Hi! Today is the first official day of summer vacation for all of our schools. Hurray!! So needless to say we have had a very busy day! There have been so many books going in and out, in and out that it has almost made me dizzy. It is awesome to see all of you coming to the library!
We are also busy as bees planning our summer reading program. It is going to be one amazing experience so we hope that everyone will come and Catch the Reading Bug! (that's our theme this year). So don't forget to put it on your calendars. Monday June, 2 at 10 a.m. here at the library, don't forget.
~Emily~
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Saturday, May 24, 2008
The one about the rice
So, the library will be closed this Monday for Memorial Day. It's going to be a big day for my family. My sister-in-law's sister is coming down from Canada to visit and wanted to have Navajo Tacos and my parents, sister and I are going to push to get the garden planted next week (here's hoping we've seen the last of these weird cold snaps).
Ages ago I got an email from a friend about a new website they'd found -- freerice.com. I was working on the website a little bit today and something triggered a memory of playing the freerice.com game. I figured before I put it on the website, I should make sure it's still live and it is! What is freerice.com? Well, for every word that you can define (yes, it's multiple choice) the organization donate's ten grains of rice to help fight world hunger. Yeah, ten grains of rice sounds piddly, but last month alone the website raised over 775,000 cups of rice! So I got to revisit an old interenet friend today and raise about 1000 grains of free rice. So next time you find yourself opening up solitaire on your computer, you might visit freerice.com for ten minutes or so and see how many grains you can add to the pile!
Saturday's just fly by! It's after 1 p.m. and I still have a ton to finish in the next 45 minutes. Have an amazing holiday weekend and be safe out there.
april dawn
Ages ago I got an email from a friend about a new website they'd found -- freerice.com. I was working on the website a little bit today and something triggered a memory of playing the freerice.com game. I figured before I put it on the website, I should make sure it's still live and it is! What is freerice.com? Well, for every word that you can define (yes, it's multiple choice) the organization donate's ten grains of rice to help fight world hunger. Yeah, ten grains of rice sounds piddly, but last month alone the website raised over 775,000 cups of rice! So I got to revisit an old interenet friend today and raise about 1000 grains of free rice. So next time you find yourself opening up solitaire on your computer, you might visit freerice.com for ten minutes or so and see how many grains you can add to the pile!
Saturday's just fly by! It's after 1 p.m. and I still have a ton to finish in the next 45 minutes. Have an amazing holiday weekend and be safe out there.
april dawn
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
DON'T BE AFRAID! It is safe!!!
Just a note for our beloved patrons, PLEASE don't be afraid of our two drop boxes. We have the same big blue drop box out on the corner of Park and Third Streets, and all of your borrowed materials can be dropped in there; books, videos, DVD's, games, magazines, audiobooks etc. That box is good for them all!!
And then, when you come into the main doors of the library, straight ahead of you, in the low spot of our circulation desk, is our indoor drop box. The same rules apply, you can place all of your borrowed library materials in this box. We actually prefer if you would drop your items in this box, unless you need us to check in overdue items to ascertain any fines. We would hate for your books to "go missing" because they weren't placed in our trusty return box!
So besides that, Summer is rapidly approaching,(not that yesterday's cold snap is any indication) and our Summer Reading program will be launching on June 2nd! So come on into the library for more information on the new program.
Hope to see you soon!
Barb
And then, when you come into the main doors of the library, straight ahead of you, in the low spot of our circulation desk, is our indoor drop box. The same rules apply, you can place all of your borrowed library materials in this box. We actually prefer if you would drop your items in this box, unless you need us to check in overdue items to ascertain any fines. We would hate for your books to "go missing" because they weren't placed in our trusty return box!
So besides that, Summer is rapidly approaching,(not that yesterday's cold snap is any indication) and our Summer Reading program will be launching on June 2nd! So come on into the library for more information on the new program.
Hope to see you soon!
Barb
Monday, May 12, 2008
Ah, memories!
Hello everyone! It's me Carmen. I have a little memory for you.
I was working in the back space the other day mending books and the phone rang. It was for Emily at the front desk so I called her on the phone. The line was busy. Odd, I thought. Why would the line be busy when it doesn't show that it's busy? Then realized I was dialing the back space extension where I was sitting and not the front desk extension. So I was basically calling myself. Dummie, I know.
