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Library Director's Corner Access to ANCESTRY.COM and HERITAGE QUEST ONLINE is available for access on eight of the public computers. This service is provided free to library patrons. The initial subscriptions were provided by a generous 'Friend' of the library. GOOD NEWS! The Tennessee Electronic Library, which is funded by the State Library and Archives, is making access to HeritageQuest available to library patrons from their home computer. Just click on the link below to access TEL. Check with the library staff for username and password information for HeritageQuest. Family Tree Maker Cd's (all 80 of them!) are available for research. This software has its own computer dedicated to Family Tree Maker. There will be a small charge for printing. |
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Welcome to our SiteLake City Public Library
226 North Main Street
Lake City TN 37769
Hours of Service:
Monday and Tuesday 9:30 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Thursday and Friday 1 p.m. - 6 p.m.
Saturday 9 a.m. - 2 p.m.
PHONE: 865-426-6762
E-MAIL: lakecitylibrary@comcast.net
NEW @ YOUR LIBRARY Find out what is available at your library by searching the card catalog via the web site. To begin your search click on the link (AGENT)on the left side of the page under LINKS to begin searching.
The Book Sale continues for a few more days. Several good selections remain.
THE BOOKSALE
It was a dreary rainy day on Saturday. The weather forecast was for 3 to 5 inches of rain in a 24 hour period. BUT.......It did not keep the book buyers away. More than $300 was collected in 10, 25 and 50 cent or $1 increments. The sale will continue thru Oct 3. So if you missed the Saturday sale, come on down to the library during library hours and see the selection still for sale.
A WONDERFUL SURPRISE! The Friends of the Library newsletter was mailed this week. On Friday Sept. 18, one of those Friends walked into the library and handed the Library Director a check for $300 to cover the cost of software for the public computers. Aren't FRIENDS great! THANK YOU! THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!
2009 Summer Reading Program ended with a Pizza Party and prizes awarded. A bicycle was the grand prize in the children's program and was awarded to Aliah. An iPOD was the grand prize in the Teen reading program and was awarded to Haley. The Teen program this year was "Express Youself" and was held from 11:30-1:00 on Fridays. The children's theme this year was 'Be Creative at your Library'. Special guests and crafts that were scheduled included Lynn Fox who invites you to walk with him in Davy Crockett's footsteps on Jun 19th.
The Book Discussion Group meets on the last Monday of the month at the library. June's meeting was held on the patio. It was a beautiful sunny morning. There was coffee and cookies as well as insight to several current books on the shelf both fiction and non-fiction. See you at the next meeting!
$371,500
What does this big number have to do with our library?
$371,573.12 is the total amount of tax refunds that were received by area residents who came to the library and allowed VITA volunteers to prepare and file their income tax returns. What other completely free service brings this kind of return to the community? Congratulations, everyone! Another successful VITA year.
The mural inthe Children's Area has been completed. In the mural is a replica of the library as well as a 'big' bulletin board. Betty Perry has done an excellent job!
WHO WERE THE FIRST VISITORS???? The 4th grade class from Lake City Elementary School that's WHO. They visited the library on Monday May 11. Ninety (90) Children (as well as teachers and parents!). They walked from school to the library. And YES, they all 'fit' into the space. Plans were for four groups with each group being hosted by a library employee telling them about the library: books, computers, DVD's and CD's, how to get a library card and how to use it as well as other interesting information. Each group rotated on every 15 minutes. What a well behaved but enthusiastic group! Then there was the picnic at the ball field. WELCOME Fourth Graders! The library is a fascinating place and can be for you for a long time to come!
