From the monthly archives:
Have you taken time to scroll all the way to the bottom of the page that has your account information on it? Or have you clicked on those tabs at the top of your account info page? Under “Reserves” you’ll find a feature that you might find useful: “Have Some Favorite Authors?” With this feature [...]
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As we enter the baking season, you need to know that Ms. Rosa has a small supply of fancy-shaped cake pans-the kind like you use to bake kids’ birthday cakes-that you may borrow. She also has cookie cutters appropriate for the fall and winter holidays that she would like to lend. This collection is an [...]
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The Mad Hatters, a readers theater group from Sun City, make one or two visits to the library each year to perform for our storytime audiences. This year they will be here on Wednesday, November 5, to read and perform The Three Little Pigs. The performance, which starts at 10:30 a.m., lasts about half an [...]
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The Friends of the Georgetown Library made a very significant donation to our music CD collection this year — $5000 to purchase all of the albums that were nominated for Grammy awards. This amounted to nearly 350 CDs! Sally Bernier, our stalwart music selector, worked for months to get all of these ordered and has [...]
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During the summer, the City’s webmaster, Erin McDonald, brought a trophy to us that she received at the annual conference of the Texas Association of Municipal Information Officers. The library’s website, for which she is primarily responsible, won first place in a competition that the Association had sponsored. We were competing against bigger city websites [...]
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The first Hill Country Book Festival will be held at the library on Saturday, October 11, from 9:00 – 4:00. To celebrate, Ms. Rosa has planned entertainment by the Biscuit Brothers from 1:00 – 2:00 p.m., along with snacks, crafts, and face painting all day long. Children’s authors who will be speaking and reading from [...]
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As we hope everyone knows, last week the library changed over to a new automation system. No electronic change of this size could happen without some glitches. We are experiencing a few. The new system brings with it some changes that you need to know about, too. (What? No Library Elf service?)
One problem is that [...]
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