Washington County Public Library

borrowed from Check It Out Magazine, Spring 2012

1. Get ready for the election in November by picking up voter registration information.

2.  Attend a free class or workshop.

3. Learn more about the history of your town.

4. Find a new recipe.

5. Entertain your children with story time and reading programs.

6. Join a book discussion.

7. Watch a movie.

8. Hear a local author reading a chapter from his or her new novel.

9. Check out a new graphic novel.

10. Rent a DVD of a new release that you missed in theaters.

11. Trace your family tree.

12. Browse the latest fashion magazines.

13. Listen to music from the CD collection.

14. Find the answer to questions from home improvement to legal issues.

15. Relax in the quiet atmosphere.

16. Get help with tricky homework questions.

17. Read a newspaper from a far away place.

18. Immerse yourself in another time and place with a great book.

19. Access Wi-Fi on your laptop.

20. Enjoy a concert.

21. Enlighten yourself by attending a lecture.

22. Help a great cause by volunteering for a library event.

23. Find out how to start your own small business or how to patent an invention.

24. Reserve a meeting room for your non-profit group.

25. Play a board game or video game.

26. Study a new language.

27. Borrow the latest bestseller eBook.

28. Take a GED, ASVAB, SAT or civil service practice test.

29. Search over a million items in the online catalog.

30. Connect with your community.

Hi folks,

check out this video about Kentucky’s Public Libraries, and how hard we work to be a place of Yes, where everyone is welcome and we do all we can to help you find the books, information, entertainment or research you need.
Kentucky Public Libraries, a place of Yes!

So, you may have noticed the small black ribbon on the corner of this page, and now want to know what SOPA is. Don’t I mean Soap? or maybe soup? No! This SOPA, unlike soap or soup, is very dangerous to your personal freedoms of speech! Please act now to let your federal legislators know how you feel about this attempt at censorship. If you click on the ribbon you will be taken to americancensorship.org, which has much more information about these two acts making their way through congress, and what their passage could mean. Leave us a comment too, if you value your freedom of speech!

All of our comments have to be approved in an effort to avoid lots of spam, but I usually do that every day, and we really do want to hear what you have to say about censorship!

Thank you all for your patience with our computer issues over the last few months. When your server dies, and it has all of your data on it, and your backups are corrupt, you are in a world of hurt, which is where we have been, for a while now. The good news is that it is almost over!

We have contracted with SnellPro LLC out of South Carolina, to provide servers, backups, our Evergreen (library software) installation, support for all of the above, and hosting our library catalog. Right now, the server is up and running, with Evergreen on it. We’re working on getting our Patrons loaded back on, and the books will be next. There are already a few books on there, but the main bunch will be coming in the next week. It’s a lot of work, even for a computer, when you have 30,000 items to consider!

As soon as we are fully back up and online we will be sure to let you all know!

Thanks again for your patience.

A library friend of mine sent me this awesome YouTube video, about the things that happen in a bookstore overnight.

Do you think the same thing happens in the library overnight? I sure do, because the books are never where we put them!

The Joy of Books