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The students of Head Start were here today to check out all the new books from the Libri Foundation Grant, BOOKS FOR CHILDREN.  They are now ready to be checked out so come in and take a look.

Library Receives 83 New Children’s Books from BOOKS FOR CHILDREN Libri Grant

Our letter started out – “The Libri Foundation is pleased to announce your library has been awarded a special non-matching BOOKS FOR CHILDREN grant for libraries thanks to a generous and anonymous donation.” (Usually we would have a $350.00 match)

Our library was able to select $1,050.00 worth of new, hardcover,(many award winning) children’s books from the Foundation’s booklist of over 600 books. On top of the books from the booklist we also received 20 math and science books for a total of 83 books. The math and science collection was donated by Bill Strawbridge and Meg Wallhagen and the Libri Foundation. The book “Women Astronomers: Reaching for the Stars” was donated by the author, Mabel Armstrong. These books are grouped young listeners; preschool to 2^nd grade, and intermediate readers; grades 3^rd to 6^th.

The Libri Foundation was established in 1989 in Eugene, Oregon for the purpose of giving quality books to small rural libraries across the United States. The rural town library should serve a population of under 10,000 (usually under 5,000). They must have an active children’s department, a limited operating budget, and not be close to a city with a population over 40,000.

We are just finishing up getting them into the computer and ready to check out. These books will be in a display for the next month or so and any of the books may be checked out.

Some of the new items that the library has just recieved.

Adult Fiction
Go Set a Watchman by Lee Harper
Perfect Touch by Elizabeth Lowell
Nemesis by Catherine Coulter
Badlands by C. J. Box
Melody Lingers On by Marry Higgins Clark
Wicked Charms by Janet Evanovich
Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler
Naked Greed by Stuart Woods
The Sixth Rider by Max McCoy
Sweet Annie by Cheryl St. John
Tiffany Girl by Deeanne Gist
Biscuit-Shooter by Clifton Adams
Desperate Measures by Sandra Orchard
The Marriage Season by Linda Lael Miller
The rescued by Marta Perry
The Rumor by Elin Hilderbrand
One Mile Under by Andrew Gross

Children’s
True Son by Lana Krumwiede
Bulldozer’s Big Day by Candace Fleming
Ask Me by Bernard Waber
Walls within walls by Sherry Maureen
Puzzling World of Winston Breen by Eric Berlin
Zane and the Hurricane by Rodman Philbrick
Stranded- the Complete Adventure by Jeff Probst

Audios
Cash Landing by James Grippando
The Rumor by Elin Hilderbrand
Truth or Die by James Patterson
The Hurricane Sisters by Dorothea Benton Frank
The Enemy Inside by Steve Martini

DVDs
Zero Dark Thirty
The Lord of the Rings – The Two Towers

The Superior Public Library, in partnership with the Nebraska Library Commission, offers NebraskAccess (online information databases) at nebraskaccess.nebraska.gov.   As of July 1^st, Nebraska residents will have access to 15 databases, including 13 new resources that have been added.

Community residents looking for free resources to help with family history,  small business,  medical conditions, get homework help, finding  a good book or movie, or any number of other topics will find dependable current information in NebraskAccess.

NebraskAccess provides Nebraska residents with free 24/7 access to  databases. . These resources are available to Nebraska residents at no cost. The Nebraska Library Commission purchases subscriptions for Nebraskans with funding from the State of Nebraska and the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services.

Residents can link to NebraskAccess resources from computers at home or at the Superior Public Library. It is also available at public K12 schools, colleges, or university libraries across Nebraska.  You can access  NebraskaAcess using a  password (get it from the library), or a Nebraska driver’s license, or state identification number.

NebraskAccess enables libraries all across Nebraska to offer these data resources to their patrons. If you need help with NebraskAccess you can ask a librarian for help.

Find NebraskAccess on the web at nebraskaccess.nebraska.gov or from the link on this website. To find NebraskAccess look under Local, NE, and Other Resources.

The Librarians have been ahead of Scruffy and Tater for the last 4 weeks, so we gave them one last chance to beat us.  One week, winner take all.  We  did not intend to lose and told them so. If they wanted to win they were going to have to read, and they did just that.  The last week ended up Scruffy and Tater had 6,643 minutes to the librarians 3,915 minutes.  The children read just over 547 hours in 5 weeks.

The group were putting together wallpaper quilts this week.  Each child in the 1st -6th grade started with a sheet that showed the pattern made up of  108 pieces.  They then picked out the colors they wanted and designed their blocks.  The finished ones are at the library for you to see.

3rd week

This is the 3rd week of reading and the Librarians are still ahead. Rover has read a total of  14,410 mins.  Scruffy read a total of  10,451 mins and Tater read a total of 7,980 mins.  We thought we might lose this week because a lot of extra minutes came in, but not enough.  Two more weeks to try and catch up.

This week the Librarians are still  in the lead. We can’t believe it.   Rover’s team (gray dog) have a total of 10,775 mins.  Second place is Scruffy’s team (yellow dog) with a total of 7, 316 mins., and running as hard as he can is  Tater’s team (white dog) with a total of 5,710 mins.  There are still  3 more weeks of reading.

The librarians are reading against the children.  This week the Librarians are in the lead.  Rover’s team (Gray dog) read 6,415 mins.  Second place is Scruffy’s team (yellow dog) with 3, 123 mins., and bringing up the rear is  Tater’s team (white dog) with 2, 727 mins.  A lot of the children haven’t turned in their reading records yet so race isn’t over yet.  4 more weeks of reading.

Check out the pictures of the children building their covered wagons. You can find more pictures in our picture gallery.