Summer Reading Information for July

June is coming to an end, but our Summer Reading Program is still going strong!

Between Friday, July 4th and Sunday, July 6th the library will be closed in observance of Independence Day. We hope you have a fantastic holiday! But, don't forget to come back and visit us on the 7th! We will be back open during our normal operating hours. Doors open at 10:00 a.m.!

Continuing throughout the month of July, Story Time and Wii game nights will still be on Tuesdays evenings.

Now, on to the good stuff... for those who haven't been by the library to pick up a July calender, the presenters for the summer reading program for the month of July are as follows.

Thursday, July 3rd : Julian Franklin
Friday, July 4th : (Austin Memorial Library will be closed)

Thursday, July 10 : Tye-Dye Day (we will be making book covers... but feel free to bring your own shirts, or shoelaces, or socks, or anything else you may want to Tye-Dye)
Friday, July 11 : Self-Published Author Katie Moak will come to read her book and describe how she accomplished becoming a self-published children's book author!

Thursday, July 17 : Magician, Trixie Bond will be here
Friday, July 18 : Come enjoy learning about African Drumming with Mr. Abubakr

Thursday, July 24 : John Meekins with TX Parks and Wildlife
Friday, July 25 : Duct Tape Day

Thursday, July 31 : Mick Corley and the Imagination Station
Friday, August 1 : Local Talent Showcase featuring YOU! *See note below!*

Every single event is set to begin at 1:00 p.m. throughout the entire month of July with no exceptions. So, please come out and join us every Thursday and Friday at 1:00 in the afternoon, something fun and exciting will definitely be going on!

*note* About our local talent showcase, any person, of any age, with any talent, is welcome to sign up! Do you juggle like a circus clown? Can you dance like Fred Astaire? Are you a musician with a band who just needs an audience? Do you have a knack for telling a good story or joke?
Then come on down and sign up for the talent showcase! Let us see you shine!

And lastly, my most sincere apologies to our presenters who came out today (July 27th). We hated to see each of you go, but we will absolutely welcome all of you back on a better day at a better time! Until then, we look forward to seeing you again!

Once again, thanks for visiting the library blog everyone! Keep on reading!

Miss Kayla

Summer Reading Program 2008

Hello Everyone!

This is my first blog as your Children's Librarian and I'm so excited to be part of your summers this year!

Just a heads up for those who weren't aware... storytime has a new day and time.

I'll be ready to read for you guys every Tuesday at 3:30 p.m. and 5:30 p.m., providing there are people to read to! (Otherwise, I will have to read to the walls, and that can be embarrassing.)

As most of you who haved stopped by know, we have several different organizations coming out to join us for our Summer Reading Program (aka SRP) this year. We've already had:

Martha's Petting Zoo

Carlos' Rock Wall,

Casey (the guitar teacher from Dan's Music Shop here in town)

and our very own first annual Iron-Man Chef Cleveland competition!

All our thanks to these guys we've had a lot of fun with you all!

Over the next few weeks (for those who haven't yet picked up a calender and signed up) we are going to have many more really fantastic people joining us! (All acts are set to begin at 1:00p.m. with the exception of Jungle Jim the Bug Guy. *Details about that act later.*)

~On June 19th Raymond Eastman Jr. will be bringing Puppet Wise with him again this year!

~On June 20th Jungle Jim will be bringing his Bugs from Around the World to share with us! (Jungle Jim won't be here until 4:45 p.m. because he has to drive such a long way to be with us!)

~On June 26th we will be having our Dominos Pizza Party and Demonstration.... my tummy is already rumbling.

~For our last visitors this month, we are going to have Mr. Kevin Ladd, a genealogist from a neighboring library and Professor Bytheway from the Sam Houston State University here to tell us about family history and Crime Scene Investigation!

A new thing we are excited to tell all of our patrons and readers about out there is our new Wii Game Night! This is a supervised event and all ages are welcome! (Parents are definitely encouraged to loose some of those inhibitions and come out and join in the fun!)

I hope you all are having a truly fantastic summer, no matter what you are doing! I'm sure I'm leaving out a lot of things. Once I remember them all, I will definitely make more posts!

Thanks so much for being a part of our summer and we hope you enjoy letting us be a part of yours!

