Gilbert Hart Library
Kevin House, Library Assistant
14 South Main Street
Telephone/Fax: 446-2685
E-Mail: ghlib@comcast.net
Activities
around the Library remain focused on eliminating the 2010 budget deficit.
During the Board of Trustees meeting on January 12, 2010, the Board and
Director took another look at the budget and made some hard decisions.
These decisions include budgetary cuts as well as proactive initiatives.
Effective
April 1, 2010, the following changes will be made:
A
$5 annual fee will be charged for library cards.
All patrons 10 years of age or older wishing to take advantage of
the services and materials at the library will be required to pay the fee.
This includes patrons wishing to use the computers.
Patrons
requesting interlibrary loans will be required to pay postage of
$2.50 per book when ordering more than one (1) book per year.
Individuals
or groups using the Klock Room will be asked to make a minimum donation
of $1.00 per person each time the room is used.
Patrons
with overdue materials will be required to pay a $.25 per day fine for
each item that is overdue. Patrons
that are habitually late in returning items will be restricted to borrowing one
item. After 15 days, the
patron would be required to pay for replacing the material.
Non-compliance will result in library privileges being suspended for 1
year.
More
changes are being discussed. If you
have suggestions or ideas, please stop by the Library or contact a member of the
Board of Trustees. Current
members are:
Connie
Johnson, President
Adrian
Eisler, Vice-President and Town Liaison
Lois
Johnston, Recording Secretary
Vacant,
Treasurer
Russ
Lattuca, Member
Bert
Jones, Member
Clare
Bornarth, Member
Effective
March 17, 2010, the Library will begin our spring/summer hours and will remain
open on Wednesday evenings until 8 p.m. Happy
St. Patrick’s Day!
Volunteers
to read to the children!! We are
looking for volunteers to help us with our weekly children’s story hour.
If you enjoy working with children, this is a great opportunity to have
fun AND entertain and be entertained by the children.
Please contact the library if you have questions or are interested in
this fun opportunity!!
Speaking of children’s programs, a
big THANK YOU to David Klock and Kathy Luzader
for their hard work in coordinating the FROM SOUND TO MUSIC children’s program
that was held on February 6, 2010. We
appreciate all your efforts!
Again speaking of children’s programs, we are looking for volunteers to help
Kevin in planning and presenting the annual children’s program.
The next meeting is scheduled for March 3, 2010, at 12:30.
Join Kevin, David Klock, Kate Goetz, and Rachel Burch as they make plans
for an exciting year! Call Kevin at
the library if you have question or stop by for a chat!
New Arrivals at the Library:
Title Author
Finnigans,
Slaters and Stonepeggers:
A
History of the Irish in
The
Politician
Andrew Young
The
Easter Egg (children)
Jan Brett
Darwin,
His Daughter,
and
Human Evolution
Randal Keynes
Winter
Garden
Kristin Hannah
Secrets
of
Worst
Cases (book & audio)
James Patterson
An
Egret’s Day (children)
Jane Yolen
Little
Cloud & Lady Wind
Toni Morrison
Book Review: The Immortal Life of
Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot is
a fascinating and moving story of medicine and family, of how life is sustained
in laboratories and in memory. From
a single, abbreviated life grew a seemingly immortal line of cells that made
some of the most crucial innovations in modern science possible. Henrietta
Lacks was a mother of five living in Baltimore, a poor African American migrant
from the tobacco farms of
Women’s
History Month – March 2010
We
hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created
equal”
–not
just “all men” but “all men and women.”
With these words, a dream was given life in historic
Seventy-two
(72) years later in 1920, the 19th amendment to the Constitution of
the
Improvement
and changes continue. In 2009,
President Obama signed the Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Restoration Act, which allows
victims of pay discrimination to file a complaint with the government against
their employer within 180 days of their last paycheck.
Previously victims (most often women) were only allowed 180 days from the
date of the first unfair paycheck. This
Act is named after a former employee of Goodyear who alleged that she was paid
25-40% less than her male counterparts, which was later found to be accurate.
Stop
by the library and check out our Women’s History Month display.
Library
Hours
M
– closed
Tu,
Thu, Fri – 10:00 – 5:00 p.m.
Wed
– 10:00 – 8:00 p.m. (effective 3/17/10)
Sat
– 9:00 – noon
Su
– closed
Linda
Reeves, Library Director
Kevin
House, Assistant
Telephone: 446-2685
Hart Lines by Friends of the
Trying to put a little life into activities at the Library, in February we
decided to have lunch at the Congregational Church’s “Soup ‘n’ Such”
event on Wednesday noon (2nd Wednesday of the month), then go to the
Library for our Friends’ meeting, following by a movie.
Since we need a license to show movies at the library, we went to Betty
Emery’s home and saw the movie
Whist
card parties
are scheduled for March 5 and 19th at the Library.
Time is 7 p.m. Call Carol
Pratt at 446-2843 for more information.
Rug-braiding
workshops
continue on Saturdays, 9-noon, February 27 and March 6.
A sizeable group is again enjoying this activity.
You may still come, even if you have missed the other two workshops.
The
next book
discussion
is on
March 17, 2010, and the book is The
Realms of Gold
by
Margaret Drabble. We are trying now
to have them on Wednesday afternoons at 1 p.m. because many of us who are older
do not drive at night. We are in the
process of polling our usual participants to decide what’s best.
You may call Priscilla Auer at 446-2173 for information or to register
your opinion.
A
synopsis of the above novel should win you over:
“Frances Wingate is a famous archaeologist.
Divorced, the mother of four, she is a career woman possessed of a
splendid carelessness—able to manage conferences in
Also, a reminder of the First
Wednesday
lectures given at the Rutland Free Library.
The next two are by well-known contemporary authors: March 3, Howard
Frank Mosher on historical fiction, and April 7, Chris Bohjalian on his latest
novel, Secrets of
Looking ahead: Plant sale will be
held on May 22 from 9-noon. You can
start new cuttings from house plants now; maybe start vegetable and flower
seedlings, as well, in a sunny warm place.