Serving Alton, Godfrey & Foster Township Fall 2020 Introducing Book Bundles A New Readers’ Advisory Service at Hayner Library With limited access to the library’s book shelves, looking for your next great read could be challenging. Try our new readers’ advisory service! Are you trying to figure out what to read next? Let the Hayner Library staff do Things to Know... the browsing for you. We can help you find your next favorite author or genre. Book Bundles is a new Hayner Library adult book recommendation service to help you find books you like. About The Hayner Here’s how Book Bundles works: Public Library District Fill out the Book Bundles registration form on the Hayner Library website (located on the homepage, about halfway down the page). You can also call or email the Reference department at (618) 462-0677, ext. 2849 or MAILING LIST UPDATE [email protected]. The Book Bundles registration form allows you to specify your favorite reading The mailing list for the quarterly genres, authors, titles, and other reading preference information. Once you submit the registration form, our newsletter is being updated. staff will select three to four books for you based on your criteria. After we gather the books, we will give you a Please contact the library if your call and have them waiting for you at your preferred Hayner Library pick-up location. It’s simple! address has changed, a When you are ready for another set of books, just call or email the Reference department. Please let us know correction is needed, or you how you liked the books by filling out the Rate the Books form included in your Book Bundle. This will help us would like to be added to or make selections that best suit your tastes. deleted from the mailing list. For more information about the Book Bundles service, please call or email the Reference department at (618) 462-0677, ext. 2849 or [email protected]. HOLIDAYS The library will be closed for the Students! Teachers! Parents! following holidays: Hayner Library has online resources to help you with your research papers and more! Election Day – Nov. 3 MasterFILE Premier and Primary Search are go-to databases for information on a variety of topics. Veterans Day – Nov. 11 MasterFILE Premier and Primary Search offer a large collection of popular full-text magazines, reference Thanksgiving – Nov. 26, 27 books, and other highly regarded, authoratative sources. You can find primary source documents, photos, Christmas – Dec. 24, 25, 26 maps, and flags. Writing a paper? You will love the citation feature which gives users the correct format for New Year’s – Dec. 31, Jan. 1 citing information once you choose a citation style. You can access MasterFILE Premier and Primary Search from the Online Resources page of the Hayner Library BOARD OF TRUSTEES website (in the Education Resources category). As with all Hayner Library databases, MasterFILE Premier and Mr. Kevin Botterbush, President Primary Search are free resources and are available 24/7 from home. All you have to do is sign in with your Mr. Peter Tassinari, Vice President last name and Hayner Library card number. Ms. Karen McAtee, Treasurer Dr. Melissa Batchelor, Secretary Holds and Fines Notifications Dr. Jill O’Shea Lane The Hayner Public Library District has resumed text and email notifications for overdue items and almost Ms. Kim Shoemaker due items (sent three days before an item is due) to patrons who have signed up to receive text and email Ms. Mary Lou DeGrand Watson notifications from the library. We have also resumed text and email notifications for on-hold items once they are available for pick-up. EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Hayner Library patrons are not being charged overdue fines while the library conducts curbside pick-up Bernadette Duvernoy service. However, patrons who keep overdue materials will be billed for the items once they are six weeks overdue. NEWSLETTER EDITOR If you currently have overdue materials, please return the items immediately to avoid being billed. The book Mary Cordes drop at our Hayner Library at Alton Square Mall location is open during mall hours and our Downtown Library book drop is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. If you have any questions regarding overdue items on your COPY EDITOR account, please contact the library at (618) 462-0677. Mary Cordes For complete details regarding library due dates and fines since March 17, 2020, please visit www.haynerlibrary.org. Ida B. Wells’ commitment to righting wrongs demonstrated she was Wreaths Across America 2020 a staunch believer in Frederick Douglass’s timeless words, “Power Wreaths Across America (WAA) is a grassroots movement which began concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.” Ida in 1992 by Maine businessman Morrill Worcester. The organization’s