Miss Kayla

As you may have noticed, for some time now, displayed at the front desk, we have had our staff recommendations; which are books we loved, and would be more than happy to tell you about or answer any questions you may have. Because of the fun we have had, telling you about our favorite books, alot of which were recommended to us, by our own patrons, we are pleased to announce our patron recomendation forms, now available at the front desk! Please stop by and fill one out, as a display is in the works, and we would love to hear from you. Thank you!

Mary Merrell chosen as 1 of 29 librarians in Texas for Grant

Mary Merrell was 1 out of 29 librarians choosen for the PELSC Cohort Program. The PELSC Cohort Program is an all expense paid tuition to Texas Woman's Univeristy in Denton. Don't worry I'm not going anywhere. The classes are online so I can stay here in Cleveland. Upon completion I will have a Master's Degree in Library and Information Science. I am very excited about being chosen as well as being honored. I feel this is not only an excellent opportunity for me personally but for the city as well.

Wal-Mart Grant

Yahoo!!!! We received a grant from Wal-Mart for $1000.00

Want to know when you will get your stimulus payment?

Direct Deposit Payments
If the last two digits of your Social Security number are:
Your economic stimulus payment deposit should be sent to your bank account by:
00 – 20 - May 2
21 – 75 - May 9
76 – 99 - May 16
Paper Check
If the last two digits of your Social Security number are:
Your check should be in the mail by:
00 – 09 - May 16
10 – 18 - May 23
19 – 25 - May 30
26 – 38 - June 6
39 – 51 - June 13
52 – 63 - June 20
64 – 75 - June 27
76 – 87 - July 4
88 – 99 - July 11

Blogging is back

After the recent renovations the library staff became lazy. We stopped with our blogs. Were back!!!!

Clean Reads - February

This month we have added a couple more titles of Large Print Clean Reads. They are:

The Mote in Andreas Eye by David Niall Wilson
Dearest Dorothy Help Ive Lost bye Charlene Ann Baumbich

NetLibrary Downloadable Audio Books added today

Title - Author - Narrator - Genre
Let It Be Love - Alexander, Victoria - Tanner, Jill - Romance
Biggie and the Quincy Ghost - Bell, Nancy - Woodman, Jeff - Mystery
The Intruder - Blauner, Peter - Guidall, George - Suspense
The Gay Place - Brammer, Billy Lee - Guidall, George - Fiction
The Cat Who Had 60 Whiskers - Braun, Lilian Jackson - Guidall, George - Mystery
Tenbow - Braun, Matt - Sala, Ed - Western
Lying Wonders - Cooper, Susan Rogers - Stechschulte, Tom - Mystery
Blood Lands - Cotton, Ralph - Leffert, Joel - Western
More Twisted - Deaver, Jeffery - various performers - Suspense
Raising the Bar - Erickson, Gary & Lorentzen, Lois - Harries, Richard - Business
Bad Blood - Fairstein, Linda - Rosenblat, Barbara - Suspense
Hell at the Breech - Franklin, Tom - Pine, Larry - Fiction
Man in the Middle - Haig, Brian - Ganser, L.J. - Suspense
Crossed Bones - Haines, Carolyn - Forbes, Kate - Mystery
The Note - Hunt, Angela - Moore, Christina - Inspirational
Ultrametabolism - Hyman, Mark - Runger, Nelson - Self-Help
Web of Evil - Jance, J.A. - Ziemba, Karen - Suspense
When Joy Came to Stay - Kingsbury, Karen - Caruso, Barbara - Inspirational
Traveler - McLarty, Ron - the author - Fiction
God Don't Play - Monroe, Mary - Floyd, Patricia R. - Fiction
Stolen Magic - Putney, M.J. - Prebble, Simon - Romance
Good Luck - Rovira, Alex & Trias de Bes, Fernando - Poe, Richard - Business
Body Scissors - Simon, Michael - Fernandez & Stechschulte - Suspense
Divas of Damascus Road - Stimpson, Michelle - Washington, Sharon - Fiction
Exit A - Swofford, Anthony - Slattery, John - Fiction
State of Denial - Woodward, Bob - Grupper, Adam - Nonfiction

Clean Reads - January

The January Clean Reads are Down by the Riverside by Jackie Lynn and The English Wife by Doreen Roberts.