BENZONIA PUBLIC

LIBRARY

NEWS FROM THE

TOP OF THE HILL

VOLUME 10, ISSUE 2

Mar/Apr 2015

Library Hours &

Information:

Monday & Wednesday

10am-7pm

Tuesday, Thursday

& Friday

10am – 5pm

Saturday

10am – 3pm

231-882-4111

www.benzonialibrary.org

891 Michigan Ave.

PO Box 445

Benzonia, MI 49616

UPCOMING

ACTIVITIES

Mar. 7 LEGO Saturday

Mar. 16 Trustees Meeting

Mar. 16 Book Chat

Mar. 17 Friends Meeting

Mar. 21 Kid’s Fun Day Carnival

Apr. 13 Trustees Meeting

Apr. 18 LEGO Saturday

Apr. 20 Book Chat

Apr. 21 Friends Meeting

Apr. 22 Great Benzie Read

Story Time

Thursdays at 3 p.m.

NEW WEBSITE

www.benzonialibrary.org In anticipation of our lovely interior renovations,

our Website is also being revamped. We're going for

vintage charm with a fresh take on keeping you informed.

Check is often as we continue to add information.

We’d love to hear what you think.

Re-Opened and

Really Beautiful Our second phase of Library renovations, with the exception of a few finishing touches, is completed!! Benzonia Public Library has a new look, with new walls, some new custom wooden shelving, a new circulation desk, and an updated restroom, while maintaining the cozy look and historical roots of the library we all love. We are very pleased with the results and

hope you are as well!

It feels like it has been a LONG process, and we are appreciative of your cooperation in managing to do your Library business in the shortened hours at our temporary location. Interesting fact: In the month of January, even with the minimal hours that we were available to you, you checked out only 4 fewer books than this same month last year! We appreciate your loyalty and

your willingness to work within our schedule.

We (the Library Board and the public) also owe a huge “THANK YOU” to our staff, Director Amanda McLaren and assistant librarians Kathy Johnson, Michelle Leines, and Sandra Straubel. They did so much extra work, setting up the

temporary location and rearranging the space in the Library.

While the library has already returned to normal operating hours, we plan to have a Grand Re-opening in conjunction with

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Free Wi-Fi with 24/7

access from your device

or use our

computers

during open hours.

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Reading Time with the BCHS Student-Athletes

Carnival Games, Face Painting, Photo Booth

Plus another of our fun

Make & Take Craft Workshops

Prizes, snacks and crafts!

A day of fun and community that you do not want to miss!

In addition to all the fun at the kids’ day carnival, BCHS student-athletes will be

selling honey sticks and will continue to take book donations.

Sponsored By the Benzie Central High School Student-Athletes

Benzonia Public Library & Betsie Valley District Library

March is Reading Awareness Month!

Benzonia Public Library and Betsie Valley District Library have partnered with the Benzie Central

student-athletes to help put emphasis on the importance of reading. The BCHS student-athletes

will be spending the month of March rotating through all the elementary schools and reading

aloud to children. There will be book drops at every location and honey stick sales at the high

school to help add books to each of the school libraries. Additionally, all donated children’s and

young adult books, in good condition, dropped off at BPL and BVDL during the month of March

will be taken to the schools to be added to their collections.

We will celebrate National Reading Awareness Month with a kids’ day carnival! This will take place

Saturday, March 21st, 1-4pm, Upper Level of the Mills Community House.

(Home of Benzonia Public Library) During that event student-athletes will be

on hand to run fun “carnival games”, face painting, a photo booth and of

course some reading time. Prizes, snacks and crafts! A day of fun and

community that you do not want to miss!

In addition to all the fun at the kid’s day carnival, BCHS student-athletes will

be selling honey sticks and will continue to take book donations.

This is a student lead project, students wanting to help students. Let’s do all we can to show our support!!

Kids’ Fun Day Carnival

Saturday, March 21, 2015

1:00—4:00 p.m.

Mills Community House—Upper Level

Home of the Benzonia Public Library

891 Michigan Ave. (US-31), Benzonia

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Friends of Benzonia Public Library

Friends of Benzonia Public Library Board Members

Debra Taucher, President Kathy Johnson ,Secretary

Roger Dewey, Vice President Michelle Leines, Treasurer

Board meetings are held at 5:00 pm on the 3rd Tuesday each month at the Benzonia Public Library.

