Year: 2013

We still have copies of the wonderful pictorial history book, Germantown, written by Mary Jansen Parrent.  If you’d like to purchase a copy the price is $21.99.  All proceeds go to the recently formed Germantown Historical Society and checks should be made to that organization.

We have preregistration forms available for the spring health fair sponsored by St. Joseph’s Hospital.  Screenings will be held at various sites around the county beginning March 7 and ending April 5.  To reduce your wait on the day of your screening, it’s recommended you mail in a preregistration form at least 1 week in advance.  Testing is very low cost and some screenings are even free!

Are you still relying on Wikipedia or browsers to get your information?  Why take chances when you have a trustworthy, up-to-the-minute reference right at your fingertips for free?  Just click on WORLD BOOK WEB on our homepage for articles on current events, biographies, science and history.  There are even lesson plans available for educators and homeschoolers.  This is the World Book Encyclopedia online.  It’s updated numerous time daily by professionals and is available to you free of charge in the library or anywhere you have internet access.  (All you need outside the library is your library barcode number.)  So next time you’re doing research or writing a paper, turn to a reliable source of information, brought to you by your local library.

We are slowly getting in Federal and State Income Tax forms.  Since the tax laws have recently changed, forms will be available online and in print later than usual this year.  While they are not all here yet, we’ll be glad to take your name and number to call you when your preferred form arrives.  As always, tax forms and instruction booklets are provided free of charge.

The library will be closed Monday, January 21 in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

On December 31, we said good-bye to Joan Theising.  She has been with us for the last 18 years, first as a volunteer and then as library clerk.  Best wishes for a long and happy retirement.  We’ll miss you, Joan!