Caney City Library

The Caney City Library will be holding it’s annual Scholastic Book Fair March 25-April 5th during regular business hours.   For the stufdents of Lincoln Elementary School only, there will be a contest: whichever class has the most sales at the end of the book fair will win a pizza party!  Be sure and give them your teacher’s name when you purchase so your total will be included!

Adult Fiction:

The Endless Forest                   Sara Donati

The First Rule                             Robert Crais

Split Image                                   Robert Parker

Game Over                                    Fern Michaels    #16 in Sisterhood Series

Snowbound                                  Gunnery SGT. Jack Coughlin USMC (ret.)

Apple Turnover Murder         Joanne Fluke

Live Free Or Die                         John Ringo

A Cousin’s Challenge                Wanda Brunstetter  #3 Indiana Cousins Series

Lonestar Secrets                        Colleen Coble #2 Lonestar Series

Never Far From Home           Mary Ellis #2 The Miller Family Series

Leah’s Choice                              Marta Perry  #1 Pleasant Valley Series

Rachel’s Garden                         Marta Perry #2 Pleasant Valley Series

It is not too late to join Can-Kan Dreambuilders for the year of 2010! There is an excitement in the air as plans for the new library  have been revised, and costs have been cut by over half. They are so close and need your help! You can come into the library or call Can-Kan President, Joan Gordon at 879-2627 for more information on how you can make a NEW Caney City Library become a reality!

March meetings at the Library will be:

March 9th–BOOK CLUB  5:30 pm  We will be discussing the book Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold.

March 16th–CAN KAN  The Can-Kan Dreambuilders have revised the plans for the New Caney City Library and would love to share the details with you!  You need not be a member to attend the meeting, starting at 7 pm.  Please come in and support your library. 

March 23rd–Library Board Meeting at 7 pm.  As always, the public is welcome to attend.

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.

 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

We will be closed Monday, January 18th, 2010. We will reopen on Tuesday, January 19th, with regular business hours.

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

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!

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!