Explore the library at this fun, family-friendly community event. Activities and events include live music, a magician, prizes and more! Return your overdue library materials at the event and your overdue fines will be waived. Win a Kindle Fire, a Kindle Fire HD, or a Nintendo 3DS. Sponsored by the Friends of the Library. Call the library at 330-343-6123.
Wednesday, January 21 at 6:00 PM
Dover High School Auditorium
Tune in as TV legend Big Chuck Schodowski tells funny and surprising stories from a lifetime in television. Since 1960, Chuck has been on and behind the camera as well as the director’s chair. He collaborated with Ernie Anderson on the groundbreaking Ghoulardi show and continued to host a late-night show across four decades. He also wrote and directed two thousand hilarious sketches. Revisit favorite characters and hear Chuck’s entertaining, behind-the-scenes stories. A book signing will follow the program. Call 330-343-6123 to register.
For the first time in thirty years, DPL staff member Mary Prysi will not be kicking off the new year in the library. Mary has decided to retire from the library to spend more time with her family. Mary started out in the Children’s Room many moons ago and worked in nearly every department of the library over the years. For the last five years Mary was the Technology Manager in our Tech Room. Like any other business, things in the library change over time. Our collection is digitized and automated now. We do lots and lots of programming and eBooks have changed how we do business. What hasn’t changed, however, is our commitment to kindness. Some call it “customer service” or “user experience.” At DPL, we call it being kind and Mary Prysi was the kindest of them all. Thank you for all you have done at the library and please know how much we will miss you!
May the road rise up to meet you.
May the wind always be at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face,
and rains fall soft upon your fields.
And until we meet again,
May God hold you in the palm of His hand.
-Jim Gill, Director
My Cargo – Items ready to travel back to their Home Libraries for the Holidays
I want to share a great service that the Dover Public Library has to offer. If you wish to check out some something that we do not have in our collection, we CAN get it for you. It’s called an Inter – Library Loan or ILL. You just need to fill out a form, or we can do it for you. You need the author, title of the item you are requesting, your name, phone number, and library card number. We then take the paper and place the order or the HOLD from a library consortium of about two hundred different libraries from all over Ohio. Once the library gets the item, we call you. You can request DVD’s, too. You can keep a DVD for a week, a book for three weeks. There is a 50 cent a day fine and no renewals as we need to get the item back to its home in a timely manner.
You can use our website to request items, too. If you look at the menu bar at the top of our website, you can see the ADULTS menu. Hover your mouse over ADULTS, and a drop-down box will appear. Look down to ORDER MATERIALS FROM OTHER LIBRARIES and click. This page has a little more info about ILLs and a form you can fill out. This form is used if you want to request something that we at the Dover library do not have. It is just like the form we all use inside the library to request an item. Once submitted, the form is sent automatically to me, Denise, at johnsode@doverlibrary.org.
We can also do an ILL for teachers, book clubs, and anyone who might need more that one copy of a book with the same title. Just let us know what you need and we’ll do everything we can to get it for you!
If you need anything, we here at the Dover Library are here to help.
Thanks for reading,
Denise
Adult Services
Me & an ILL Form
As 2015 dawns, the library challenges you to make a positive change in your life. One way is to join the library’s 100 Book Club. Make it your New Year’s resolution to read more in 2015. The goal is to read or listen to 100 books between January 1 and December 31. Here’s how it works:
o Membership is open to readers 6 and up.
o Members must read or listen to the title themselves.
o You can join at any time during the year, but only titles completed before December 31 will count.
o Each title can only be counted once per calendar year.
o Paperbacks, hardbacks, large print, graphic novels, eBooks, audiobooks, and eAudiobooks count. Magazines and comic books do not count, nor do picture books that are read by patrons over the age of 10.
o Participants who have read 100 books in the calendar year must submit their reading logs to the library for verification. Once verified, these patrons will become Club Members and receive a club t-shirt, a membership card, and an invitation to DPL’s Annual 100 Book Club recognition reception.
Stop by the library beginning December 31, 2014 to pick up your personal reading log. Take the pledge to join the coolest and most prestigious book club around!
Tis the season of Christmas songs, and if you are like me, one is always playing in the back of your mind. As we slip and slide our way through another holiday season, I would like to draw your attention to a certain tune that comes with a little local history. The composer: Benjamin Hanby. The place: New Paris, Ohio. In 1864, Hanby made a bold decision to leave the ministry and set out on a new career path: he wanted to make a living in the music industry. He worked for a Cincinnati music publisher and had started a singing school in New Paris that ministered to children. That winter, he brought his “singing church” to perform at a Christmas party for a group of poor children in Richmond, Indiana. This marks the first performance of the song he called “Santa Claus,” and it is said that they received wild cheers and applause. His brother Will (whose name is used in the song) even came from his home in Westerville to hear the live performance in Indiana. The next year Hanby published “Santa Claus” with Root and Cady in Chicago. He had achieved his goal, however briefly. Hanby died in Chicago in 1867; Root and Cady was lost to the Great Chicago Fire four years later. But Hanby’s song lives on today, and all kids know it as “Up on the Housetop.” This year, as you sing it with your loved ones, remember that the man who wrote the words and melody had the courage to follow his dream. I hope this inspires all of us to reach from small town Ohio to the stars, and in 2015 may we all find what makes us truly happy.
You can visit Westerville’s Hanby House where he lived from 1853-1858.
– Claire Kandle
Local History & Genealogy Librarian
As I write this on Thanksgiving Eve, I can’t help but ponder the blessings in my own life. My mother always said Thanksgiving was her favorite holiday because it is about being grateful for what we have: family, faith, friends, community. There is no gift-giving nor any retail bonanza; it is simply about breaking bread with family and being grateful. We have all noticed the Christmas displays at retail stores since before Halloween. It has always saddened me that such a humble and meaningful holiday such as Thanksgiving is lost year in and year out because of the spectacle of the modern Christmas. In protest, I challenge you to pause and to take stock of the blessings in your life. I mentioned family, faith, friends, and community but would like to add my library family–those men and women who I am blessed to work with nearly every day of the week. I am grateful to share their passion for the library and its meaning in the community. The library is not just a job but a passion for us. So when we say grace tomorrow at the supper table I will pray with a full and content heart to bless my library family in all that they do. I will thank God for blessing me with a group of complete strangers who over the last 5 years have become family.
-Jim Gill, Director