HAPPY AUTUMN!

A HAPPY FALL TO Y'ALL,
Summer is gone as are some our our tourist crowds but it feels like we are making up for it with all the back to schoolers and a fresh crop of parents and kidlets attending our story hour on Fridays, as well as a couple of  "tweens" who attended the drop in group last Thursday afternoon and a lot of young patrons who came to read to the dogs and cat on Wednesday's Tale to Tails.
Just to keep everyone on their toes we have rearranged the branch once again (really this is because our collection keeps growing but our building does not).  The juvenile graphic novels are being housed temporarily on a red rolling cart at the entrance to our YP room. We are hoping to have shelving built at the end of J biographies so they will have a permanent home.
  We have also pulled out our NEW J Fiction and displayed it on the top of the New Book shelving facing the YP room. If you see any of the new titles interfiled on the regular shelving,  please pull them and put them with the others on this display. And just to make sure everything gets equal billing, we also now have a NEW J Non-Fiction Display at the end of fiction where the J graphic novels used to be.
  Riley, our super shifter has graciously shifted all the J fiction and is working on shifting all the J non-fiction to create  more room, as things were getting tight on many of those shelves and as I said, our collection continues to grow. We can re-utilize the display shelving between the fiction and non-fiction should the need arise but for now they will highlight our newest J Non-fiction titles.
 
Galina has printed out a list of "favorite reads" for Young Adults and it is in a binder on the New YA shelving. Please peruse it when you can, so you can refer our YA patrons to it, should they ask for read-alikes or good reading suggestions. (There is a similar list for those patrons who loved Harry Potter and are looking for similar titles, hanging near the Harry Potter books in the J fiction area.)

When you get a chance, take a walk around the branch and familiarize yourself with all these new displays and do let me know if you see other areas where we could improve. Also feel free to continue to pull out favorite titles and put them on our interim shelves within the adult fiction and non-fiction stacks. Patrons continue to comment on what good reads they find in these displays. All I ask is that if you display a book, please keep it near its "shelving of origin" spot so that we can find it if we are searching for it.

The subject for Story hour this Friday is Fall or apples?? (i guess Kari will decide at the last minute) so I am pulling J books on both those subjects and will stack them at my desk should you need to snag any.

Please remember to ONLY put BOOKS  and MEDIA in the lost and found Books/Media box up front under the circulation desk. Other lost and found items can go in the boxes on the bottom shelf in the workroom. All items should have a note with the date they were found. The items up front are held for week and then donated to the friends. The lost and found items in the back are held for a month before they are taken to Goodwill or disposed of. 

Ok, go kick some leaf piles and have big bon fires or whatever else one does to celebrate the Fall equinox and as always, THANKS FOR BEING SUCH A GREAT TEAM!
Cappy Dick