HOURS OF OPERATION

Monday-9:00 AM to 5:00 PM

Tuesday-9:00 AM to 7:00 PM

Thursday-9:00 AM to 7:00 PM

Friday-9:00 AM to 5:00 PM

Saturday-9:00 AM to 2:00 PM

 

LAP-SIT STORY TIME AND PRE-SCHOOL STORY HOUR
“Nursery Rhymes” will be the theme for Tuesday, April 30, 2013.  A half-hour Lap-Sit Story Time is held for toddlers at 10:00 AM with parent and child attending the story time and Pre-School Story Hour is held at 10:30 AM.  In both sessions, children listen to stories and participate in finger plays, songs, and crafts. There is no cost for this service and new families are always welcome.  For more information, please call the library at 453-2341 and ask for Jane Himmel.

 

BOOK CLUB

The book for discussion at the April meeting will be “Lucid Intervals” by Stuart Woods. The next scheduled meeting is Tuesday, April 30 at 6:30 PM. If you or someone you know would like to join us for a discussion on this book, please call the library and ask for Jane Himmel.

 

SPRING USED BOOK SALE:  MAY 2-4

The Friends of the Pigeon District Library (FOPDL) will be having a Spring Used Book Sale on Thursday, May 2^nd and Friday, May 3^rd from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM, and Saturday, May 4^th from 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM. Gently used books, audio books, video tapes, CDs, DVDs, and puzzles will be available for purchase at the used book sale.
 
NATIONAL LIBRARY WEEK DRAWING WINNERS
Congratulations to Sara Jackson and Caleb Elenbaum for being our winners for National Library Week Drawing. Sara won the drawing for the adults and received a library bag, 2 free DVD rentals, popcorn, 2 liter bottle of soda, snacks, and a choice of a free book from the Self-Serve Book Sale area. Caleb won the drawing for the minors and received a book bag, 2 free DVD rentals, popcorn, and 2 juice pouches. 

 

CIRCULATION

Circulation for March 2013 was 2,482 items including 1,448 Books, 207 DVD Rentals, 152 Video Checkouts, 117 Audio, Books on CD and Playaways, 57 Magazines, 4 Puzzles, 404 New Materials, and 47 NF Videos and DVDs. Inter-loan statistics included 238 items borrowed and 351 items loaned to other libraries through Valley Library Consortium and 76 items borrowed and 34 items loaned to other libraries through MelCat and 4 items were loaned out through the Peabody System. Statistics for OverDrive included 32 Overdrive Audio Books and 152 E-books. Income received included $118.65 from Copier, $214.55 from Fines, and $47.00 from Faxes. Sixteen registrations for the month included: Caseville 2, Fairhaven 2, McKinley 1, Oliver 3, and Winsor 8.

 

THANK YOU FRIENDS OF THE PIGEON DISTRICT LIBRARY AND LIBRI FOUNDATION

Thanks to the funds which were raised by the Friends of the Pigeon District Library and matched 2:1 by the Libri Foundation, the Pigeon District Library received more than $1,050 in new, hardcover books to add to our Beginner, Older Children, Junior Adult, and Young Adult Collections.

 

The Libri Foundation is a nationwide non-profit organization which donates new, quality, hardcover children’s books to small, rural public libraries in the United States through its BOOKS FOR CHILDREN program. The books received from the Libri Foundation are processed and ready to be checked-out. The books are located on a table in the Children’s Room underneath the window of the Library Director’s office. Come in and check these books out. There are many to choose from.

 

CENTENNIAL ANNIVERSARY – HISTORICAL DISPLAY
The Pigeon District Library has been serving area residents for the last one hundred years and area residents are invited to stop by to see the library’s historical display on the wall of the hallway which leads from the library to the Community Room. Everyone who stops by will receive a Centennial Bookmark that commemorates the library’s 100th anniversary.

GREATER HURON COUNTY UNITED WAY GRANT
Thanks to a $500.00 grant received from the Greater Huron County United Way, the library will be purchasing Tag Learn to Read materials from Leap Frog. The special books and reading system pens will enable beginning readers to learn the names and sounds of letters of each word on a page and to hear each word read aloud to them.