There's just not enough time...

     As I walked through the library this morning, I noticed we have a lot more people here today than last Thursday (my last day to work last week). Boy!  They are checking out books like crazy!  And that's a good thing.
     I also noticed lots of mothers with their children walking down to the Children's Library.  That means they are signing up for the Summer Reading Program.  It seems I remember Miss Norma, our Children's Librarian, telling me that in the past she has had as many as 800 children signed up for a Summer Reading Program.  And today, when I talked to her, she said there are already about 20 children signed up...and it's one day before the official sign-up time! 
     We not only have programs for the little people, but for the pre-teens and teenagers.  But the one I'm the most excited about, of course, is the one for the adults.
     Called "Novel Destinations," the program will encourage adults to read books that take place in other countries.  For instance, a book I just started reading takes place in Asia.  It's about a man whose wife's final wish is that he take their ten-year-old daughter on a trip across Asia, through all the countries they had planned to visit to celebrate their 15th anniversary.  The trip goes through Japan, Nepal, Thailand, Hong Kong, and Egypt...an amazing trip that provides lessons for both the father and daughter as they celebrate what the wife and mother had meant to them.  Great read!
     Can you imagine all the books out there about other parts of the world?  You can learn not only about a specific country's landscape, but it's people and customs, their food and dress, their mode of transportation and their feelings about people of other countries.
     The Summer Reading Program opens doors for all of us to learn about the world around us.  It's time we all realized how much alike we are, whether we live in Australia or China or Iran or here in the United States of America.
     Bring your little ones to "One World, Many Stories."  Encourage your pre-teens and teens to check out "You Are Here."  And join us adults as we read our way through "Novel Destinations."
     For more information about the times and dates, call the library at 985-6540.  We're anxious to share our summer reading with you.  And believe me...there's just not enough time to read all the books I want to read!!  But I'm going to make a big start right now!