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May/June 2020 temporary Curbside Service Beginning Monday, May 4, search for the book you would Will I lose my HOLD items if I 2020, the Marion & Ed like to check out. Click on the do not pick up during the clo- Hughes Public Library will title of the book and then, if it sure? temporarily offer Curbside says available, click on Place No, if you choose not to pick Service for customers. Library Hold. Limited to 5 items per up items placed on hold dur- staff has worked diligently to library card. ing the closure, you will not develop procedures for • If you do not have access lose your holds; they will be Curbside Service that follow to a computer, you may call waiting for you when the li- social distancing protocols 722-1255 to Place a Hold. brary opens. while effectively serving Li- • It may take up to 24 hours How do I return library materi- brary customers. to pull your items from the als? What is Curbside Service? shelves. Please DO NOT come DO NOT return books to the Curbside Service allows cus- to the library until we call to let Curbside Pickup Location. You tomers to pick up library mate- you know your items are ready may return your Library mate- Inside this issue: rials that have been placed on for pickup. rials using the exterior book hold. The designated Curbside drops. Storytime Schedule 2 • Library staff will prepare Pickup Location is at the en- What safeguards are in place Puzzle Page 3 trance to the library. Requests your items for pickup. Once with regards to books being will be filled by staff in the items are ready, they will notify reissued? Overdrive Streaming 4 you. Please let the staff mem- order they are received. Books picked up using Save the Date 4 When can I pick up items us- ber know that you will be us- Curbside Service will not have ing Curbside Service? ing Curbside Service, as well as been used by another patron Donations 6 Curbside Service will be availa- the day you will be picking up for at least 9 days. In order to ble Monday through Friday the items. That will allow us to safeguard the health of pa- from 10 a.m. to Noon and assign the correct due date. trons and staff, the Library is 2:00 to 5:30 p.m. • Go to the Library’s desig- quarantining all items for 9 Who can use Curbside Ser- nated Curbside Pickup at the days after their return. We are vice? entrance to the library. using an abundance of cau- All Library cardholders in • You will need to have your tion, based on research indi- good standing and with unex- library card & valid Identifica- cating that the longest persis- pired library cards can use the tion with you when you arrive tence of the virus on surfaces service. You must have your to pick up your items. Be sure is 6 to 9 days (paper 4-5 days). Special points of interest: to bring it with you. Hours of Operation library card number and you Can you print something for • Briefly highlight your point of interest here. must have items on hold that • When you arrive at the me? • Briefly highlight your Mondaypoint of interest here. are ready to be picked up. Due to the CDC’s recommend- Library’s Pickup Location, call • Briefly highlight1 your PM point — of interest 9 PM here. In accordance with Centers for ed social distancing policy, we 722-1255 and let the staff • Briefly highlight your point of interest here. Disease Control and Preven- know what kind of vehicle you are unable to provide this ser- Tuesday — Friday tion guidelines, the public is are driving, and be prepared to vice. 10 AM — 6 PM advised not to visit the library show a photo ID and your li- Remember... Saturday curbside program if they are brary card through the closed • You must stay in your car experiencing any signs or car window. Social distancing until it is time to retrieve 10:30 AM — 2 PM symptoms of illness including procedures will be strictly fol- your holds. Closure Days but not limited to; shortness of lowed. Staff will not approach • You must show your li- May 25 breath, fever, sore throat or a car if the windows are rolled brary card and ID when cough. Stay home and mini- down. we come out to your car. mize exposure to others. • Remain in your vehicle • You must have received How do I use the Curbside until library staff has checked Service? notification from us that your ID, delivered your items to your items are ready. • Place items on hold using the pickup area and returned the Library website catalog. • Your library account must inside the library. Then you be unexpired and in good You will need your library card may approach and pick up number and pin number (may standing - no fines, no unpaid your library materials. lost or damaged items. be your last name) to sign in. Once you are logged in, P AGE 2 May/June 2020 Storytime Schedule May 6 Dogs May 21 Fruits & Veggies Rock What is there to say about our best Gardens have been planted and we are all Do you want friends… you know our DOGS? Whether waiting for yummy fresh veggies and ripe we have a Bad Dog or the most Perfect fruit to eat all summer long! We all have to get Dog, we know our dog is the best. To- favorites like tomatoes, strawberries, and day we’ll have stories about all different even eggplant. Come hear stories about kids kinds of dogs and a couple of dog crafts who help out in the gardens and what they notices for for you to do at home. do with all of their fruits and veggies once they are picked! your holds

May 7 Get Caught Reading Month or when your We want EVERYONE May 27 World Otter Day to Get Caught Read- Little otters everywhere! Come items are ing this month. Come hear stories about some of the get caught listening at coolest little guys in the water! Story Time today We’ll make an otter craft for due back? while we read some you to take home afterwards. of our favorite stories.

