Beauty and the Books

Visit the library up until March 26th to view all the great donations to this year's Beauty and the Books! There are some very talented artists and craftsmen in the area who have donated their work for the benefit of the Falmouth Memorial Library. And this year, Beauty and the Books is celebrated further with this beautiful fabric banner created by Marsha Clark. Come visit the library in March to put in your bids!

Great Books Discussion Group

Are you interested in joining a Great Books Discussion Group? Not sure what the Great Books program is? Check out this link to Great Books Foundation. If you're interested in joining us, please contact Andi Jackson-Darling@ library@falmouth.lib.me.us.

Weather Results

Check out the circulation desk! We were without power after the last storm from sometime Sunday, February 22nd to 2:45pm on Tuesday, February 24th. It took us a while to catch up. Thank you to all our great volunteers and staff who helped us out.

Comments Please!

Are you interested in responding to any of the posts on this blog? It's easy to do. Just click on the "Comments" link under the post you wish to respond to. This link should be to the bottom right at the end of each article. When you click on the link, you will be taken to a page that allows you type in your question or comment. Next, you need to select an identity. The final step involves copying in letters into a box and clicking the publish button.

If you have any questions or have trouble leaving comments, please contact us at library@falmouth.lib.me.us

What's on Display?

Have you checked out the displays that staff has set up across from the circulation desk? This week we're featuring "I Didn't Know the Library had That!" with books pulled from our adult nonfiction collection. Some of the titles in this display include; "The Paradox of Choice" by Barry Schwartz, "Good Books Lately" by Ellen Moore and Kira Stevens and "Communicating in Sign, Creative Ways to Learn American Sign Language".

Another display just went up this morning is "Live the Legacy" in honor of the bicentennial celebration of Lincoln's birth, February 12, 1809. Several of the books on display include; "Did Lincoln Own Slaves?" by Gerald J. Prokopowicz, "1863, The Rebirth of a Nation" by Joseph E. Stevens and "Abraham Lincoln, The Prairie Years and the War Years" by Carl Sandberg.

We're closed today--January 28, 2009

Today, January 28th, the library will be closed all day due to the storm. All items due today, but returned tomorrow will have all late fees waived for today.

Library Use Value Calculator

There is a great calculator available to anyone via the Maine State Library website:
http://www.state.me.us/msl/services/calculator.htm. I thought it would be interesting to find out what my own use of the Falmouth Memorial Library would be for a typical two-week period. My total savings is based on the following usage:

Five Books from our library shelves
Five books via Interlibrary Loan
4 movies
2 magazines
1 audiobook

Total saved: $410.00

The explanation for how the values were calculated can be found at:
http://www.state.me.us/msl/services/calexplantion.htm

Granted, I don't usually purchase DVDs, but even the cost of renting them is at least $1.00 per movie.

Check out the value of our library to you and let us know what you think!