Category Archives: Patrons

The Hunger Games

Everyone, or just about everyone, has heard about the Hunger Games. The Hunger Games is a thrilling trilogy by Suzanne Collins about the 12 districts in the country of Pannam. This Post Apocolyptic trilogy is the newest hot book on … Continue reading

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We Want to Hear From Our Patrons? Do You?

With this past budget season, we were given more funding, so with the more funding we wanted to show the patrons thank you. Open up more hours, offer museum passes, and see what we could improve on. Well, instead of … Continue reading

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How to Help With Rebuilding a Town from a Tornado Without Phsyical Work

On June 1st, a tornado went through the town of Brimfield, Massachusetts. The town neighboring West Warren, where we’re from. It’s been several weeks, and most of the disaster relief centers don’t need anymore food donations, and we can’t don’t … Continue reading

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Team Trivia Night For Your Library

Have you ever heard about a team trivia? It’s kind of like trivia pursuit with several teams battling for first place. The idea of having a team trivia night for the library was brought to our library board by a … Continue reading

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The Missing Book on Tape

As a librarian I’m sure you know how frustrating it is when you can’t find a book that a patron wants, or even worse a hold that came in, or said that it came in! Well, the other day I … Continue reading

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How to Announce Snow Days

We’ve talked about how to close on a snow day, when you should close on a snow day, and what to keep in mind when you’re closing or staying open on a snow day, but now what’s the best way … Continue reading

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Closing For Snow Days

Here in New England, the winter has been horrible. With working at the library, you need to decided is it safe to open, if so are you opening at your normal time, are you opening late, are you closing early? … Continue reading

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Food for Fines Month

Last month instead of taking money for fines, we took canned goods and non-perishable food item, to donate at the local food pantry. We came up with this idea, because one of our board members were at another library website and … Continue reading

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Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays?

We all close in observance of Christmas Day, but don’t you want to wish your patrons a merry Christmas? I do, but then you don’t want to offend any patrons of you’re so how do you wish them a merry … Continue reading

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No More Library Mascot

Giles, our library mascot, died on Sunday. Now Giles has been with the library for about three years. Now without Giles, we have no library mascot, but we can’t replace Giles. So we came up with another wonderful idea! My … Continue reading

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