By Aglaia Polisson
As we come to the end of 2009 we like to review some noteworthy items:
With the provided Church budget and donor funds, we have increased our collection of: Juvenile, Young adult, and Adult non fiction
Juvenile, Young adult and Adult fiction
Reference books; Greek Language books; Magazines
Non book media—CD’s and DVD’s
Our library has a presence on the Church website and a Blog (HOCALibrary.blogspot.com) for up to date news, announcements and book reviews.
Our special programs included author/ speaker Theo Halo and a screening of The Journey, The Greek American Dream by Maria Iliou.
We had a library open house to celebrate our 14th year as a church library.
In October, we hosted the Church and Synagogue Library Association of Western NY Chapter Fall meeting. CSLA provides inspiration and guidance to establishing and maintaining church libraries.
This month we have the Children’s Christmas Raffle inviting children to check out a book and enter the raffle. It was a hit last year!
We continue our on going projects:
· Story Time, introducing children to new books.
· The Book Discussion Group continues to be a good spiritual gathering once a month.
· Check out our colorful bulletin board with book suggestions.
· We deliver books to elderly shut-ins. (if you know someone needing this service , please let us know.)
· We also have established “Friends of the Library” volunteers to assist us with inventory and special programs.
Our goals for the coming year are to update our computer technology, make our library catalog available online and continue increasing our library collection.
Many thanks to our library Staff and our very talented story time volunteers.
Looking forward to 2010 we will continue to offer new resources to meet your needs . We always welcome suggestions and comments about how we can improve our collection and our library ministry.
From all the library staff, we wish you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
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