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Mayjune NL 2007 May / June 2007 Vol. 8 / Issue 3 Helping You Connect to the World You Never Know... Teen Summer Reading 2007 Tools to Help Adults and Teens Drive Safer s Registration begins June 1st -- Each library The library has just added a the library. Don’t have a com- branch is having a Teen Summer Reading Kick-off Party in partnership with Project new resource that is invalu- puter? No worries! Simply call READ. Verizon is sponsoring the Kick-off! There will able to adult and teen drivers. the Library Administration be pizza donated by many local pizza places and Office to set up an appoint- other surprises so don’t miss it! Visit your library for AAA Roadwise ment to use a computer from the Teen Summer Reading Kick-Off schedule. Review on CD- the privacy of the Meeting ROM is for Room. For more information, s For each hour you read, you can enter the raffle! adults who are call Marlene at 937-456-4376. beginning to s For every 5 hours you read, you earn a prize! experience con- Teaching Your Teen to Drive s Read 20 hours & enter the Grand Prize Drawing! cerns and ques- is an informative 50-minute Open a few books this summer! tions about their DVD aimed at new drivers It could lead to something...You Never Know... driving skills. This tool allows and their parents. It contains adults to measure their abili- thirteen lessons that you National Volunteer Week ties in several key areas: watch together. Highlights · Leg strength & general include: Basic vehicle control, mobility passing and off-road maneu- Linzy Shepherd, Lois · Head/neck flexibility vers, freeway and night driv- A pril 16 – April 22 was Brubaker, Mike Ressler, · High-and-low-contrast ing, and driving on slippery National Volunteer Week. Paula Byers, Seirra visual acuity surfaces. In recognition of the occa- Sizemore, Sheldon Swartz, · Working memory sion, the Preble County Shelli Collins, Tabitha Nies, · Visualization of missing Watch Teaching Your Teen to District Library would like Tina McGlinch, Tyler Brit- information Drive together BEFORE your to thank all of the people ain, Valentine Lykins, · Visual search teen hits the road -- an in- who have volunteered at Velma Boroff, and Whitney · Useful field of view vestment of an hour is a small According to AAA, The abili- price to pay for piece of mind the library: Anna Ressler, Hunt. ties assessed in Roadwise in the long run. April Atwell, Audrey Gilbert, Review “have been shown to ~Cheryl Richter, 2007~ Baylee Rosfeld, Brandi Their generous contribu- be the strongest predictors of Hayes, Brandon Gabbard, tion of time and expertise crash risk among older driv- Caleb Davis, Catherine has helped the library im- ers. Roadwise Review was Hamilton, Christina Yoder, mensely. Volunteers do created to help seniors drive Clayton Hartbarger, Daniel make a difference. Thank safely longer, and gives you Salyers, Dustin Glenn, you everyone! the information you need to take responsibility for your Emma Seif, Jacob Booher, National Volunteer Week driving decisions and maintain James McBride, Jerri Coch- April 15 - 21 your fitness behind the ran, Karen Crosier, Kayla wheel.” Rush, Kerra Rader, Kim The Roadwise Review CD- Draime, Kyle Nies, Lee Ann ROM can be checked out at Daniels, Linzy Newton, Check our Website for information on all of the library’s current programs! u Library Admin. & Resource Center u 450 S. Barron St. Eaton, OH 45320 u (937) 456-4250 u www.pcdl.lib.oh.us Inklings by Abby: Director’s Column It was a watershed moment libraries: academic, school PRESERVATION polyvinyl chloride as it is chemi- for me when State Librarian public, and special. Protecting Your History cally unstable and the chemicals it Jo Budler and her advisor, emits will damage documents and Jan Haines, came to visit Due to the hard work of past The month of May for many photographs. Polyethylene is sta- Preble County in early April. Director Susan Kendall, the means the resumption of outdoor ble and suitable for photographs This was an opportunity to Superintendents and staff of activities like baseball games and and documents. If you use an not only hear the state li- Preble County Schools, and cookouts, but May is also adhesive, be sure it is of archival brarian perspective, but to PCDL librarians, we share a “Preservation Month.” According quality. actually catalog with the schools and to Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary, sit down Marion Lawrence Memorial the word preserve means “to keep Try to identify people in photo- and Public Library. This allows us safe from injury, harm or destruc- graphs for succeeding genera- break to share all the materials we tion”. To the many homemakers tions. However, do not write on bread have with one another. We and housekeepers, May