Upcoming meetings are: March 17, April 21, May 19, & June 16

Book Chat: Read a

Good Book Lately? Book Chat meets at the library the 3rd

Monday each month at 10 am.

Instead of everyone reading

the same book, we share

what we have been reading

and get inspired to read

new things.

All are welcome.

Friends memberships start as low as $5.00. Forms are available in the library and on the website at www.benzonialibrary.org

Friends’ membership dues, donations, and fundraising proceeds

help support Library in a variety of ways.

Would You Like To Be Our Friend?

our 90th birthday celebration. We haven’t set the date yet, but we hope to see you there! Improvements were made so that you can be proud of and comfortable in your community

library.

Next year, we hope to complete library renovations with an updating of the Children’s room as well as improvements to the staff room, to make

it more efficient.

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Re-Opened and Really Beautiful

Spring Cleaning???

Donations of gently used books, DVDs & jigsaw

puzzles (in excellent condition) would be greatly

appreciated. Items will be sold at our book &

puzzle sales, although DVDs may be added to our

collection Donations can be dropped off at the

Benzonia Public Library during normal business

hours.

If you would like a tax donation receipt, please re-

quest one at the time of the donation. Donations

are tax deductable to the extent allowed by the

law.

Used Book Sale will be July 10 & 11, 2015

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YOUTH SERVICES

What’s New for You JUVENILE

Fish In A Tree Lynda Mullaly Hunt

Absolutely Truly Heather Volel Frederick

True Meaning of Smekday Adam Rex

Map to Everywhere Carrie Ryan

Percy Jackson’s Greek Gods Rick Riordan

Greenglass House Kate Milford

The Menagerie Tui Sutherland

House of Robots James Patterson

Spectacular Nail Art: 35 Gorgeous Designs Levey

Aliens & UFO’s Lori Hile

EARLY READER

Lego Movie: Awesome Adventures Helen Murray

Curious George Builds an Igloo H.A. Rey

Lego Mixels: Meet the Mixels Shari Last

A Tale of Two Sisters: Frozen Disney

Green Team TMNT Christy Webster

PICTURE BOOKS

Blown Away Rob Bidduloph

Kid Sheriff and the Terrible Toads Bob Shea

Please, Mr. Panda Steve Antony

Waiting Is Not Easy Mo Willems

Where bear Sophy Henn

The Magical Snow Garden Tracey Corderoy

Little Elliot Big City Mike Curato

Flashlight Lizi Boyd

Snowmen at Night Caralyn Buehner

Rapunzel Sarah Gibb

Maple & Willow Together Lori Nichols

Have you Seen my Dragon Steve Light

Look and Find Star Wars

Look and Find Disney Frozen

DVD

My neighbor Totoro

Ponyo

The Wind Rises

Kiki's Delivery Service

Guardians of the Galaxy

Planning has started for a fun and creative

2015 Summer Reading Program

“Every Hero Has a Story”

Watch for information in our next newsletter

or visit our website at

www.benzonialibrary.org

Story Time

Thursdays

at

3:00 p.m.

Stop in for an informal, Pre-school

story time circle with Miss Amanda!

A time to socialize, make new friends,

and hear great stories.

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YOUNG ADULT: I Was Here Gayle Forman Anatomy of a Misfit Andrea Portes All the Bright Places Jennifer Niven DUFF Kody Keplinger Black Ice Becca Fitzpatrick Love Letters To The Dead Ava Dellaira The Infinite Sea Rick Yancey 100 Sideways Miles Andrew Smith

