Byesville Rotary learns Guernsey Co. Library not just about books

Pictured: Joe Waske, Pres. Elect; Rick Goodwin, Dir. Guernsey County Library.

Reading for next week: none

Events:

• Tickets to the Cambridge Concert Association have been donated to the club. If you would like the tickets, sign up for a drawing by next week.
• Mark the date--December 12--we will be having a"Breakfast with Santa" fundraiser. Bob Long has talked with the Salvation Army office in Cleveland. They are donating 2 barrels, signs, and stands to us for collecting donations.

Meeting cancellation reminder: If the schools are cancelled, the Rotary meeting will be cancelled. If the schools are on a two hour delay, the Rotary meeting will be held as usual.

Rick Goodwin, Director of the Guernsey County Library introduced Byesville Rotary club members to the many services provided by the library. Currently the library has over 19,600 registered borrowers that take advantage of the services available.

The library loans out many different types of materials—books, videos, cd’s and cassettes, and art prints. Guernsey County Library is a member of a 73 Ohio library consortium. If the library does not have what you want, books and other materials can be requested from any of the other libraries in the consortium. In about 2-3 days, the requested materials will be waiting for you at the library. Last year Guernsey County lent about 80,000 books to other libraries and borrowed about 55,000 for Guernsey county users.

The Findley Room, located in the downtown building, houses a collection of local history and genealogy materials that include microfilm of local newspapers going back to the 1860’s, census, marriage, will and estate records, and county histories for most of Ohio’s 88 counties.

The Crossroads Branch offers a public meeting room free to non-profit organizations. In September, 2009, 38 groups used the meeting space. Crossroads also offers 30 computers linked to the internet which are available for public use. Downtown has 4 stations and the Byesville branch has 2.

For students and other library users who are looking for information or doing research, the library offers over 200 on-line, full-text databases. Many of these databases provide full-text magazine and journal articles. Registered library users can sign in to use most of the databases from their home computers.

Library staff also offers programs for kids ages 1 to 17. Library staff will go to schools and daycare centers to provide programs.

Even though library funding from the state is down $300,000 this year and some services have been reduced, registering for a library card is still a good deal. To find out more about library services call 432-7536 or log on to http://www.gcdpl.lib.oh.us/.

There are about 4 seats still available for the Red Eye Bus Tour to New York City, leaving Nov. 6; returning Nov. 8. Call Tanya Hitchens 581-2099 or jjhitchens@yahoo.com to reserve a seat. The club is planning Breakfast with Santa as a fundraiser for their Christmas food basket program. The breakfast will be held December 12.

The club’s next meeting will be 7:30 am, October 6, at the Stop Nine Senior Center at 60313 (GPS use 60299) Southgate Road, Byesville. Anyone interested in learning more about the Byesville Rotary can call Membership Chairs Marty Patchen, 740-685-3828, or Larry Miller, 740-439-2767.