Wednesday, December 5, 2012

DVD collection GROWS!!!!






The Liberty Hill Public Library just celebrated its 10th anniversary and we still hear, “we have a library in Liberty Hill?”  Please help us spread the word, we are here and have so much to offer.

Yes, we are small, but we have a lot to share.  The New York Times best sellers are always something we have, though if you don’t see them on the shelf, they are circulating and we will put them on hold for you.  We are the ONLY source of DVDs in town, and the collection is growing rapidly.  We had a resident bring in 300 DVDs to add to our collection and she says this is the “first wave” of DVDs.  The community benefit is going to be amazing.  Our DVD collection is now over 1800 movies, bet we have something you haven’t seen yet.

Community information?  We have it.  The front page of our blog has a visual directory.  Just click on the icon to go to websites.  We are currently working on a comprehensive database for the entire area known as Liberty Hill, including churches, restaurants, retail, associations and groups.  You can find it on our website under Online Resources – Community Links.  I’d love any recommendations so that I don’t forget anything and if you have a service or product you sell from your home, I’d list that too.  Categories that I think we definitely need information on are feed stores and horse boarding and lessons.  Feed me the information!

We are looking for a few things, though.  First and foremost is a friends group to be an advocate for the library….support, raise funds, do special projects….whatever it might be that their hearts desire.  If you have an interest in heading this up, we’d love to get one going.  We are also constantly looking  for volunteers to help take care of our lawn area as well as do small projects like power wash the building or repair a window screen.  

And one tease…..E-BOOKS!!!  What do you think of having e-books at the library?  I’ve gotten many questions about it and the negatives that always exist in the start of anything new seem to have been worked out, so I’m looking into the possibility.  HOWEVER, I do need some help.  The cost to the library is half of my book budget for the year, with a three year commitment.  Simply too much to justify on e-books at this point, however if we can get some fundraising help and bring some money in, it can be a go.  So….what I hold out to you is a plea.  If you desire e-books in the library, consider donating, whether it be monetary or in time.  A book sale utilizing the hundreds of books we receive in donations would go  toward making e-books feasible sooner rather than later.  Any sort of fund raising effort would help.  If you can give some time to a project, let’s make this happen!
Give Sandy a call at 778-6400 or email at librarian@lhpl.org, or better yet, stop in!  I’d love to chat with people about the above opportunities to make YOUR library bigger and better.  The community deserves it.    

YOUR public library……check it out!
librarian@lhpl.org

Monday, December 3, 2012

Fine Free Month......



Make Room for Christmas Gifts…..

….Return Your Library Materials!

Return your overdue books, DVDs, magazines and other library materials during Fine-Free Month and pay no fines!

Library materials that were due
November 30, 2012 OR BEFORE
and are returned between Dec. 1 and Dec. 31, 2012
will have all late fees waived.
  
*We cannot waive charges for lost or damaged materials.