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 t's fall! It snowed! It's raining! We won the Wiley Library/Frommer Contest!  hank you to everyone who voted for us (we were one of five finalists nationwide!). Pauline and Arthur Frommer will travel to Ketchum to give a presentation. We'll throw a party! Date yet to be determined.
t was a busy summer. This year the 100,000th patron walked into the Library on the 15th of August. That's more than a month sooner than in 2010. During the Time of Lovely Chaos (15 June to 15 September) 2206 people attended our 26 programs. The Diana Walker photo exhibit drew MANY MANY people into the Library. Over 1000 people came into the Library on 15 September, the day of our Fiestas Patrias festa, targeted at Spanish-speaking community members.
here has been quite a bit of hoop-la about Amazon's recent announcement to allow libraries to purchase Kindle books and loan them out to library patrons with Kindles. It's both a wonderful and worrisome development. There are still many kinks to be worked out regarding privacy issues, there are technical issues, and there is the expense to consider. The price of an eBook is similar to that of a hardcover (and our budget for books has not doubled overnight), some publishers allow eBooks to be checked out only 26 times before they vanish into cyberspace, it is necessary to work with expensive software to offer eBooks to patrons with different types of electronic readers, and more.  ut part of the Library's vision is to continue to offer our patrons access to new and emerging technologies, so the bright minds here at 415 Spruce are focused on working out the details. Stay tuned.
Colleen Daly
Executive Director
cdaly@thecommunitylibrary.org
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