Best Books of 2012

Best Books of 2012

We Want to Hear From You

It's the time of year when everyone compiles their Top Ten and Best of lists. Let's create our own list! We want to know what you've loved reading this year. Tell us the title of your favorite book published in 2012 (fiction or non-fiction) and we'll compile the results. Send your title to Anna Cangialosi by e-mail at acangialosi@chelseadistrictlibrary.org or call at
(734) 475-8732 x216 by Saturday, December 15.

REPLACE, DON'T ERASE
Michigan's Personal Property Tax. Act now!

The Michigan Legislature will soon be voting on one of the most critical issues facing the state and your legislative district-whether or not to scrap the business personal property tax, and how those revenues should be replaced to continue funding essential local services.

The Personal Property Tax bills are moving along rapidly in lame duck sessions in the state legislature. This is an issue that will have detrimental effects on library funding. We urge our patrons to contact their local legislators to ensure adequate funding to public libraries.

Do you love the Chelsea District Library? To ensure that your library is properly funded we urge you to let your legislators know how much Chelsea District Library means to you. For more information about the Personal Property Tax bills and to find out how to contact your legislators, click here. [Download sample letter]

Personal Property Tax Fact Sheet

Personal Property Tax Talking Points

Quick Links

We love this sign designed by Sarah McIntyre for the Mass Lobby of Parliament for School Libraries in October. She has been getting many e-mails from librarians asking if they could buy a poster version of the sign she made. Sarah looked around at several websites, and noticed they were charging a lot of money to buy the posters, so she thought she would offer them as free downloadable PDF files, for anyone who would like to make copies for their library. Thank you, Sarah!

Visit her site here.

Sarah McIntyre is an illustrator and writer who makes picture books and comics with three other artists in an old police station - complete with jail cells! - in Deptford, South London.

E-Reader & Tablet Guide

Click here for our printable e-reader guide.

Holiday Closings

I Geek Winter

The Chelsea District Library will be closed on Monday, December 24 and Tuesday, December 25 in observance of the Christmas holiday. We will reopen on Wednesday, December 26 at 10am.

Online services will continue uninterrupted; use the library's website and online catalog to search, reserve and renew items; sign up for library programs; download e-books and audiobooks and research topics with our online resources.

About Us

The Chelsea District Library is nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide equal access to quality resources that serve the lifelong cultural, educational and informational needs and interests of all people.The library currently serves 14,000 residents in the Chelsea district - City of Chelsea plus Dexter, Lima, Lyndon and Sylvan townships and more than 20,000 individuals visit the library each month. The library's state-of-the-art facility is an access point for information. In addition to providing dynamic services to complement and support local schools and other important community needs, the Chelsea District Library strives to present timely, interesting and high-quality programs and events to engage and enrich the Chelsea community.

Sincerely,

Anna Cangialosi, Marketing Coordinator
Chelsea District Library