Library News
Effective October 1, 2004 patrons must have their library card with them to access the library computers. The replacement cost for a lost library card is $1.00.
Donated Materials:
Stop by to shop at our perpetual book sale of donated and weeded books at the
library. Used hard covers, paperbacks and VHS tapes are a bargain at $1.00 a
bag. Free copies of weeded magazines and well-read books (in other words,
very used) can be found in the Community Room.
We accept donations of any size from a single item to several boxes. Items should be clean, odor-free, and in like-new condition.
PANCAKE BREAKFAST
Sunday, February 24, 2008
9:00am to 1:00pm
Free will donation
Our summer reading program was a success with 35 registered children.
2007-2008 Winter reading program
Children and teens can sign up in the library and will receive talleys on a chart for number of pages read. Talleys will be awarded when the participant gives a book report to one of our librarians. Talleys can be used to choose small prizes.
Preschool Storytime - Wednesdays at 10:15am
Crafts for 1st – 6th graders
Every Thursday from 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm we provide a craft and/or activities for children 1st through 6th grade.
Our Holiday Book Sale went very well. We sold 55 bags of books at a dollar a bag and the winner of the gift certificate to the Village Pizzeria in Amery was Diane Burri.
New Survey!
1. SURVEY RELEASED FOR PUBLIC LIBRARY ECONOMIC
IMPACT/RETURN ON INVESTMENT STUDY
NorthStar Economics has been retained by the Wisconsin Department of Public
Instruction to study the economic impact of public libraries in Wisconsin. To
gather information for the study, they are surveying library users and
non-users throughout the state. They would like to receive responses from a
broad range of Wisconsin residents and are requesting that the survey be
widely available. Libraries, systems, and communities throughout Wisconsin
are encouraged to make the link to the online survey broadly available and to
distribute information about the survey link to local media.
The survey can be found on their home page: http://www.northstareconomics.com or the direct link is: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=qyjYazUcsULPwoJ4nWVoHw_3d_3d. The direct link can also be reached from: http://wislibsurvey.notlong.com.
Questions about the survey or the study can be directed to either Alan J. Hart, Vice President & Director of Operations or David J. Ward, President at nstar@northstareconomics.com.
Regional focus groups and data collection will be conducted throughout Wisconsin during February and early March, 2008. The results of the study will be announced at the Wisconsin Association of Public Libraries Conference on May 1, 2008 in Stevens Point.
Information on other state and regional studies of the economic impact and taxpayer return on investment of public libraries can be found here: http://dpi.wi.gov/pld/econimpact.html.
John Thompson, Director
Indianhead Federated Library System
1538 Truax Blvd.
Eau Claire, WI 54703
1-715-839-5082
thompson@ifls.lib.wi.us
Memorials and Donations
Memorials in 2004: $755 in Memorials were donated in honor of: Agnes Frank, Hank Gehrman, Herb Gust, and Earl & Ilene Rothe.
Memorials in 2005: $610 in Memorials were donated in honor of: Al Humpal, Stan Fishman, Vi Tabor, Mayta Jorgenson, Orville Gust, Evelyn Gust, Robert Torgerson, and Helen Rugo Zwolenski .
Memorials 2006-2007 $505.00 has been donated in memory of: Joseph Kostka, Bud Vetter, Helen Zwolenski, Warren Jorgenson, Joe Erickson, Robert Torgerson, Alexandria Terry, Ashley Severson, Erma Jacobson, Hazel Olson, Helen Rugo, John Rugo, Ronald Wilhelm, Vera Hougdahl, Verna Jacobson, William Stuntz, Mavis Croes, Mary Ann Fouks, Delwin Amondson
Donations 2004: $390 in donations were received from the North Country 4-H group, the Deer Park History Project, the employees of the U.S. Post Office in Deer Park (designated for the Children's section) and Lois and Ed Burri. Six hundred dollars was also received from Cylon Township.
Donations 2005: $630 from Bremer Bank, North Country 4H, Deer Park Homemakers, Deer Park Lions and Niceli Engineering.
Donations 2006-2007 $1,265.40 has been donated by Brenda Olson, Phyllis Luman, Lois Burri, United Way, Deer Park Lions, Kathie Cellotti.
Our thanks to family members and friends for remembering the library in memory of someone dear to them.
As of April 1, 2005 Kwik Trip, Inc. is giving a 5% rebate percentage for in-store purchases through their Kwik Trip Rebate Rewards program. A customer can designate the Deer Park Public Library as the organization to receive their quarterly rebate as a donation. When the quarterly rebates are issued to the library, Kwik Trip will add an additional 1% to the rebate amount.
For the library to qualify for this 6% rebate (which can be up to $300 per year), five Kwik Trip customers must designate the Deer Park Library for this reward. If you are willing and would like to help earn the library some much needed funding, you can learn more about this program at the Kwik Trip website.
The More on-line catalog has a link to a new catalog format you can try out along with a link to an on-line survey to pass on your comments. Through the on-line catalog, http://www.more.lib.wi.us, you can order items for delivery to any MORE library you prefer for pickup. Our materials are available for loan to any registered on the MORE system. Through the MORE catalog, Deer Park patrons have access to materials in over 30 other libraries.
Whether an item was on the shelf or delivered via interlibrary loan, every item you check out at Deer Park Library helps generate funding for us to keep the lights on, the furnace going and purchase new materials. If you haven’t checked out any materials in a while, show your support. Stop in and check something out!
New link for Badgerlink (Wisconsin’s Connection to the World of Information): www.dpi.state.wi.us/badgerlink/ Magazine and News Articles.
The EBSCOhost button on the Badgerlink webpage has over twenty databases with full-text articles, citations and abstracts.
Click on the EBSCOHost button from Badgerlink through the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction www.dpi.state.wi.us/badgerlink/ to access the Newspaper ARCHIVE Elite which has over 14.4 million fully searchable pages representing over 400 cities and towns with articles dating back as far as the 1700’s. This database is valuable for researching genealogy, history, culture and other newsworthy events.
February 22, 2008
