pearl-coated, so I will leave you with my some of my own:

If you're being chased by a police dog, try not to go through a tunnel, then on to a little seesaw, then jump through a hoop of fire. They're trained for that! -- Milton Jones

For one last time....

This is it. My last day. I am torn between excitement and sadness. I have only been here for over a year and yet I am sad to leave. I have met so many wonderful people and few who aren't. This place and my coworkers has been my other home and family.

This is my last will and testament for the staff at the Holbrook Public Library:

To Emily: I bequeath my neutrality. When certain parties are at war, declare yourself Switzerland and take their money.

To Carmen: I bequeath and bestow my brutal honesty and devil may care attitude. However, be sure to temper the above with tact and kindness and it will take you far at the desk!!! ;)

To April: I bequeath my sense of humor. When everything is going to heck, crack an inappropriate joke and think of me! Cheers!

To Wendy: Last but not least. I have nothing to bequeath but my gratitude and affection. Thanks for being the best boss, albeit moody, I have ever had.

I love you all very much! I will miss you terribly and remember everything fondly.

For one last time, ciao my darlings.

Myra


"I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends. "
Walt WhitmanUS poet (1819 - 1892)

2 more days...

Hola! I have two more blogs and I am finished, fin, done ect. Honestly, I am getting pretty sad. I don't understand this feeling. I have never really ever regretted leaving a job before. Well, I guess the saying is true, there is a first time for everything.

I am currently working the front desk. We have been mildly busy, with a chance of thunderstorms. Don't ask. I am really tired. I am getting ready to move people!

So today is a nondescript day. That is probably a good thing when you get down to it. Usually in the library the excitment is either drama or trauma. Contrary to popular belief, library life is usually far from boring. At least, in this library it is not boring.

Well my darlings. I find that as my time draws near, I have nothing to say. Go ahead be shocked. Sadness deepens the quiet in me. OOOOOOO!!! I am a poet! Actually, that was pretty bad. I am going now on that note.


"Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Give a fish a man, and he'll eat for weeks!"
Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005

Ciao my darlings!

Saturday's worker is full of woe.

It is Saturday and we are at work. However, the public must be served. (Not that there is anyone in here!) Now of course, there will be people coming in droves just because I wrote that.
Yep, six people just walked in the door. I'm telling you it's magic.

Anyways, it is pretty slow in here but I am not complaining. I only have three more days working here and I am done. :( That means I will not be boring you to tears with my vague ramblings. Someone else will take over and wow you with her pizazz and panache.

It is a beautiful day outside and I am stuck in here. Well, for one more hour give or take. It's really not that bad. I will miss this place. Don't tell them I said that, but I will. I am really rambling today, so I will try to leave with one of my pearl coated kernels of wisdom.

"Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers."
Daniel J. Boorstin.

Ciao

Daniel J. Boorstin

Catching up...

The only reason I did not blog yesterday is because our internet was down all day. If a butterfly sneezes in a westward direction our internet goes down. It was pretty dead in here, because people do not come here to check out books. They come here to check out computers. Oh well.

As I mentioned in my last blog, we hosted our Harry Potter Trivia Contest. It wasn't bad I heard. Unless you take into account the power going out. They had to read questions by flashlight. Why they didn't just say "Lumos!" is beyond me! Yes, I am a Harry Potter geek to an extent.

Anyways, someone had some of the Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans. I tried bacon,grass, soap, earthworm and rotten egg. I must say they were quite disgusting. Bacon, grass and soap tasted almost like the attested flavor. Earthworm wasn't too bad. However, having never eaten an earthworm, I had nothing to compare it too. I suppose I could just say it tasted like chicken. ;) Rotten egg almost made me puke! That I had to spit out. After that I refused to taste anymore.

Contrary to popular belief, I do occasionally do real work around the library. I was actually fairly busy up until this point. I had story time and all the stuff from yesterday to check in and out. We just had a lot of catching up to do.

So with that I will take my leave. Literally, I am leaving because I have a half day! Wheeeeeee!!!!! My pearl coated nugget of wisdom is as follows:
People who live in glass houses should probably change, shower and use the bathroom somewhere else!

Ciao my darlings!

Nothing New Under The Sun....

Tonight we are hosting the 6th Annual Tri-Wizard Tournament. It is our Harry Potter Trivia contest. As usual, we are completely unprepared and are pulling stuff from out of our...shelves.

I am back after a hiatus to Montana. Absolutely beautiful, but you can send me a postcard. I DO not like walking in the woods in high heels. I DO not like outhouses. Give me the Great Indoors any day! Seriously, it was absolutely gorgeous and I thoroughly enjoyed myself (except for the high heels and outhouse part).

