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By Frankie Shaw
The Wellington County library system is comprised of 14 branches spread around the county, with a central library/headquarters located in Elora. Puslinch is the southernmost branch, serving a community of just over 5,000 residents. Our collection is growing and we can offer, in addition to regular books, talking books (tape or CD), video (VHS or DVD) interactive multimedia, and magazines for children and adults. We have access to all the items in the Wellington County system and we have an excellent delivery system for those who request items not found on our shelves. We can give professional help in finding employment. We also offer internet access to independent researchers. We host a weekly Story Time for children aged 3 to 5 years. It is held on Thursday mornings from 10.00 am. - 11.00am. Sessions run for 6 weeks. Phone for details and to register.  The Librarians are Janet Dagenais and Frankie Shaw
Send the library an e-mail. You can click here to go to the Wellington Library System interactive gateway to order a book. Lines from the Library (May 2005) By Frankie Shaw ‘From small acorns grow mighty oaks.’ The times when we had the library collection stored in our heads with no electronic catalogue are long since past. Likewise, with only one computer, there were many frustrations when we needed to deal with more than one thing at a time. We now have another computer for the front desk which will make things so much easier for us to give an efficient and effective service. However, remember what I said about trying to fit a quart into a pint pot? Well, we tried to get this new computer positioned on our existing counter so that it would still allow us space to load our ingoing and outgoing items, ( I hesitate to say ‘books’, because since we first opened our doors, the audio-visual collection has grown and now occupies an equally important place in the traffic over the counter), and it simply could not be done. Nor was there money in the budget for a new counter. To the rescue came Janet’s husband Andre, a talented and practical craftsman with wood. He fixed the problem with a very simple solution, building our counter up in one place to take the new computer. With a little rearranging of the cupboards which comprise our front desk, we now have something that solves all our problems and helps our stiffening backs to work more comfortably, too. Now, there was just one thing left to fix. You know how it is when you start one job and end up doing many more? Well, our circulation desk had a quotation painted on the front “Books fall open, you fall in.” but by rearranging the various components of the desk, the quotation had become gobbledegook - something like “open, you fall in. Books fall”. So, in stepped Janet with her talented and beautiful daughter Lyse. Together they painted the whole counter, adding pleasing literary quotations. And now we have a totally unique circulation desk which is functional, is a thing of beauty and can cope comfortably with the increased workload. A “thankyou” seems to be hardly enough, so I will draw to your attention a little passage from Winnie-the-Pooh in which Piglet discovers that “-- even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.” That’s the way I feel about the wonderful and generous people connected with the library. New non-fiction Coupland, Douglas. Terry. (Fox) Demblin, Sophia. The Making of Dr. Phil. Fonda, Jane. My Life So Far. Karon, Jan. The Continual Feast. Mowat, Claire. The Outport People. Oliver, Jamie. Jamie’s Dinners. Washburn Donna. Best Gluten-Free Family Cookbook. Young, Pamela. MacLean’s 100 Canadian Obsessions. New fiction. Berg, Elizabeth. The Year of Pleasures. Bernhardt, William Hate Crime. Brookner, Anita. Leaving Home. Butala, Sharon. Lilac Moon. Frey, Stephen. The Chairman. Kidd, SueMonk. Mermaid Chair. Koontz, Dean. Frankenstein. Miller, Sue. Lost in the Forest. Perry, Anne. Long Spoon Lane. Quick, Amanda. Wait Until Midnight. You can read more about the Puslinch Library by going to A Puslinch Diary. You can read previous Lines from the Library here: April 2004 March 2004 January 2004 December 2004 November 2004 October 2004 September 2004 August 2004 June 2004 May 2004 March 2004 February 2004 January 2004 December 2003 October 2003 September 2003 June 2003 May 2003 March 2003 February 2003 January 2003 November 2002 October 2002 September 2002 August 2002 June 2002 May 2002 April 2002 February 2002 November 2001 October 2001 August 2001 July 2001 June 2001 May 2001 April 2001 |