Thursday, December 18, 2008

Saturday, January 24 is WMRLS Night at the MassMutual Center!

Dear WMRLS Member Libraries:

The Springfield Falcons Hockey Team is sponsoring a fundraiser to benefit the WMRLS bookmobile service. It will be their home game at 7 p.m. on Saturday, January 24, at the MassMutual Center in Springfield, against the Providence Bruins. If your library is interested in helping promote this event to your staff and users, please read further to see how you can help…

The Falcons have provided WMRLS with flyers and tickets for the game. Would your library be interested in selling tickets? We’d ask you to post the flyer at your library and request the number of tickets you would like to sell to your staff, trustees, friends, and users. They’re for a discounted price of $10 per ticket, and WMRLS will receive $3 per ticket sold, which will be used to purchase materials for the bookmobile. Just fill out the online form at our page for this fundraiser, at http://forms.wmrls.org/wmrls-falcons.html and we’ll send the requested number of tickets to your library ASAP. Depending on your timing, the tickets could be used as last-minute Stocking Stuffers, or for a family outing.

An added benefit is that members of the public who donate a new or lightly used hardcover children’s book at the game will receive a coupon that they can use to purchase a ticket for another game, on either February 20 or 21, and get a second ticket for free. We hope some of the donated books will be able to be added to our bookmobile collection.

So, if you’re willing and able to help promote this fundraiser and sell some tickets, you’ll be benefiting WMRLS and helping introduce area hockey fans to the Falcons.

Thank you, and we at WMRLS wish all of you a Happy Holiday Season!

~ John Ramsay, Regional Administrator, Western Massachusetts Regional Library System

Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Wendell Free Library featured in 12/15/08 Library Journal

Congratulations to the staff and trustees of the Wendell Free Library. Wendell is one of five Massachusetts public libraries cited in Public Library Buildings: 2008 of the article "Library Buildings 2008: Keeping the ''ECO'' in Economy: Public and academic buildings combine for 213 projects in 2008" by Bette-Lee Fox [Library Journal, 12/15/2008].

Technical Services Roundtable February 3rd in Westfield

Hello Everyone,

You are invited to our next Technical Services Roundtable meeting, at 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday, February 3rd (the 4th if it snows, which hopefully it won't) at the Westfield Athenaeum.

Jeremy Goldstein, of the Berkshire Athenaeum in Pittsfield, will be moderator.

Please RSVP and send agenda items to jeremy at jgoldste@cwmars.org

I look forward to seeing everyone in February.

Time to Order 2009 Summer Reading Program Materials

Greetings WMRLS Member Libraries,

Ready, Set ... Order! Summer 2009 is a long way away, but it's time to order your paper materials! This year's program highlights space and is called "Starship Adventure at your Library". The teen component is called "Find What's Out There at the library". Librarians who are conducting summer reading programs for adults are welcome to use either program theme. Deadline for orders is January 20, 2009. It's going to be a fantastic summer!
The order form URL is: http://surveys.wmrls.org/2009starship

~ Sincerely, Janet Eckert, WMRLS

Our 2009 Massachusetts Summer Reading Program is funded by your local library, the Massachusetts Regional Library Systems, and the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners