🥇 Library Champion Newsletter #65 | 📲 Great technology helps us become greater! 💯
Library Champion,
👋 Welcome to our new subscribers! I am SO GLAD to have you aboard!
We are so excited to announce that we have new, more expanded hours:
Monday - 9:00 AM - 7:00 PM
Tuesday - 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Wednesday - 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Thursday - 9:00 AM - 7:00 PM
Friday - 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Saturday - 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Sunday - Closed
Online - 24/7/365 - visit our website.
📲 Great technology helps us become greater! 💯
The rise in technological advances will continue and at the library, we use those advancements to offer you ways to read, learn, and grow.
Digital books: books whenever you want
Libby/Overdrive has over 20,000 digital books (eBooks and eAudio titles you can listen to.) No need to wait until the library is open or pay for a book. Get free digital books on your smart device, tablet, or computer. Get digital books today!
Mobile hotspots: internet wherever you are
Our mobile hotspots give you Wi-Fi internet wherever there is cell phone reception. Use it to access the internet on your computer, tablet, phone, or even smart TV. Borrow a hotspot today!
Chromebooks: a computer wherever you are
Smartphones seem to be everywhere, but a quality computer can be expensive and difficult to find. Need to just browse the internet, type a letter, or join a Zoom call and want a full screen? Borrow a Chromebook today!
But it doesn't stop there: we have many other services that meet the needs in your life.
🤗 We really have some great Friends!
From the kayak raffle to their book sales, the Friends have raised nearly $4,000 in 2021! Meanwhile, the Friends have contributed over $7,200 to the library in 2021. With those funds, the library has been able to continue to offer mobile hotspots and Chromebooks and add more security cameras so that our library is safe and secure.
But the biggest number of all is $122,406.83: the amount of contributions the Friends have made all-time to the library.
Let that sink in!
Will you be a Friend of the Library? Join today!
Membership is as low as $10 a year. Student membership and senior citizen membership is $10. For individual adults it is $15, families are $25 and individual lifetime membership is $200. You can join any time by picking up a form in the library or printing it online on our website under the Support then Friends of the Library.
A book recommendation just for you!
What’s Done in Darkness by Laura McHugh (2021) (Adult fiction: literary, thriller, suspense)
Sarabeth Shepherd, the narrator of this suspense novel, is still struggling after being abducted five years earlier at 17 from her family’s farm in Wisteria, Ark., when she gets an out-of-the-blue plea for help from Nick Farrow, of the Missouri Highway Patrol’s missing persons unit. Even before Nick suggests that finding a 16-year-old girl might uncover information that finally cracks her own abduction, Sarabeth, who now goes by Sarah and works at an animal shelter, knows she would do anything to rescue another girl from an ordeal like hers, blindfolded and chained in a basement for a week before managing to escape. But despite Nick’s unexpectedly simpatico support, returning to her own neck of the Ozarks, where her estranged family still lives as part of a patriarchal religious sect, proves even more traumatic for Sarah than anticipated—and dangerous. As incredible as the plot’s harrowing twists may seem, any number of true crime accounts testify otherwise. Fortunately, there’s a light amid all this darkness—courageous, determined Sarah.
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We were gone for a minute 😢 but are back 😁
Over this past weekend, Libby/Overdrive unexpectedly went down. We heard from many of you about not being able to borrow digital books. We were just as frustrated! Access was restored late morning yesterday (02/22/2022).
We apologize for this inconvenience and thank you for your patience!
If you ever need to reach out to us, you can contact us in a bunch of ways. Learn more.
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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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