May 28 Fun in the Sun May 13 Reading is Fun It’s summer time and we are so Make sure to Do you know how to go to ready for a little FUN IN THE SUN! new places and have new Come hear some great stories update your experiences without leav- about other kids getting ready for ing your chair? READ! the summer by going swimming, Come hear some of our going to the beach, and going on email address favorite stories and go to picnics with their friends! faraway places with us. and your

June 3 Wonder Woman Day May 14 International Day of Families phone number She’s beautiful We all have fami- as Aphrodite, wise lies but each one as Athena, strong at the front desk! of them is differ- as Hercules, and swift ent. This is what as Hermes. She IS Wonder makes them and Woman! Come hear stories us special. At about the most WONDER- Story Time today, ful superhero in the uni- we’ll read stories about all different kinds verse at story time today. of families and see what they have in common and what makes them differ- ent. June 4 Hot Air Balloon Day May 20 World Bee Come fly with me in my beautiful balloon! Day Up in the sky, so far away from the ground! Have you ever been in a hot air balloon? With the sweet smell of flowers in the air, Would you like to go up and see the world we see more little honey bees buzzing from right below the clouds? Today we’ll around, going from flower to flower. hear stories about all kinds of balloons and Today at story time, we’ll read stories the people who love them. about bees, what they do for us and what WE can do for them!

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Overdrive Streaming Video Most of you know that the library has a more fun than dangling your feet streaming movie service available for its in the water while the sharks are patrons but how many of you KNOW taking not only to the sea but the that most of the movies we have land and air also? Or if you aren’t Answers to Emoji Quiz! bought have well known actors and a fan of sharks, why not check out actresses in them? Here’s just a few “Piranha” at your next pool party? How many did you that we thought you might like to see. Did you know that several of the actors Before they were part of Earth’s Mighti- from Disney Channel shows are now in est Heroes, Robert Downey Jr starred in movies? Olivia Holt from “Kickin It” stars in “A Guide to Recognizing your the movie “Class Rank” where two high Saints” where he plays Dito, a school outsiders join forces in an writer in L.A., goes home to attempt to overtake the local Astoria, Queens, after a 15- school board. Mitchel Musso year absence when his moth- who starred in “Hannah Mon- er calls to say his father's ill. As tana” and “Pair of Kings” on Dis- his friends end up dead, on ney XD is in the movie drugs, or in prison, he comes to believe “Characterz.” This 2016 movie is he has been saved from their fates by about life as a costumed mascot at an various so-called saints. Jeremy Renner amusement park. Laura Marano, who plays starred in the biopic “Dahmer” about Ally in “Austin & Ally,” stars in “A Sort of the serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer’s exploits Homecoming.” before he was captured. Captain Ameri- Before David Habour was Chief Hopper in ca’s Chris Evans starred in the movie Stranger Things, he starred with Zac Efron “Puncture” which is a David and Tom Welling in the biopic “Parkland” and Goliath law drama about which tells the stories about the people a drug-addicted lawyer who who witnessed the assassination of John F. takes on a health supply cor- Kennedy in Dallas. poration while battling his own personal demons. This After Robert Pattinson left the vampires and movie was shot in Houston, werewolves of Forks, WA, he was in a mov- Texas. Tom Hiddleston stars in “High ie that chronicles the story behind Rise,” a movie about a different kind of the 1955 LIFE Magazine photo apartment building in 1975 London. thread by Dennis Stock of then- You can watch Bradley Cooper who is rising star, James Dean. The movie the voice of Rocket in Guardians of the called “Life” gives us an inside look Galaxy, star along with Jennifer Law- at some of Hollywood's most iconic rence in the movie “Serena” which takes images and into the life of a gifted, place during the Great Depression in but troubled man. North Carolina. Now that we have piqued your interest, When you are sitting in your pool this why not sign in with your library card and summer, why not stream all 6 check one out tonight? Sharknado movies? What would be Save the Summer Date Reading Monday Program June 8 MARION AND ED HUGHES PUBLIC LIBRARY

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Donations: What does the library accept?

The Marion & Ed Hughes Public Library 3. Local History Materials on Jefferson gratefully accepts donations of gently County and East Texas or West used items. Some materials may be Louisiana areas such as: placed into our collection to cover gaps * Maps in series or to replace our copies that * Family Histories have been worn or damaged to the * Church Histories point where they can’t be enjoyed * Local Histories properly any longer. Other materials 4. Local High School Annuals, City may be placed in the Friends of the Li- Directories for Beaumont and Port brary book sale. Do you want to know Arthur, etc. what we need and what we don’t If you do decide to donate items to the need? Here are some helpful hints for library and would like a receipt for tax you to use before you box up your do- What we DON’T NEED: purposes, count the number of books nations to bring in: and other items you are donating be- 1. Materials that have a musty, smoke, fore hand. We will be happy to help fill

or mildew odor or in really poor out the paperwork. We will give you What we NEED: condition. If the pages are yel- signed, dated receipts for the number of lowed, water damaged, the bind- 1. Hardcover and/or paperback items but we cannot assess the value of ings broken, or the covers are miss- books, and magazines if they are in the items you are donating. ing, then these items can’t be used. good condition such as: We thank you in advance for any items * Recent Bestsellers 2. Reader’s Digest Condensed books that you feel like donating to help the * Books or magazines pub- 3. Dated information such as: library. lished in * Travel guides older than five the last five years years * CLEAN copies of “classic” * Textbooks older than three years titles * Encyclopedia sets older than five * Large Print Books years 2. Audiovisual Materials such as: * Old professional magazines such * DVDs and/or Blu as nursing or medical journals Ray movies * Old news magazines such as * Books on CD Time or Newsweek * Video Game Discs If in DOUBT, please ask us! Please check to make sure that all discs are included before you donate any of these items.