🥇 Library Champion Newsletter #82 | 📢 We are hiring!
Library Champion,
👋 Welcome to our new subscribers! I am SO GLAD to have you aboard!
📢 We are hiring!
🔳 Position: Circulation desk (Customer service)
🔳 Start date: December 12, 2022
🔳 Hours: Mondays 2p-7p / Tuesdays 1p-5p / Fridays 1p-5p / 2nd and 4th Saturday 9a-3p
🔳 Pay is $7.25/hour and upon completing a 90-day probationary period paid time off will accrue as well as a retirement plan for those over the age of 21.
The position is responsible for helping perform the daily operations of library circulation. This position is responsible for staffing the circulation desk at all times as well as handling fines, registering and updating patrons, and shelving library materials.
➡️ Apply here: http://bit.ly/2LGMlha
40 Banned book challenge winners!
40 individuals finished the banned book reading challenge! That means over 120 books were read in 2 months! Winners will be contacted in the coming week to pick up their free gift card to get a large pizza at the Gridiron Pub in Mifflintown.
Passport Services Are Now at the Library! ✈️
Make an appointment at the Juniata County Library to get or renew your passport!
Visit our website to learn more about this new service and how you can get a passport or renew your passport.
Passport agents: Vince Giordano and Christine May
📖 Book of the week...
One Damn Thing After Another: Memoirs of an Attorney General by William “Bill” Barr
(New adult nonfiction: autobiography, American politics & history)
Former president Donald Trump’s notably compliant attorney general Bill Barr admits Trump “became manic and unreasonable, and went off the rails” after losing the 2020 election. A less compliant Barr resigned afterwards largely because he would not support Trump’s claim that the election was rigged. For all that—and for all that Trump regularly berated him—the author remains a true believer not in the man but in the policies. He clearly stood behind the former president’s policies, just not his chaotic nature.
Barr states that Trump would raise “Groundhog Day issues,” fixations that ranged from firing “ ‘Comey’s people’ and those responsible for ginning up the phony Russiagate scandal” to the contents of Hunter Biden’s laptop. Barr airs any number of Groundhog Day issues himself in this overlong, tedious diatribe. He is especially worked up at the “new antiliberal progressivism…embraced by an increasing number of prominent Democrats, aided by relentless media propagandizing, and reinforced by a co-opted education system”; favors a militarized and vigorously active police force; believes that nonreligious public schools “effectively indoctrinate students in a secular progressive ideology antithetical to the values and perspectives of a religious viewpoint”; scorns “the media and cultural elites” and the “curricula of a race-fixated anti-Americanism”; and seeks an executive branch with largely unlimited powers, albeit perhaps with more sense than to urge a mob to storm the Capitol.
Bottom line: Anyone who follows the news will already have Barr’s talking points, making this yet another trite political bestseller.
Borrow One Damn Thing After Another by William “Bill” Barr
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