🥇 Library Champion: Cut the cord and come to the library! 🎞️🍿
Library Champion,
For the last several years "cutting the cord" has been all the rage. Many of us still have a cable TV package (aka "the cord") but more and more of us are canceling our cable TV package and seeking alternatives such as streaming services Netflix, Hulu, and others. It can be a combination of a way to save money and guarantee you are paying for something you want and will use.
What if you aren't techy and don't stream things? There's nothing wrong with old-fashion DVDs and CDs. Blockbuster was replaced by Redbox and then streaming came along. I remember using Blockbuster (and getting charged for not rewinding the VHS tape) and also remember when Redbox was only .99 cents a night. Blockbusters have gone away (except for one) and Redbox has since raised their prices.
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Our library is the best of both worlds: we lend out movies and TV shows on DVD as well as music CDs. You can cut the cord and avoid paying monthly fees for streaming and borrow from the library cable and premium TV shows such as The Crown, Orange is the New Black, Hawaii Five-O, Westworld, Chicago Fire/PD/Med, and more. You name it, we likely have it. And if we don't have it, we will get it.
Rentals are 25 cents a week (yes, a week!) for older titles and either 50 cents or $1 a week for newer titles. You can borrow up to 10 titles at one time.
With the weekend coming up, stop into the library to get ready for movie night! If you want to check and see if we have the title you want, visit our website to search our catalog: www.juniatalibrary.org
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Book shots
Here is one book I am reading and a book that I just bought for the library’s collection.
I just finished reading The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth
This was the oldest book I have read in a while (published in 1971.) It took me some time to get into it. The book was excruitiating in its attention to detail and had several slow points that seemed to drag on and on. But when things sped up, I was at the edge of my seat. The cat-and-mouse game The Jackal plays with French authorities was at times hilarious. The Jackal would use a variety of ruses, disguises, and other skills to avoid apprehension. The ending left me slightly puzzled and re-thinking certain parts of the plot. I like stories that do that.
Next up: The Leftovers by Tom Perrotta. I first watched the TV adaptation HBO made from 2014-2017 and now want to read the book. Years after "The Sudden Departure" where, without warning, millions of humans simply vanished all at the same time, we read about the people ("The Leftovers") in a small town in New York grappling with the after effects.
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One of the books I purchased that you should check out:
How to avoid a climate disaster: the solutions we have and the breakthroughs we need by Bill Gates
(Adult nonfiction, Science/Global Warming & Climate Change)
In his latest book, Gates makes a significant contribution to the rapidly growing shelf of books that not only acknowledge climate change, but also propose viable solutions. Gates's book is a comprehensible, at times amusingly wonky, text that provides detailed plans. The author relates a compelling vision of what the potential devastation will look like, assessing the scale and range of expected damage, but he is more interested in clearly communicating the multitiered facets of his plan.
While drawing on his expertise and instincts as a successful tech innovator, investor, and philanthropist, Gates relies on teams of experts in science, engineering, and public policy to flesh out the details. The author focuses on five major emissions-generating activities—making things, plugging in, growing things, getting around, and keeping cool and warm—and he breaks down his global plan to address the level of a given country’s financial capabilities.
Gates applies his 2050 goal to developed, relatively wealthy countries, with others following as soon as possible after that date. Though we already have some of the tools necessary to implement his plan, many of them are not used widely enough, and Gates presses for increased investment in well-guided research and development and innovation in the efficiency of our electricity use. “We need to accomplish something gigantic we have never done before,” writes the author, “much faster than we have ever done anything similar,” which will require building “a consensus that doesn’t exist” and policy that will “push a transition that would not happen otherwise.” Though Gates doesn’t shy away from acknowledging the daunting challenges ahead, his narrative contains enough confidence—and hard science and economics—to convince many readers that his blueprint is one of the most viable yet.
Bottom line: A supremely authoritative and accessible plan for how we can avoid a climate catastrophe.
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Did you know? Lists of our new releases are available in-person at the library and online so that you never miss a new release. We have added over 200 new books to our collection so far this year!
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March Make-And-Take
💥 March Take & Make Kit 💥
GRADES 6-12: CD Scratch Art 💿
Take & Make kits are available while supplies last during our business hours. Since we're doing contactless service right now, if you'd like any kits please message Jocinda (jrhinier@juniatalibrary.org) or call and ask one of us and we will be sure to set your kits out in the lobby. One kit per person, please.
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Thank you for being a library champion. You make a difference each day!
--Vince Giordano
Librarian and Director of the Juniata County Library.
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