Dear Reader,
The Russell & District Library is pleased to welcome Christine Podollan, Library Manager, to the team. Christine loves people, books, the Arts. Libraries and gardens are two of her favorite places on earth. In the fullness of time, Christine is looking forward to meeting everyone in the community and surrounding areas. Please, come on in to the Library in Russell and/or Binscarth and say hello again. The Library is your Library, a cornerstone of your respective communities. We look forward to welcoming you, every time you come.
New at the Library this week:
Spare by Prince Harry (Non-fiction)
Cabinet of Dr. Leng by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child (Adult Fiction Novel)
Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid (Adult Fiction Novel)
Code 6 by James Grippando (Adult Fiction Novel)
February is the shortest month of the year and, it’s plumb full of delightful reasons to come on down to the Library.
This month is I Love to Read Month and Black History Month. February 4th is Take Your Child to The Library Day, February 5th – 11th is Children’s Authors and Illustrators Week, February 9th is Read in The Bathtub Day.
February 4-11 in History:
February 4th 1985 – Twenty countries in the United Nations signed a document called “Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.”
Birthdays:
American inventor Thomas Edison (1847-1931) was born in Milan, Ohio. Throughout his life, he acquired over 1200 patents including the incandescent bulb, phonograph and movie camera. Best known for his quote, “Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.”
British novelist Charles Dickens (1812-1870) was born in Portsmouth, England. He examined social inequalities in his works: David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby. In 1843, he wrote A Christmas Carol” in just a few. Weeks.
“No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.”
— Charles Dickens
Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me, I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart. Psalm 40:7-8
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.” — Martin Luther King Jr.
Happy reading, with love,
The Library Ladies