The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.  by  Mark Twain

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News From Your Library

Come see us on December 7th for the Christmas tree lighting ceremony. Like last year we will have activities inside the library for the kids and cookies and hot cocoa. Santa will be joining us again to take pictures with anyone who wishes to. He will be arriving at 6:15 PM. There will be a live band outside to get you into the holiday spirit. Overall it looks to be a ho-ho-whole lot of fun for everyone! We hope to see you there!

This month we have an exciting new development! We have got our new book drop ready for use. We will be phasing out our old book drop in the driveway and using our building book drop on the north side of the building near the awning. There are new rules that will be enforced by police under the awning. The inner lane will be drive through and drop off only. Anyone parked there will be ticketed and possibly towed. The outer lane is for library staff only. Please do not park your car under the awning and leave it, even during the threat of bad weather. We would hate to see anyone have to pay a ticket for illegal parking.
Inside our building, if you haven’t been in for a couple months, you will notice some changes there as well. The large print and young adult books have outgrown their little spaces on the back wall and needed more space to grow in the future. We have taken the large print books off of the back wall and pulled them down into the first four sections of the adult fiction book stacks. The adult fictions have been moved as a result and part of them have taken over the paperback and Kansas section wall. The Kansas section was moved over on the back wall next to the nonfiction books. The paperback books have been moved up to the front nook where our sale books use to be. We no longer keep any books to sell. The young adult books remain on the back wall where they have always been, they just have stretched out to where the large print use to be.

We have not only books and movies but we subscribe to 54 different magazines. Recently we have made some changes to our subscriptions. We still receive the popular; People, Entertainment Weekly, Simple & Delicious, Zoobooks, Highlights, Twist, Seventeen, Road & Track, Shape, and Redbook, to name a few. Our new editions to the collection includes Food Network, HGTV, Knit 1-2-3, Crochet 1-2-3, Craft 1-2-3, and Crochet World. We have traded Sports Illustrated for ESPN to try to get our readers back into the world of sports. Their checkout time is one week and renewals are welcomed.

December Events

4th – High School Night 7-9 PM
5th – Preschool Storytime 10:30 AM
7th – Annual Treelighting Ceremony 7 PM
11th – High School Night 7-9 PM
12th – Preschool Storytime 10:30 AM
18th – High School Night 7-9 PM
19th Puppet Ladies Present “Claude the Dog: A Christmas Story” 10:30 AM
24th – Closed for Christmas
25th – Closed for Christmas
26th – Closed for Christmas
31st – Closing at 5 PM for New Years Eve

New Books

These are just a few of our new titles. Come in and check out the rest.

Adult Fiction:

Winners by Danielle Steel
Guests on Earth by Lee Smith
Candlelight Christmas by Susan Wiggs

Young Adult:

Emerald Green by Kerstin Gier
Confessions the Private School Murders by James Patterson

Junior Fiction:

Donner Dinner Party by Nathan Hale
House of Hades by Rick Riordan
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Hard Luck by Jeff Kinney
Al Capone Does My Homework by Gennifer Choldenko

Children:

Mr. Wuffles by David Wiesner
Tea Party Rules by Ame Dyckman
A Pirate’s Night Before Christmas by Philip Yates

About Your Library

The Goddard Public Library has a collection of 24,561 materials. The rotating collection contains approximately 400 volumes. Also available are reference materials, periodicals, videos and audio books.

Magazines: The library maintains subscriptions to over 45 popular magazines.
Newspapers: The Wichita Eagle and the Times Sentinel are available.
Reference: Librarians are always on duty to assist with reference materials and to help locate the answers to your questions. Some encyclopedias may be checked out.

Kansas Collection: Books about the nature and people of Kansas, as well as books by Kansas authors are available. The reference materials include the Kansas Statutes Annotated.

Large Print Books: A growing selection of large print books is available.

Videos: Our video collection has DVD and VHS selections. The collection includes family and children's videos, as well as useful "how by to" videos.

Audio Books: Books on Tape and Audio CD include romance, comedy, and mystery. We have them in Adult and Juvenile levels.

Library Board

The Goddard Public Library Board meets on the second Monday of each month at 7p.m.