B. Wells let her voice be heard. We owe much to these women who made mission, “Remember, Honor, and Teach,” is carried out by wreath laying it possible for us to vote, a right to be cherished and preserved. ceremonies in cemeteries in all 50 states and beyond. Through the wreath laying ceremonies and other coordinated events, the organization Sources: spreads it message about the importance of Remembering the fallen, The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote by Elaine Wiess. Honoring those who serve, and Teaching our children the value of History VS Women: The Defiant Lives That They Don’t Want You to freedom and the sacrifices made by veterans and their families. Know by Anita Sarkeesian. Thanks to local volunteers, this organization and its mission have been Why They Marched: Untold Stories of the Women Who Fought For the active in Alton since 2007. This year on Saturday, December 19, 2020, Right to Vote by Susan Ware. our community will participate in this year’s National Wreaths Across America event. The ceremony will start at 11:00 a.m. at the Alton “400 Years of Blacks in America, Ain’t I [Still] a Woman?”, The National Cemetery, 600 Pearl Street, Alton, IL. The ceremony may look CrisisMagazine.com. MasterFILE Premier different this year as we deal with the pandemic but the mission will be For help finding more resources on social justice issues, please accomplished. Details are forthcoming. contact the Reference desk at [email protected] or call In 2019, through generous community donations, 560 wreaths were (618) 462-0677, ext. 2849. placed on the gravesites at our local national cemetery. Every dollar donated helps ensure each Veteran is remembered. You can help Readers’ Corner continue this tradition by sending a donation to Wreaths Across America, Need ideas for a good book? Come to the Readers’ Corner! P.O. Box 181, Alton, IL 62002. Each $30 received enables us to purchase 3 wreaths. Reading good literature offers us a chance to see the world through another’s eyes. African American literature gives us that opportunity, For the fifth year, our local WAA effort will offer a limited number of connecting us to our shared humanity. Major voices within African wreaths for families or friends to honor their veteran loved one at other American literature are Ernest J. Gaines, Zora Neale Hurston, and Toni local cemeteries. These wreath reservations must be received by Friday, Morrison, one of the most celebrated authors today. Their works have left December 4, 2020, by calling Sue Fitzgerald at (618) 466-9017. an indelible mark in the literary world and have preserved the cultural Please support our community in carrying forward this mission to heritage of African American life during the twentieth century. REMEMBER, HONOR, AND TEACH. Join our nation in honoring our Gaines and Hurston’s novels are based in realistic settings in the rural veterans, many of whom forfeited their own Christmas celebrations for South. Gaines addresses issues of race, community, and personal identity. all of us. Hurston’s exuberant stories are based on Black folk culture. The vibrant For more information, call Margaret Hopkins at (618) 570-8804, or to folk speech of her characters portrays authentic human beings. Toni learn more visit the WAA website at www.wreathsacrossamerica.org. Morrison novels are compelling, sometimes mythic stories, addressing sexism and racism. All of these authors write rich, deep novels that will What’s in Reference profoundly touch your soul. Women’s Right to Vote–Ida B. Wells You can find these great books at Hayner Library. Start with: • A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines. This year marks the one hundredth anniversary of the passage of the 19th • Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston Amendment, guaranteeing and protecting women’s constitutional right to • Sula by Toni Morrison vote. After several decades of long-fought battles, the 19th Amendment was ratified in August 1920. Women marched, demonstrated, and were More African American classic authors: jailed to gain this right. It was not just granted. • Gloria Naylor: The Women of Brewster Place • Alice Walker: The Color Purple One prominent African-American woman in the suffrage movement was • James Baldwin: Go Tell It on the Mountain Ida B. Wells. Wells founded the Alpha Suffrage Club in Chicago to give • Richard Wright: Native Son voice to black women who had been disenfranchised in the movement. • Ralph Ellison: Invisible Man Born a slave in Mississippi during the Civil War, she became a journalist, • Ann Petry: The Street civil rights crusader, and suffragist. She published investigative • Octavia E. Butler: Kindred journalism on anti-lynching and became the most nationally recognized • Nella Larsen: Passing leader of the