The Delaware Gazette

Serving the innate urge for intellectual content

As part of my job as direc­tor, I spend a great deal of time read­ing pro­fes­sional lit­er­a­ture, keep­ing up with library trends, con­cerns and news. I recently ran across an arti­cle that I found to be par­tic­u­larly appro­pri­ate, in light of the many changes occur­ring in pub­lic libraries. The author is a library direc­tor in Cal­i­for­nia, a woman who “tells it like it is” and often cuts right to the heart of the matter.

Piecing together the library’s display of quilts

The quilts are back! The won­der­fully tal­ented mem­bers of the Delaware Piece­mak­ers Quilt Guild have once again gra­ciously lent their quilts to the Delaware County Dis­trict Library for a month-long dis­play at the Delaware Main Library, 84 E. Win­ter St., to cel­e­brate Nation Quilt Month. The quilts, draped artis­ti­cally from the rail­ing on the mez­za­nine enhance the Library with color, cre­ativ­ity and warmth.

Trash or treasure? Find out at the library

Do you have a fam­ily heir­loom, a curi­ous knick­knack or an objet d’art hang­ing around your house and you’ve always won­dered if it is worth any­thing? Here’s your chance to find out, and to help out the Delaware County Dis­trict Library’s Friends of the Library (FOL) at the same time.

Librarians can assist you around the clock

It’s 10:30 p.m. You’re writ­ing a report for work, and you real­ize that you need a crit­i­cal ques­tion answered. Even though you’ve searched the Inter­net, you still haven’t found what you need. And the Delaware County Dis­trict Library — with its knowl­edge­able and search-savvy librar­i­ans — is closed for the evening. What do you do?

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.

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.

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.

Festive family fun at the library

Dur­ing the next few weeks with the hol­i­days and all that they entail crowd­ing in on us, the children’s staff at the Delaware County Dis­trict Library has put together a ter­rific line-up of pro­grams for kids and fam­i­lies, to pro­vide you with a bit of respite and your chil­dren a sat­is­fy­ing library expe­ri­ence. The library’s reg­u­lar story time sched­ule is sus­pended in the last two weeks of Decem­ber, but these pro­grams are a great alternative.

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