STAFFORD — Last week was the perfect week for all the furniture moving. Many patrons stayed home because of the cold and we got most things moved in one day. The HUGE circulation desk, that has been in the same place for over a century, is now in a new corner. How did we move it in one piece?
As Mike Cargill says, “Like the Egyptians did, on rollers!”
Steve Hartnett, with a multitude of PVC pipes, Mike and Sandy moved it in less time than it took to figure out how to do it. Come in and enjoy our new space.
Recently Read met Tuesday night with nine of us showing up in the cold. We really had a nice time talking about books and authors. The only thing that would make it better is even more book friends joining us. Books Read:
• The Mad Wife by Megan Church
• James by Percavial Everett
• The Kept by James Scott
• The Rhino Keeper by Jillian Forsberg
• The Covenant of Water & Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
• The Tenant & The Crash by Freida Mcfadden
• Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers
• Cazalet series by Elizabth Jane Howard
• The Wings of Refuge by Lynn Austin
• When We Were Brilliant by Lynn Cullen (Marilyn Monroe)
• Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
• Appetite for America by Stephen Fried (Fred Harvey story)
• The Proving Ground by Michael Connelly
• Culpability by Bruce Holsinger
• Gone Before Goodbye by Reese Witherspoon & Harlan Coben
• The Road to Tender Hearts by Annie Hartnett
• Cowgirls by Teresa Jordan
Friday, Nancy Hildebrand led a great workshop on watercolor painting. We had a full table of ladies that had a great time making beautiful pictures! The technique was easy and so beautiful that their practice sheet even looked great!
Coming up:
• Monday mornings 10-11 a.m. Preschool Story Hour
• D&D every Wednesday 4-6 p.m.
• Winter Reads to Contentment Leads - Book Challenge has started.
• Every Wednesday except 2nd Wednesday - ESOL with Rachel Sandoval, 6 p.m.
• Feb. 24, Recently Read - 5:30 p.m. – come enhance our conversation.
• Thursday, March 12, at 3 p.m., Jennifer Gleason, extension agent for K-State, will give an informational talk on Artificial Intelligence. She will alert us to the pros and cons of AI and how to use it effectively. There is no cost to the program, just an investment of your time to help you understand our changing world. Please put it on your calendar and plan to join us.
• The next board meeting will be Feb. 11.
Gerry Hildebrand is the head librarian for the Nora Larabee Memorial Library, 108 N. Union St. in Stafford. Phone 620-234-5762, emaillarabeelibrary@gmail.comor visit Facebook at Nora Larabee Memorial Library. Library hours are 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Monday; 2-6 p.m. Tuesday through Friday.
