March - West Branch District Library

March 2016
Volume 5 | Issue 3
119 North Fourth Street
West Branch, MI 48661
Phone: 989.345.2235
Fax: 989.345.8735
westbranchlibrary.org
HOURS
Monday & Wednesday
10am—7pm
Tuesday,
Thursday & Friday
10am—5pm
Saturday
10am—2pm
Library Director
Emily
Assistant Director
Andrew
Technical Processing
Amy
Circulation Staff
Mary Jo
Amanda
Jeana
Lorie
Arianna
Book Nook
Used & Rare Bookstore
Monday—Friday
10am-4pm
Saturday
10am-2pm
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1,000 LETTERS HOME
Michigan author Teresa K. Irish, who was born in Saginaw, Michigan, will be
here on April 21st, at 7pm, discussing her book, “A Thousand Letters Home.”
After her father’s death, Teresa found nearly 1,000 hand written letters
from WWII that her father had written to his family and girlfriend. The
letters give a firsthand account of the feelings of a young soldier through
his own words and eyes during war time. Don’t miss out on this heartfelt,
emotional presentation. Mark your calendars for this very special event!
Light refreshments will be served.
AND THE AWARD GOES TO...
THIS ONE IS FOR THE KIDS!
The West Branch
District
Library
would
like
to
express our gratitude to the community for
awarding us the West Branch Area
Chamber of Commerce’s Best Outstanding
Business Award in the “Excellence”
category. It is an honor to be recognized,
and the staff and board will continue to
strive to serve library patrons, visitors, and
friends with exceptional customer service
and high quality resources and programs.
Thank you, West Branch Area Chamber of
Commerce, for all you do in supporting and
recognizing the fantastic businesses and
organizations in our vibrant community, and
thank you, West Branch!
It is that time of year again! We are very
excited to be bringing back our popular
summer reading program. The focus of this
year’s programming will be very family
oriented. We will have fun games, snacks,
special events, movies, music and, of
course, the awesome picnic at the park!
Stay tuned for details on signup dates.
Arianna will be visiting the schools very
soon, and flyers will be sent home near the
end of the school year. Another
great summer is in the works at YOUR
library!
SPOTLIGHT ON OUR COLLECTION
Our Print Book Collection
Our collection is comprised of over 30,600 volumes in Fiction and Non-Fiction, Young
Adult, Juvenile, and Easy Reader selections.
Our Audiobook Collection
Our collection is comprised of over 2,200 audiobooks in formats ranging from cassette
and CD to downloadable audio.
Our Movie Collection
We offer movies in both VHS and DVD format with over 800 titles to choose from.
Our Magazine and Newsprint Collection
We offer more than 70 subscription based magazines and newspapers for you to browse
including Bloomberg Business Week, People, Popular Mechanics, Organic Living, and
Vogue along with The Ogemaw County Herald, Bay City Times, and Detroit Free Press.
New magazine subscriptions have been added this year! We now have
Antiques, Mary Janes Farm, Nutrition Action, O The Oprah Magazine, Clean
Eating and Grit magazine! Stop in and check out the thousands of items
we have for checkout or just settle in to one of our comfy chairs and
enjoy the bustle of our library.
HELP WANTED!
The Friends of the Library are looking for volunteers to help work in
the Book Nook! Are you a book lover? An organizing aficionado? Put
those skills to use in the Book Nook! See a volunteer in the Book
Nook for details.
PRESCHOOL STORY TIME
Preschool story time will not be held on March 23rd or 30th.
Please make sure to mark you calendars. Mrs. Warnecke will be
back on April 6th to resume her story telling and craft making!
Morning Star
Pierce Brown
Find Her
Lisa Gardner
Me Before You
Jojo Moyes
Brotherhood in Death
JD Robb
NYPD Red
James Patterson
The Choice
Nicholas Sparks
Breakdown
Jonathan Kellerman
Rogue Lawyer
John Grisham
The Nightingale
Kristin Hannah
The Girl on the Train
Paula Hawkins
All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr
My Name is Lucy Barton
Elizabeth Strout
OGEMAW COMMUNITY & BUSINESS EXPO
Come and join the library in perusing everything our
community has to offer. April 7th is the Expo! We have
attended the Expo for three years, and everything just
keeps getting better. This community-based event will
be held at Ogemaw Heights High School from 4pm8pm.
“Buy Local and Build Our Community!”
LIBRARY CLOSED
The library will be closed Friday, March 25th and Saturday, March
26th for the Easter Holiday. We will reopen on Monday for
normal hours of operation!
IT’S TAX TIME
Don’t forget the library has tax forms for both the state of Michigan
and the Internal Revenue Service. Forms and booklets are available
in the library lobby. We also have the Tax Resource Center on our
website. Visit westbranchlibrary.org and click Books & Resources.
MARK
Tuesday, March 1 | Noon-1pm
Tuesday, March 15 | Noon-1pm
Tech Tuesday
Tech Tuesday
Monday, March 7 | 6:30pm
Books for Lunch
Library Board Meeting
Wednesday, March 16 | 11am
Tuesday, February 2 | Noon-1pm
Preschool Story Time
Tech Tuesday
Friday, March 18 | 10:15am
Wednesday, March 2 | 11am
Community Play Group
Preschool Story Time
Tuesday, March 22 |Noon-1pm
Friday, March 4 | 10:15 am
Tech Tuesday
Community Play Group
Friday, March 25—CLOSED
Saturday, March 26—CLOSED
Tuesday, March 8 | Noon-1pm
Tech Tuesday
Monday, March 28 | 6:30pm
Wednesday, March 9 | 11am
Mid Michigan Writers
Preschool Story Time
Tuesday, March 29 | Noon-1pm
Thursday, March 10 | 2pm
Tech Tuesday
Let’s Discuss Book Club
EVENT CANCELLATION
Friday, March 11 | 10:15am
The March 31st author visit with Bobbi Jean Adams exploring her
Community Play Group
travels along the Appalachian Trail, has been cancelled for the
Monday, March 14 | 6:30pm
me being. Please watch our newsle"er, website and Facebook
Mid Michigan Writers
page for a rescheduled date!