We held our first Catch the Reading Bug drawing this morning, and the winners are:
This week's Catch the Reading Bug programs are:
The July meeting of the Library Board of Trustees will be held at 4 p.m. on Thursday, July 10th. Board meetings are always open to the public.
This week's Catch the Reading Bug programs are:
Actually, these pictures were taken the 3rd of July. The two Swallowtail "cats" are growing at an unbelievable rate, chomping away at their Queen Anne's Lace plant.
Click here for an early printed version of the Declaration of Independence and much more from the Library of Congress.
The Library will be closed for the Independence Day weekend, July 4, 5, and 6. We will reopen at noon on Monday, July 7th.
We're proud of all our Sodus graduates. A special congratulations to our Library Pages, Caitlin Gallacher and Valeri Murray!
This picture shows one of the two Baltimore Checkerspot larvae; the house also holds tiny Eastern Black Swallowtail larvae and Painted Lady eggs.
We hope you stop by often to check the progress of our new boarders.
Some of you may have wondered why our flag was flying at half-staff today. Governor Paterson ordered the flags lowered in honor of the three Fort Drum soldiers who were killed in Iraq this week. Army Sgt. Shane P. Duffy of Tauton, Massachusetts, Army Specialist Jonathan D. Emard of Mesquite, Texas, and Army Sgt. Cody R. Legg of Escondido, California, were members of the 1st Battalion, 878th Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team of the 10th Mountain Division.
The June meeting of the Library's Board of Trustees will be held at 4 p.m. on Thursday, June 12th, in our meeting room. Board meetings are open to the public.
Thank you to all of our great Friends and volunteers who put together our "Just Paperbacks" sale, and to Shirley P. for organizing everything. (Shirley, you've done it again!)
The members of our Friends group are busy getting ready for their annual paperback sale. Our meeting room will be chock full of paperbacks of all types. Stop by next Thursday and Friday, June 5th and 6th, and you can pick up some great titles for 25 cents each, or a pile of 13 for $3. Then come back on Saturday, June 7th, and fill up a couple of bags for just $1 each. Don't miss this opportunity to collect an armload of terrific titles at a terrific price!
Some of the recent fiction titles we've added to our shelves are:
The Library is now closed for the Memorial Day weekend (we reopen Tuesday at noon), but many of our services are still available to you. You can log into your account at OWWL.org and check due dates, choose titles to put on Hold, or renew what you already have out.
The Sodus Free Library will be closed Memorial Day weekend, May 24th, 25th, and 26th. No materials will be due on these three days.
Today you can cast your vote on the school budget between noon and 9 p.m. in the Sodus High School lobby.
Join us at noon on Tuesday, May 20th, for this month's Books-Sandwiched-In. The program, sponsored by the Friends of the Sodus Free Library, will feature Jean Baker reviewing John Brogan's best-selling book, Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog. Reservations are required, and the $3 charge includes sandwiches, beverage, and dessert. I hope to see you there!
The May meeting of the Sodus Free Library's Board of Trustees will be held at 4 p.m. on Thursday, May 8th, in the Library's meeting room. The public is always welcome to attend Board meetings.
Have you ever wanted to write about your life experiences – whether for family members, or with an aim to someday be published? Poet and memoirist Michael Czarnecki will return to our library at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, May 7th, to present a Palm-of-the-Hand Memoir Workshop to help you make that desire a reality. The free two-hour workshop will be easy-going and informal, and is open to all levels of writing. Michael's "Stories & Poems from the Road" last week was very enjoyable, and we're all looking forward to hearing about his writing process and how we can put it to use to tell our stories. See you there!
I'm excited to share an improved service we're now offering: as of today, our OWWL hold notification process has been streamlined. When we receive a reserved item, a message will now be automatically sent to your email address, letting you know instantly when your materials are ready for pickup. We will, of course, continue to make phone calls to those customers without email and to those whose messages bounce back to us.
The April meeting of the Library's Board of Trustees will be held at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 17, in the meeting room. Board meetings are open to the public; please notice the change in date and time.
This month's Books-Sandwiched-In will feature Master Gardener John Baker; he'll be discussing Spring Garden Cleanup, and will also touch on some new "Victory Garden" ideas. The program will start at noon on Tuesday, April 15, in the Library's meeting room. Reservations are required, and there is a $3 charge for lunch, which includes a sandwich, beverage, and dessert. Stop by the Library or call 483-9292 to reserve your spot.
The math is done, and our 2007 Annual Report to the Community is now available at the Library. The statistical information will also be published in next week's Sun & Record, and in the following week's Sodus-Williamson Pennysaver. Some of the highlights from the report follow:
Want to know who's the hottest author and what's the hottest title in our OWWL catalog? Go to owwl.org, click on the "MORE" button in the What Others Are Reading box, and you'll get a list, with links, to the most popular authors, subjects, and titles checked out from OWWL libraries in the past three months.
Join the Friends of the Sodus Free Library at their first Books-Sandwiched-In of 2008. Dennis Money will be presenting a talk on the white deer of the Seneca Army Depot at the luncheon, which will start at noon on Tuesday, March 18th. Reservations are required, and there is a $3.00 charge, which covers a sandwich, beverage, and dessert. Stop by the Library or call 483-9292 to reserve your spot.
Want to keep up with best-selling fiction or nonfiction titles? Book Club suggestions? The hottest new mysteries? Los libros en espanol? Click here to sign up for our Rave Reads email newsletters, provided by BookSite.com, and tailored to your interests - there are over thirty available. Have fun!
Theodore Geisel was born on March 2, 1904. Click here for more information about the author and his books.
