Lots of people use the quiet months of the winter to go away.  If you find you can’t -it doesn’t mean you shouldn’t try another alternative.  Take some books out from the Library.  If you always wanted to go to Italy. Treat yourself to a weekend in Italy without the packing and long lines and customs.  You can get an Italian cookbook and try some different recipes.  Get an Italian language tape or book and practice your Italian even with simple phrases.  Borrow a couple of DVD’s something Italian or something that puts you in the Italian frame of mind.  Under the Tuscan Sun, The Italian Job or the Da Vinci code. are some that might entertain.  There also dvd’s about traveling around different cities or countries-if we don’t have it we can borrow it.  There is alot to be said for traveling without leaving the comfort of your own bed.  Now if you are going away we can help find information on any destination and we would love to help. Ciao!

Won’t you join our club?  Starting March 1st until April 15th The Library is having a Reading Club for the Grown-ups.  Why should the kids have all the fun?  Everyone gets a prize!  There will be weekly drawings, you add your name for each book you read.  If you read Five books in the Six weeks you get a prize.  Can it get better than this-Read what you like and get a prize for doing it. Call the library for details.  We hope you join us!

The John Jermain Memorial Library is happy to be starting  a Morning Book Club for our early morning patrons.  We will begin the Last Thursday in March-March 27th 9:00 am until 10:00 am.  We will be on the first floor on the Library.  You will come in the side entrance on Jefferson St. Our first title will be “Aloft” Author: Chang-Rae Lee.  This book has been chosen as the 2008 “One Island, One Book” selection by Nassau and Suffolk County Librarians. There will be copies available at the desk to pick up and read in the beginning of March. At our first meeting we will go over a list of selected titles that the system has available for us to borrow for our new reading club.  We can all participate in the selection of coming titles.  Hope to see you there!

Sorry I am a little late getting this posted.  I am so happy to kick off our new feature at the John Jermain Memorial Library “Staff Picks.”  I was so excited when I first started to think about what I would choose as my topic.  I quickly realized that I probably could do a couple of different months.  This is probably why I love working in the Library.  I am always coming across new topics that are alot of fun to investigate.  I ended up picking the catagory 100 to 1001 [        ] musts you shoul see, read or visit before you die.  You fill in the blank and pretty much you can get a book that will cover the subject.  My top choices are “1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die”, “1001 Buildings You Must See Before You Die”, “America’s 100 Best Places to Retire”, “100 Best Books for Children” and “100 Words Every Word Lover Should Know.” My absolute favorite is “The 101 most influential people who never lived” I loved the author’s list and find myself mulling over their opinions.

So won’t you please come in and Browse my selections and perhaps I can help you find a few of your own.

Coming into the holiday season it seems that we never have enough money or ideas .  The Library is the perfect answer. We have lots of cookbooks-craft books & magazines. We have holiday music cd’s.  We have movies-both dvd and video.  When tasks are finished it is always nice to curl up with a current book and take yourself away for a couple of hours.  We would love to help you find what you need.  Please stop by.

Many people consider Fall their favorite time of year.  It is also a very busy time of year.  People are busy cleaning up their yards and protecting them for winter.  The Library has lots of good information on the best way to prepare your garden and yard so it is at its the best  when Spring and Summer reappear. We also have some great recipes if you’re going apple picking. We hope to see you in the Library!

The John Jermain Memorial Library’s 2008 operating budget of $933, 350.00 was overwhelmingly approved by School District voters in yesterday’s vote, 186 to 62. Thank you Sag Harbor!

There were four seats on Board of Trustees up for election this year: the three that would normally be up for election, and a fourth due to the resignation of Trustee Deborah Wilson, earlier this year. Three candidates ran for these four seats, so all were elected. The results were Nancy Hallock, 176 votes, Carol Williams, 168 votes and Carl Peterson, 159 votes. In addition there were several write-in candidates, and with the highest write-in total of 59 votes, Kate Evarts was elected to fill the remainder of Deborah Wilson’s unexpired term. She will take her seat immediately upon being sworn in, and will serve until December 31, 2009.

Of the other three elected candidates, the two top-vote getters, Nancy Hallock and Carol Williams will start immediately upon being sworn in so they can complete the terms of two other Trustees who resigned this year, Greg Ferraris and Jim Marquardt. The uncompleted terms will end on December 31, 2007.  Then on January 1, 2008, Hallock and Williams will  begin serving their own three-year terms.

Carl Peterson, who was the third highest vote getter will replace Trustee Donna Milazzo — who chose not to run for re-election — on January 1, 2008 when her term expires. He too will serve a three-year term, ending on December 31, 2010.

Congratulations to all the newly elected Trustees.

This summer John Jermain Memorial Library welcomed Bonnie Russel as our new Program Director.  In case you haven’t noticed she is terrific.  There are lots of new and interesting programs.  The Fall appears to have alot booked so give a call at 725-0049 if you’re wondering what’s going on.

Hi everyone!  It has been a long time since I have visited.  Hope all the bloggers have had a happy summer and enjoying the beginning of Fall.  Don’t forget Tuesday September 25, 2007 Library Budget and trustees can be voted on in the Library from 9 am until 8 pm. Remember vote “early and often”

The Staff of the JJML met this morning with our new Director, Catherine Creedon. Board and Staff alike are thrilled to welcome Cathy to the library. She brings to our ranks an extraordinary depth of library experience and a proven commitment to this community. We will be hosting a small get-together at the Library on Sunday, September 30th, from 5-7 pm (time change) 3-5 p.m., so that interested members of the public can meet her in person. Please come!

Cathy has an MLS degree, and has worked in libraries for 32 years, beginning as a clerk just out of college. She has driven bookmobiles, worked in prison libraries and museums, as well as in public libraries and in schools. She served as Director of the two-site library of the Morriss Center School in Wainscott, and was the instrumental force in developing the initial high school collection there. She is currently both a reference librarian and a young adult author (Read her novel BLUE WOLF; it is in the JJML collection and was required summer reading for the Ross School 7th grade this year!).

Cathy is an active member of our Sag Harbor community, volunteering for Literacy Suffolk, in food pantries and as advisor on many student literary publications. Cathy and her husband Scott Sandell have lived in the Sag Harbor School district for nearly two decades. Her two sons, now both in college, went through the Sag Harbor school system and graduated from Pierson. (Both Ben and Per also worked at the JJML during high school, so this is a library family!)

We are delighted to welcome Cathy, and are certain that you will be delighted to work with her as Director of the John Jermain Library, beginning October 1st and for many years to come!