The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. by Mark Twain
Welcome
NOTICE: Monthly Board Meetings will be moving to the second Tuesday at 8p.m. This will start with the January 2012 meeting.News From Your Library
NOTICE: The State Library had been in contract negotiations with Overdrive, and they failed. In a nutshell, Overdrive wanted to impose a 700% administrative fee increase over the next 3 years and wanted to stipulate that all of the audiobooks and ebooks purchased from them over the last 6 years were “leased” not “owned” as per the original contract. Either was kind of difficult to take, but both demands together were unreasonable. So we are moving!
For the full story and to learn about the new service visit the Kansas EZ Library: http://www.kslib.info/digitalbooks. Your access for the new audiobooks area will be ready on November 21, so you’ll have time to practice before the Overdrive contract ends. The ebooks company is a little further behind. An exact date for that will be posted on the Kansas EZ Library as it becomes available.
If you are having trouble with you Kansas State Library Card during this time, please contact us at the library for help.
HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM YOUR LIBRARY!
The staff of the Goddard Library look forward to seeing you in 2012.
New Books
Adult Fiction:
These are just a few of our new titles. Come in and check out the rest.
- THE LITIGATORS John Grisham
- THE NEXT ALWAYS Nora Roberts
- ZERO DAY David Baldacci
- EXPLOSIVE EIGHTEEN Janet Evanovich
- CLOUDBURST V.C. Andrews
Young Adult
- INFILTRATION Sean Rodman
- ICE SHOCK M.G. Harris
- TIGER’S VOYAGE Colleen Houck
Junior Fiction:
- THE OGRE OF OGLEFORT Eva Ibbotson
- LITTLE WOMEN AND ME Lauren Logsted-Baratz
- INHERITANCE Christopher Paolini
Children:
- BLUE CHICKEN Deborah Freedman
- WITCHES! Rosalyn Schanzer
- CORAL REEFS Jason Chin
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 Audio Books and More website. This site allows you to download audio books for your MP3, Ipod, or to listen on your computer. You can check the audios out for up to 21 days. There are fiction and non by fiction titles along with some old radio programs.
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 24,099 books. The rotating collection contains approximately 400 volumes. Also available are reference materials, periodicals, videos and audio books.
Magazines: The library maintains subscriptions to over 50 popular magazines, with 5 years of back issues of most publications.
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 rotating selection of large print books is available.
Videos: The collection includes family and children's videos, as well as useful "how by to" videos.
Audio Books: Books on tape include romance, comedy and mystery.
Library Board
The Goddard Public Library Board meets at 7:00 PM the 2nd Monday of each month at the Library.