Come and celebrate National Library Week with Meinders Community Library! April 8 – 14, 2012 is National Library Week and we have some special things planned for our wonderful patrons.
Free Stuff! We have zipper pulls/backpack decorations for the kids this week. Dog tag shapes say “Read, Return, Repeat” in a bright green with a clever design. We’ve got 100 of them and when supplies run out, unfortunately they’ll be gone, so come early in the week if you’d like one! Of course, you can come more than once in the week, too.
Coloring Sheets: We will have special coloring sheets available to celebrate libraries – come and color one to hang up in the library!
Balloons: You can’t go wrong with helium balloons! At the beginning of the week, we’ll be using these as decorations, but any that are still inflated on Saturday the 14th will get to go home with anyone who would like one!
Drawings! We have a special grand prize of a blanket, embroidered with “Snuggle up With a Good Book” that would be great as a car blanket. Stop in throughout the week and register to win! Each time you stop in the library, you can put your name in the drawing! (Only adults are eligible to win) In addition to the car blanket, we will have other prizes, including chocolate and coffee mugs!
Stop in an help us celebrate the library!
PAFL Update: Pipestone Area Friends of the Library is looking for members – anyone who is a friend to Meinders Library is welcome to join! The Friends group works hard to promote the library, raise money for projects, and organize their yearly book sale, in addition to the HUGE amount of support they provide throughout the year. Call for the date of their next meeting.
If you have questions or have a book you’d like to reserve or renew, please don’t hesitate to give us a call at (507) 825-6714. The hours for Meinders Library are Monday through Thursday from 10 AM – 8 PM, and Friday and Saturday from 10 AM – 5 PM. Meinders Community Library is located at 1401 7th Street SW, on the south side of the high school.
Thursday, March 29, 2012
Friday, March 9, 2012
Using the Catalogue at Home
Pipestone County Star 03-15-12
Hello, all you marvelous library users! So this past week or so has been a little rough and we thank you for your patience with us as we learn a brand-new system for checking out books. March 5th, we switched from using a program called Sirsi Dynix to using an open-source software called KOHA. Although the system is much easier and more user-friendly than our last software, there have been hiccups and there is always a learning curve as we get used to new ways to do things.
There are some really great features for this new software for those of you who use the library catalogue at home, either to place holds or to look up books. The website has remained the same, but you have probably noticed that it looks quite a bit different on the home screen. One small thing we’ve noticed – if you go to the site and are given a “404 Error,” simply go to the top right hand corner of the screen and click to login to your account – then everything will go smoothly from there.
The biggest change and one that is absolutely great, is the addition of the Cart and Lists. I’ll start with the cart. It functions a lot like internet sites where you can make purchases. You can choose all sorts of books while you search the catalogue and place them into your cart, which will save them for you. You can search various subjects and titles and not lose the books you’ve already looked at, as long as you place them in the cart. This allows for you to choose how many holds you’d like to place at once and if you want to save any of them for later.
That brings me to lists. You will have an option in your cart of placing a hold or adding an item to a list. If you add to a list, the system will save that book for you until you delete it and you can place a hold on it in the future if you would like to. This is a GREAT place to keep track of books you WANT to read, but don’t have time to right now. The list will save it. The cart will NOT. If you leave anything in your cart when you log out, it will not be there when you log back in.
There is also a way that we can leave you messages. Say you leave your wallet in the library and we find it before you realize it’s missing. We could leave a note for you so the next time you log into your account, it will tell you that we have your wallet. You can’t send messages back to us, but you can give us a call or email us in response.
There are other features that will make your on-line experience more friendly. I encourage you to fiddle around with the website and press buttons, see where it takes you. There’s no better way to learn than doing it yourself.
If you are interested in getting started with the website and have never done it before, or need a little help, come in and see us! We would be more than happy to help you get started.
Enjoy the new system! And please don’t hesitate to call if you have questions – we’d be glad to help! Your questions help us learn faster.
Hello, all you marvelous library users! So this past week or so has been a little rough and we thank you for your patience with us as we learn a brand-new system for checking out books. March 5th, we switched from using a program called Sirsi Dynix to using an open-source software called KOHA. Although the system is much easier and more user-friendly than our last software, there have been hiccups and there is always a learning curve as we get used to new ways to do things.