Now I am back for the chaos of our library. I am adjusting to actually having to work and it has literally taking me a couple of hours to think about what I am going to write. We have in addition to this blog, a blog for events and new arrivals. Unfortunately, they asked me to do new arrivals, so I just put down what I read. Welllll....in the process of reading.

I did finish the new Harry Potter. It was pretty good. There is this one part that, well never mind. I won't spoil it for you. Don't you just HATE that?!?!?! Anyways, if I keep going I will have nothing to say tomorrow. Ciao my darlings!!!

My pearl-coated wisdom for today is:
"Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow."
Jeff Valdez

Dumb moment of the week....

So...I just did the dumbest thing. We worked for 3 hours on some bookmarks for our 'Rites of Passage' game. We finally got it perfect and I thought I saved it and closed it out. Guess what? I didn't hit save after all. D'oh!

Now I will have to start all over again and since someone else actually finished it for me, I have no idea what to do. This is the dumb moment of the week. Thank you, thank you, join me tomorrow for an encore presentation.

Today was mildly uneventful, with the exception of the aforementioned dumb moment. It was nice for a change. Now I am going to have to supervise a bunch of teenagers. Unfortunately, one of my previous jobs was juvenile corrections. I don't know how to corral them without handcuffs or pepper spray. Only kidding. We get along just fine.

Anyhoo, its pouring buckets outside and I have to start on the bookmarks again. I know that I said that I would have a plethora of wisdom. I have none and I am not going to attempt it. I am supposed to give a shout out to our 14 year old volunteer's blog, Blahblahblog.

So for now my darlings, ciao!

Somebody stop the world, I want to get off.....

Well, thanks to one of our darling new girls and our fearless leader, we have doors again. Most of our inside doors were off their hinges, thanks to my procrastination in getting the door frames stained. In my defense, I was suffering from P.T.S.D after having knocked over a can of stain on our new carpet. ;) Most of the stain came out, but I am emotionally scarred for life. Only kidding.

I have been stuck in front of this computer since I started work today. Wednesdays are my outreach days. I take books/audio books to home bound patrons. It is quite the experience. I still need to order books for outreach and so far I have ordered one.

I also just had someone drop off a box of donated books. While we sincerely appreciate any donations, please make sure that your pet does not urinate on the box and/or donated items. It is quite unpleasant and we can't use the items anyways.

I am off to take books to my outreach patrons. I have no unfortunate pearls of wisdom today, but tomorrow I will shower you in a plethora of them!

Ciao!

Tuesday...

The drop box is spilling over. My carts are stacked to the maximum capicity with books that need to be shelved. I still need to make a flyer for our, 'Rites of Passage' event coming up AND I still have a bazillion other things that I need to do!!!!!

Tuesdays are spillovers from Mondays and just a typical day for everyone here at the Holbrook Public Library. Don't ask how we manage, we just do. I am taking a brief respite in this blog, before having to face the dreaded piles of books.

We have two new temps who are a considerable help. We also have a 15 year old boy who is volunteering his time to help us out! You don't find many people who have that sense of responsiblity and caring. Thank you and you know who you are!!!

The aforementioned 'Rites of Passage' is a game we are devising for out Teen Summer Reading. I will dangle tantilizing tidbits in my blogs and post in the calender. Hopefully, we will have it all pulled together by August 10th and it will go without a hitch!

Well, I can feel the backed up workload pressing upon me. So again, I must leave and face the real world. Ciao.


The more things change, the more they remain... insane.
Michael Fry and T. Lewis, Over the Hedge, 05-09-04

Another day of stories....

Thursdays are story time days at our library. We have 'Tales for Tots' at 10:30 a.m. and Storybook Cafe at 4:30 p.m. The story time in the morning is aimed at younger children and is usually a short story. The afternoon story time is a bit longer lasting around 20-25 minutes.

Today it is business as usual here at our library. We are of course backed up on everything. However, we are slowly, but surely plugging away. We are in the middle of processing all our new arrivals. So make sure that you stop buy to check out what we have!

Well I should probably get back to real work. I shall leave you with this pearl of wisdom for the day. Well, maybe it is more like a pearl coated piece of wisdom. Turn on the radio and listen to any station, at any time. Voltaire said, "Anything to stupid to be said is sung."

Enough said.

Ciao my darlings!

Carpe Diem!! Library Style!

It is the dawn of a new era at the Holbrook Public Library. We have been in our new building since February 12th, but it is the details that hang us up. I am starting this journal so that our patrons and others will have a more intimate look at our daily work lives. Also, I will keep it updated for activities, events and of course books!The library is not a sterile, quiet place with dusty old tomes. It is a vibrant building with interesting people. We adhere to the strict code of silence. Wellll....maybe not strict. We like to get to know our patrons and be there for them. This is the first entry in the blog of the LibrarySagePage. I hope to garner pearls of wisdom and update everyone on our activities. Ciao for now!