MAGAZINE SUBSCRIPTION DRIVE IN FULL SWING

Earlier this summer, we alerted our wonderful patrons that due to budget cuts our magazine subscriptions were not being renewed. We asked your help and you have reponded well beyond our expectations. As of September 1, we have new subs for Consumer Reports, Consumer Reports On Health, Sports Illustrated for Kids, Discover for Kids, The Nation, ESPN and National Geographic, Atlantic Monthly and Sports Illustrated, among others. Other patrons are passing along current issues of their magazines once read. In this way, we have, with only slight delay, such magazines as Glamour, Harpers, Newsweek, Kiplingers and Bon Appetit to mention only a few.

Of course, there is always room for more magazine subs or pass-alongs for such titles as the New Yorker, Family Circle, Ebony, Rolling Stone or GQ, among others. One patron would love to read either the Sunday Washington Post or Weekend New York Times. Both are expensive but if a few patrons decided to pool their resources, we could offers these patrons a day or so at home alone with the paper, to be kept in the archives for months thereafter at the library. If that sounds inviting to anyone, please contact Jo Tavener at 412-731-2300 or at swissvalelibrary@gmail.com.

So,a bushful of thanks to our wonderful patrons! See you all at the Book & Bake Sale October 21-24. Pam and Donna's knitted wonders will also be on display! Look for a future blog for more details or come to the library! Volunteers welcome.

New Additions to Our Collection on Display

About 4 times a year, the Post Gazette provides the libraries of Allegheny County with review copies sent the Gazette on a regular basis. Last Friday we picked out 75 books from the latest selection. Our non- fiction pickings range from books on Art and Politics to Dog Whispering and Adolescent Boys, and onto a romp through the 1960s with Mad Men. One of my all-time favorites is Places for the Spirit, a book of traditional African American Gardens that testifies to the inventiveness, whimsy and imagination of folks with very few resources at their finger tips. We also have a host of new fiction by first time as well as renown authors. A few memoirs, action thrillers and historical writings – Gilded Youth: Three Lives in France’s Belle Epoque is my choice – complete the list. They are on display for the rest of September so come in and try on one for size!