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Your thoughts!

Written by LibraryStaff

We want to know what you think, how can we improve the Clearwater Public Library? We are doing a survey to obtain your thoughts on your library. You may fill out a paper survey which will be at the Library or you can follow the following link and take the survey on line. The survey will last until March 13th, then we will compile the information and make decisions accordingly. You do not have to sign your name to the survey, however, a “winner” will be picked from the names and that person will win two tickets to the Orpheum Performing Arts Centre Classic Film Series. Please take a few minutes to fill our the survey and help us to help you.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/VYW72PF

 

Community

Open Position

Written by LibraryStaff

Public Libraries work to supply the community needs. If you would like to help us help the community, let Tina at the Library know about it. We are looking for a Library Board member to join us in May. If you have questions, concerns, a unique talent even, be sure to contact Tina at the library by phone (620) 584-6474, or come by the Library to let her know that you would be honored to be on the Library Board.

Community

Books

Written by LibraryStaff

A big “Congratulations” to the Clearwater “Battle of the Books” team.  I was honored to help out at the competition last week.  The community should be very proud of the students and all the volunteers.  Way to go!  The Clearwater Public Library is busy finding, cataloguing and marking the Accelerated Reader books in our collection.  If you think a book is AR and we do not have it marked, please let us know.  This is a HUGE undertaking so please be patient with us.

 

Every economic crisis the first response is often to cut funding to culture.  But the dismantling of libraries or changing their nature is not simply a matter of economics.  Libraries are not only repositories of society’s memory and symbols of its identity but often the heart of social centers.  Do you realize what books can do?  Books can show us our responsibilities toward one another, help us question our values and undermine our prejudices, lend us courage and ingenuity to continue to live together, and give us enlightening words that allow us to imagine better times.  Books entertain and inform.  According to the Greek historian Didodorus Siculus, one of the ancient libraries he saw in Egypt carried above its entrance the words: “Clinic of the Soul.”  Isn’t it time that You Check out the local public library?

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