Gilbert Hart Library 
Linda Reeves , Library Director
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 Vermont                Vincent E. Feeney

The Politician                                                  Andrew Young

The Easter Egg (children)                            Jan Brett

Darwin, His Daughter,

and Human Evolution                                    Randal Keynes

Winter Garden                                               Kristin Hannah

Secrets of Eden (book & audio)                 Chris Bohjalian

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 Virginia , who died in 1951 from a cruelly aggressive cancer at the early age of 30. A sample of her cancerous tissue, taken without her knowledge or consent, as was the custom then, turned out to provide one of the holy grails of mid-century biology: human cells that could survive--even thrive--in the lab. Known as HeLa cells, their stunning potency gave scientists a building block for countless breakthroughs, beginning with the cure for polio.  Meanwhile, Henrietta's family continued to live in poverty and frequently poor health, and their discovery decades later of her unknowing contribution--and her cells' strange survival--left them full of pride, anger, and suspicion. For a decade, Ms. Skloot doggedly but compassionately gathered the threads of these stories, slowly gaining the trust of the family while helping them learn the truth about Henrietta, and with their aid she tells a rich and haunting story that asks the questions: “Who owns our bodies (medicine)?  And who carries our memories (family)?”  A thought-provoking read…    

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 Seneca Falls , New York , the “birthplace of women’s rights.”  In 1848, Elizabeth Cady Stanton (a Seneca Falls resident), Lucretia Mott and 300 other women and men held the first Women’s Rights Convention.  The Declaration of Sentiments, modeled after the Declaration of Independence, was presented and passed by the convention.  These resolutions included among other demands, that women have the right to vote.  The struggle for women’s rights had begun!

 

Seventy-two (72) years later in 1920, the 19th amendment to the Constitution of the United States , which gave women the right to vote, was ratified. It had been a long, hard fight by women and men who believed in the equality and rights of women.

 

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 Gilbert Hart Library

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 Holiday .  It was a fun time for all.  We hope to do this again in March, the date being March 10, 2010.  We don’t yet know the venue, or 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 Rome and Africa , “digs” in far corners of the world, and the never-ending needs of the kids.  Full of passion, amusement and appeal, Frances is still in love with the married man she has been seeing for years, Karel Schmidt, a refugee scholar of weird and crazy principles.  The movement of these two back and forth between each other provides the main thrust of a novel that is filled with wonderful people, rich in feeling and alive with intelligence” (verbatim from the back cover).  Books are available now at the Circulation Desk.

 

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 Eden .  Both programs will start at 7 p.m.

 

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.  

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