The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.  by  Mark Twain

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News From Your Library

It’s time to sign up for summer reading!! Come join us for a fun summer filled with books and entertainment. We have added Tanganyika Wildlife passes to our list of fun ticket prize list. They’re a little added incentive this year for those who complete our summer reading bookmarks. A complete list of passes and rules will be included in your summer reading packets which can be picked up on June 1st at the library.

Our events calendar is back up and going on our website. If you visit our online catalog, on the right hand side of the page is our calendar of events. Days that are underlined on the calendar are days we will be having some event at the library. You can click on the day in order to look at the activity that is planned for that day. Note: Many of our programs have age limits on them. You will need to know what category you fit into and only go to the programs set up for your age group unless it is a “family” event where everyone is welcome. There are several YA programs we will be hosting this summer that the teens will need signed permission slips in order to participate. We MUST have those before they will be allowed to participate in the activities. Those will be available closer to time for the event to take place.

The library board has voted to continue the Sunday hours, we will not be discontinuing them as we originally thought. We will continue to be open on Sundays from 1 pm – 4 pm.

Preschool storytimes have been suspended until June 4th when they will resume as summer reading storytimes and have summer reading themed books and activities. They will change to Tuesday mornings at 10:30 am instead of the Thursday mornings we have been having them on over the winter months.

'With summer approaching and more activities and vacations going on we understand that schedules can get hectic. Library books don’t have to go hand and hand with large fines. We are happy to assist you in keeping your library books fine free. You’re welcome to call us and renew your books or you can go online and renew them yourselves. In the yellow box on this page are instructions on how to access your account and renew your own books. Remember: the preset password that we make when you received your card is library and you must put this password in before you can make your own password.

May Events

• 1st – High school fun night 7 pm – 9 pm
• 8th – High school fun night 7 pm – 9 pm
• 9th - The Puppet Ladies’ 10:15 am
• 15th – High school fun night 7 pm – 9 pm
• 22nd – High school fun night 7 pm – 9 pm
• 29th - High school fun night 7 pm – 9 pm

New Books

These are just a few of our new titles. Come in and check out the rest.

Adult Fiction:

No Way Back by Andrew Gross
The Way Home by Katherine Spencer
Unintended Consequences by Stuart Woods
Daddy's Gone A Hunting by Mary Higgins Clark

Young Adult:

Earth and Air by Peter Dickson
Mind Games by Kiersten White
Hattie Ever After by Kirby Larson
Black Ice by Andrew Lane

Junior Fiction:

The Last Musketeer Double Cross by Stuart Gibbs
The Water Castle by Meagan Blakemore
Stink and the Midnight Zombie Walk by Megan McDonald
It's the First Day of School … Forever by R.L. Stine

Children:

Bunnies on Ice by Johanna Wright
Prairie Chicken Little by Jackie Mims Hopkins
Peep! By Kevin Luthardt

About Your Library

The Goddard Public Library has a collection of 24,561 materials. The rotating collection contains approximately 400 volumes. Also available are reference materials, periodicals, videos and audio books.

Magazines: The library maintains subscriptions to over 45 popular magazines.
Newspapers: The Wichita Eagle and the Times Sentinel are available.
Reference: Librarians are always on duty to assist with reference materials and to help locate the answers to your questions. Some encyclopedias may be checked out.

Kansas Collection: Books about the nature and people of Kansas, as well as books by Kansas authors are available. The reference materials include the Kansas Statutes Annotated.

Large Print Books: A growing selection of large print books is available.

Videos: Our video collection has DVD and VHS selections. The collection includes family and children's videos, as well as useful "how by to" videos.

Audio Books: Books on Tape and Audio CD include romance, comedy, and mystery. We have them in Adult and Juvenile levels.

Library Board

The Goddard Public Library Board meets at 8:00 PM the 2nd Tuesday of each month at the Library.