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Lou's News

Lou Pray, director

Director and head librarian, Lou Pray, tells all about the library, Lopez, and beyond...

 

First Year Milestones

My first year anniversary as director has just passed and am pleased to be offering many new services for the Lopez Island community. In the past year, we've added a teen reading group (the Rebel Book Club), poetry nights, a radio show, free movie showings, free computer classes, library support for LOHO, and more outreach to the community. Technology has been enhanced. .... (read more about Lou's first year).

Databases to support your needs.

Epson Perfection V700 Photo scannerAs always, we want to support our island community's educational, recreational and business needs. To this end, we've added two new databases this month that are available from the library's business page .... (more about why you would use this database).

Geneology made easy!

Link to HeritageQuest databaseHeritageQuest is our new geneology database, includes all of the images, and extensive indexing, from the 1790 - 1930 U.S. federal censuses. It offers more than 20,000 book titles, including nearly 8,000 family histories and over 12,000 local histories. Additionally... (read more about searching for ancestors).

Thanks for a wonderful year!

All of these these services would not be available without the help of your library staff: Karen Rogers, assistant librarian and cataloger/teen librarian; Rosie Sumner, children's coordinator and ILL guru; Judy Welker, office manager and webmaster and Lou Pray, head librarian and collection selector. Hannah Garcia, Breanne Ward, Moira Crawford, and Lyra Dalton... (more on staff and volunteers.)

Search Your Library Catalog

Find a book, audio book, movie, or other item. Enter title or keyword and press enter. Reserve it online - have your library card number ready.

New Arrivals at Your Library

New Databases This Month

Henry Erb in front of Port Stanley store, Circ ??

Lopez Island Library and Lopez Island Historical Society collaborated to secure a grant which brings you a collection of historical photos like this one of Henry Herb, his dog and car, in front of the Port Stanley store. Go to our history page for more history links.

Interested in researching your ancestors or know people who are? The Lopez Island Library now subscribes to HeritageQuest. :

Read with your ears!

book display featuring summer readsBusy bookworms by the droves are discovering that audio books are a great way to cram more reading time into an already hectic schedule. Audio formats are very attractive to people with physical or visual impairments, busy commuters, gardeners and excercise buffs that find it hard to read the traditional way... Lopez Library as over 1700 audio books available in CD or cassette formats.

Current Events

Monthly Event Calendar

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View the Library calendar for events, movies, meetings, and more.

This Month

28th Annual Teddy Bear Picnic a Huge Success.

2008 Teddy Bear PicnicCharley Thweatt, songster and guitar man sang for 70 picnic goers on August 20th. Mr. Bear came out of hibernation to lead the kids on the annual musical parade around the library. Songs and snacks were enjoyed by all. Thank you for your participation and especially to Rosie's helpers in setting up for the event.

KLOI Radio - Every Wednesday 1:00 - 2:00 pm - Lou's News and Reviews

Lou Pray has joined the KLOI 102.9 FM Radio Lineup starting in June. Lou's show, Lou's Library News and Reviews, airs every Wednesday from 1pm-2pm, PST. It will include reviews of new books and films. If you are not within range of our FM broadcast on 102.9, KLOI is streaming on the internet. Go to http://kloi.org/ to click on the stream.

Current Guest Artist

Tamara Buchanan, Artist of the month

Now ...July 17- August 29: Richard Singer - Mixed Media Painting and Boxes. Find out more in the Art in the Library page.

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