Friends of the Jacksonville Public Library

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L E T T E R

LIBRARY NOW!

Volume 1
Number 12
November 2000

A Communications Tool for Members of Friends of the Jacksonville Public Library
at 502 South Jackson Street, Jacksonville, Texas 75766

FOREST TRAIL CONSORTIUM ASSISTS

BOOKS ON TAPE NOW ON CD

Library patrons who enjoy listening to books on cassettes may now wish to try the new option, books on compact disc. The first two samples available are two novels: Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea, read by Frank Muller, and Barbara Kingsolver's The Bean Trees, read by C. J. Critt.

The CDS are available on loan through the Northeast Texas Library System (NETLS). If the response to the CDS is positive, more will be ordered from NETLS.

A quote from novelist P.D. James in her memoirs, Time to Be in Earnest:

"[A] novel can't be just a raw slice of personal experience, however tragic or engulfing. Obviously we must use our own lives as material - what else do we have? - but a novelist must be able to stand aside from this experience, view it with detachment, however pain- ful, and fashion it into a satisfying shape.

It is this ability to detach oneself from experience and, at the same time, portray it with honesty and controlled emotion, that makes a novelist."

EXCELLENT DISPLAYS

Have you noticed that eye-catching displays that regularly appear in the east wall cabinets of the Library entrance hall? Or the brightly decorated wall on the west side of the entrance hall? Or the enticing children's area?

If you have noticed these well-done displays, next time you're in the Library, please express your thanks to creative children's librarian Jo Jones.

REMINDER

The Lunch 'N' Learn program on winterizing your garden will be held on Thursday, November 2, at noon.

SEPTEMBER STATISTICS Reported to the Board at its October 3, 2000, meeting

Adult nonfiction	1,414
Adult fiction	2,231
Total adult	3,645

Juvenile nonfiction	408
Juvenile fiction	1,156
Total juvenile	1,564

Books used in library	3,738

Total book circulation	8,947

Non-book circulation	2,726

Total circulation	11,673

Average daily circulation	467

Spanish books	21

Reference questions	1,442

Persons in the library	5,368

Computer Usage	321

Internet Use	1,690

Children's Internet Use	39

Along with libraries at Baptist Theolo- gical Seminary, Jacksonville College, and Lon Morris College, the Library is a member of the Forest Trail Library Consortium. Subject to the policies and procedures of the host library, you may use your Library card to check out materials from a consortium member. These include:

In Kilgore: Kilgore College, Kilgore High School, Kilgore Public

In Longview: LeTourneau University, Longview High School, Longview Public, Pine Tree High School, Trinity School of Texas

In Lufkin: Angelina College, Kurth Memorial

In Marshall: Marshall Public, Texas State Technical College, Wiley College

In Mineola: Mineola High School, Mineola Memorial

In Tyler: Texas College, Tyler Junior College, Tyler Public, University of Texas at Tyler

There are also consortium member libraries in Beaumont, Carthage, Van, and Winnsboro, to name a few. For a definition of the area the Consortium covers, see the Library's web site at http://www.jacksonvillelibrary.com/ftlc.htm.

A TOWN'S TREASURE:
ITS LIBRARY

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