This reminded me of this one time at the old library. I had a shelf of books that had arrived for patrons and I had to go one by one and call them to tell them their book was here. So, it was nearing the end of the day and I tired. I just wanted to go home but I was a good little employee and continued onward with my duties. I picked up one of the books and saw that it was for one of the staff. I figured I would still make the courtesy call so she wouldn't forget to take it home the next day. I dialed the number on the slip of paper and got a busy tone. I tried again after a while and still, the line was busy. The next day, April came up to me and said, "You tried to call this number and it was busy. Do you recognize the number?"
When I glanced at the number, and seeing how it was a new day and I was energized and rested, I recognized the phone number immediately and felt like such a Dori fish! It was the library's phone number. I was calling myself.
Okay, let me take this moment to remind you again that I was tired! Tired! Getting off at 7pm and during the winter, there is no sun outside which makes the sky darker and makes some people more tired! Sometimes our brain already go home for the night but we're still on the clock! And then we make little mistakes when we're seeing double. It happens!
So that's my little memory. I was thanking my lucky stars that it was staff I was calling and not a patron who was waiting by the phone waiting for his/her awesome book.
Have a nice day!
Carmen
I was working in the back space the other day mending books and the phone rang. It was for Emily at the front desk so I called her on the phone. The line was busy. Odd, I thought. Why would the line be busy when it doesn't show that it's busy? Then realized I was dialing the back space extension where I was sitting and not the front desk extension. So I was basically calling myself. Dummie, I know.
This reminded me of this one time at the old library. I had a shelf of books that had arrived for patrons and I had to go one by one and call them to tell them their book was here. So, it was nearing the end of the day and I tired. I just wanted to go home but I was a good little employee and continued onward with my duties. I picked up one of the books and saw that it was for one of the staff. I figured I would still make the courtesy call so she wouldn't forget to take it home the next day. I dialed the number on the slip of paper and got a busy tone. I tried again after a while and still, the line was busy. The next day, April came up to me and said, "You tried to call this number and it was busy. Do you recognize the number?"
When I glanced at the number, and seeing how it was a new day and I was energized and rested, I recognized the phone number immediately and felt like such a Dori fish! It was the library's phone number. I was calling myself.
Okay, let me take this moment to remind you again that I was tired! Tired! Getting off at 7pm and during the winter, there is no sun outside which makes the sky darker and makes some people more tired! Sometimes our brain already go home for the night but we're still on the clock! And then we make little mistakes when we're seeing double. It happens!
So that's my little memory. I was thanking my lucky stars that it was staff I was calling and not a patron who was waiting by the phone waiting for his/her awesome book.
Have a nice day!
Carmen
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
First Post in May -- Check.
I get to be the first post in May! Muahahahahaha!
Okay, evil laugh for the day -- Check.
You can tell that school is winding up, here at the library. Many, many of you have been coming in looking for last minute research "stuff." For those of you who just found out you're short one source, or one of them was rejected, come ask us about EBSCO! Or, go to www.navajoco.lib.az.us and click on the databases link. There's all sorts of fun and joy in there for research papers or just for your own information.
Plug for the state databases available to us -- check.
Now for the "random ramblings for the day" part of this post. So. Is anyone else having the hardest time staying at your desk??? I've been fortunate the last couple days to be able to get out and pick up the High School guys that are tearing out the old parking lot and making way for the new. If my car is to be believed we got over 90 degrees yesterday! We're talking swimming and baseball weather out there, y'all! Usually it feels like summer sneaks up behind and gooses us, but this year I'm getting more of a rumbling down upon us like a breakless freight train running downhill. *grin*
Well, guess I must be getting on...column to write, books to catalogue, summer daydreams to have, and all that jazz.
~April Dawn
Okay, evil laugh for the day -- Check.
You can tell that school is winding up, here at the library. Many, many of you have been coming in looking for last minute research "stuff." For those of you who just found out you're short one source, or one of them was rejected, come ask us about EBSCO! Or, go to www.navajoco.lib.az.us and click on the databases link. There's all sorts of fun and joy in there for research papers or just for your own information.
Plug for the state databases available to us -- check.
Now for the "random ramblings for the day" part of this post. So. Is anyone else having the hardest time staying at your desk??? I've been fortunate the last couple days to be able to get out and pick up the High School guys that are tearing out the old parking lot and making way for the new. If my car is to be believed we got over 90 degrees yesterday! We're talking swimming and baseball weather out there, y'all! Usually it feels like summer sneaks up behind and gooses us, but this year I'm getting more of a rumbling down upon us like a breakless freight train running downhill. *grin*
Well, guess I must be getting on...column to write, books to catalogue, summer daydreams to have, and all that jazz.
~April Dawn
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