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By Frankie Shaw
The Wellington County library system is comprised of 13 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 Friday 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 (August 2004) By Frankie Shaw One of the best things to happen over the summer in this library was the event planned by Kate Culver, our delightful summer student and Janice MacDonald, our wonderful StoryTime leader. We called it Summer Fun at the Library, and fun it most certainly was. Each day for a week 19 kids came in for a morning filled with activities; stories to stretch the mind, experiments, games and crafts, with a theme of dragons and magic. Those who experienced this event were thrilled by the quality of the programme. All the children, whose ages ranged from 4 to11 had their minds broadened, educated and entertained, with trips to fantastical castles, experiments with bendable bones and flexible eggs, shadow plays, word games and just plain kid fun. Parents were extremely positive and appreciative when they came to pick up their charges and, it seemed to me that they came earlier each day, so that they, too, could see the happenings. If our regulars have noticed that the library seems to be cleaner and more spacious, then they don't deserve a gold star for awareness. It is! We've been withdrawing the old books which didn't circulate, to leave room for the ever expanding collection. We feel exactly as we do after a spring-clean at home, uplifted and unburdened. "If those only wrote, who were sure of being read, we should have fewer authors; and the shelves of libraries would not groan beneath the weight of dusty tomes more voluminous than luminous" -Lady Marguerite Blessington, - The Confessions of an Elderly Lady,(1838). Book Recommendation The Dragon's Egg by Alison Baird. This book is highly recommended by Eric Eichorn (8, almost 9). Eric said that this was the best book he's ever read in his whole life. It's about a little girl, born in China, now living in Toronto, who is given a stone from China as a birthday gift. 'It feels special" her father tells her with a twinkle in his eye, " perhaps it's a dragon's egg". What follows becomes a time of adventure and wonder. Recent new books; Non-fiction. Acker, A Off Our Rockers and into Trouble; the Raging Grannies. Best, Jeanne Willing and Able; practical guide to powers of attorney in Ontario. Browne, Sylvia. Prophecy; what the future holds for you. Creative Homeowner. Ultimate Book of Home Plans. Dibra, Bash. Your Dream Dog; choose the breed that's right for you. Farris, Jerrie. Idea-Wise Kitchens. Frank, Robert. Secret Life of the Dyslexic Child. Goldman, Robert. Brain Fitness; anti aging strategies. Goodman, Nancy. It Was Food Versus Me and I Won. Jacobs, Marianne. School Lunch Box Cookbook. Milton, Giles. White Gold; extraordinary story of North America's one million European slaves. Pound, Dick. Inside the Olympics; a behind the scenes look at the politics, scandals and glory. Rhett, Godfrey. Teen Code; teenagers reveal what works best. Slater, Robert. Wal-Mart Triumph; inside the world's #1 company. Fiction. Berg, Elizabeth. Art of Mending Clarke, Austin. The Question. Cussler, Clive. Lost City. Gingrich, Newt. Gettysburg. Glover, Douglas. South Will Rise at Noon. Grippando, James. Hear No Evil. Hazzard, Shirley. The Great Fire. Hosseini, Khaled. Kite runner. Kennedy, Des. Flame of Separation. Koontz, Dean The Taking. Reichs, Kathy. Monday Mourning Scottoline, Lisa Killer Smile. Trigiani, Adriana. Queen of the Big Time. What summer??? - Frankie You can read more about the Puslinch Library by going to A Puslinch Diary. You can read previous Lines from the Library here: 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 |