FRIENDS RAFFLE

There is a new Friends raffle beginning Monday, March 2nd. New or existing Friends members are eligible for a raffle ticket for a chance to win a 1-night stay at the Staybridge Suites in Oak Brook. Winner will be pulled on April 1st.

SCHOLASTIC BOOK SALE

The Scholastic books that were for sale on the table across from reference have been relocated to the meeting room. If a patron is purchasing any of these books they must bring them up to Circulation. The books are now on sale for BUY ONE GET THE SECOND ONE (of lesser value) @ 50% OFF.

CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT

Circ,
Read your Emails too!
I don't think that some notes specific to Circ should be broadcast to the whole staff.
Jody

DVDs are coming soon

To date we have had more than 100 DVDs donated. Yesterday staff purchased enough additional movies to process and open this new collection soon. We thank the Friends Group for their support. We were able to adjust our collection development budget to help purchase and support bringing the DVD collection forward.

Location, tagging, etc. are being discussed. Most of the movies are children's and family. We will open the collection with those that may fall in other categories, too.

In other news we are discussing discontinuing the VHS movies that we currently own.

More details will be forthcoming about the new DVD collection and VHS collection soon.

Last Day to Register to Vote for April Election

From: Nancy Schultz Voots, Will County Clerk

The last day to take registrations for voting in the April 7th Consolidated Election is Tuesday, March 10th.

All registrations you take on or before March 10th must be returned to the County Clerk’s office NO LATER than Thursday, March 12th, either by mail or in person. Registration will re-open on Thursday, April 9th.

If you have any questions, please call the Registration Department at
815/740-4620.

Becky Gilliam Will County Clerk's Office Elections Department
Phone: (815) 740-4794

LIBRARY CARDS ...

PATRONS RENEWING OR REPLACING LIBRARY CARDS

o If the patron has any old fine or fee over $5.00, do not issue a new card or update their current one unless the payment is made down to $5.00.

o If the patron has any lost items on their card, do not issue a new card or update their current one unless the complete payment is made.

PALS website & news

Please take a moment to view the PALS website @ http://www.palsnet.info/

as well as the Prairie Area System newsletters @ http://www.palsnet.info/news-sharing/prairie-views-newsletter

Both will keep staff up to date on issues of importance at the system level, in opportunities, and news to note.

Udderly Cool Coloring Contest: Bookmobile

MOOOOO!

Patrons will be dropping off their udderly cool coloring sheets. There is an envelope on the cork strip you may place them in. Thanks.

ALSO, some bookmobile patrons may be turning their Winter Reading forms (they are the same forms YS is using). Please put them on JodyO's desk. Thanks again.

FLOPPY DISK DRIVES

The computers in the computer room no longer have "floppy disk drives".
If a patron has a floppy disk, there is a "plug and play" drive they can borrow here. It is hanging behind the Flash Drives for sale.

Floppy disk drives are no longer standard on new computers so the patron might be told that Flash drives are even better. (More can be saved on our cheapest Flash drive (512mb) than on a Floppy disk (1.4mb).

Library Friends news...

Due to personal reasons, Eileen McCaffrey, the Library Friends' group coordinator, has resigned. We are happy that Eileen remains a library advocate and Friends member, but she won't be serving in such an active role as she has done in the past.

Please know that the Library Friends group continues on. To date they have done a wonderful job and raised approximately $807 in funds to help support our library.

Thank you for your support of this group.

New Word Processing Stations

We have added several new word processing stations throughout the library. The computer across from the Adult Help Desk has an AWE computer next to it, so a parent can work on the computer while his or her child can sit quietly next to them. Two of the word processing computers are in the charrols in front of the Large Print collection.

None of them are Internet accessible. If a patron wants to print they will have to save their work on a flash drive, bring it up to circ and you will print it off for them and charge the same rate as if the patron printed it from the computer room.