is the the photographs with ballpoint with the are looking to strengthen month of “spring cleaning.” As pens, etc. Use a No. 2 lead pencil, Trustees our cooperative relationship you go through your cleaning preferably on a copy of the photo- of all the with Brown Memorial Library process, re-think what you are graph (and keep them together). Preble as well as public libraries in throwing away or if you are keep- This applies to any document you County Darke and our near sur- ing it, where and how are you must write on. Most ink will go State Librarian Jo Budler libraries. rounding areas. For exam- storing it. through chemical changes that are It was such a pleasure to ple, we will be working on harmful to documents and photo- discuss similar issues and grants together to benefit all Family historians and genealogists graphs. concerns with people who our patrons in the near fu- need those photographs, diaries, value their public libraries ture. Collaboration and shar- journals, graduation programs, If you are fortunate and have enough to devote years of ing of resources is some- reunion mementos, legal docu- family photographs or portraits service. thing libraries do best, and if ments, letters, etc. If you are not you want to display, be careful it helps improve the services personally interested, don’t put where you put them. Not only is Jo Budler brought news of to our patrons, your public them out for trash. First, check high heat and humidity harmful, how Governor Strickland is library will step up to the with other family members and but so is long- term exposure to calling for more cooperation plate. cousins to see if they are inter- light, especially UV rays. between public libraries as ested in your memorabilia. If not, well as the different types of check with the local/state histori- Be sure anyone handling your cal societies and local/state ge- memorabilia washes their hands nealogical societies. The Preble before touching them. In some County Room collects family Bi- instances there may be a need to Eaton Library Holds May Book Sale bles, diaries, letters, legal docu- wear clean, white cotton gloves. ments, family tree information and more. If your memorabilia has already The Eaton Library will be ing and have books, videos, suffered a lot of deterioration con- holding a book sale begin- DVDs, and/or CDs that you If you decide to keep your treas- sider encapsulation between two ning on Thursday, May 24 would like to donate for the ures, then you need to know how sheets of transparent polyester and ending Saturday, May library’s books sale, please to “preserve” them. The past few film with sealed edges. Note that 26. The sale will be held give us a call! years have seen unprecedented this is not lamination, which is during the library’s regular storms and floods. Safeguarding considered unacceptable by pres- open hours. If you do decide to donate from water, mold and mildew ervationists. items to the book sale, and damage is very important. This This is a donation book sale, plan to use the book drop, means no storage in a basement Remember as you are “spring so there will be no specific please indicate with a note or other damp area or places that cleaning,” one person’s trash is amount set for sale items. on the items that they are are prone to flooding. Equally another’s treasure, especially if You set the price by donat- for the book sale. Other- harmful is the attic where tem- that person is a family historian or ing the amount you think wise, staff will assume the peratures may be extremely hot genealogist. the items are worth. items were put in the book or cold with wide variations in drop by accident. humidity. Ideal storage conditions Martha Albright, Supervisor Don’t miss out! are with a temperature between Preble County Room 60 and 75 degrees Fahrenheit and You may call the library with humidity between 30 and 60 per- questions at 456-4331 dur- cent. ing open hours. The paper products should be acid Library hours are: free and the storage containers Mon-Thurs 9-8; Fri 9-5; Sat. should be acid and lignin free. 9-5. Page protectors should not be If you’ve been spring clean- Local Author Series Get a Clue @ Your Library Summer Reading 2007 she felt very strongly about the Super sleuths and daring detectives are invited to athleen Pennell, author and features she wanted included in the join the 2007 Summer Reading program, Get a retiredK school teacher, traveled books. “I wanted each book to be Clue @ Your Library, being held at the Preble from Lancaster, Pennsylvania to a flip-book and to include a map. County District Library. Registration begins June 1 visit the Eaton, Eldorado and West Self-publishing allowed me to get and the program ends on July 21.
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