Year: 2013

We celebrated National Library Week from April 15 through the 20th.  All classes that visited got a new bookmark and candy for each student. Lots of our littlest patrons participated in the annual coloring contest and you can see some of their entries brightening up the library in this photo.  Congratulations to the winners, Garrett Gebke, Nolan Loepker, Hailey Rolfingsmeyer, Isabella Kenow and Shelby Wesselmann.

Our new system, Polaris, is up and running.  We (and you) now have access to over 9 million items from over 400 libraries in central and southern Illinois.  Click on the Library Catalog link to the right on our homepage to access this new, easy to use catalog.  The website is gmtp.illshareit.com, if you’d like to bookmark it on your own devices.  With your library card you can place requests from it anywhere you have internet access.  Of course you can still ask a librarian and we’ll be happy to place requests for you.  We know you will enjoy this new and improved system.  We will be learning all the ins and outs over the next few weeks, so please bear with us as we strive to serve you as quickly and efficiently as possible.