Currently, these word processing computers are on a first-come first-serve basis. If you see people standing around waiting to use these particular machines, please let us know and we'll re-address time limits.

Library has received lots of great press!

And our very own Sara McCambridge was featured in Homer Horizon's someone you should know column!

http://www.southtownstar.com/neighborhoodstar/orlandpark/1411163,020509ORamericangirl.article

http://www.homerian.com/Articles-c-2009-02-09-191248.112113_Homer_library_adds_more_than_20_new_computers.html

http://www.triblocal.com/Homer_Glen/List_View/view.html?type=photos&action=detail&sub_id=47297

PROCESSING FEE

Processing fees will be added to the item record as of 2/11/08 and begin with barcode 3 2889 00214 1200.

Any item with the barcode lower than this will still have $3.00 added to the cost when they are paid for lost.

If a library calls for an older item, then tell them the cost + processing fee. If they don’t call then they will be paying the amount shown on the computer. This decision has been made at the system level. Currently they don’t have time to add the processing fee en mass. If they can go back and do the barcodes before this one, everyone will be notified.

Questions about items under $10.00. (board books, magazines, paperbacks)
We will continue to not charge our own people these processing fees when they come in.
If the item has a barcode “214 1200” or higher deduct the $3.00.
If the item has a lower barcode then treat as usual.

Economic Stimulus update

We have submitted our capital building project details to state officials for consideration to be funded through the federal government's economic stimulus program. It is a "wait and see" time. I will keep you posted...
Sheree

FEBRUARY FREINDS-ZY

The Fannie Mae raffle basket is for patrons who join the Friends Group in the month of February. Raffle tickets are at the circulation desk along with $5 library bucks and 10 free copies coupons which they will receive along with a raffle ticket when they join the Friends group this month. Applications are at the table (across from Reference) along with the basket and a raffle can. The date to pull the winning ticket will be determined shortly.

MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET RAFFLE

There is a new raflle at the Reference/Help desk. Tickets are available at the help desk. The raffle is for a family 4-pack of tickets to see the Million Dollar Quartet on any Wednesday, Thursday or Sunday evening performance through March29th. Only one entry per person. Winner will be pulled on Monday, March 2nd.

LIBRARY LOVER'S MONTH RAFFLE

Harrison's Gift Certificates: Week 3 winner is Joan Giroux. Week 2 winner is Janine Klepitsch. Week 1 winner is Kortney Weisenfluh. They have been notified. The certificates are in the drawer next to/below the cash register.

Bookmobile Football Follies Winner

Brendan Spratt has won the bookmobile Football Follies raffle prize. The prize is on a shelf above JodyO's desk.

Please take a photo of our winner. Thank you.

PRESCRIPTION CARDS

The supplemental prescription cards that now available in Will Co. can be picked up at the Homer Township Offices.
Their regular hours are Monday-Friday 8-4
phone number is 708-301-0522

AWE Children's computers

Please take a minute to look at the new AWE Computers in the kids deparatment.......They are AWEsome. They are loaded with tons of educational and fun activities. We have set the computers to shut down at closing time. The kids will receive a message that the computer will shut down in 10 minutes. They are programmed to go on again at 8:00 am. Please take a look at them......the keyboards are color coded and the mouse controls are designed for little hands.
Thank you Sheree for getting the Grant to provide the kids with these great new computers.
kitty

LIBRARY LOVER'S MONTH

In honor of Library Lover's month we will be holding a weekly raffle for patrons. The raffle tickets and can will be at Circulation. The rules are 1 entry per person per day. We will be giving away a $25 Harrison's gift certificate each week.

ABE TURNS 200

Guess how many pennies in the jar. There is a small jar of pennies in the Youth Services department. Anyone can make a guess. There is paper next to the jar so they can fill in their name, ph# and guess. We will pick a winner on February 13th. The winner will receive a Lincoln book and all the pennies in the jar.

It's time to take stats!

If this is your first time or you have questions please contact the reference department.
thanks for all that you do!