anti-lynching movement, giving fiery talks on the subject. • Margaret Walker: Jubilee She was a relentless crusader against injustice. She helped establish civil Find our African American Authors rights organizations such as the NAACP. Wells was an activist. While white lists and Anti-Racism book lists suffragists considered racial issues a distraction, she fought sexism and on the Online Resources page of racism. the Hayner Library website (in Black suffragists saw access to the ballot as a way to enjoy power and a the Books and Readers’ Advisory voice in democracy. However, not all women had that right due to voting category). The Online Resources page also features multiple restrictions in the Jim Crow south. It would be almost five decades later other book lists as well as the NoveList Plus database, which lists when all African-American women and men had the full right to vote with read-alikes, book discussion guides, and more. For readers’ the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. advisory assistance, please contact our Reference department at [email protected] or (618) 462-0677, ext. 2849. Genealogy & Local History Library Newly Available VIRTUALLY The Genealogy & Local History Library will remain closed to the public through at least October, in Our Illinois Room but please feel free to call (618) 462-0677, email ([email protected]), or mail The Genealogy & Local History Library continues (401 State Street, Alton, IL 62002) with all of your research requests! to digitize out-of-copyright books from our Illinois In addition to assisting patrons, we’re also working to make more resources available online. Room collection while also identifying books that have We are digitizing out-of-copyright books from our Illinois Room collection and have started already been digitized elsewhere. With the help of our with the Alton city directories. Yearbooks from Alton High School, Marquette Catholic High cataloger, these full-text books can now be accessed by anyone directly from the SHARE online catalog: School, and Western Military Academy are also available, and more books are added every https://search.illinoisheartland.org/. week. All books are text-searchable. You do not need a library card to view these books. Visit https://archive.org/details/@hayner_genealogy_amp_local_history_library to view the books. Here are a few of the books available to view online. You do not need a library card to view these books. The Genealogy & Local History Library’s Branching Out research tutorials have been filmed and are Some of these books have been reprinted, so make available on the Hayner Library Facebook page at www.facebook.com/HaynerLibrary. You can also sure you’re on the record of the original printing (year find direct links to the Branching Out videos on the Genealogy & Local History page of the Hayner shown in parenthesis) to access the digital book. Library website. Visit www.haynerlibrary.org, click on the Genealogy & Local History link at the top Alton General City Directory, and Business Mirror, of the page, and select “About” from the drop-down menu. for 1858... (1858) The Genealogy & Local History Library has secured an extension of remote access to Ancestry The Autobiography of Gurdon Saltonstall Hubbard, Library Edition through the end of December 2020 (at least). Free remote access to Newspaper Pa-pa-ma-ta-be, “The Swift Walker” (1911) Archive (Illinois edition) has been extended indefinitely. So even when the Genealogy & Local The Constitutionality and Expediency of History Library does reopen, patrons will still be able to access The Telegraph and other Illinois Confiscation Vindicated: Speech of Hon. Lyman newspapers from home. Links for Ancestry Library Edition and Newspaper Archive can be found on Trumbull, of Illinois, on the Bill to Confiscate the the Online Resources and Genealogy & Local History pages of the Hayner Library website. Property and Free the Slaves of Rebels: Delivered in We’re thrilled to let you know that we’re now offering remote access to current issues of The the Senate of the United States, April 7, 1862 (1862) Telegraph from NewsBank. This includes text (no images) for The Telegraph from 2007 to the Ducking Days: Narratives of Duck Hunting, Studies present and full images of articles from January 1, 2020 to the present. You will need your Hayner of Wildfowl Life, and Reminiscences of Famous Library card for remote access. This remote access is indefinite. Marksmen on the Marshes and at the Traps (1918) If you miss perusing Sanborn Maps in the Genealogy & Local History Library, we encourage you Early Illinois Railroads: A Paper Read Before the to check out the digitized versions from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Visit Chicago Historical Society ... February 20, 1883 