We Love Our Volunteers!

Although 2018 National Volunteer Week was last week, we had our annual library volunteer luncheon this past Tuesday in the MPL community room.  We even made a special video celebrating our wonderful volunteers, who make the library a much better place in which to serve our patrons.

National Volunteer Week 2018

by Mooresville Public Library

I'm not considered a real volunteer, since I'm paid in canned tuna-in-oil (a regular, in-kind salaried employee, that's moi), so that's why my photo is absent from the video.  Boss Lady has kindly included it in many displays and signs featuring our volunteers, however.

You, too, can make your life more meaningful (and perhaps get canned tuna-in-oil, like moi) by volunteering at your library.  Adults who wish to volunteer at MPL should call (317) 831-7323 and ask for Boss Lady or Lady RaDA.  (Maybe you should use their actual human names--Ms. Diane or Ms. Sandra.)  Teen volunteers should talk with Teen Titan (Ms. Megan) or visit our website's teen volunteer page.

Your Roving Reporter On The Go,

Cauli Le Chat

Our Patron & Staff Stories for 2018 National Library Week

Last week patrons and staff shared some of their stories for 2018 National Library Week, which we assembled into a couple of videos.

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Thanks, everyone, for participating!

The winner of our NLW raffle is (drum roll, if you please . . .)

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Congratulations to Gary Shelton, who won our Friends of the Library (FOL) sales room romp, in which he may select up to $10 in free merchandise.

Your Roving Reporter On The Go,

Cauli Le Chat

Share Your Stories for 2018 National Library Week

This is National Library Week (April 8-14, 2018).  In keeping with this year's theme, "Libraries lead!," we're asking patrons (and staff) to share their stories about where the library has led them, as our two promo trailers (videos) below explain.

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If you happen to visit the library this week, please fill-out one of our sharing forms at the display table just inside our front entrance (across from our circulation desk).

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Return these forms to our circulation desk and receive your raffle ticket for our prize, $10 of merchandise from our Friends of the Library (FOL) book sale room.  If you permit us to use your photo in our next video, you'll receive two raffle tickets!  Double your chances to win!  (Library staff are ineligible for prizes.  Sorry.)

We look forward to hearing about your stories.  I hope one of them has the library leading moi to some canned tuna-in-oil.

Your Roving Reporter On The Go,

Cauli Le Chat

Libraries Lead! (National Library Week, April 8-14, 2018)

Do you know where you're going?  The library can lead you there.  The journey begins April 8th.

This year's theme is "Libraries Lead!"  Share your story with us and become eligible to win prizes!  (We're working on lining-up prizes as my minions type this.)  Complete the form (available at the library) and return it to our circulation desk during National Library Week (April 8-14, 2018).

Casey at the Bat and Scowl-Face would like to make some videos of patrons and staff reading their "libraries lead" stories for the camera.  Your big chance for fortune and fame!  Well, you get to sit in a comfy chair while they're filming you.  If you're interested in participating in our videos, just add a postscript to your form with your phone number or email address, and we'll be in touch.  We're planning to record the videos during National Library Week, so keep your calendar free!  (Actually, we'll work around your schedule.)  It'll be totally fun!

Questions?  Just ask our library staff.  That's what they're there for.

I'm hoping that my library can lead moi to a full supper dish.  Minions, take the lead.

Your Roving Reporter On The Go,

Cauli Le Chat

April Library Displays

It's practically April--it has been raining for the past two days--so it's time for my library to put up some Spring-themed displays.  As always, click the photos below to bigify.

CatPro, our relatively new (she's been here a couple months) technical services coordinator, created this display for National Garden Month (April).  Checkout these (and other, similarly topical) books (and other stuff) using your Evergreen Indiana library card.

The Decorinator added this John Deere toy display to the glass cabinet next to the library's front entrance.  You can't get more Spring than farming in Indiana.

Drop by to see these (and other) displays.  It makes sense to come into the library.  It's raining outside.

Your Roving Reporter On The Go,

Cauli Le Chat

ZZZZZzzzzzzzzzz . . .

Today (Monday, March 12, 2018) is National Napping Day.  It's celebrated on the first Monday following the start of daylight savings time in the Spring.  I think we all know where this is headed.

Yep.  Pretty Much.

Humans are always so behind the wave.  We felines have been celebrating National Napping Day on a daily basis forever.  If there's one thing cats know how to do, it's celebrate sleeping.

My advice is simple:  Embrace your inner ZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzs.  You'll be glad you did.

Disturbing My Sleep, But a Headscratch is Kinda Nice

Having trouble napping?  Maybe you're a parent whose little human is having trouble catching those Zs.  We've got several sleep-help books available to checkout.  Naturally, we have book trailers, too (click below to play videos).

The Sleep Lady's Good Night, Sleep Tight, by Kim West

(MPL Book Trailer #21)

Nighty-Night, Sleep Tight, by Jennifer Berne & David Walker

(MPL Book Trailer #169)

Of course, you could always listen to Scowl-Face talking about whatever.  That should put anyone to sleep straight away.

Here's 23 Minutes of Ol' Scowlly Droning On and On

Just to be clear, the video's about Samuel Moore, founder of my hometown, Mooresville, Indiana.  Scowl-Face is narrating.  That's the soporific component working, there, so you have to keep the sound turned on.  You've been fairly warned.

Here, you'll definitely need this later, when you're trying to stay awake.

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Your Roving Reporter On The Go,

Cauli Le Chat

High Praise, Indeed

My library's YouTube channel just received high praise, indeed, from a national blog.

 

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Now Scowl-Face will be impossible to live with.  Here's what his head looks like (with ego inflated):

Actor Lance Fuller (1928-2001) in the movie This Island Earth (1955),

lampooned by Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie (1996)

Anybody out there have a smartphone app that makes people's heads look bigger?  I've got a photo of Scowl-Face upon which to experiment.  Just saying.

We need to release some of that ego pressure from Scowl-Face's noggin.  This should do the trick.

Congratulations, MPL, on your video success.  Now, let's get serious.  Somebody needs lunch.  Hop to it, minions.  Those cans of tuna-in-oil don't open themselves.

Your (Retired) Roving Reporter On The Go,

Cauli Le Chat