Library Corner

August 16, 2009
Did you know that you can renew your books online? Once you have a pin number, which you can get from the Circulation Desk the next time you are in or call the Circulation Department, you can go online and click the “services” icon on the left of the screen and then click on “Access your account”. Instructions will appear to help you access your account and renew items on your account.

By accessing your account online, you will able to:
• Find out the due date of the items you have checked-out.
• Check for overdue materials or late fees.
• See the status of materials that you may have on hold.
• Renew books, audio-books or CD’s checked out.
Note: You can only renew 3-week items (No new fiction or videos). You cannot renew if you have any items overdue or if you have late fees. You cannot renew if you have more than 9 items check-out on your account. And you cannot renew any item more than twice online.

Hopefully this online access will help you manage your library items without having to call or drive to the Library.

Friends of the Library Association, FOLA, will be hosting their Book and Coffee Series this Friday, August 21st at the Craigmiles-Johnston House History Branch Library at 10am. Mary Ellen Stinchfield, Volunteer Coordinator, will be reviewing Loving Frank, by Nancy Horan. The novel is about the clandestine love affair of Mamah Borthwick Cheney and the famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright. Horan blends fact and fiction together brilliantly. While historians have relegated Mamah to a footnote, this author gives full weight to their dramatic love story and illuminates Cheney’s profound influence on Wright.

FOLA will provide the coffee and this event is free
and open to the public. To enjoy the review you don’t have to have read the book. The ending is never revealed.

Story time continues each Tuesday and Friday mornings for the pre-school crowd at 10:30am. Come and hear some of the best children’s literature and see the new Children’s Room in the Library.

Applications are now available for teens to join the Teen Advisory Group, TAG and/or TC! Times, Teens Connect. TAG members are responsible for monthly programming. Anime viewings, drama workshops and teen coffeehouse nights all start with you. Suggest new books and other media for the library. Get free food and just have fun with friends.

TC! Times members are responsible for maintaining the library’s teen blog. Be published, with our won byline, on a monthly basis. Choose your own assignment, from book reviews to teen interest articles. Meet and have fun with other teen writers.

Applications are in the Children’s Library and in the Young Adult room on the second floor.

The Bookmobile will resume its neighborhood visits this week on Tuesday, August 18 at 15th Street and Aurora Avenue from 5pm until 5:50pm and then at Lay Street across from the Boys and Girls club from 6pm until 7pm.
For more information about the Library and its services, go to our new website at www.clevelandlibrary.org.

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