Since the month of August the Millarville Library has been open on Wednesday from 10-12 and 4-7:30 with the following restrictions:
- Maximum of 3 patrons, or 1 family, in the library at a time
- Limit your visit to a maximum of 15 minutes
- Sanitize your hands upon entering
- Masks are encouraged
- Do not visit if you are feeling unwell.
- Curbside pick up is still available.
The Library will continue to open on Wednesdays only (10-12 and 4-7) until further notice. We are a volunteer run library and volunteers are not allowed to work until we reach stage 5. You can still access the Marigold system online to access books, audio/video materials, learning materials articles, magazines and newspapers, reference materials, language learning, history and genealogy and more. Check it all out at www.marigold.ab.ca/eresources.
We are always looking for new volunteers to run our little library. This really is the best volunteer gig around. You sign up for a three-hour stint once a week (or share it with another volunteer) checking books in and out, helping clients find the title or author they are looking for, or navigate the Marigold online e-resource system. We have a pool of substitutes so it is very flexible and a great way to get to know your community. If you are interested please call or email the library.
We have continued to cull and buy books so there are lot of new titles in the library as well as a great selection of used books (bag of books for a $1) in the lobby.
I hope that many of your children were able to take in the summer program that ran every Wednesday throughout the summer, thanks to our dedicated and enthusiastic librarian Natasha Grusendorf. The many different activities included Story Time with our wonderful Story Teller, Kelly Nutbrown, crafts with Alberta Smallwood, Ninja training camp, science experiments, and a final play of the Paper Bag Princess done by Karen Whitlie and her crew. It was a different summer program, being held outdoors, but lots of fun was had. Thanks to the many helpers and to the kids for coming to play with us.
The Library Board is ready and eager for a complete opening when possible. We are accessing a grant which will provide new art display hardware as our changing art displays have proved very popular, some of them with workshops attached. The grant money will also cover new shelving and comfortable seating for book browsing.
We hear that our many area book clubs have continued to be active, first with Zoom book club meetings, and then socially distanced meetings outside. Reading has been a great solace to many of us in these worrying times. Are you reading more non-fiction, more mysteries, more “escape” fiction or do you still like a good apocalyptic story?
Here is a suggestion from one of our area book clubs, Books West. The Spy and the Traitor by Ben McIntyre. This is an an astonishing story of a cold war super spy, Oleg Gordievsky, who was a KGB agent and a spy for M16. This compulsive page-turner has the reader on the edge of her seat. It is one of these books that has you Googling the real-life characters to find out more. Oleg Gordievsky is now in his 80s living under protection in England.
