Friends Membership Drive
The Can-Kan DreamBuilders, Friends of the Library, will be having their annual Membership Drive in February 2010. It will start on February 1st and end March 15th.
Memberships are as follows:
Student 1.00
Senior Adult 2.00
Individual 5.00
Family 10.00
Patron 25.00
Business 50.00
Donation Above 50.00
Sign up at the Library or call FOL President Joan Gordon at 620-879-2624 for more information.
New Books and DVDs!
Adult Books
Going Rogue–Sarah Palin
Not My Daughter–Barbara Delinsky
Days if Gold–Jude Deveraux
Sizzle–Julie Garwood
The Disciple–Stephen Coonts
Rain Gods–James Lee Burke
The Honor of Spies–W.E.B. Griffin
Breathless–Dean Koontz
Julie & Julia–Julie Powell
Plain Jayne–Hillary Manton Lodge
Monterey Memories–Gail Gaymer Martin
Christmas Duty–Paige Winship Dooly
Love finds You in Snowball, Arkansas–Sandra D. Bricker
Echoes–Kristen Heitzmann
Daughter of Joy–Kathleen Morgan
Super Suppers Cook Book #2
DVDS
UP
Monsters, Inc.
Goosebumps: Say Cheese and Die
Ice AGe: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Monsters Vs Aliens
The Dog That Saved Christmas
G-Force
Santa Buddies
Night at the Museum 2: Battle of the Smithsonian
Love Finds a Home
Harry Potter and Half Blood Prince
Teen/YA books
Thirst Vol. 1
Thirst Vol. 2
Fade Out: #7 of Morganville Vampires
Meetings at the Library for January 2010.
The Book Club will hold their montly meeting on Tuesday, January 12, 2010 from 5:30 to 7:00. We will be discussing Janet Evanovich’s book, One for the Money, the first in her Stephanie Plum Series.
January 26th, 2010 the Library board will meet at 7 pm. The public is welcome to attend.
Library Closed January 18th.
We will be closed Monday, January 18th, 2010. We will reopen on Tuesday, January 19th, with regular business hours.
New Books!!
Fiction/Christian Fiction
The Man From Stone Creek–Linda Lael Miller
The Believer–Ann Gebhart
The Last Song–Nicholas Sparks
Capitol Offense–William Bernhardt
Hothouse Orchid–Stuart Woods
The Lost Symbol–Dan Brown
The Spire–Richard North Patterson
The Scoop–Fern Michaels
The Hope of Refuge–Cindy Woodsmall
The Eleventh Victim–Nancy Grace
Forgivin–Shelly Shepard Gray
Plum Pudding Murder–Joanne Fluke
Rough Country–John Sanford
Fields of Grace–Kim Vogel Sawyer
A Measure of Mercy–Luraine Snelling
Diana Palmer–The Winter Man
The Professional–Robert B. Parker
Nine Dragons–Michael Connelly
Evidence–Johnathon Kellerman
13 1/2–Nevada Barr
True Blue–David Baldacci
A Cousin’s Prayer–Wanda Brunstetter
Junior Fiction/Young Adults
City of Bones–Cassandra Clare
My Soul to Take–Rachel Vincent
Intertwined–Gena Showalter
Books on order but not in the Library yet are:
Pursuit of Honor–Vince Flynn
Southern Lights–Danielle Steel
The Scarpetta Factor–Patricia Cornwell
Ford Country–John Grisham
The Widow’s Revenge–James D. Doss
Hot On Her Heels–Susan Mallery
A Creed County Christmas–Linda Lael Miller
Breathless–Dean Koontz
The Wrecker–Clive Cussler
Other Men’s Horses–Elmer Kelton
Georgia Pecans Are Now In!
We have a brand new shipment of delicious Georgia pecans! Prices have gone up 50 cents a bag, they are now:
Pieces $8.50
Halves $9.00
You can get them at the Library, or you may call a Can-Kan Member and make arrangements!
SEKnFind coming to the Caney Library!
The Caney City Library is getting a new computer program that will have library users seeing a big change in the amount of features available to them. This is called SEKnFind (SouthEast Kansas) and we will be linked up online with other libraries. Others include: Bronson, Chanute, Coffeyville, Erie, Iola, Independence, Hamilton, Parker, Savonburg, Howard, Oswego, Fredonia, Garnett, Columbus, Galena, St. Paul, Colony, Edna and Hepler.
Users will be able to search the consolidated catalog for books and materials of all the Libraries and place holds on items from any of the above listed in the consortium. The requested items will be transfered between libraries for checkout by the person requesting them. Library users will also be able to tag items in the catalog with search terms and place comments on individual items. Theses two features will be seen by other library users to make the catalog more friendly and easier to use. Users can compile lists of books and other materials, and can make them public or keep them private. They can also change their password or submit changes of information such as their address or phone number, and also can check their reading history, renew the books that are eligible for renewal, see what items they currently have checked out, what is over due and what the fines are.
This is funded in part by a LSTA grant from the State Library of Kansas.
The staff is excited about this program, though it will be alot of work to get it implemented. We have already deleted inactive card holders, as well as over 750 books that have been lost, beyond repair, or no longer being checked out.
We feel that this will help to get more books into the hands of our patrons. As with everything else, the price of books have gone up and this will help us to have access to many books that we just can not afford right now.
For those who don’t use the computer, we will still be able to do everything for you that we have been doing, such as the InterLibrary loan and placing holds on books. That will not change.
You will get a new, plastic library card and there will be the option to purchase a key card for small amount if wanted.
We will have to be closed a few days in order to train and prepare for our “go live” date which will come at the end of October. Please bear with us thru the growing pains, we know that it will be worth it in the end!
Collecting Unused Cell Phones
The Caney City Library is now collecting old, unused cell phones for recycle and to earn money. There are boxes up at the Library, Bank of America, County Chronicle, Arvest Bank, Carter Auto Warehouse, Community National Bank, Caney Chamber of Commerce, American Legion Post, D&A Auto, and the Good News. Please drop your unused cell phones only (no chargers, cases, etc…) off at a box closest to you, and help build a new Caney City Library!