~~Library News~~
November 26, 2011
ESA Craft Sale
Round-Up Club
9 to 4
The Library will have a book sale booth at this event. Come by and purchase some books to help support us!
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T-shirts are on sale!
Inola Public Library now
has available t-shirts with the library's logo.
All sizes and colors!
$10 each
Your donation will be used specifically for purchasing books for the library
collection and to help support the Summer Reading Program.
And they make GREAT Christmas gifts!
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October 13, 2011
Inola Public Library's 2nd Annual Authors' Sign-In was held as scheduled on October 13. Six local authors were here to sign books, sell books, and meet and greet the Inola community. Over 40 guests attended. Quilts were on display made by two local quilt book authors. Refreshments by Betty Mell were served and enjoyed by all. Authors appearing were:
Gloyd McCoy, "Tent Number
Eight"
Janice Grove, "Rain Song" & "Going to California"
Joe Harwell, "Indian Rock Vampire" & "Upside-Down Heart"
Nicci Sefton, "Luxuria", "Invidia", &"Superbia"
Gloria Cody, "All God's Children Gotta' Eat"
Rendi Conn, "Twin Souls"
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October, 2011
The Inola Public Library is proud to announce that John Conwell has been appointed to the Library Board as a trustee. John will be replacing Sally McKee on the Board. John has been a long-time resident of Inola and is a very active volunteer for the library. Also with his background in finance, he will be a great asset to our Library Board. We are excited to have John come aboard!
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One World, Many Stories!
Summer Reading Program for 2011
Pictures and Award listings HERE
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April, 2011
The Inola Public Library is proud to announce that Regina Mann has been appointed to the Library Board as a trustee. Regina will be replacing Kim Dyer on the Board. Regina has been a long-time resident of Inola, and has been very active in volunteering her time to the library. She is also currently earning her Oklahoma Department of Libraries Basic Certification. We are looking forward to working with Regina as part of the Library Board!
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March, 2011
Storytime is Back!!!
Beginning March 25, 10:30 am!
For children of all ages -
Every Friday morning
Craft and snack provided.
Under the direction of Kendall Schmidt, 918-906-9043
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February, 2011
The library staff is proud to have a new photocopier available for our patrons. The new copier has advanced features that enable the staff to scan/transmit any file or document to email or flash drive. There is a $1 charge per file for this service. This purchase was made possible from our annual state aid funding through the Oklahoma Department of Libraries.
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Thank you so much to everyone who attended our book sale! We raised some much needed funds for the Summer Reading Program.
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October, 2010
Inola Public Library's Annual Authors' Sign-In was held as scheduled on October 7, 2010. Ten local authors were here to sign books, sell books, and meet and greet the Inola community. Over 70 guests attended. Quilts were on display made by two local quilt book authors. Refreshments by Betty Mell were served and enjoyed by all.
For event photos, go HERE
Authors
Appearing:
Gloria Cody, Ronda Gaynor, Janice Grove, Joy Hampton, Joe W.
Harwell, Denise McKinney, Claudia Plett, LeAnn Weaver, Scott Weaver, Mary
Barton Wilcox
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August, 2010
Reference section to be enhanced and upgraded! This project is made possible by a $2,000 grant from the U. S. Institute of Museum and Library Services. The library is most grateful for this funding. It will allow us to purchase more current and up-to-date reference books in accordance with the Checklist of Reference Sources for Oklahoma Libraries recently compiled by the Oklahoma Department of Libraries.
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July,
2010
Thanks! To everyone for such a profitable and successful Hay Day!
We sold at least a thousand books and everyone enjoyed meeting Denise
McKinney, too!
Our winner for the lovely hand-embroidered tablecloth made by our own Gertrude Riddle was won by none other than Colby Crane.....Congratulations, Colby!!
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June, 2010
We had a very successful reading program!!
"Make A Spash--Read!" was enjoyed by all!!
Our average daily attendance was 45 children per day and with the help of our 4 volunteer readers and many staff volunteers we had a really good time.
