Feel the heat, catch the FEVER!

The latest is here....Karen Marie Moning's latest, Shadowfever, is available for reserve! Yes, reserve list only at this point if you want to read it. Call me, email me, stop in, go online. Do what you have to do to get in line! Check out the widget link at right for more info on this series. I also have some blog entries that tell more about this series and others like it if you happen to be a fan of Twilight, House of Night or Vampire Academy and are looking for more authors....

It's the place to be....

April and I are here daily and we see busy. Today? Not quite sure what it was but we both were commenting that it was an extraordinary day in the library. People were just kind of all over....at one point there were 18 people that I counted, but what was so amazing about it, is that just about everything that could be used, was being used.

Computers were full, the tables had people on laptops and having meetings, negotiating contracts. The plush chairs had people reading the newspapers. Kids were browsing the children's department. My absolute favorite? This picture....a teen settled in on the floor (barefoot!) and browsing books while listening to her music through headphones.

All the while, April and I are checking out books and faxing, working on orders, covering books. It's an awesome place to work and apparently "the" happening place.

Scholastic Warehouse sale today....

In a little bit here I'm heading off to the Scholastic Warehouse sale. I've not been before but I'm hoping that there are things other than paperbacks. I want to grab some wonderful books that will hold up in the library and enhance the collection a bit more and this may be an awesome opportunity to do so!

When I get back, I'll post a picture of what I bring home to live in the LH Library......
......to be continued

Library Funding

First....let me tell you that this is pretty much a repost of an old blog from a few years ago. It's pertinent information and I thought it merited another airing.

It is through donations that the library was established. It is through donations that the library will continue to flourish. As many in Liberty Hill are aware, the funding for the Library is entirely through sales tax revenue (NOT property taxes) that is generated by the businesses within our district boundaries (which follow the ISD boundaries). this means that of the 8.25% sales tax you pay when shopping in Liberty Hill, that .25% comes back to fund your public library. We are not a city, county or state library, so our funding is not through those sources, only through the sales tax revenue generated in Liberty Hill and various grants or donations received.

My reason for telling you this? To promote Liberty Hill! Each time you shop locally, rather than running to Georgetown, Leander or Cedar Park, you are supporting your library. As you can guess, sales are down due to this lovely economy and our income at the library has suffered. The library needs your help. Keeping sales within Liberty Hill will help. Donations of current book titles that we do not have will help. Cash donations always help us add to our collection. You can make a donation on our website through PayPal. Keeping your library open and offering the recent materials you want is our focus.

If you haven't been to the library, pull into Lions Foundation park and head for the building in the back. We'd love to meet you and introduce you to our vast collection of DVD's, books and audiobooks on CD, as well as our current releases....all just waiting to go home with you.

You'd be surprised how much your little local library has to offer. The lastest books form the best seller lists, free WiFi, high speed computers, advanced technology for accessing the library from your home, and personal service with a smile. Come on in, we're here to serve you!

Hanging out at the library

4 pm at the LH Public Library. Do you picture the library as a spot the teens hang out? If not, stop by and check it out! It is very typical on any given afternoon, to see a group of teens gathered around the computers, groups wandering the aisles chatting about books, the back corner full of seated teens discussing a book. Laptops galore, weather permitting the picnic tables are full. Indoor tables full.....doing homework or again, on laptops. Teen sitting on the floor, back against the book case, earphones running from iPod to ears.....texting on their phone.

Yes....its happening @your library!

On vacation.....

Been a long time since a blog post, but amazingly, I've been on vacation. Miss April is at the library, holding down the fort and giving me such a luxury. Please say a big thank you to her when you are in, I am looking forward to coming back refreshed and excited on Monday.

Kind of bittersweet to leave time off.....I'm getting spoiled by not working and doing only what I want to when I want to. BUT.....I absolutely love and adore what I do, so I'm excited to come back and see what awaits me, to delve back into library life in our sweet town.

I've been missing you all.....come see me!

Computer classes coming to the library!

The Liberty Hill Public Library has been selected to participate in the Digital Literacy Corps program in 2011 due to a grant from the Central Texas Library System. What this means for our community is that in 2011, we will be offering some basic computer skill classes for FREE to our members. Enrollment will be limited due to computer availability, so keep your eyes open for the date announcement.

Classes will include computer basics, internet basics, and email basics.