May 2 - Join Hands Day at the Library
It was raining at 10 a.m. when a group met outside the library to refurbish the planters on each side of the library entrance. Raingear consisted of hooded jackets, umbrellas, rainhats and even garbage bags fashioned into ponchos. It was a 'dirty job' but the group was up to the job! New shrubs and flowers are planted. Dish gardens were placed on the rear patio. The weather prohibited the use of electric hedge clippers, so shrubery both on the front and rear of the library will be trimmed as the weather permits. There will be more 'cleaning up' of the grounds around the library in the next few days. There are pictures documenting the work even one of some of the group scrubbing feet,legs, and shoes of the wet dirt at the outside faucet :). After the cleanup, the group enjoyed a 'fast food' lunch from McDonald's provided by Modern Woodman.
WANT TO GET YOUR 2 cents WORTH? The Tennessee Electronic Library cost each person in Tennessee just two cents per year. Click on our link to TEL and see all of the free online resources: Free job search and career-building courses, 300 plus interactive practice exams and courses that are instantly scored licensing, certification, and apptitude practice tests, online career preparation, and information for a wide variety of occupations including emergency medical services, firefighters, law inforcement, nursing, postal workers and teaching. There are also business and industry journals, magazines, and Tennessee newspaper. TEL has addeded several testing reaouces in the Learning Express Library. Those links will be added to our webpage soon. SO.....Check it out! Check out the new Friends of the Tennessee Libraries website. Just click on the links on the lower left. Friends of the Lake City Library was awarded a Community Enhancement Grant of $1500 by Rep. Les Winningham at Lake City Hall on June 11, 2008. The money was spent to purchase more library cards. These cards have the picture of the library on them. More of the money was spent on genealogy book bindings. The books have be returned from the bindery and what a new look for them. The new binding will lengthen the shelf life of 55 books and other publications. A very wise investment for years to come!
Our new library staff person is Linda Bostic who worked at the library in 2003. Welcome back, Linda!
We celebrated National Library Week and National Library Workers Day by treating the staff to dinner at the Cracker Barrel on April 14th. As usual the food was delicious and the company was good! Once more, a big thank you to the Library Director and the most capable staff who do an outstanding job day in and day out. THANK YOU!!
Click on the Events button on the left to read the current newsletter and other accomplishments.
There are other interesting links including Anderson County Govt. Lots of local information on that site.
Congratulations to our 'Friends'!!!
In addition to a collection of children's materials, there are three computers specifically for children's learning software as well as educational games. The library is a recent receipent of a number of Caldecott & Newberry Award winning books in children's literature. They were donated by the Langston Hughes Library at the Children's Defense Fund. The collection gifted contained an assortment of easy readers, juvenile and young adult books that were in excellent condition and were ready for shelving.
The library has received a gift of more than 60 books to be added to the genealogy section. The books are from surrounding counties. Dave and Stephanie Hill presented the collection at the February Friends meeting in honor of their parents. Such a generous gift! Thank you, Dave and Stephanie!
The library has eight computers available for public use. The first public computers were provided by the Gates Foundation. Technology grants and Pettway grant dollars provided additional computers and upgrades.
Our genealogy section continues to receive numerous visitors. It now has even more research books and programs so you can trace your family back to the earliest members. If you have not visited this area be sure to treat yourself soon! New genealogy books (65) have been added to our collection. They are back from the bindery and are on the shelves. Some small publications were bound together since some of the books are of short length. Binding the books to hardback is an excellent way to lengthen the life of the limited editions.
Downloadable E-books and Audio books are now available to Lake City Library Patrons. Just access www.overdrive.com and follow the instructions. The books are funded by the State of Tennessee and comes to us via the Clinch-Powell Regional Library. There are over 1300 books to download (for a two week period). More are added all the while. If you can't get the book you want to read immediately, just drop down and look over the 50 audio books that are always available.
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Boating Safety exams for teens ages 12-18 are proctored at the library. Candidates will be able to access the exams via the public computer. Exams will be monitored by appointment. Every person for age 12 thru 18 will need a license to legally operate any watercraft. That includes wave runners, etc.
Our volunteer researcher will search for a specific record, such as a deed or marriage record, on a specific individual at either Court House. You must know the specific record you are looking for and in which county it is located. There is no charge for our volunteer's time, but there is a cost for printing or copying and mailing. Contact the Library Director for more information.
