August this year finds us getting ready to start the school year, watching the Olympics, and hoping for cooler weather soon. The library has been busy this summer; we hope you had a chance to enjoy some of the many activities and programs. The Summer Reads finale on Thursday, July 25th saw quite a few unexpected visitors running around in the Youth Services room. If you missed the Land to Sea Exotic program with all of their cold-blooded friends, you missed a great experience. Below are some pictures of just a few of the exotics (with our patrons and staff) they brought to educate and entertain both young and old.
The Youth Services room has another new face that we hope is more permanent: our new Youth Services manager, Zoie Hornish. If you haven’t met her yet, please drop by and welcome her to the Decatur Public Library. While she is learning the policies and procedures for her new role, Youth Services programming will pause. She will start back with Story Time on Tuesday, August 20th and Book Babies on Wednesday, August 21st.
If you are taking part in the
Adult Reading Challenge, the August task is based on the Olympics. I heard
every last one of you roll your eyes and immediately say, “I’m not doing this task!”. Before you make that decision, please finish reading this post. The decade of the 1920s saw three
different Olympic Games. The 1920 Olympic games, held in Antwerp, Belgium, were the VII Olympic Games . From January 25th through February 5th,
1924 , Chamonix, France hosted the
first ever Winter Olympic games. That same year in July, Paris, France, hosted the VIII Summer Olympics. In February 1928, St. Moritz, Switzerland was home to the
II Winter Olympics, while later that year, Amsterdam,
Netherlands hosted the IX Summer Olympics. For the ARC task, you must read
a book set in one of the places the Olympics was hosted during the 1920s. The
setting of the book must be the same city and country. The book does not have to mention sports
or athletes, but you get “extra points” if it does.
Happy Reading!