https://digital.library.illinois.edu/collections/6ff64b00-072d-0130-c5bb-0019b9e633c5-2/items (1884) to view available Illinois Sanborn Maps (all in color). Enter the name of your city into the search A Full Description of the Soil, Water, Timber, and bar and search results for the city should appear. Alton coverage is available for January 1885, Prairies of Each Lot, or Quarter Section of the January 1892, September 1897, November 1902, October 1909, and December 1915. Military Lands Between the Mississippi and Illinois Rivers (1818) We continue our partnership with the Illinois State Library to create the Alton Area Local History Collection as part of their Illinois Digital Archives collection. To view the Alton Area Local History The History of Illinois and Louisiana Under the Collection online, please visit http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/p16614coll61/search/. French Rule: Embracing a General View of the French Dominion in North America With Some We’re also extremely excited about partnering with the Edwardsville Public Library and the Account of the English Occupation of Illinois Madison County Historical Society for the 2020 Historian Project (https://www.edwardsvillelibrary. (1893) org/teen-historian-challenge). Illustrated Encyclopedia and Atlas Map of Madison We miss seeing you at the Genealogy & Local History Library and we hope you are all having good County, Ill.: Carefully Compiled from Personal luck in your research! Examinations and Surveys (1873) Project READ Project READ is a program designed to serve individuals, seventeen More than 60,000 people in the Lewis & Clark Community College years of age and above, with supported practice in basic reading, math, (LCCC) district struggle with basic literacy. Are you ready to make a and English language skills. Project READ is the perfect program for difference in your community by helping others learn how to read, prospective learners who are looking to improve their skills to further understand math, or improve their English language skills? You do not their education or qualify to enter the workforce. have to be a college graduate Project READ matches students with trained volunteer tutors from or a teacher to tutor. Project the community. Prospective participants can enjoy the flexibility of READ trains you. Inquire scheduled session times and locations according to their availability. today about helping another individual learn to read or Interested in becoming a tutor? improve their skills. Did you know? An estimated four million Illinois adults have low skills For more information, please in performing reading and math tasks that keep them from using contact LCCC’s Project READ printed/written information to function successfully in today’s society. office at (618) 468-4141. Summer Reading Program 2020 KidsSpace Dig Deeper: Read, Investigate, Fall 2020 Activities Discover Young patrons and the staff of Hayner Library were up to the challenge Virtual Story Times – Virtual story times, designed for young patrons of this year’s Summer Reading Program, “Dig Deeper: Read, Investigate, ages 2–7, will be available at 10:00 a.m. on Tuesdays (Mary Kay’s Story Discover.” The KidsSpace staff worked hard to prepare and train our Time) and Thursdays (Movers & Shakers Story Time) on the Hayner staff, patrons, and parents to use our new Beanstack online reading Library Facebook page. Mary Kay’s Story Time dates are: Tuesdays, program. Beanstack helps young patrons manage, create, and measure October 6, 13, 20, and 27; November 3, 10, and 17; December 1, 8, their reading. Hayner Library also offered participants weekly online and 15, 2020, at 10:00 a.m. Movers & Shakers Story Time dates are: Stories & Art, Stories & Puppets, performers, and a take-home craft. Thursdays, October 1, 8, 15, 22, and 29; November 5 and 12; December Children were rewarded for their reading with 3, 10, and 17, 2020, at 10:00 a.m. These themed story times will offer weekly prizes and tickets for a chance to win children the opportunity to read books, sing songs, perform fingerplays, one of our three grand prizes. Our End-of-the- and watch puppet shows. Visit www.facebook.com/HaynerLibrary to view Summer Reading Program Celebration was the virtual story times. held online this year and participants were Virtual Legos @ Your Library – On the second Thursday of each entertained by Celia’s Dance Party on Facebook month we will post a theme on our Facebook page. Participants then Live. Beanstack virtual tickets were drawn for have one week to create a Lego build-at-home and send us a picture at each of our three grand prizes. The winner of [email protected]. We will pick a few staff favorites the Lego City Rocket Lego set was Thomas S. each week to post on our Facebook page. Be sure to check the Hayner The winner of the Miposaur remote