🥇 Library Champion Newsletter #70 | Update your (or get a) library card today!
Library Champion,
👋 Welcome to our new subscribers! I am SO GLAD to have you aboard!
We are so excited to announce that we have 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
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Update your (or get a) library card today!
Effective immediately Libby is requiring all library cards to be current and have less than $5 in fines/fees to access their eBooks/eAudio titles. Our library cards need to be updated once a year to avoid expiration. If your card has expired or has more than $5 in fines you will see a "blocked" message.
-To renew your current library card please complete this form: https://www.juniatalibrary.org/using-library/get-a-library-card
-To make a payment towards your fines please use our PayPal account where we can direct the amount to your account: https://bit.ly/2DHwiNI
-Questions? Please contact us: https://www.juniatalibrary.org/contact-us
The book sale is coming back!
Another book sale is coming next month!
--Thursday, June 23rd: 4:00 PM to 7:00 PM (Friends of the Library Members)
--Friday, June 24th: 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
--Saturday, June 25th: 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM
$5 per bag, bags are provided. 
Join the Friends of the Library to gain access Thursday night! https://www.juniatalibrary.org/donate/friends-of-the-library
All the details: https://www.juniatalibrary.org/programs-services/book-sales
As always, please spread the word to friends and relatives about the Friends of the Library, who provide wonderful support to our great library!
Book donations to the library
The Friends book sale consists of your generous donations of books, movies, and more. We accept book donations during the library’s regular business hours. We accept gently used books, DVD’s and music CDs. We do not accept faded/yellow/red/battered/moldy books, textbooks, encyclopedias, VHS tapes, or magazines. A general rule of thumb: if you wouldn’t give the item to someone as a gift, we won’t accept it.
Once donated, the books become the property of the library and are evaluated in the same manner as purchased materials. Materials that are useful to the library collection are retained, and other materials are placed in the book sale or disposed of in whatever manner the library deems best. The donor is not notified about the final disposition of the book. The library cannot guarantee or ensure that donated items will be added to the library collection.
Book of the week! – if you are going to read one book, give this one a try…
The Boardwalk Bookshop by Susan Mallery (to be released May 31st 2022) (Adult fiction: beach read, romance)
Sometimes we need a soft read. In the latest book by Susan Mallery three woman who join together to rent a large space along the beach in Los Angeles for their stores—a gift shop, a bakery, and a bookstore—become fast friends as they each experience the highs, and lows, of love.
Bree is a friendly but standoffish bookstore owner who keeps everyone she knows at arm’s length, from guys she meets in bars to her friends. Mikki is a settled-in-her-routines divorced mother of two, happily a mom, gift-shop owner, and co-parent with her ex-husband, Perry. And Ashley is a young, very-much-in-love bakery owner specializing in muffins who devotes herself to giving back to the community through a nonprofit that helps community members develop skills and find jobs. When the women meet drooling over a boardwalk storefront that none of them can afford on her own, a plan is hatched to divide the space in three, and a friendship—and business partnership—is born. An impromptu celebration on the beach at sunset with champagne becomes a weekly touchpoint to their lives as they learn more about each other and themselves. Their friendship blossoms as they help each other, offering support, hard truths, and loving backup. Author Mallery has created a delightful story of friendship between three women that also offers a variety of love stories as they fall in love, make mistakes, and figure out how to be the best—albeit still flawed—versions of themselves. The men are similarly flawed and human. While the story comes down clearly on the side of all-encompassing love, Mallery has struck a careful balance: There is just enough sex to be spicy, just enough swearing to be naughty, and just enough heartbreak to avoid being cloying.
A book begging to be read on the beach, with the sun warming the sand and salt in the air: pure escapism.
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--Vince Giordano
Librarian and Director of the Juniata County Library.
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