Tax time means a trip to the library

It’s that time of year again, and dozens of you have already vis­ited the Delaware County Dis­trict Library seek­ing out tax forms. We have put tables for pre-printed fed­eral, state and local tax forms in the vestibules at all loca­tions for your con­ve­nience, but if you don’t find the form you’re look­ing for, you can always use the library’s Inter­net com­put­ers to search the IRS and Ohio Depart­ment of Tax­a­tion web­sites to print the form you need.

This year, the state has sep­a­rated the form from the instruc­tion book­let. In past years, the forms were sta­pled into the book­let; how­ever, this year’s forms are not included in the book­let. Addi­tion­ally, the Ohio four-page tax report­ing form is printed on two sep­a­rate sheets. The first sheet con­tains pages one and two of the form and pages three and four are printed on a dif­fer­ent sheet. Please make sure that you pick up the instruc­tion book­let and BOTH pages for the Ohio forms.

We have a lim­ited num­ber of local forms, includ­ing those from the city of Delaware and Buck­eye Val­ley school dis­trict, but, again, they are avail­able on web­sites for you to print.

As a gen­tle reminder, one that I repeat each year, although our librar­i­ans are smart, skilled and incred­i­bly adept at find­ing infor­ma­tion, they are NOT tax spe­cial­ists. They will do their darnedest to help you find the form you need, but they can­not help you deter­mine which form you need. We rec­om­mend that you con­sult a tax pre­parer or an accoun­tant for tax advice.

While you’re in the library pick­ing up tax forms, look for these books on the New Book Shelves dur­ing the month of February.

• All Busi­ness Is Local: Why Place Mat­ters More Than Ever in a Global, Vir­tual World by John Quelch. Two mar­ket­ing experts com­bine data and anec­dotes to describe why phys­i­cal place is still impor­tant in the vir­tual and global mar­ket­place and explain how to lever­age neigh­bor­hood loca­tions to influ­ence cus­tomers and increase sales.
• An Amish Fam­ily Reunion by Mary Ellis. When Eli Riehl’s father has a heart attack, Eli gives up his plan of writ­ing a children’s book, to be illus­trated by Phoebe Miller, but although he is will­ing to aban­don his dream of becom­ing an author, he will not give Phoebe up.
• Cin­na­mon Roll Mur­der by Joanne Fluke. When the key­board player for the Cin­na­mon Roll Six jazz band is mur­dered after a tour bus acci­dent on the way to Lake Eden, Minn., Han­nah Swensen, after dig­ging up sev­eral local sus­pects, dis­cov­ers that there is noth­ing sweeter than catch­ing a killer.
• If Walls Could Talk: An Inti­mate His­tory of the Home by Lucy Worlsey. An archi­tec­tural and cul­tural his­tory of home life in Eng­land cov­ers a wide range of top­ics from cook­ing and oral hygiene to sex and mar­riage, describ­ing such sub­jects as why medieval peo­ple slept sit­ting up and why peo­ple feared fruit for centuries.
• The Lord of Illu­sion by Kathryne Kennedy. Rebel Drys­tan Hawkes dreams of free­ing Eng­land and dis­cov­ers the key to open­ing the door to Elfhame lies with Camille, a young slave woman, so Drys­tan sets off to res­cue her and find the key that will send the dreaded elf lords away forever.
• Secrets of the Lost Sum­mer by Carla Neg­gers. While restor­ing a small his­toric home in the wilder­ness of the Swift River Val­ley, Olivia Frost joins her neigh­bor, Dylan McCaf­frey, on a generations-old trea­sure hunt that reveals a mys­tery wrapped in a love story.
• Space Chron­i­cles: Fac­ing the Ulti­mate Fron­tier by Neil Degrasse Tyson. The astro­physi­cist direc­tor of the Hay­den Plan­e­tar­ium in New York dis­cusses the future of space travel and the impor­tance of its explo­ration for the United States’ econ­omy, secu­rity and morale.
• Sun­days Will Never Be the Same: Rac­ing, Tragedy, and Redemp­tion — My Life in America’s Fastest Sport by Dar­rell Wal­trip. The cham­pion NASCAR racer and brother of Michael Wal­trip recounts the fate­ful 2001 Day­tona 500 race dur­ing which Dale Earn­hardt, Sr., lost his life, describ­ing the author’s wit­ness of events from the announcer’s booth, the expec­ta­tions that shaped the day and the final lap dynam­ics that led to the tragedy.
• Tea Party Patri­ots: The Sec­ond Amer­i­can Rev­o­lu­tion by Mark Meck­ler. The co-founders of the Tea Party Patri­ots, Inc. trace the polit­i­cal movement’s story since its cre­ation in 2009 while out­lin­ing its com­mit­ment to spe­cific agen­das and rec­om­men­da­tions for restor­ing Amer­ica to a posi­tion of global superiority.
• The Wolf Gift by Anne Rice. A young reporter on assign­ment is attacked and bit­ten by an unknown beast in rural North­ern Cal­i­for­nia and begins a ter­ri­fy­ing but seduc­tive trans­for­ma­tion into a being with a dual nature, both man and wolf.
• Yours, Mine, and Ours by Mary­Jan­ice David­son. A lat­est entry in the tril­ogy that includes Me, Myself, and Why? finds FBI agent Cadence con­sid­er­ing a deeper rela­tion­ship with Patrick dur­ing the hol­i­day sea­son before meet­ing a hand­some doc­tor, clash­ing with a tal­ented rival and inves­ti­gat­ing the work of an enig­matic ser­ial killer.

If you have a ques­tion that you would like to see answered in this col­umn, mail it to Mary Jane San­tos, Delaware County Dis­trict Library, 84 E. Win­ter St., Delaware, OH 43015, or call 740–362-3861. You can also email your ques­tions directly to Mary Jane at mjsantos@delawarelibrary.org. No mat­ter how you con­tact us, we’re always glad you asked!

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