control Tyleigh I. Library Facebook page the following week to see if your creation is robot was Owyn T. And featured! Dates for this program are October 8, November 12, and the winner of the St. Louis Aquarium at Union December 10, 2020. Visit www.facebook.com/HaynerLibrary each week Station $100.00 gift card was Tyleigh I. Tickets to view the Lego challenges and featured challenge submissions. were also drawn for artwork created during our Stories & Art online story times by artist Jennifer Take-Home Crafts – Each Thursday young patrons ages 3–8 will be Grassle of Cheerful Canvas. The winners of the offered a take-home craft from Hayner Library at Alton Square Mall. artwork include Leah M., Meyer G., Ash W., Dates for craft distribution are Thursdays, October 1, 8, 15, 22, and 29; Hailyn W., and Brylee H. We would also like November 5, 12, and 19; December 3, 10, and 17, 2020. The craft will to congratulate Evangelical School for having be available for pick-up at 10:00 a.m. We will have a limited amount of the most student participation in this year’s each craft. We will distribute craft supplies until they are gone. program. Evangelical School will display the Owyn T. Star Wars Reads Day – Star Wars Reads Day is an international event traveling Summer Reading Program trophy in their school library until that celebrates reading and Star Wars. It was launched in 2012 by next summer. We hope to see everyone next year at our 2021 Summer Lucasfilm. This year, Hayner Library invites patrons ages 6–12 to drop by Reading Program, “Reading Colors Your World.” Congratulations to all Hayner Library at Alton Square Mall between 2:00–7:00 p.m. on Friday, our winners! October 9, 2020, to pick up a Star Wars themed take-home craft, activity We would also like to thank our sponsor Jennifer Grassle from Cheerful book, and snack. May the force be with you! Canvas.

TumbleBook Library StoryWalk® Program TumbleBook Library is Hayner Library’s newest addition to our digital Exercise, fresh air, nature, and literacy are all combined in Hayner Library’s collection. This online site, perfect for children ages kindergarten StoryWalk®. The StoryWalk® program is an outdoor reading experience through sixth grade, has hundreds of children’s titles that can be accessed in which a children’s book is deconstructed, the pages laminated and directly from the TumbleBook Library platform. The TumbleBook placed in weatherproof wooden story boards, and then arranged along a Library collection includes storybooks, read-alongs, e-books, graphic walking path. The StoryWalk® books, chosen by our children’s librarian, novels, nonfiction, videos, games, and more. TumbleBook Library is free are posted along the Frog Trail at The Nature Institute. The Nature to use and can be accessed from your home computer, tablet, or mobile Institute, located at 2213 South Levis Lane, Godfrey, is a non-profit land device. The TumbleBook Library can be found on the KidsSpace section conservation and environmental education of the library’s website or through the TumbleBooks app. To access organization. The Frog Trail is approximately TumbleBook Library online, visit www.haynerlibrary.org, click on the one mile in length and is located behind the Kids & Teens icon at the top of the page, and then select KidsSpace from Talahi Lodge. Visitors are encouraged to stop the drop-down menu. Or download the TumbleBooks app from any app at the first storyboard and use a smartphone to store. Explore literacy in a fun and interactive way! A valid Hayner Library scan the QR code, located at the bottom of the card will be needed to access this collection. introduction page. Scanning the QR code will help the library keep track of participation in the program. Virtual Performers Teen Craft Scary Stories with Mike Anderson – Log on to Hayner Library’s Do you love making crafts? If so, stop by Hayner Library at Alton Facebook page on Monday, October 5, 2020, at 10:00 a.m., to watch Mike Square Mall on the following dates and pick up a teen take-home craft. Anderson perform spooky, silly, funny, and thought-provoking stories and Each month’s craft will feature a different theme. Dates are: Tuesdays, songs sure to deliver a shiver! This Halloween show is designed for children October 13, November 10, and December 15, 2020. ages 3–12. This show will be available on our Facebook page throughout the month of October. Enjoy! Visit www.facebook.com/HaynerLibrary to Reel Bad Movie: Creature view this program. Feature Patchy the Scarecrow Show – Enjoy Patchy the Scarecrow as she performs her fall harvesttime-themed magic and song show. This show This program is for teens in middle school and high school (grades six guarantees a laugh when her sidekick, Jimmy the Crow, steals the corn! The through twelve). It’s the Halloween season, and we’re