Use the new ‘self check-out’ at the Delaware County District Library

You’ve been ask­ing for it, and it’s finally here. What is it? Self-check-out at the Delaware (Main) Library! We have recently installed a com­puter sta­tion on the cir­cu­la­tion desk so you can now check out books, DVDs, audio books and other library items on your own.

Of course, our friendly, knowl­edge­able and help­ful cir­cu­la­tion asso­ciates are still always avail­able to check out library mate­r­ial for you, because we know that many of you are hap­pier with human inter­ac­tion. By the same token, how­ever, we also real­ize that for oth­ers, quickly and effi­ciently check­ing out your own mate­r­ial is won­der­ful cus­tomer ser­vice, allow­ing you to avoid a line and save time.

The Orange Branch Library has offered self-check-out since it opened in May 2011, and library users have taken great advan­tage of this ser­vice. In keep­ing with our cam­paign promise to update tech­nol­ogy at all county library loca­tions, we are installing self-check-out com­put­ers at the other branches, too, with that option being suc­cess­fully launched this week at the Delaware.

Using the self-check-out machine is easy, and we have pro­vided instruc­tions to help you. Feel free to give it a try, and if you run into an unex­pected prob­lem, don’t hes­i­tate to ask a staff mem­ber to help you.

We know your time is valu­able, and by giv­ing you the option of self-check-out, we can help you zip through the check-out process, but if your day is some­what less jam-packed, please know that we really enjoy chat­ting with you, too. Isn’t it nice to have a choice?

Did any U.S. pres­i­dent serve two non-consecutive terms?

Stephen Grover Cleve­land (March 18, 1837 — June 24, 1908) was the 22nd and 24th Pres­i­dent of the United States. Cleve­land is the only pres­i­dent to serve two non-consecutive terms (1885–1889 and 1893–1897) and there­fore is the only indi­vid­ual to be counted twice in the num­ber­ing of the pres­i­dents. He was the win­ner of the pop­u­lar vote for pres­i­dent three times — in 1884, 1888, and 1892 — and was the only Demo­c­rat elected to the pres­i­dency in the era of Repub­li­can polit­i­cal dom­i­na­tion that lasted from 1861 to 1913. Cleve­land was also the only pres­i­dent to be mar­ried in a White House cer­e­mony. He was 49 when he mar­ried 21-year-old Frances Fol­som. The wed­ding was a sim­ple affair, attended by close friends, fam­ily, and cab­i­net mem­bers and their wives. The recep­tion fea­tured John Phillip Sousa lead­ing the Marine Band, a 20-pound salmon and a 25-pound wed­ding cake. Pres­i­den­tial Trivia pro­vided this answer.

Will eat­ing car­rots really improve your eyesight?

Accord­ing to the Mayo Clinic Fam­ily Health Book, car­rots are high in vit­a­min A, a nutri­ent essen­tial for good vision. Eat­ing car­rots will pro­vide you with the small amount of vit­a­min A needed for good vision, but vit­a­min A isn’t lim­ited to car­rots; it can also be found in milk, cheese, egg yolk and liver.

What is the Civil­ian Con­ser­va­tion Corps?

The Civil­ian Con­ser­va­tion Corps (CCC) was a pub­lic work relief pro­gram that oper­ated from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unem­ployed, unmar­ried men, ages 17–23. A part of the New Deal of Pres­i­dent Franklin D. Roo­sevelt, it pro­vided unskilled man­ual labor jobs related to the con­ser­va­tion and devel­op­ment of nat­ural resources in rural lands owned by fed­eral, state and local gov­ern­ments. Max­i­mum enroll­ment at any one time was 300,000; in nine years 2.5 mil­lion young men par­tic­i­pated in the CCC, which pro­vided them with shel­ter, cloth­ing, and food, together with a small wage of $30 a month ($25 of which had to be sent home to their fam­i­lies). Dur­ing the time of the CCC, vol­un­teers planted nearly 3 bil­lion trees to help refor­est Amer­ica, con­structed more than 800 parks nation­wide and upgraded most state parks, updated for­est fire fight­ing meth­ods, and built a net­work of ser­vice build­ings and pub­lic road­ways in remote areas. More infor­ma­tion is avail­able in World Book Encyclopedia.

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 us at 740–362-3861. You can also email your ques­tions by vis­it­ing the library’s web­site at delawarelibrary.org or directly to Mary Jane at mjsantos@delawarelibrary.org. No mat­ter how you con­tact us, we’re always glad you asked!

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