The Delaware Gazette

Susan J. Voelker

Susan J. Voelker, 85, of Spring­field, Ore., and for­merly of Delaware and Plain City, passed away peace­fully Sun­day morn­ing (Feb. 26, 2012) at her residence.

The library is the place for pupils

With the hol­i­days now pleas­ant mem­o­ries, many folks have returned to their reg­u­lar school sched­ules. The Delaware County Dis­trict Library offers a wide menu of sup­port for stu­dents of all kinds — tra­di­tional, non­tra­di­tional — and ages — chil­dren, teens and adults.

Top stories of 2011, No. 10: Library opens in Orange Township

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The Delaware County Dis­trict Library opened its fourth branch this year. The $8.5-million, 33,000-square-foot Orange Branch Library at 7171 Good­ing Blvd. in Delaware was made pos­si­ble through voter sup­port of a 2009 levy.

Library possesses several types of eReaders

If you’re con­fused about which eReader device to buy for your­self or for a gift, don’t despair — the Delaware County Dis­trict Library is here to help. We have pur­chased two or three of sev­eral dif­fer­ent types of eRead­ers, such as the Nook, Nook Reader, Kin­dle, Kin­dle Fire and even iPads in their lat­est ver­sions, to demon­strate them and to allow you to have a hands-on expe­ri­ence with sev­eral devices, all in one place. Unlike retail stores, the library staff won’t encour­age you to buy one type of eReader over another; our only goal is to make sure you have all the infor­ma­tion you need to buy the one that best suits your needs.

‘Reading Your Credit Report’ at the library

Keep­ing track of your per­sonal finan­cial his­tory is becom­ing more and more com­pli­cated these days, as credit card com­pa­nies change their rules, new reg­u­la­tory laws are enacted, and our expo­sure to fraud and iden­tity theft increases. The libraries in Delaware County want to help you under­stand your credit report with a pro­gram enti­tled, “Credit Reports: Read­ing Your Credit Report” offered at two loca­tions in the next few days.

eBooks available for download at the library

Recently, a patron of the Delaware County Dis­trict Library shared a won­der­ful story that deserves to be share with all of you. A very lovely woman dropped by my office to thank me for hav­ing eBooks avail­able at the library because she enjoyed down­load­ing them to read on her Nook at no cost. The addi­tion of eBooks to the library’s col­lec­tion has pro­vided patrons with yet another for­mat to access their favorite author or book. Any­one with a Delaware County Library card can down­load eBooks to their eReader (except for Kin­dles, at least for the time being), iPad, iPhone, or com­puter by click­ing on “EBooks” on our website.

Hold it: The library’s got you covered

Some­times when you look for a book, DVD or other item at the Delaware County Dis­trict Library, you may find that the title is already checked out to another library cus­tomer. While we dili­gently try to sat­isfy the demand for spe­cific titles by pur­chas­ing mul­ti­ple copies, the library’s bud­get (and shelves!) sim­ply will not accom­mo­date buy­ing enough copies of best­selling books or block­buster movies for every cus­tomer who would like to check it out. I hope, though, that you are famil­iar with the much-used “hold” or “reserve” ser­vice at the Delaware County Dis­trict Library.

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