watching a cheesy Patchy the Scarecrow Show will be available on Hayner Library’s Facebook “creature feature” from decades ago. You’ll laugh. You’ll cry (from page on Thursday, November 19, 2020, at 10 a.m., for a one-time laughing so hard). You’ll have fun with other teens. We’ll host this movie viewing. Visit www.facebook.com/HaynerLibrary to view this program. through Zoom on Thursday, October 29, 2020, at 4:00 p.m. Please call Mistletoe the Elf and Her Jingle Bell Jubilee – Celebrate the holidays (618) 433-2872 to register. Please register by Thursday, October 22, with Mistletoe the Elf and her Jingle Bell Jubilee! Mistletoe brings holiday 2020, to receive your Zoom link. Each participant will be offered a snack magic, games, family-friendly comedy, music, and more to entertain you bag for the movie. Snack bags can be picked up at Hayner Library at Alton and your family! The Mistletoe show will be available for a 24 hour Square Mall beginning Wednesday, October 28, 2020, through showtime. viewing on Hayner Library’s Facebook page starting at 10:00 a.m. on Don’t forget to register at (618) 433-2872. Friday, December 4, 2020. Happy Holidays everyone! Visit www.facebook. com/HaynerLibrary to view this program. 2020 Teen Summer Reading Program “Dig Deeper: Read, TeenSpace Investigate, Discover” Fall 2020 Activities The 2020 Teen Summer Reading Program, “Dig Deeper: Read, Investigate, Discover,” was nothing like years BYOB Teen Book Club past. Teens were asked to go virtual by using either the Beanstack app or Beanstack website. Hey, teens! Come join Hayner Library’s “Bring Your Own Book” book Participants won weekly prizes for their diligent club. Once a month, get together with other teens online to share your reading and were asked to participate in thoughts about that month’s read. Meetings will be held via Zoom challenges to earn tickets for a chance to win on Wednesdays, October 7, November 4, and December 2, 2020, at the grand prize basket. At the end of the five 4:00 p.m. For more information, or to join, please call Shannon week program, each participant was given a at (618) 433-2872. free book for their hard work. We would like to congratulate this year’s grand prize winner All Around Town Scavenger Wren M. Wren M. She was rewarded with the grand prize Hunt Challenge basket full of books, gift cards, and iRead memorabilia. Congratulations Load up the car and start your journey to find some of Alton and Godfrey’s to Wren and to all our participants. We hope to see everyone at next most historical markers. Teens will find ten challenges on the Beanstack year’s Summer Reading Program, “Reading Colors Your World.” app or on www.beanstack.com. Each participant will need a Beanstack account to complete the challenge. Participants who complete all ten Teen Book Crate Program challenges will automatically be entered into a drawing for a $50.00 gift Hey, Hayner teens! Subscribe to our new fun-to-open book crate card. This challenge begins Thursday, October 1, 2020 and runs until subscription service. Which book will you receive? Each month we will Friday, October 30, 2020. The gift card winner will be notified Monday, supply you with a new-release book based on your reading preferences, November 2, 2020. For more information, please call Shannon at as well as some surprise items. When you have enjoyed your book, simply (618) 433-2872. return it (and the box) for a new selection. Gingerbread House Contest Registration is easy! 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Patron Profile: Philip O’Connor and the IHLS Library Crawl The second annual Illinois Heartland Library System (IHLS) offices, and schools. The driving portion of his journey took Mr. Library Crawl took place in January and was a tremendous success! O’Connor on many roads—and gave him a chance to view farmland, The library crawl was a great way for patrons within the Illinois countryside, livestock, and waterways. He said the weather was very Heartland Library System to visit each other’s libraries and to cooperative and beautiful. experience the wide array of library programming, collections, and Here are some of the highlights of his visits: Mr. O’Connor found the services available in our state. Participants in the program were vast difference in interiors quite interesting. Some interiors were so encouraged to pick up an IHLS passport at any participating library, welcoming you almost felt as though you were walking into a home, have their passport stamped by at least five participating libraries, complete with fireplaces and cozy chairs. At most libraries he was and then turn in their passport to their home library, where they greeted by a friendly face and a welcoming would be entered into a grand prize drawing. smile. He met very friendly staff members Mr. Philip O’Connor is one of