Wednesday, July 23, 2008

This Is Our First Warning!

I think I said something about this earlier, but I really need to make this our first warning.
The Moultrie-Colquitt County Library, the Odom Genealogical Library, and the Doerun Municipal Library will be closed for inventory August 4 through August 8. The Moultrie libraries will reopen Saturday, August 9, at 8:30 a.m.
Now is the time for you to plan where you're going to go to open all your emails, play computer games, or join friends in chat rooms. You might have to see if your best buddy will let you use his computer. Maybe even grandma will let you use hers. But you'll have to use a computer other than one at the library.
Your checked out library books will not be due during Inventory Week. That includes videos, DVDs, and audio books.
You'll have to find another soft couch on which to read the daily newspaper or take a nap.
If you have a report or paper you're working on and need reference material, you can check with the college library for the information.
Also genealogists and family researchers will have to wait until the Odom Library reopens.
But don't think we will be closed and doing nothing. This is one of the busiest times for us who work at the library.
Lots will be going on, such as: looking for lost books, repairing torn pages and bindings, reading the shelves and putting books in order, checking serial numbers on equipment, cleaning carpets and floors, dusting, straightening...assessing the library's needs. Everyone wears their "house-cleaning" clothes and goes home tired and dirty. But we always know the inventory has been done well and is complete, at least for another year.
So, beware! The libraries will be closing for a full five days the first week of August. It's inventory time again.

1 comment:

Caterpillar said...

good thing school won't be in session yet. Maybe there are some "internet cafes" available. And as you say, maybe ABAC library will be open, VSU, Tifton, Adel. Make people appreciate you when you are open. Even if you do ask them not to talk loudly. Only library I know where that rule still applies, by the way.