Month: May 2014

Kids, ages 4 and up, get ready for this year’s summer reading program, “Paws to Read”.  You can register beginning June 16.  We’ll be having lots of fun again this year, with special live animal guests, games, activities, reading, snacks and prizes!  Don’t worry if you’ll be out of town, you can sign up any time after the 16th and read (or have someone read to you) on your own time to earn prizes.  Keep up your reading skills this summer and be ready for next school year, all while having a great time.

Along with the rest of the Illinois Heartland Library System (IHLS) libraries, we will soon be requiring patrons to provide extra information for their records.  This is to protect you and help us with the integrity of our patron records, since IHLS now serves a population of over 2 million!    BEGINNING SEPTEMBER 1, 2014, ALL PATRON RECORDS MUST INCLUDE THE PATRON’S BIRTH DATE AND AN ID NUMBER, PREFERABLY A DRIVER’S LICENSE NUMBER.  In the case of children, we can use a parent’s ID or license number.  The next time you come in to the library, please bring your driver’s license and we can simply scan it in to your record.  That’s all there is to it.  Remember that on and after September 1, if you want to check out items, download eBooks, search or request items, you MUST have an ID number and birth date in your record.  We thank you for taking care of this as soon as possible.

In late April, we were fortunate to have several groups of young people stop by to help beautify the library for Earth Day.  First, a group of junior high students from Germantown Elementary worked outside to sweep up leaves, knock down cobwebs and clean the windows.  Then they came inside and made lots of really creative bookmarks for us.  Later, the Germantown girl scout troop brought a flowering plant to dress up our window.  In the picture above, Miss Perri accepts the flowers from some of the smiling scouts.  It looks like Germantown will be well taken care of by this younger generation.  The library, along with Mother Earth, thanks you all!