GOING TO SEA IN A SIEVE!

Ahoy Mateys,
to steal a quote from Edward Lear's wonderful poem The Jumblies: "They went to sea in a Sieve, they did,  In a Sieve they went to sea", most perfectly describes the state of our branch Tuesday, last, after the holiday! However with much baling by our dutiful staff and wonderful volunteers, we managed to stay afloat even under all the weight of every book in the library system that seemed to be all left in our bookdrop!  All I can say, is Kudos to us for a day of hard hard work, and a huge Thanks to all of you who helped save the day!
   
Galina is back and we will give her a couple of days of jet lag before we force her to regale us with all her stories from Russia. Welcome back, Galina!

Not too much to report for branch news, except that school is supposed to be out soon, so brace yourselves for an influx of children. Unlike the other branches that slow down in the Summer, Capitola tends to pick up business due to our close proximity to the beach and even closer proximity to the playground.  Do familiarize yourselves with the summer reading program and events.  Summer reading starts on June 10th.
 We will continue to have pre-school story hour on Fridays @ 10:30 through July and also a weekly School age Craft on Friday afternoons at 2:30. (Please note that the craft program does not start until June 21st.)   I will attach a flier with this information to our summer reading clipboard in case you need to refer to it. 

We have moved the Amercian Girl Beginning Chapter Books from the bottom shelf after the regular starred chapter books, up to the top counter to display them better and also to free up some space.
The selectors have provided us with a list of titles that are starred throughout the branches, so if you see a title that you THINK should be starred, check the list on the bulletin board in the aides office and add a star if need be (they are next to the list).   

I have noticed that the Jeasy's are being shelved REALLY tightly and though I know its tempting to keep them that way to retain a neat and tidy branch, they are in fact impossible for little fingers to pull out as well as the aides who are trying to shelve anything else in that section so for the ease of all please leave about 2 inches of space at the end of each section.

The story hour subject this week is water, lakes and oceans so look for those kinds of titles at my desk should you need them for the pulls list.

We are starting June so please pull any of the yellow spine  labels marked 12  off (now)
 not so new titles. 

Word from Tinka is that Riley has reached his destination in Missouri safely. Let's just keep our fingers crossed that he doesn't encounter any tornadoes while he is down there and has a safe and wonderful experience.

Ok, keep up the excellent work and let us proceed 

Cappy D