Notes from the back room:
Today I saw what our library is all about. When I came in our expert squad of book covering volunteers (the ‘cover girls’) were busy working and laughing, the book club was discussing their latest read and the teen group was getting ready for a special presentation about henna body art. Our library is quite a busy little hub of activities and learning! I love to see the community involvement! Speaking of involvement….what kind of audio books on CD do you want? We have been slowly trying to improve that section and want to make sure we purchase what you are interested in hearing. Fiction? Non-fiction? A good old who-done-it? A trek into outer space? The person to talk to about all things audio is Natalia at the front desk. And as long as we are talking about talking books, the cassettes are on their way out. If you are still an audio cassette fan, please come by and see if we have anything you would like to keep. (We need the shelf space.) Oh, and no, we don’t carry 8 track tapes. Music-wise we just got in an order of everything from Elvis Presley to Kimya Dawson, from The Clash to Bonnie Raitt (and everything in between). The library can be a good way to discover music you don’t normally listen to but might really end up liking. I just got finished listening to Abigail Washburn’s new album. She was a bluegrass kind of girl, until she went to China. She found melodies in traditional Chinese music that were very similar to American bluegrass. Talk about an interesting fusion! It challenges traditional notions of country and culture for sure. Bella Fleck plays the banjo on the album, and I must say I was blown away. So, stop by and give the library a listen! And come by the back room and we can talk music.