our newest who offered him goody bags containing a library patrons. He says he landed in Alton treat or beverage. Three or four libraries about two years ago. He is very happy he chose gave away books. A couple of libraries even our area as he loves the uniqueness of Alton. offered tours of their building, which Mr. He especially loves the history, the hills, and O’Connor was delighted to take. the riverfront. He likes being close to other The vast majority of his library crawl communities as well. He was born and raised experience was very good. He really in the Chicago area, with time spent in the enjoyed talking to the staff and volunteers United States Navy. His time in the Navy gave at each library. He said it is very frightening him many experiences. Mr. O’Connor enjoys to him to realize there are towns without a the outdoors and traveling to interesting library. places. He loves art, nature, enjoying life, and meeting new people. He works at the National Mr. O’Connor believes Alton is very Archives’ National Personnel Records Center in fortunate to have three library locations Missouri. with such an energetic and helpful staff. He loves the Hayner Genealogy & Local History Mr. O’Connor wanted to participate in the Library’s beautiful interior. He believes Alton should be grateful to Illinois Heartland Library System Library Crawl because he was have a place in which to sit, learn, share, take a break, meet people, attracted to such a unique experience—and he was excited by the and experience the joys of a library. Mr. O’Connor calls libraries a challenge of visiting as many libraries as possible. Amazingly, he cultural sanctuary. I wholeheartedly agree, and feel very lucky to was able to visit all of them! He visited fifty-two libraries and he have spent so many years working in our library. drove a total of 1500 miles. Mr. O’Connor traveled through twenty- six different counties on his journey. —Stephanie Munson During the planning stage, Mr. O’Connor first researched the range of hours and days the libraries were open. Some libraries are in large communities and some small. Some are newer and built specifically for use as a library. Other libraries were once grocery stores, medical NONPROFIT ORG US POSTAGE PAID ST. LOUIS, MO. PERMIT #1022 401 State Street Alton, Illinois 62002

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Vote by Mail Information If you are a Madison County voter who has voted in the last three elections (starting in November 2018), you should have received a Vote by Mail application from the Madison County Clerk’s office starting the week of August 2, 2020.Vote by Mail applications must be received by the County Clerk’s office no later than Thursday, October 29, 2020. If you haven’t voted in the last three elections, you can call the County Clerk’s office at (618) 692-6290 or visit their website (www.madisonvotes. com.) to fill out or obtain a Vote by Mail application. You must be a registered Madison County voter to be eligible to cast a ballot by mail. You may also call the County Clerk’s office or visit their website to confirm that you are a registered Madison County voter. After the County Clerk’s office receives your Vote by Mail application, a packet with an Official Ballot, instructions for voting, a certificate envelope, and a return mailing envelope will be mailed to you. Vote by Mail ballot packets will be mailed out starting September 24, 2020. Your ballot will contain a printed barcode, specifically assigned to your voter registration. The County Clerk’s office will not mail ballots more than forty (40) days or less than five (5) days prior to the election. When you receive your Vote by Mail ballot packet, follow all of the instructions contained in the packet and return the ballot to the County Clerk’s office.Be sure to SIGN the ballot when completed! Illinois law requires that your ballot be postmarked by Election Day (Tuesday, November 3, 2020) and received within fourteen days after the election. If you personally deliver your ballot to the County Clerk’s office, the ballot must be received no later than Election Day. Details regarding Vote by Mail, Grace Period registration, Early Voting, voter registration, polling locations, sample ballots, and more can be found on the Madison County Clerk’s website (www.madisonvotes.com). It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Winter! Winter is just around the corner, bringing with it the potential for snow and ice. In order to ensure the safety of our patrons and staff, the library may close should road conditions become too hazardous. If bad wintery weather in the forecast, please call us at 462-0677 before making a trip to visit one of our locations; an outgoing message will inform you of any changes to our regular hours of operation. Drive carefully!