Being Part Of The Downtown “Businesses”

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I often laugh when people tell me that I have the best job in the world…I get to read books all day!  One thing that I do agree on is that I DO have one of the best jobs in the world because I run one of the busiest enterprises in Gardiner, the public library.  By being part of the downtown “businesses”, the library does a great job of bringing people to town. Just a few numbers so that you can see why the library is one of the anchor businesses for our downtown: ·        Total number of folks who …

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Passenger Pigeons in the Library!

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  On a windy Thursday afternoon, April 24th, the library held an origami workshop on Passenger Pigeons. Isabelle Files led the program where attendees came and folded 62 Passenger Pigeons for the www.foldtheflock.orgproject. We will enter our number of pigeons with the website. Attendees were ages 4 and up and all seemed to have a great time.   We had a short history given to us about the year 2014 marking the centennial anniversary of the extinction of the Passenger Pigeon and questions were asked about other extinct animals in our world.   The very lively group did more folding …

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Reading Round-Up 2014

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This past Thursday, several staff members of the Gardiner Public Library attended the 25thReading Round-Up Conference in Augusta.  This wonderful event highlights books that have been published in the past year as well as bringing together librarians from all over the state to share new ideas, and exchange information from their respective libraries. One of the highlights is the announcement of the winners of the Lupine Award.  This award “honors a living author or illustrator who is a resident of Maine, or who has created a work whose focus is Maine, as shown through the work’s characterization, plot, or setting.” …

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Books I just couldn’t put down….

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We have all had them in our hands.  We have all had trouble putting them down.  They are books that get us so wrapped up in them that we just can’t put them downuntil we finish!  Here are a few that had me in their hooks.  What books did the same to you? And then there were none by Agatha Christie 10 strangers invited to an isolated island and then stranded there.  One killer slowly eliminating them one by one.  I got so wild by the fifth murder that I couldn’t stand it anymore and flipped to the end.  I …

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Is it that time of year again?

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    As the director of the Gardiner Public Library, one of my duties includes advocating for library services.  Most times it really isn’t a duty at all; it is a joy to talk to people about what a library means to them.  Really, how can you say anything bad about a public library?  Where else can you walk into a place, grab something off the shelves, check it out and do all of this for free?  Obviously nothing is really “free” and library items are no exception.  It costs money to run a library; do you have any idea …

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