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

Lopez Library - January 2009

A Year in Review

Looking back at 2008, the Lopez Island Library has had a busy year. We now have 2,795 registered library patrons. 300 young people are registered library card holders. We added 6,009 new items to the library in 2008. 77,174 library items were checked out of the library - up 11,257 from 2007. That is approximately 28 items checked out for every Lopez Island Library card holder. 56,539 people used the library - an increase of 9,955 from 2007. Both the building and the computers were updated this year. Community outreach included everything from a radio show with recommendations, reviews, and a sampling of new audio books and music CDs to visits to the school to promote new databases. In short, we've had a jumping year.

Newest Databases

Speaking of new databases, we've added several new sources to Infotrac which accessible from our library website under Find It Fast/Articles.

Health and Wellness Resource Center and Alternative Health Module 1980 - Jan 2009provides instant access to carefully compiled and trusted medical reference materials. Includes nearly 400 health/medical journals, hundreds of pamphlets, over 700 health-related videos from partner Healthology, Inc., and articles from 2,200 general interest publications in addition to a broad collection of reference titles.
History Resource Center: US History Resource Center: U.S. provides integrated access to over 4,000 historical (primary) documents, articles from more than 30 reference titles, and over 110 full-text journal covering themes, events, individuals and periods in U.S. history from pre-Colonial times to the present. The material also includes citations from over 180 additional history journals from the Institute for Scientific Information's Arts and Humanities Citation Index, as well as the entire "American Journey Online" series.
History Resource Center: World History Resource Center: World is a comprehensive collection of award-winning reference, full-text articles from leading scholarly publications, an array of primary sources, and images, maps and charts which provide expansive geographic and chronlogic research materials for the study of world history. From ancient Europe to Latin America and from the Far East to the Renaissance, world history curricula is supported with over 1,800 primary sources, over 27 reference titles and more than 110 journals.

We Were Kung-Fu Fighting...

Akira Kurosawa, Actor/Director Akira Kurosawa film buffs take note. The library just purchased the Criterion collection of great films, including the following:

Ran
Hidden Fortress
High and low
Kagemusha
Rashomon
Red beard
Sanjuro
Seven samurai
Throne of blood
Yojimbo
Dreams

These are in Japanese with English subtitles and are in the DVD collection at the library.

Saturday Movie Matinees

Join us at the library for Saturday matinees this month at 2pm. We’ll be showing a musical, Mamma Mia! on Saturday, Jan 24th and Horton Hears A Who on Jan 31st.

Lou Pray, Library Director

Lopez Island Library District

P O Box 770

Lopez Island, WA 98261

(360)468-2265 (phone)