Alpine Public Library News

Marathon Public Library has received “We the Peolple Bookshelf” from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Library Association. The collection contains the following books:

Abigail Adams: Witness to a Revolution

Abraham Lincoln the Writer

Amistad

Breaking Through

Elijah of Buxton

Flowers for Algernon

Freedom Walkers

The Gettysburg Address

Give Me Liberty

Lincoln: A Photobiography

Lincoln’s Virtues: An Ethical Biography

Lyddie

Many Thousand Gone

Pink and Say

Saturnalia

That all People May Be One People

The Ugly Duckling

Four Books in Spanish:

Pink y Say

Lyddie

Senderos Fronterizos

Flores Para Algernon

We wish to thank Arlene Griffis for applying for the grant for us. This is the third year Marathon Public Library has received this book grant. We also have new books recently donated so please come by the library to check them out. We are a great little library with wonderful community support.

Carol Townsend
Branch Manager
Marathon Public Library

Workforce Solutions/Upper Rio Grande and the Alpine Public Library have teamed up to offer the community free basic computer classes starting April 14th at the library from 6-8PM. The course will meet three days a week (days to be determined at the first meeting) for two weeks. New classes will continue to be formed as need and funds permit.

Participants will learn an introduction to computers including parts of the computer, how to search the Internet and how to set up and use an email account. Classes will be instructed by Ninfa M. Rodriguez, Career Counselor at the Workforce Solutions/Upper Rio Grande who will be able to accommodate both English and Spanish speaking students.  Applications for the classes are available in Spanish or English and can be picked up at the Alpine Public Library or Workforce Solution Center in Ward Plaza office #4. Seating per class is limited to six participants on a first come first serve basis, to ensure that participants get plenty of one-on-one instruction.

For further information please contact Anitra Clausen,Director, or Valerie Richard , Circulation/Reference Manager, at the Alpine Public Library at 432-837-2621. You can also contact Ninfa M. Rodriguez from the Workforce Solutions/Upper Rio Grande at 432-837-9800 extension 2762.

Great Pictures from SLM classes at the Ft. Stockton Library. We all had a great time learning together/

Carol/MPL Branch Manager

Anitra Clausen and Carol Townsend attended Small Library Management class at the Ft.Stockton Public Library on April 7^th and 8^th, 2008. There were two graduates from the class, Carol Townsend, Marathon Public Library and Julie Layton, Dell City Library.       

  LIBRARIAN COMPLETES STATE TRAINING PROGRAM 

Carol Townsend, branch manager of the Marathon Public Library, has joined the ranks of some 450 librarians statewide who have graduated from the Small Library Management Training Program, administrated by the Texas State Library and Archives Commission. This two-and-a-half year commitment included the completion of five core courses covering topics Administration and Planning, Collection and Development, Reference Services and Technology. 

The small Library Management Training Program enhances the management skills of library staff members in smaller communities who have not had formal library school coursework. According to Dawn Vogler, library management consultant and coordinator of the program, the training sessions are intensive, stimulating, and exhaustive. “It’s quite an accomplishment to successfully complete the program,” she notes. “The participants leave the program with a greater confidence and with some very practical skills they can apply within their libraries right away.” 

Participants are encouraged to apply the theories and practices learned to their own unique situations, and to network with other librarians in their region. Carol Townsend’s active involvement in the State Library training program represents an substantial commitment of time, energy and personal expense. She received over 50 hours of continuing education credits for her participation.Marathon Public Library branch of Alpine Public Library

Carol Townsend/Branch Manager

Many of you have already discovered our newest additions to the Reference section. A few of our newest titles to browse are:

·        Texas State Directory 2008

·        Exploring Texas with Children

·        Guinness World Records 2008

·      2008 Peterson’s 4-Year and 2-Year Colleges as well as Peterson’s College Money Handbook

·        Occupational Outlook Handbook 2006-2007

·        Old Farmer’s and Texas’ Almanac 2008

·        Hiking in Big Bend National Park

·        More How Stuff Works

·        Gallaudet Dictionary of Sign Language

·        Roads of Texas

·        World Almanac for Kids 2008

 Came Lujan our 1st place winner in the Marathon Public Library “Spring Break Poster Constest.

Came won an art kit with posters of dinosaurs and markers. His poster says “Giddy up! Let’s go to the library!”

 Posters will be displayed around Marathon to view.

Everyone is a winner. 

1. Came Lujan
2. Courtney Stringer
3. Gage Ganter
4. Alexis Bowers
5. Elizabeth Hernandez
6. Jesse Lopez Jr.
7. Karl Stringer
8. Erica Kelly
9. Kallie Duncan
10. Britton Marin
11. Sarah Arenas
12. Bailey Marin
13. Colee Charlesworth
14. Mason Priest
15. Kenton Duncan
16. Rachel Kelly
17. Kyler Duncan

Other Posters: #1-#17

Thanks to Connie Springfield for being our judge this year and to all the children for their wonderful posters. All children will receive a “Certificate of Participation” for their posters. Please come by the Marathon Public Library to pick them up.

Carol

MPL

 Kick up your heels and design a poster for the “Spring Break Poster Contest” at the Marathon Public Library this week. Poster boards, crayons and colored pencils available at the library to use.

Marathon Public Library will be closed on Friday March 21, 2008 for Good Friday. We wish everyone a Happy Easter week-end. Open regular hours on Monday March 24, 2008, from 11am-5pm.

Marathon Public Library

106 N. 3rd Street East

Marathon, Texas 79842              432-386-4136

Attention all children ages 4 to 10 years old!  Join us on Saturday, April 12,  at 7:00pm for an evening of fun.  We will watch a puppet show, hear some stories, play a few games, take a quick trip to the Amazon Rainforest, and make a howler monkey craft project.  This program is free and will last about an hour.  Be sure to wear your pajamas!

The Alpine Public Library invites all teachers, scout leaders, home school groups, and church youth groups to participate in the spring program “Life in the Rain Forest.”  The program starts with a general orientation to the library, followed by an intriguing investigation of the flora and fauna of the rainforest biome. ” Life in the Rain Forest” is adapted for children in kindergarten through fourth grade and is meant to be a positive and wholesome experience.

This program is available March thorough May and may be scheduled Tuesday through Friday.  After school hours are available.  For more information or to make an appointment for your group, please call the Alpine Public Library at 837-2621, or e-mail Mary Beth Garrett at aplkids@sbcglobal.net.

Tocker Foundation Grant

The Marathon Public Library branch of Alpine’s Public Library received a grant from the Tocker Foundation so that Carol Townsend may attend the Texas Library Conference in Dallas. The Conference will be held April 14, 2008-April 19, 2008 at The Dallas Convention Center. The grant covers expense for TLA Conference Registration, Travel, Hotel, and meals.

Grant requirements include attending educational seminars and volunteer time to TLA. We thanks Arlene Griffis for the time she spent in preparing the grant application.

Carol Townsend

Branch Manager

Marathon Public Library,

Branch of Alpine Public Library