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February 23 Newsletter

February 23 Newsletter

HPL Newsletter Feb 23

February 01, 2023

What’s new at the library?

Test your sleuthing skills and search the library for Hedgie the Hedgehog! Tell us where he is and you will get a piece of candy! He will be hiding in a new spot every day during the month of February, and then going home with one lucky patron! Earn raffle tickets by checking out a book or attending library programs in February. Limit 1 ticket per day for book checkouts.

Upcoming Programs

Calendar of Events

Art Exhibit

Photography by Taylor Jennings

Taylor Jennings is a central New York photographer who loves to turn her visions into photographs. Since a young age, she has always loved creating the idea of where and what she would photograph. She is mainly focused on landscape and lifestyle photography

Friends of the Library

Joining the Friends is an easy way to get involved at the library, and the friends are always looking for new members and volunteers.

Romantic reads for Valentine’s

If I Never Met you by Mhairi McFarlane
Book Lovers by Emily Henry
The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna
Every Summer After by Carley Fortune
You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi
Thank You for Listening by Julia Whelan
The Bodyguard by Katherine Center
Honey & Spice by Bolu Babalola
The Romantic Agenda by Claire Kann

Recommend a Book

Read a really good book recently that you think other people should read as well? Let us know and we’ll share it in a future newsletter!

Request a Recommendation

Want a personalized recommendation? Fill out the form to let us know what kind of book you’re looking for!

Suggest an Item for purchase

Want to read, watch, or listen to something the library doesn’t own? Let us know and we will consider purchasing it for our collection.

From the Director

Did you know that the MidYork Library System has over a MILLION items spread out over its 43 member libraries? I’m sure you do, as every month we ship in hundreds of books, DVDs, audiobooks, music CDs, etc. for our patrons to pick up at the circulation desk when our 20,000 items (in-house) just aren’t enough. But what do you do when you’re looking for that one thing that none of our libraries have on our shelves? Give up, right?

Well you COULD give up, OR you could place a request for an Inter-Library Loan! I know I made it seem like the literal tons of resources spread across dozens of libraries in Madison, Oneida, and Herkimer counties were endless, but our local(ish) offerings barely scratch the surface of what you can find out there. For example, even if we had a million books in the system, there’s still about 125 million books that have been printed throughout history, at least according to Google.

If you are having trouble finding an item in our catalog, then let a staff member know! They can get it shipped to you from any library in the world*! It might take a few extra days to receive this rare book or DVD or whatever it is, but we’ll do our best to get it into your hands.

You’re probably wondering about the cost of getting a book delivered from outside our system. To you, it’s free! We’ll take care of the shipping costs, just make sure you return it on time, as the other library sets the return date.

Inter-Library Loan requests aren’t that uncommon with about ten requests a month, but it’s just uncommon enough for me to justify advertising this often-overlooked service in our monthly newsletter. After all, ten checkouts of the thousands of items we circulate a month constitutes about a third of a percent of all that we do here. Surely that’s due to not enough folks knowing that this is an option!

Thank you for reading, and see you next month!

*Prices and participation of libraries across the world may vary.

Highlights from last month

Toddler play date is bringing a bigger crowd every month, but the ball pit is still the favorite attraction. Fingerpainting day was also a big hit so if you missed it don’t worry, we’ll be doing it again! And to help out with the cold weather we made some cute snowman handwarmers.