FICTION: Toured to Death Hy Conrad Hush Hush Laura Lippman The Alphabet House Jussi Alder-Olsen A Touch of Stardust Kate Alcott Shame and the Captives Thomas Keneally The Rebellion of Miss Lucy Ann Lobdell William Klaber The Half Brother Holly LeCraw Prodigal Son Danielle Steel Mightier Than The Sword Jeffrey Archer Twelve Days Alex Berenson A Spool of Blue Thread Anne Tyler Crazy Love You Lisa Unger The Marriage Game Alison Weir The Swimmer Joakim Zander The Litter of the Law Rita Mae Brown After the War is Over Jennifer Robson Nightingale Krisin Hannah This is Where I Leave You Jonathan Trooper Geared For The Grave Duffy Brown First Frost Sarah Allen Cane & Abe James Grippando The Big Seven Jim Harrison The Same Sky Amanda Eyre Ward We Are Pirates Daniel Handler Private Vegas James Patterson The Carrier Sophie Hannah Girl On The Train Paula Hawkins Cold Cold Heart Tami Hoag Saint Odd Dean Koontz Ice Queen Nele Neuhaus West of Sunset Stewart O’Nan White Plague James Abel Empty Throne Bernard Cornwell

Pleasure & A Calling Phil Hogan Rosie Effect Graeme Simpson A Fine Summer’s Day Charles Todd Insatiable Appetites Stuart Woods NON-FICTION: Genealogy Offline Claudia Breland Genetic Genealogy Emily Aulicino Searching For Your Ancestors In Historic

Newspapers Claudia Breland Leaving Before The Rain Comes Alexandra

Fuller Man Who Couldn’t Stop: OCD David Adam Gluten Free Revolution Jax Peters Lowell LARGE PRINT:

Bad Little Falls Paul Doiron Massacre Pond Paul Doiron Out of Warranty Haywood Smith What She Left Behind Ellen Marie Wiseman Let Sleeping Dogs Lie Rita Mae Brown Haunted Randy Wayne White A map of Betrayal Ha Jin The Betrayed Heather Graham AUDIO Hope To Die (Alex Cross #22) James Patterson Orphan Train Christine Baker Kline Food: A Love Story Jim Gaffigan

The Job Janet Evanovich Let Me Be Frank With You Richard Ford Small Victories Ann Lamont DVD The Giver If I Stay Gone Girl The Maze Runner DVD SERIES Bletchley Circle, Cracking A Killer’s Code Bletchley Circle, Season 2 Game of Thrones, Season 3 Newsroom, Seasons 1 & 2

Adult & Young Adult

What’s New For You!

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BENZONIA PUBLIC LIBRARY 891 Michigan Ave (US-31), P.O. Box 445,

Benzonia, MI 49616

www.benzonialibrary.org

231-882-4111

Roxane Miner, President Paula Lake, Vice President

Helen Dewey, Treasurer

Paul Sadows, Secretary Mary Peters, Trustee

Shaun Johnson, Trustee

Board of Trustees

I first met the Benzonia library a long time ago. My parents, Edward and

Mary Jo Johnson, bought our house—the Carrier House—that sits on the

top of East Hill in Benzonia in 1959. I passed the library twice a day while I

went to Crystal Lake Elementary, and I would often stop.

Mrs. Wheeler was the first librarian I met at the library. She was stern and

quiet with silver hair and she smelled of lilacs. She loved reading, she loved

books and she loved the library! She introduced me to The Box Car

Children and I fell in love with reading. As Dr. Seuss would say: Oh the

places you go when the first page you read—well, he didn’t quite put it that way, but I’m sure that is

what he meant.

Mrs. Sleeper was from New England. She had a cool accent. She was the minister’s wife and was one of

my favorite librarians. She introduced me to Tom Swift, and I was hooked on science fiction—it is still

my favorite genre.

My mother was the librarian for many years; I still smell her coffee and hear Interlochen on the radio

when I enter the library. Her name is on a plaque next to the grandfather clock…along with Mrs.

Wheeler and Mrs. Sleeper and the other librarians who have breathed the breath of life into the library

over its ninety-year history.

She is part of a very special group: a group that shaped the thoughts and beliefs of children and adults

for generations. I ran for the Benzonia Library Board because I wanted to acknowledge and support this

very special group and this very special library.

I left Benzie County for a while, as most are wont to do. When I came back I followed in my father’s

footsteps and taught English at Benzie Central Middle School for 20 years. I developed a close working

relationship with the library, and for many years students in my classroom were able to check out books

from the Benzonia library through an inter-library loan system which I set up with a past librarian and

am restarting with the current librarian.

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The library is getting a make over. But fresh paint and new carpet will never replace childhood memories.

I look forward to working on the library board as we attempt to

create a new generation of memories.