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Multiple copies of the following are on order from the April Advance:

Adult Nonfiction

The Bond: Our Kinship with Animals, Our Call to Defend Them – Wayne Pacelle (4)
Now Eat This! Diet: Lose Up to 10 Pounds in Just 2 Weeks Eating 6 Meals a Day! – Rocco Dispirito (6)
Bossypants - Tina Fey (4)

YA Fiction

Red Glove – Holly Black (4)

Reference

Kelley Blue Book April-June 2011 (6)
Code Check Building 3rd Edition: An Illustrated Guide to the Building Codes (6)

The Circulation system will be patched this coming Sunday, March 20th.  This patch will cause additional time when launching the Circulation program as it updates.  This update will only need to be run once.  If you have any problems launching, please notify the County ASAP.

New features include:

• Responsible Party Block Rules now include selectable blocking criteria
• Ability to customize additional slip types

Children and parents celebrated the 107th birthday of Dr. Seuss on Tuesday, March 2. The library system held celebrations at the County Library, Mt. Jackson, New Market and Strasburg. We read stories, drew a mural of Mulberry Street, made green eggs & ham, and of course had birthday cake!

Thanks to everyone who came out to celebrate and be a part of Read Across America day!

from left, Dave Franz, Sandy Pruett, Ken Pruett and Judy Craig prepare to cut the ribbon to celebrate the latest expansion of the Basye/Orkney Springs Library.

Eddy Craig, the library’s first Treasurer, looks on as Judy Craig, left, and Dorothy Guy, two of the founding members, cut the cake to celebrate the latest expansion of the library.

A crowd of nearly 100 people came to the Basye/Orkney Springs Library on Sunday, January 30, to celebrate the library’s latest expansion. A ribbon-cutting ceremony opening up the new 15- by 30-foot room kicked off the afternoon. Five of the library’s eleven founding members were in attendance, as well as representatives from the Shenandoah County Library, the Library’s Board of Trustees, the Library’s Foundation, and Bryce Resort.

The library’s new room, funded completely with money raised through used-book sales and donations over the past 16 years, houses the library’s reference and non-fiction collection as well as provides much-need space for meetings, training sessions, children’s programs, and lap-top computer use.

The library was started by members of the local book club in 1993 and was first housed in a small room in Bryce Resort’s airport building; by 2004 it had grown to occupy the entire building. The library, which is run completely by volunteers, serves not only the local population but also the large number of visitors who come to Bryce Resort year-around. The library offers five public access computers and free wi-fi 24/7 on its grounds. Hours are 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday through Saturday as well as 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. on Tuesdays.

We plan to open the County Library at 11 AM on Thursday, January 27. A decision regarding evening hours will be made during the afternoon. Library employees may follow the County’s liberal leave policy. Call 984-8200 for up-to-date information about library hours.

Local artist Penny Carrol has installed an exhibit of her paintings and a collection of artifacts from India that her family has collected over the years.  Penny and her husband will host an Indian food tasting on Saturday, February 26th at the County Library. Take a look at a few photos and come out to see this wonderful collection in person!

The automation system will be patched Sunday night at 7pm. This will cause Circulation and Cataloging computers to update Monday. The update may take several minutes. If you are experiencing a wait of longer than five minutes to update, please contact Dallas.

1) Circulation required double Check In to fill a hold request – Previously, when a newly added item was being checked in at the destination location which was set to fill a hold for the title, a message displayed telling the user to send the item back to the destination location. If the user checked the item in a second time, Circulation would fill the hold. This problem will be resolved. Circulation will now fill the hold on the first check in.

2) Title search in Circulation did not locate the title – Previously, if a title being searched for in Circulation included a comma within a number (for example, 10,000), the title could not be found. Also, searches for the title X-men were returning the title Sport because that title had an X in the control number. These problems will be resolved.

3) Check Out borrower search history sorted in ascending order instead of chronologically – Previously, the check out search history was being sorted in Ascending order. This problem will be resolved. The check out search history will now be sorted chronologically with the most recent search term displayed at the top of the list.

The Shenandoah County Library Board of Trustees will hold a special meeting on Wednesday, January 19 at 6 PM in the Library Activities Room.