🥇 Library Champion Newsletter | Don't forget to give the library a 5x⭐ rating
Library Champion,
If something online has positive ratings and reviews, it will get a boost in it's visibility, giving it a prominant placement on websites you go to for buying things, in your social media newsfeed, and in your internet searches.
Ratings and reviews provide useful feedback to the company/seller and to the consumer; we learn about the customer experience and you can see if something is trusthworthy or not.
When you search for the library (see below), the first things you will see are our Google Maps listing (right-hand side), a link to our website and then a link to our Facebook page. The star ratings stand out in their bold yellow color and tell you immediately what others think of us.
(A Google search of the library shows our 5x⭐ rating on Facebook and 4.9 rating on Google Maps.)
All it takes is a few clicks to leave us a review (we hope its a good one! 😀) You can add pictures, videos, and annecdotes telling others about your experience at the library. It can be about your most recent experience with the library and our great staff, how you used our online library to get free eBooks and eAudio titles (more on this below), watched our virtual storytimes, or simply about how you feel the library benefits your community.
Follow these links to give us a great 5x⭐ rating!
(Please note: you may need an account on each site to leave a review.)
If your experience wasn't the best, we want to work with you so that it is better next time. You can reply to this email to get in touch with us or visit our contact us page on our website.
Here is one book I am reading and some books that I just bought for the library’s collection, now including a list of all titles purchased this week! 🆕
I'm plugging right along in The Terror by Dan Simmons. Since reading Barack Obama's memoir I've built up some reading endurance, which is just what I needed for continuing to read this dense book.
It's the dead of winter and depending on how windy it is the temperature is fluctuating between -50 and -100 degrees. The "polar bear thing" got onto one of the ships, killing a few people and nearly catching the entire ship on fire from below the deck. The expedition's leaders are getting close to abandoning both ships and trekking across hundreds of miles of ice in hopes of being rescued. I honestly don't know how they have it in them to get up each day and continue on, but I am interested to see where things go next. I have a feeling it isn't going to be pretty
Click here or on the image below to follow my reading on Goodreads.
Some books I bought today that you should borrow (list included)
Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter: Then, Now, and Forever by John H. McWhorter
(Adult nonfiction, sociolinguistics, etymology, humor )
The power of profanity is obvious, but the sources of its power aren’t as easy to account for. Why is one combination of sounds taboo and not another? Why don’t damn and hell have the same ring today that they did in the past? Is there one N-word, or are there two?
To answer such questions, McWhorter, the author of Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue, Words on the Move, and other notable works, does what linguists do: He teases out “structure in what seems like chaos, mess, or the trivial.” The book is a systematic treatment of cursing that combines historical analyses of the evolution of usage, etymologies, linguistic tables, and amusing anecdotes. It’s distinctive McWhorter, dense yet breezy, jumping from one reference to another. A characteristic passage reads, “Yoga moms, not just sailors, are covered in tattoos. Toddlers ask for edamame and pad thai instead of Spaghettios. Hell becomes a scalar particle. Language, like life, is this.”
Setting aside fashion and food, much of McWhorter's analysis is grounded in music, film, and stage, the histories of which he seemingly knows as well as language. It makes for a delightful style when you don’t have to stop to look up a reference, and alongside the pizzazz is real substance.
Sustaining Faith (When Hope Calls Book #2) by Janette Oke
(Adult fiction, Christian, historical)
How about a lighter read? Janette Oke, creator of the When Calls the Heart series and other historical fiction books, has a new release in her When Hope Calls series.
Don't miss these new releases!
- Jackpot by Stuart Woods
- Golden Girl by Elin Hilderbrand
- Our Woman in Moscow by Beatriz Williams
- Malibu rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid
- Unfinished business: an Ali Reynolds mystery by J.A. Jance
- Freed: Fifty Shades Freed As Told by Christian by E.L. James
- Tom Clancy's Op-Center: The Black Order by Jeff Rovin
- The Seeds of Change by Lauraine Snelling
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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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