HEADS UP READING !

Homer Township Public Library is proud to host
Heads Up! Reading, a free program focused on literacy and children.

Heads Up! Reading is a national, distance-learning course that will teach participants the tools to enhance reading, writing and thinking skills of young children.

"Heads Up! Reading" will be held every Thursday evening from 5:45-8:15 p.m. at the Homer Library and will run from January 10, 2008 to May 29, 2008. Participants have the opportunity to receive CEUs, CPDUs, In-service hours, and/or college credit.

For more information and to register, visit http://www.inccrra.org/overview.aspx?.
Registration forms are also available at
http://www.homerlibrary.org/hur.pdf.

WINTER NEWSLETTER

The winter newsletter has arrived! It's at the circ desk if anyone is asking for one. It will be in the Homer Horizon newspaper on January 3. Sign-up is January 14. Any questions... please ask me.

Sara

Last Day to Register Voters

The Primary Election will be on Tuesday, February 5. The last day to register someone to vote is Tuesday, Jan. 8. They can register that day.

HOLDS CLARIFICATION

Patrons who belong to a library in PALS (Prairie Area Library System) may place a hold at ANY PALS library and choose the Pick-up Point as ANY PALS library. If an Item is not in the PALS system and the patron is not ours, then they do need to make a request from their home library.

If this isn't clear then talk to me!

Gingerbread House Program

The Gingerbread House program held Monday, December 10th was a great success! Thanks to Kathy for all of her help. There are extra recipe and template forms in the kitchen if anyone would like one and lots of left over bread!

Sign-up

Remember, each person that registers for an event needs to be placed on a new line. Our meeting room only holds a certain amount of people. When we place a limit on an event, we (as in all of us -- circ, ref, ys, and others) go by the line number --- nobody has time to look at the entire list and count 2 people for this line, 4 people for this line.

So right way...
1. Sandy Smith
2. John Smith
3. Sara Smith

Wrong way...
1. Sandy, John, and Sara Smith.

GIFTS FROM VENDORS OR PATRONS

If we get a gift from a vendor or patron, please write down the person's name and item received.
We like to send thanks you notes to the kind people!
per Miss Patti

FASFA

FASFA will not be available in paper. Students and parents should file online at http://www.fafsa.ed.gov/.

Paper information on filing online, protecting your identity while filing online, repaying debt and more are located on the "College Center" table.

Information on College Illinois is located near the bulletin board.

so workflows and ibistro are down, what do you do?

You can still help your patron!!!!

If they have a title but no author.... If they're looking for a certain subject....

Go to the SWAN catalog and look it up!
http://swan.mls.lib.il.us/

There's no way to know if we own the book, but you can show them where it would be located if we did own it!

No need to memorize the URL, just google "swan catalog."

You can also do this if a patron is wondering if the book is located at Orland.

Just another way to be the best library worker you can be!!!!

:)