Check out the Tennessee Electronic Library link at the left of this screen. There are more than 56 million documents available. Ask the library staff for the password.
Marshall McGhee, Gene White, Stephanie Hill, Bonnie Page, Katherine Hoskins, Gloria Fay Burris, John Rice Irwin are some of the local authors whose books are found in the genealogy section. Mrs. Burris has more than 30 volumes available of genealogy of local famiy names.
On the Shelf - More genealogy materials have been donated to the library by Stephanie Hill. She is organizing her personal files and they will become available to researchers at the library. Thanks, Stephanie!
Linda Slover Lindsey presented the library with her volume of Slover family genealogy. She also gave a notebook of pictures and her research on Medford School. Later, we expect that there will be a collections of pictures on disk from Medford students and teachers. We're looking forward to seeing them.
The library has asked for local high school annuals for the genealogy section. Some have already been donated. If you have an annual, please notify the Library Director.
Don't forget to renew your Friends of the Library membership. Annual memberships begin October of each year, so keep your membership up-to-date. There are advantages to being a "Friend of the Library", one of which is the book sale preview. Buy the book before the sale is open to the public.
Membership dues:
Individual $10.00
Family $15.00
Senior $ 5.00
Benefactors:
Bronze $25.00
Silver $35.00
Gold $50.00
Check out 'What do I read next' collection on the Tennessee Electronic Library. Just click on our link and enter the password. 117,000 books and more than 63,700 plots. Then check other collection groups on TEL.
The Oak Grove FCE's dream of a military memorial site on the north lawn of the library is a reality. Our library presented the group with a Tennessee State flag that will fly along with the US flag. New landscaping by the group is a pretty site as one looks from the library terrace.
The group has published a book about the memorial and the 'heroes' listed there. There are pictures and biographical information of the servicemen listed on the monument, dedication program, newspaper clippings, a story of the sinking of a Japanese prisoner of war ship with 1805 Americans aboard, a War Department letter to Clifford R. Sharp, pictures of the dedication as well as other anecdotes. Copies are available at the library for $12.
Friends of the Lake City Library
The 'Friends' group is involved with several library projects. In past years, the Friends had a booth at the Coal Creek Miner's Festival. Handmade crafts were sold, including a commerative of the Miner's Memorial at the Leach Cemetery where many of the miners killed in the Fraterville Mine disaster (1902) are buried. Marshall McGhee, a local author, sold one of his books, "Coal Mining Towns" from the booth donating a portion of the sales to the Friends. We gave away (or sometimes for just a little money) children's books. We distributed flyers for the Children's Summer Reading Program. We talked to parents of young children to be sure the children were registered for the Birth to 5 books project sponsored by Dollywood's Imagination Station, the State of Tennesse and locally (Anderson County) by Oak Ridge Associated Universities. We also had posters announcing coming projects in the genealogy section of the library. Children who stopped by the booth had fun creating a Curious George toy from construction paper.
The Friends have purchased furniture for the patio, a computer table to be used during tax season, paid binding cost for several volumes in the genealogy section, purchased the new magazine rack and the bulletin board for the children's section, funded the purchase of new library cards that have the library picture on the key chain card, paid for events for the Children's Reading program, supplied breakfast for the Chamber of Commerce meeting at the library, held the annual books sale, hosted the annual chili supper, AND the largest effort, funded the Ancestry.com/HeritageQuest.com until other entities began to provide the services. This year's plans have included hosting Chamber of Commerce meeting at the library, hosting an Open House on Lake City Library Day, holding a book sale, sponsoring Children's Summer Reading Program sessions, additional landscaping, fall book sale, and 'Lunch for a Bunch'.
The Friends of the Lake City Library was organized in May 2004 and has grown to more than 80 members. Membership falls into several catagories, single, family, seniors, and other levels of benefactors. (See membership form.)The group meets bi-monthly at the library. Newcomers are most welcome!
