If you are a Chippewa Patron who gets your notices via "snail mail" (or know someone who does), please consider switching over to email notices at some point. Why?
Because next-day mail, which is what mail notices of holds and overdues is predicated on, is going away, it seems.
U.S. Postal Service seeks to end next-day mail
So, the next time you're in the library, make sure to ask about your "Notice Preference" and, if it's set to "mail," have it updated to "email."
We never, ever, ever sell your email address or use it for anything but our purposes. You have our word of honor.
Heck, do it for no other reason than to save a tree...
Monday, December 5, 2011
GIve-A-Kid-A-Book Delivery
Today was the goal date for getting our "Give a Kid a Book" donations over to the Spirit of Christmas Office.
I went and dropped them off and, let me tell you, it impressed me as much this year as it did last year. Piles and piles of clothes, games, puzzles, bikes, sleds, sleeping bags, snowshoes, and BOOKS. It's moving to see, really. One frazzled worker said to me as I left:
"In an economy this bad, the generosity is still OVERWHELMING.
It looked it. I was recruited to carry a bike inside before I could leave.
The Friends of the Chippewa falls Public Library donated 250 brand new books to the effort, with special thanks going to the new BAM! in Eau Claire and the book sale that took place in November at Memorial High School in Eau Claire.
I went and dropped them off and, let me tell you, it impressed me as much this year as it did last year. Piles and piles of clothes, games, puzzles, bikes, sleds, sleeping bags, snowshoes, and BOOKS. It's moving to see, really. One frazzled worker said to me as I left:
"In an economy this bad, the generosity is still OVERWHELMING.
It looked it. I was recruited to carry a bike inside before I could leave.
The Friends of the Chippewa falls Public Library donated 250 brand new books to the effort, with special thanks going to the new BAM! in Eau Claire and the book sale that took place in November at Memorial High School in Eau Claire.
Friday, December 2, 2011
New Space...YOUR Space
Watch this:
It's video showing what we've done to the first floor of the library right in front of the big north window. There a new computer set-up, some new chairs, and a new SPACE for people who want to spend some leisure time in the library.
Excuse the shaky camera. I was excited.
The furniture was made by the helpful and attentive Spectrum Industries, based right here in Chippewa Falls; they understood the library's needs and did their best to deliver. The Chippewa Falls Library Board of Trustees, also, seemed excited by the idea of "upgrading," with an emphasis on up. And, of course, as in all our projects, thanks is due to the taxpayers whose money is spent to make improvements a reality.
Thanks. Now come check it out.
It's video showing what we've done to the first floor of the library right in front of the big north window. There a new computer set-up, some new chairs, and a new SPACE for people who want to spend some leisure time in the library.
Excuse the shaky camera. I was excited.
The furniture was made by the helpful and attentive Spectrum Industries, based right here in Chippewa Falls; they understood the library's needs and did their best to deliver. The Chippewa Falls Library Board of Trustees, also, seemed excited by the idea of "upgrading," with an emphasis on up. And, of course, as in all our projects, thanks is due to the taxpayers whose money is spent to make improvements a reality.
Thanks. Now come check it out.
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