Kari's Corner

            It is Christmas at the library!  You may think to yourself, “It is not December, why is the librarian talking about Christmas in April?”  Okay, it is not really Christmas; it just feels that way because today is new book day at the library.

            New book day is when Amy, our assistant director, has entered a stack of new books into the catalog so they are now ready for other staff members to process and get ready to put out on the shelves for patrons to check out.  Once they are in the catalog staff labels them, stamps them with our logo and puts date due slips inside the books. 

As we process the new books to get them ready for patrons to checkout, staff members (myself and my co-worker Vonnie come to mind) are practically gleeful getting our hands on the new books.  We keep an eye on Amy as she is processing the new books into the catalog and as soon as she prints out the labels for us, we descend on the new books like little vultures. 

It feels like Christmas because we are putting out new little gems (aka new books) out on the shelves, waiting to be picked up and taken home like little presents.  There normally ends up to be a stack of books that end up going home with us. 

If you would like to know what new books and other items have been recently added to our collection, you can go to our catalog and under the green box called “What’s Hot,” click on “What’s New.”  Then you can search the items that were recently added within the last week, two weeks or the last month.  If you see something you would like to checkout, you can always put a couple items, or more, on hold.  If you are not sure how to find out what the new books are in the catalog or how to place a reserve on them, you can ask any staff member and we can show you.