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 lthough every month at the Library is a busy month, July is particularly busy. July is the heart of the Time of Lovely Chaos (my characterization of the three months from 15 June to 15 September), and that is the main reason that this newsletter is late hitting your in-box.
 hy are we so busy at the Library? The average number of people who come in to the Library is about 400 people a day. During the summer, things really heat up outside on the hiking trails and inside here in the Library. Yesterday, for example, which was Grand Friend's Day, we had OVER 1000 people walking in the door. Our small and valiant staff accommodates the patrons with grace and lots of smarts all year long, and when the tourists are in town the staff works especially hard to field research queries, help connect visitor to book (or computer or magazine or DVD or audio book or oral history), and in general make sure people in the Library find what they need.
 uly is also especially busy because we typically offer three or more cultural programs at the Library each week. Near the end of this month Ridley Pearson and Dave Barry (see photo) will be here, which will sure to be a standing-room-only event, as was the presentation by famed photo-journalist Diana Walker. For a full list of events, click on the PROGRAMMING box in the column to the left.
s if that weren't enough excitement for one month, we're going to have brand new FIBER OPTIC connection to the Library by the time you read this, which will increase our bandwidth by TENFOLD(!) and afford our patrons all sorts of updated and new services and programming. By actively pursuing new and emerging technologies in this way we continue to work to fullfill the Library's Vision, which is to enable success by being relentlessly relevant.
 o find out more, come to the Library on 28 July for our FIBER OPTIC OPEN HOUSE DAY. (A newsletter scoop: from noon to 2 on that day, Syringa Networks, who generously provided the "last mile" of fiber optic cable to the Library, will
be serving free hamburgers and hot dogs!)
nother head's up: check out Collection Development Manager Cathy Butterfield's new blog.
hat's all for now from the Library in the Time of Lovely Chaos.
Sincerely,
Colleen Daly
Executive Director
cdaly@thecommunitylibrary.org
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