Landscaping help still needed at the Beach library
Weekly Activities
Preschool Story Hour starts at 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday, July 21.
Knitting group meets Wednesday at 6:30 p.m.
Seashell Crafts on Thursday, July 22, at 10:30 a.m. Pre-register for this class to get tips on the various techniques and skills needed to make shell flowers from the shells and sea life you find on the beach. Each person will make an arrangement to take home. $3 materials fee.
Support
Thank you to those who have lent some hours in sprucing up parts of our landscape in recent weeks. We still can use some additional hands. If able to assist, please fill out a landscape application and we’ll get in touch with you shortly.
Please consider a gift to the Library Construction Fund. There are bookmarks, especially designed by Marty Weslow, that are available for donations to the Fund. Please leave a gift in the Construction Fund donation box on the model table and then pick up a bookmark at the front desk in thanks. We thank Marty for her thoughtfulness and thanks to those who contribute to this Fund. Leaving a little bit from time to time adds up and helps us achieve our library expansion all the faster.
The Next Revolution
It comes as no surprise that there are regular challenges to us as we move forward in life. We find ourselves constantly adapting in the library world too.
Newspapers have been with us since the 17th century. Many of the early newspapers were devoted to one subject or others were intended to further a political cause. They were also expensive, usually six cents a copy when that sum would have bought a meal. There were no newsstands so most people read them at clubs and taverns.
Technology helped newspapers reach a wider audience. The steam-powered press, introduced in England in 1814, could make 1100 impressions an hour and soon doubled that with printing on both sides of the paper. In 1843 with the rotary press in the US, newspapers could be printed at tens of thousands of pages an hour.
The new press speed also meant that they could be sold profitably, greatly increasing demand.
We are happy that this speed in printing and more economical access has been shared by the book publishing world. We are able to increasingly offer many of current popular and beneficial titles available in regular print also in large print and in audio format. As this decade moves forward, we can be assured that there will be more variety and options as to format. We intend to include some of these with the library expansion and are staying alert to upcoming trends.
Library Hours
Don’t remember library hours? Call for information. When we are closed, a recorder gives the hours of operation, either on 765-8162 or on 765-8163. Except for holidays, which would be mentioned on the recorder, we are open Monday and Wednesday from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m.; Tuesday, Thursday and Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; and Saturday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. We look forward to seeing you.