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News and Notes

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Adult Programs
The outlook for 2018 Adult Programs is warming up! We just completed a grant proposal to present 3 programs called Revisiting the Founding Era—a trip in time to remind us all what our country’s founding fathers went through to launch a brand new nation. If we are awarded this opportunity, we’ll begin plans to fire you up on this topic. We’ll have lots of help from the Gilder Lehrman Historical Society, and a few of our local historians as well.

Winter Programs for Kids and Teens

Winter programs are off to a running start! Visit the website for more details, and to find out when therapy dogs Zeke and Lucy are available to listen to children practice reading aloud. (Editor's note: the Zombie Apocalypse was a rousing success. If you missed this one, watch for another in the spring!)

From the Director's Corner

If you have attended any of the January Series broadcasts at the library, you know just how wonderful they are. We have been a remote site since 2014 and this was our fifth year. Reports show that over 5,000 people daily were attending or watching the series broadcasts. For the entire series, that made 78,000 people. Here at the library, we averaged 24 per day and an overall attendance of 352. We hope you enjoyed the series. We will be doing it again next year, so watch for the fliers and announcements in December and January.

We will be closed on Feb. 19^th for a staff in-service day. We are taking the staff on the road to a library workshop this time. All items returned while we are gone will be back-dated to avoid fines.

Our next book sale will begin on Thursday, Mar. 22 (6-8), Friday, Mar. 23 (10-4) and Saturday, Mar. 24 - $2/bag day (10-3). We are currently taking book donations for the sale and volunteers to work it.

Marcia, our Adult Services Programing person is busy writing grants to bring in new presentations. Once they have all been submitted, we just have to hold our breath and wait. Stay tuned for any announcements.

Our digitized newspaper files are now scheduled to be loaded to a server this month. When finished, we will have a presentation on how to use the program to search through the papers – in the library or from home. Since we will also be incorporating the papers from Montague, we “will have the most complete free public access of Muskegon County Newspapers ...” Then we will look at what and how much needs to be done to get the collection cleaned up so we can look for grants for this phase.

Enjoy the Snow,

Shelley Williams