December 15, 2015 - This will be my last article reporting on the library news. It’s hard to believe that the first one was nearly 14 years ago. The best part of library work is, of course, the wonderful people you get to know. You would like to personally thank each and everyone for their support of the library and myself as director, but unfortunately that’s impossible. Having a good library is a community effort at its best. We’ve been fortunate at the Fannie Brown Booth with so many supporters over the years. My hope is that it will continue.

October 26, 2015 - The FOL Fall Book Sale starts tomorrow at 10:00 a.m. at the Fannie Brown Booth Library. This is one of two book sales conducted yearly by the Friends of the Library to raise funds for new library books. It is a place to find the very best book bargain in the area. In addition to first rate mystery, romance and general fiction novels, the sale offers bargains in videos, audio books, children’s books, craft books, western novels and interesting nonfiction books. The sale will conclude at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 31.

October 6, 2015 - The Libri Foundation of Eugene, Oregon has awarded a very special non-matching $1,000 Books for Children grant to the Fannie Brown Booth Library. The Libri Foundation was established in 1989 for the sole purpose of helping rural libraries acquire new, quality, hardcover children's books they could not otherwise afford to buy. Since October 1990, the Foundation has donated over $6.5 million worth of new children's books to more than 3,300 libraries in all 50 states.

September 11, 2015 - This is the first week of the library’s new hours. We are hoping that being open from 10 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. on Saturday will better accommodate our library users’ needs. In the past we were open at 9 a.m. on Saturdays and very few came into the library until 11, an hour before closing. The library would be full of users at noon with us having to announce that we were closing. Hopefully, we will also better accommodate our older children who get to “sleep in” on Saturday mornings.

June 23, 2015 - The wildlife education program with live animals was a big hit with both groups of children attending the Lions Club’s summer reading program at the library last Thursday. It was hard to tell which animal the children loved petting the most. One contender was the baby kangaroo in a diaper but the small girls who held the large snake and passed it around was my pick. Sandra, of course, left the room when the tarantula was paraded. I was holding my breath when the ferret was brought out to view. I could visualize it getting loose in the library.