July Is The Beginning Of A New Fiscal Year

Yes, indeedy! We are beginning a new fiscal year! And I just had to roam around and ask everyone what they were doing.
Bookkeeping is in the throes of a monumental task. . .that of closing out the old year and opening the new year. Ann is moving paper files around to make room for the new files in the top drawer of her file cabinet, and she's creating new files in her computer also. Files, files, files! For 21 employees, that takes quite a bit of work, no matter what business you're in.
Keva has been placing the Veterans History Project records in the computer for posterity. These are public records and will include the name, branch of service, war or conflict served in, and a list of what's in each file for each veteran in the Project.
The Children's Library is covered with bugs. . .reading bugs, that is. You can view butterflies made of newspapers and wooden clothes pins; caterpillers of newspapers and pipe cleaners; plastic flies, grasshoppers, and praying mantis; large yellow paper moths hanging from the brown tree; big yellow and black-striped bees hanging from the ceiling; black butterflies with blue spots stuck to a post; and red and black lady bugs marching in a line across the blue wall. Of course, all of these bugs encourage the children to continue to read all summer!
Josh and Sheila said the Bookmobile will finish its Summer Reading Program on Thursday, July 17th. They had approximately 120 children in the program this year.
As for the Interlibrary Loans, Johnnie said we have been forwarding and loaning out more books this year than usual. She said there have been lots of books requested that are on the summer reading lists for students to read before they go back to school.
And there's some great behind-the-scene things going on in Genealogy. Irene said she is continually helping clans with their archival material and continues to bring more records out of storage, where they were put until the renovation was completed. That's a slow process! For Genealogy's new fiscal year, Irene will be ordering more books, as well as more newspapers from the surrounding counties.
One huge item for the library's new fiscal year is the placement of the new HVAC system that will be installed the first week of August. And it's during that time that the library will be closed for inventory. You'll need to put that on your calendar. . .Library Closed August 4 through 8 for Inventory. And our director, Melody, said the new T-1 line has been installed for our computers and we are not having as many problems as before. That means we now have two T-1
lines!
So, there you have it! July is the beginning of a new fiscal year for us and I do believe we've got some great things in the works for you. We'll keep telling you about them, right here on the Bookworm Blog.