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Newsletter | April 2020 What We've Got Are you getting a ton of emails from everything below). If you're struggling, different companies telling you about watch the linked video on the Virtual how they’re responding to COVID-19? Card page. That'll get you going. I’ve gotten emails from places I don’t 2. Stream and Download: We've even remember shopping. A coffee got movies, books, audiobooks, shop in New York City? I mean, sure, and music. Some of these resources I probably ordered some beans or have download limits and collections something, but I don’t remember, and I that don't count against those limits, definitely wouldn’t call this “News you especially children's stuff. Make use can use.” I wasn’t planning to fly out Ah, that’s the stuff. Just one more? of all these resources and you'll have there and stock up. plenty to keep you busy. Overdrive has A TON of books and audiobooks. Express? The place I bought a suit Hoopla has a great collection of books because I had to go to a wedding? and audiobooks, and it’s especially Three years ago? Much as I cut a good if you’re looking for TV shows, stunning figure in a suit, my current movies, and comics. Kanopy hosts a wardrobe is handling the rigors of great selection of movies, and take a working from home just fine. Shout out look at The Great Courses if you want to my Distortions Unlimited (located in to learn something new. Greeley!) sweatshirt, a Christmas gift that I love deeply. 3. Learn Stuff. We have an extensive database page, and almost all this stuff Good times. Good times… At the risk of adding another email is accessible with your library card. to the pile, we present you our latest Some highlights: Tumblebooks, Rosetta Okay, enough living in the past. We newsletter. Stone, Lynda. want you to know that although you can’t walk through the doors, the Wait! Wait! We have useful stuff, I 4. Right now we're doing library is still here for you. We’ve got Storytimes! promise! live and recorded storytimes and crafts a huge offering of online services on our Facebook pages. You don't and materials, and we’re working Let’s take care of the warm fuzzies first. have to use (or even like!) Facebook to to expand it all the time. Sure, we’re view these. We'll get more storytimes doing this expansion work from our We know, you miss us. We miss you, in more outlets soon, but for now this is kitchen tables, possibly in sweatpants, too. We don’t need to get into the where you want to be. granular details on who misses who but even though the venue has changed, the passion remains! more. That road leads to heartache. 5. Get in touch. You can still email, call, and get in touch with us via chat. Can we take a moment to remember Here’s a quick rundown of what we’ve got and links to getting started: Chat is probably the quickest way one of our locations? to connect. And our chat isn’t like the chat windows you’ll find with big 1. Get a Virtual Card. This is step companies. It’s staffed by real people one. A Virtual Card gives you access who really work in our real libraries. to our online resources (including 888.861.7323 · www.mylibrary.us · High Plains Library District · April 2020 newsletter 1 MARKING My Place By Charlene am here to say that, in this instance, canned goods to corsets. Obviously, Parker I’m a “quitter” and proud of it. Thanks the Victorians got it right as bookmarks Farr Regional to my near-sighted eyes and a mother are still a popular gift and form of Library who felt that a blend of reading, marketing, especially for libraries, chores and outdoor play was a healthy non-profits, and government entities. “Bookmarks Are For balance for a child, I never really Throughout the year, HPLD uses Quitters,” is a slogan developed the ability or the desire to bookmarks to promote some of our emblazoned on a co-worker’s read a book from cover to cover in larger events such as summer reading T-shirt. Knowing that this one sitting. I prefer to savor my books or our Signature Author event, but individual is a voracious page by glorious page; chapter by far and away the most popular HPLD reader, she likely engrossing chapter. A bookmark is an bookmark is our annual limited holiday embraces the indispensable tool for me. bookmark, which features a festive slogan. scene and a holiday greeting. But I It seems that people throughout the ages needed something And just in case you’re wondering, to mark their places in of course Guinness World Records whatever manuscript they has a category for largest bookmark were reading. There are collection. The record belongs to Frank indications that bookmarks Divendal of the Netherlands who has have accompanied ancient 103,009 different bookmarks which he manuscripts since the 1st has been collecting since 1982. century A.D. One of the oldest known bookmarks I took a foray through my house, is a fringed silk one that seeking bookmarks, and I found Christopher Barker, the a modest collection which is Queen’s printer, presented representative of the different types of to Queen Elizabeth I in bookmarks available today. Let me also 1584. Another bookmark say that there are a wide variety of made in India during the bookmarks to meet a variety of tastes. 16th century is currently There’s no judgement here. If you have in The Royal Museum of a bookmark you like, go with it despite Brunei and is made of what I’m about to say. intricately carved ivory. First, there are the magnetic bookmarks People in the Victorian which are generally enameled and era, with their love of all quite attractive. I have a set which things decorative, fully features the Parthenon at sunrise and embraced bookmarks sunset that was a gift from a co-worker which they simply called who took a trip to Greece last year. I “markers.” It didn’t take also have a set that have pictures of long for those clever different mugs of coffee. The magnetic and creative Victorians bookmarks work best when the book’s to figure out that a pages are good quality, heavyweight nice embroidered or paper. Otherwise you have to clip woven marker made several pages together or run the risk of a charming gift, plus the magnet falling off, or worse, tearing they were also a way the page. to advertise everything from soaps and My prettiest one is shaped like a 888.861.7323 · www.mylibrary.us · High Plains Library District · April 2020 newsletter 2 shepherd’s crook and has a cloisonné We’ve all used them; we all have them. look through your desk drawers, butterfly at the tip. The metal stem You are welcome to use whatever you your nightstand, your personal acts as the bookmark and is too thick. want with your own personal books, book collection and gather up your It’s like using a pencil to mark your but speaking as a professional, these bookmarks. You’ll remember trips place which damages the binding. In items don’t make the best bookmarks. you’ve taken, family and friends who addition, it’s so pretty; I would hate I’ve seen all of them at some time or were thoughtful enough to buy or make to lose it. It resides in my desk drawer another. And yes, I’ve used quite a you a bookmark because they know unused and lonely. number of them myself. you love to read, events you attended, issues that you thought were important, Another one is made of stiff cardboard High on the “don’t use” list is money. A and best of all some of the really great and has a super cute ribbon at the end library employee once found $400 in books you’ve read. It’s a fun journey that has various assorted beads and a bank envelope tucked in a book. The without ever leaving home. even a tiny bell. A couple of problems owner, who was quickly reunited with with this bookmark: the cardboard is the money, was unaware that she had Stay healthy, read well, and use a a trifle too thick (see above) and the left the money in the book. That just bookmark. tiny bell makes a teeny, tiny noise that makes my palms sweat. Please don’t distracts me when I read. use money as a bookmark, and don’t use a library book as a convenient I have a set of 6, currently down place to stash the change you got at Sources Consulted: to 4, that are pictures of some of a drive-up window. It’s risky business. the individual steps that are part of Also, HPLD doesn’t charge overdue http://forreadingaddicts.co.uk/ the grand staircase at the Central fees for items anymore so there isn’t reading-habits/history-bookmark- Multnomah County Library in Portland, any reason to stick money in a book as no-dog-ears/18044 Oregon. The granite steps are etched a proactive way to pay your fines. The in intricate designs and as you climb random dollar or two we occasionally https://www. the stairs, there is a message on each find in a book gets donated to the guinnessworldrecords.com/ one.