There are some really great features for this new software for those of you who use the library catalogue at home, either to place holds or to look up books. The website has remained the same, but you have probably noticed that it looks quite a bit different on the home screen. One small thing we’ve noticed – if you go to the site and are given a “404 Error,” simply go to the top right hand corner of the screen and click to login to your account – then everything will go smoothly from there.
The biggest change and one that is absolutely great, is the addition of the Cart and Lists. I’ll start with the cart. It functions a lot like internet sites where you can make purchases. You can choose all sorts of books while you search the catalogue and place them into your cart, which will save them for you. You can search various subjects and titles and not lose the books you’ve already looked at, as long as you place them in the cart. This allows for you to choose how many holds you’d like to place at once and if you want to save any of them for later.
That brings me to lists. You will have an option in your cart of placing a hold or adding an item to a list. If you add to a list, the system will save that book for you until you delete it and you can place a hold on it in the future if you would like to. This is a GREAT place to keep track of books you WANT to read, but don’t have time to right now. The list will save it. The cart will NOT. If you leave anything in your cart when you log out, it will not be there when you log back in.
There is also a way that we can leave you messages. Say you leave your wallet in the library and we find it before you realize it’s missing. We could leave a note for you so the next time you log into your account, it will tell you that we have your wallet. You can’t send messages back to us, but you can give us a call or email us in response.
There are other features that will make your on-line experience more friendly. I encourage you to fiddle around with the website and press buttons, see where it takes you. There’s no better way to learn than doing it yourself.
If you are interested in getting started with the website and have never done it before, or need a little help, come in and see us! We would be more than happy to help you get started.
Enjoy the new system! And please don’t hesitate to call if you have questions – we’d be glad to help! Your questions help us learn faster.
SMSU Planetarium
If you missed our Saturday Night with the Stars, you still have a chance to see some heavenly bodies! (Come on, that was funny, you laughed).
Saturday, March 24th, Meinders Community Library is hosting a trip to Marshall to visit the SMSU Planetarium, greenhouses, and science museum.
We will be loading cars at 8:30 in the Meinders Library parking lot – if there are a lot of us going, we may move over to the overflow lot near Highway 30. We are scheduled for a planetarium presentation at 10:00, followed by a tour of the greenhouse and a self-guided tour of the science museum. If there are enough of us, they will split us into two groups and the groups will swap locations for their tours after the planetarium. We will head back to Pipestone around 12:15 and it will be up to the individual cars if they want to stop for lunch.
Though the trip is free, we do not have access to a bus, so we will be using volunteer drivers. If you are willing to drive, please let us know. Because we need to know how many people will be attending, call the library at (507) 825-6714 to sign up. You will need to give your library card number over the phone, so make sure to have it with you when you call. You can stop in to sign up, too, if you want to see our smiling faces!
We’re going to have a great time, so give us a call today!
This project was funded in part or in whole with money from the vote of the people of Minnesota on November 4th, 2008, which dedicated funding to preserve Minnesota’s arts and cultural heritage.
Saturday, March 24th, Meinders Community Library is hosting a trip to Marshall to visit the SMSU Planetarium, greenhouses, and science museum.
We will be loading cars at 8:30 in the Meinders Library parking lot – if there are a lot of us going, we may move over to the overflow lot near Highway 30. We are scheduled for a planetarium presentation at 10:00, followed by a tour of the greenhouse and a self-guided tour of the science museum. If there are enough of us, they will split us into two groups and the groups will swap locations for their tours after the planetarium. We will head back to Pipestone around 12:15 and it will be up to the individual cars if they want to stop for lunch.
Though the trip is free, we do not have access to a bus, so we will be using volunteer drivers. If you are willing to drive, please let us know. Because we need to know how many people will be attending, call the library at (507) 825-6714 to sign up. You will need to give your library card number over the phone, so make sure to have it with you when you call. You can stop in to sign up, too, if you want to see our smiling faces!
We’re going to have a great time, so give us a call today!
This project was funded in part or in whole with money from the vote of the people of Minnesota on November 4th, 2008, which dedicated funding to preserve Minnesota’s arts and cultural heritage.
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