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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 (November 2005) By Frankie Shaw Please note that the Library will be closed for the whole week of November 7th and will re-open on Tuesday 15th November. After almost 20 years we are to have a new carpet. We are looking forward to this but it will involve a huge amount of lifting and hauling books and bookcases before we can truly enjoy it. Who thought that library personnel were hired because of their love of books? Forget that – what they really need is MUSCLE! It’s that time of year when the winners of literary awards are announced. Rather than list a whole lot of authors and titles, which are readily available from various websites, I thought that I would present a different list put together by book club members in North America, who reflected on the titles they had read and discussed. The following list represents the voices of more than 1500 book group members. 1. The Red Tent by Anita Diament. 2. Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier. 3. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver. 4. Pope Joan by Donna Woolfolk Cross. 5. Girl in Hyacinth blue by Susan Vreeland. 6. Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver. 7. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden. 8. The House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus. 9. Bonesetter’s Daughter by Amy Tan. 10. The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood. 11. Bee Season by Myra Goldberg. 12. A painted House by John Grisham. Edeet Ravel, a Guelph resident has been nominated for the Giller Prize for ‘Wall of Light’ (the story of a math. professor at Tel Aviv University), along with Joan Barfoot of London, Ont. for ‘Luck’, David Bergen of Winnepeg for ‘The Time in-Between’ about a veteran’s pilgrimage from B.C’s Fraser Valley to Vietnam, and Camilla Gibb of Toronto for ‘Sweetness in the Belly’, the tale of a Muslim nurse who flees Ethiopia for England. The winner will be announced at a gala in Toronto on Nov 8th, with the winner pocketing $40,000 and $2,500 going to the each of the three runners-up. New books added to our shelves; Non-Fiction. Bolan, Kim. Loss of Faith; how the Air-India Bombers got away with murder. Frome, Dr. Keith. What NOT to Expect; a meditation on the spirituality of parenting. Keillor, Garrison. Good Poems for Hard Times. Lombardo, Gerald. Sleep to Save Your Life; live longer and healthier through restorative sleep. Pelzer, Dave. Help Yourself for Teens; real life advice for real life situations. Quilter’s Guild. Collection 2005. Roberts, Monty. The Horses in My Life. Savage, Candace. Crows; encounters with wise guys. Warman’s Antiques and Collectibles Price Guide 2005. Fiction Barnes, Julian. Arthur and George. Birdsell, Sandra. Children of the Day. Coelho, Paul. The Zahir. Connelly, Karen. The Lizard Cage. Connelly, Michael. Lincoln Lawyer. Doctorow, E.L. The March. Evans, Richard Paul. The Sunflower. Gabaldon. Diana. A Breath of Snow and Ashes. Grimes, Martha. Belle Ruin. Harper, Tom. Knights of the Cross. Jennings, Maureen. Night’s Child. Macomber, Debbie. 50 Harbor Street. McCall-Smith Alex. Friends, Lovers, Chocolate. McCullough, Colleen. Angel. Needles, Dan. Wingfield’s Hope. Rooke, Leon. Beautiful Wife. Seth, Vikram. Two Lives. Shreve, Anita. Wedding in December. Winton, Tim. The Turning. Please remember that the library will be closed from Nov 7th – Nov 15th. You can still drop-off your books through the slot in the lobby, and check your account as well as order your books on-line via www.wclib.ca. You can read more about the Puslinch Library by going to A Puslinch Diary. You can read previous Lines from the Library here: October 2005 September 2005 July 2005 June 2005 May 2005 April 2005 March 2005 January 2005 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 |