June 2011 Library News
Look here for upcoming programs, activities, and lists of new items in our Library!
June 2011 Library News
From the Gustavus Public
Library
Where Volunteers are Our Foundation
The library is open 6 days a week!
Weekdays 1:30 – 4:30 p.m. Mon. & Wed. nights 7:00 – 9:00 p.m. Thurs. 10:00 a.m. – noon
Saturdays 11:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
On June 1st we began our Summer Reading Program. The theme this year is “One World, Many Stories.” Every Wednesday at 10:30 am there will be stories, music, crafts, snacks and fun at the Library for children of all ages (preschoolers should come with an adult).
On June 2nd at 6:30 pm, Tania Lewis, Ryan Scott, and Diana Raper will be presenting a program called "Bears Necessities.” The program will include food, music, presentations, and community discussion.
June 3rd at 10:30 am, we will begin our Middle School Summer Program. Each week we will be highlighting a specific country or region, learning about it, and doing craft activities related to the area. For June we plan to do Ireland, Japan, Germany, and Mexico.
The Alaska 2011 Legislature has honored the life of Ritabell Wilsonwith a Legislative Memoriam. Please come to the Library for an Open House on Saturday, June 4th, at1 pm. We will be hanging a copy of the Memoriam in the Library. Light refreshments will be served.
Mike, Karen, and Ty Taylor, with Marielle Smith, will be putting on a slide presentation entitled “The Brazil and Peruvian Amazon:” Sustainable ecotourism, conservation concerns, and new techniques in climate-change science.” This will be on June 15th at 7 pm.
HELP NEEDED FOR SUMMER READING PROGRAM:
If anyone would like to volunteer to help with the Summer Reading Program, please call the Library (-2350) or email lortega@gustavus.lib.ak.us. There will be a sign-up sheet posted at the Library for bringing snacks.
We are also asking for a different community member to come each week and read a story to the children. This would be only one book and only one time for the whole summer. We want the kids to see that reading is important for everyone (not just teachers and librarians). You can read a favorite book or we can help in choosing one. Call the Library or email us if you are interested. We would like to have about 10 volunteers. Thanks.
Thanks to all of our desk sitters and volunteers: John Hawley, Allison Banks, Heather Sellards, Stephanie Shor, Kate Boesser, Ela Kunat, Karen Sargent, and Emma Johnson.
Thanks to our Library Board Members for all the work they put in; Eileen Clark, Artemis Bona Dea, Lynne Jensen, and Karen Sargent.
MAY LIBRARY STATISTICS: During May, 2011, we had 857 visitors (adults, school children, preschoolers, junior/senior high, in-house computer users, library computer users), checked out 201 books, 2 CDs, and 183 movies; for a total of 386 items. Programs included: city meetings, weekly Little Ones’ Reading Time, yoga, Fisheries meeting, Elementary School Science project night, Conservation Photographers Program, slide show on Glacier Bay Before the Ice, piano lessons, and internet use (both inside the building and out).
New DVDS at the Library:
Amazing Grace, rated PG
Olivia
The King’s Speech
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, rated PG-13
The Black Stallion, rated G
Arcadia
Hocus Pocus, rated PG
Kelly’s Heroes; The Dirty Dozen, double feature, rated PG
New VHS movies:
Atlantis
The Cobbler and the Thief, rated PG
The Nightmare Before Christmas, rated PG
Peter and the Wolf, rated PG
James and the Giant Peach, rated PG
New Reference Materials:
2008 Community Survey Report: Gustavus, AK
Three Year Anniversary Review: City of Gustavus
Adult Fiction:
22 Britannia Road by A. Hodgkinson
Sharpe’s Tiger by B. Cornwell
Olive Kitteridge by E. Strout
The Ascent of Rum Doodle by W.E. Bowman
The Quest Begins (Seeker Series) by E. Hunter
Great Bear Lake (Seeker Series) by E. Hunter
The Last Wilderness (Seeker Series) by E. Hunter
Smoke Mountain (Seeker Series) by E. Hunter
The Lemon Jelly Cake by M. Smith
The Lacuna by B. Kingsolver
Soloist by S. Lopez
Adult Non-Fiction:
Garden Tools and Equipment
Slug Tossing and Other Adventures
The Boy on the Beach: Building Community Through Play
Japan: An Illustrated History
Daring to Look: Dorothea Lange’s Photographs & Reports from the Field
The Emotion Code by B. Nelson
Final Journeys by M. Callanan
They Shoot Canoes, Don’t They? by P. McManus
British Columbia by T. Timmermans
Bipolar Disorder Survival Guide: What You and Your Family Need to Know
Heading Home with Your Newborn: From Birth to Reality
Welcome to the Jungle: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Bipolar
My American Century by S. Terkel
We also have over 50 new children’s books, including two new board books! Come check them out!
We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth. ~John Lubbock