A special thanks to all our merchant and individual donors that made Summer Reading so rewarding for our younger patrons:
Wal-Mart
1st Bank
RCB Bank
Sigma Chi ESA
Rosalie Walton
Heidi Khalil
Regina Mann
Beth Orender
Reading Awards were given to:
Malachi Khalil - 1st place 3-6 division
Lily Olmos - 2nd place 3-6 division
Alisha Williams - 1st place K-2 division
Bethel Terrill - 2nd place K-2 division
Grand prizes were awarded to:
Colby Crane - 1st place 3-6 division - $100 WalMart Gift Card
Keith Brantley - 2nd Place $75 1st Bank Debit Card
Makenzie Bary - 3rd Place $50 RCB Gift Card
Bethel Terrill - 1st place K-2 division - $100 WalMart Gift Card
Treavor Morah - 2nd Place $75 1st Bank Debit Card
Calli Crane - 3rd Place $50 RCB Gift Card
Congratulations!
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04/10 NEW DIRECTOR
Claudia Plett has been chosen as the new Library Director by the Town of
Inola with the recommendation of the Library Board of Directors.
Claudia has been serving as Interim Director since May of last year.
Claudia is a long-time resident of Inola, widow of the late Robert Plett (Inola
Class of 1960), mother of 4 sons, all graduates of Inola, and grandmother of
5. She owns and operates her online quilting business,
www.claudiasquiltshoppe.com, as well.
Claudia has written and published 3 books--one published by Leisure Arts
"Slash Your Stash Quilts", and co-authored 2 quilting books published by
Martingale Publications "Loose Change" and more recently "More Loose Change"
to be released in October of this year. She and her co-author, Le Ann
Weaver of Claremore, travel to various state quilting guilds to present
programs and trunk shows of their work.
Claudia has worked as Assistant Librarian in previous years. She is
currently working toward her Level II certification through the Institute
for Public Librarians, Oklahoma Department of Libraries.
"The Library is one of Inola's greatest assets. It's an important
educational and technological source for all of our residents and their
children. I am honored to serve as its Director. I'm looking
forward to working with our patrons and implementing our new online catalog,
website, and other recent improvements," states Plett.
"I hope Inolans who may be unfamiliar with our services--for example, the
public access computers, photocopier, fax, summer reading program, as well
as over 12,000 items in the collection available for checkout--will come in
and get acquainted."
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02/10 LARGE PRINT BOOKS DONATED
A big THANK YOU! to the Inola Lions Club for generously donating 25
brand-new large-print books for our collection. Items are available
for checkout now and include Westerns, Mysteries, Christian Fiction, and
Adult Fiction. Come in and check them out!
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02/10 NEW TECHNOLOGY PURCHASES!
Thanks to annual funding by the State of Oklahoma, the library has
purchased a new projector system for the community/civic room. Ask the
staff if your civic group would like to make use of the projector at your
next meeting for presentations or workshops. We now also have a
wireless laptop computer with camera capabilities. AND we also now
have a digital television available in the main room (for weather and news
observation only).
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12/09 INOLA PUBLIC LIBRARY NOW AFFILIATED WITH BETTER WORLD BOOKS:
Noticed the banner buttons at the bottom of our pages? We've added
Better World Books for anyone to use to make book purchases. A
percentage of every book you buy at BWB's website till go to Inola Public
Library. All you have to do is click on the icon at the bottom of any
page on this website to go directly to Better World Books.
Better World Books collects and sells books online to fund literacy initiatives worldwide with more than six million new and used titles in stock. Thus far, they’ve donated 1.5 million books to partner programs around the world. Their five primary literacy partners are Books for Africa, Room to Read, Worldfund, the National Center for Family Literacy, and Invisible Children.
We are excited to be a BWB
affiliate. Some of our discontinued or overused books are recycled
with Better World Books. We hope our patrons will make use of shopping
at BWB first when purchasing their books and paperbacks.
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