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

Spring is in the air and so are the rain showers. It’s the perfect time to read a book or two curled up in your favorite chair. When the weather’s nice, take a blanket outside under a shade tree and lose yourself in one of the many titles in our collection. We’ve been working on the junior reader’s collection and have added many fiction and non-fiction books as well, so many in fact that we aren’t able to fit them all into our new books sections. We have added books for the adults and the young adult readers out there as well.

Summer reading is only a hop, skip, and a jump away and will be filled with fun and books. We’ll have many fun programs and prizes. For the younger kids this year the theme is Dream Big Read! While the teenage readers are encouraged to Own the Night. The adults theme is simply Between the Covers. We’d love to see everyone get involved with our summer reading programs and have a ball finding the perfect book for them.

Speaking of reading new books, we are going to start a new program in the summer that we’re calling the Adult Reader Advisory. This program will take a look at different authors and books in different genre’s. We will take a look at a book from several different authors and the authors themselves, offering up reviews of the books and the writing style of the authors as well as a brief biography of the author. We will have 2 programs this year to discuss the choices; one in the summer and another in the fall. Check back periodically for more information about this program as we work out the bugs and book worms.

May Events

• 1st Summer Reading enrollment begins online
• 15th Library hours shortened to 2-7 due to an in-service

New Books

Adult Fiction:

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

• A Wandering Heart Thomas Kinkade
• Capitol Murder Phillip Margolin
• Mulberry Park Judy Duarte
• Calico Joe John Grisham

Young Adult:

• Draw the Dark Ilsa Bick
• Everything I Was Corinne Demas
• Breathe: A Ghost Story Cliff McNish

Junior Fiction:

• Chomp Carl Hiaasen
• Red Glove Holly Black
• School Carnival from the Black Lagoon Mike Thaler

Children:

• The Boy Who Cried Alien Marilyn Singer
• Amelia Bedelia’s First Day of School Herman Parish
• How to Catch a Falling Star Heidi Howarth

Did You Know...

The State of Kansas subscribes to 45 internet databases. The use of these databases is free of charge to holders of a Kansas State Library Card. You can sign up for this card on the internet at www.kslc.org. These databases cover a wide area of topics. Here are a few.

• Health Source
• Newspaper Source
• Chilton’s Car Repair
• Heritage Quest
• World Book Encyclopedia
• Academic Searches
• Informe by Spanish magazines and newspapers

From this website you can also link to the One Click Digital and The EZ Library. This site allows you to download Audio Books or E-books for you MP3 player or your reader.

There are no charges for these databases, and it only takes a few minutes to sign up for your State Library Card.

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.