July 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.

July Programs and Activities:

July 4^th- Library closed.  Have a great 4^th!  Regular hours will resume Tuesday, the 5^th.

Summer Reading Program, Wednesdays at 10:30am.

Middle School Summer Program, Fridays at 10:30am.

      The 2011 Summer Reading Program is off to a good start.  About 30 children come to each Wednesday morning program.  Thank you to Kate Boesser for doing music with the children each week to start off.  Thanks to Jennifer Robinson, Marieke Slovin, and Steve Schaller from the Park Service for their help every week.  Special thanks go to the community volunteers who have come in to read; Holly Cervin, Steve Manchester, Greg Streveler, and Liz Olson so far.  (Give us a call at the Library if you would like to read a book to the kids.  We need some more volunteers for the last few weeks of July and the first week of August.)  Lastly, thanks to the parents who provide the snacks each week.

     The Middle School program has been a success.  We usually have 8 kids each Friday morning.  For June we had a program on Ireland, one on Australia by Steve Schaller (the kangaroo shaped cookies were great!), one on Germany with Mary (JoAnn Lesh’s niece), and one by Emma Johnson on Japan.  The kids had fun doing origami and learning to write their names in Japanese.  The first week in July we had Christianne Vanderzanden sharing about South Africa.  Next week Michelle Ridgway will be doing a program about her work as an underwater photographer in submarines and then Elias Zagha is planning a program on Belize for the 15th.  Any community member (or visitors) who are interested in presenting a session on a country or region you have experience with; please contact Lori at 697-2350.

Thanks to all of our desk sitters: John Hawley, Allison Banks, Heather Sellards, Stephanie Shor, Kate Boesser, Beth Hovind, Ann Daniels, Kathy Graves, Karen Sargent, and Emma Johnson.  Thank you to Harvey Van Patten for repainting the outside library bench.

We could use some more volunteers for several odd jobs around the library. One, we need to hang the framed Memoriam for Rita Wilson on the wall.  Two, we need someone to fix one of the computer station desks.  Three, we need someone with an allen wrench to tighten the bolts on the green chairs. 

Thank you to Tim Sunday who came in one afternoon and did all three projects listed above!  Yay, Tim!  We really appreciate your help.

Thanks to our Library Board Members; Eileen Clark, Artemis Bona Dea, Lynne Jensen, and Karen Sargent for their support. 

JUNE LIBRARY STATISTICS:  During June, 2011, we had 1261 visitors (adults, school children, preschoolers, junior/senior high, in-house computer users, library computer users), checked out 385 books, and 266 movies; for a total of 651 items.  Programs included: city meetings, weekly Summer Reading programs, Bear Necessities, program on Brazil and the Peruvian Amazon, and internet use (both inside the building and out).

New McNaughtons:

The Warmth of Other Suns by I. Wilkerson

The Emperor of All Maladies:  A Biography of Cancer by S. Mukherjee

Unthinkable by S. Rigsby

Though Not Dead:  A Kate Shugak Novel by D. Stabenow

New Alaskana Books:

Deadliest Sea by K. Thompson

Cold Flashes by M. Engelhard

Adult Fiction:

Side Jobs:  Stories from the Dresden Files by J. Butcher

Haunted Alaska: Ghost Stories from the Far North by R. Wendt

Adult Non-Fiction:

You Can Beat Prostate Cancer

Bong Hits 4 Jesus

Dr. Patrick Walsh's Guide to Surviving Prostate Cancer

Root Cellaring: Natural Cold Storage of Fruits and Vegetables

Bicycling Guide to Complete Bicycle Maintenance & Repair

The Winter Harvest Handbook

Down the Great Unknown

The Perfect Puppy

Physical Geography

Alaska’s Watchable Whales: Humpback and Killer Whales

The Beatles

Highlights from Dave Matthew and Tim Reynolds

Worms Eat My Garbage

Meditation

Small-Scale Grain Raising

Preserving Food Without Freezing or Canning

Your Lab's Life

Landlording on Autopilot

We also have 21 new children’s books!  Come check them out!

Reading is a means of thinking with another person's mind; it forces you to stretch your own. 

--Charles Scribner, Jr.