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Adult Winter Reading

Here’s your chance to win great prizes, like a Nook HD and gift cards to stores and restaurants in Jay County!

All you have to do is register for the Adult Winter Reading Program and read books, eBooks, graphic novels, magazines, and/or audio books during the month of February. Fill out a Prize Entry form for each item you read to be eligible for prize drawings. At registration, you’ll receive a packet with instructions, prize drawing dates, and book suggestions. For readers 18 and above.

Read from February 1st to February 28th

Registration required; registration open January 28th through February 9th

Prize drawing dates (gift cards): at noon on February 9th, 15th and 22nd.

Grand prize drawing date (Nook HD): at noon on February 28th.

Once you’ve read some great books, you’ll want to share them. And once you’ve got the reading habit, you’ll need some new titles yourself. Check out Speed Book Sharing below!

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Speed Book Sharing

Who needs speed dating when you can have speed book sharing?

Speed book sharing is a fun way to discover new books and meet new people at the same time! Come prepared to talk about several of your favorite books (you may want to bring the physical books to pass around). We’ll pair off, and each person will be given 3 minutes to briefly talk up a book. After both people have shared, we’ll switch partners and do it all over again. Be prepared to fall in love with a good book! Refreshments will be served.

February 25th at 5:30 p.m.
For adults.
Registration required. Register by February 21st.

 

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Heard at the Library

Want to meet for coffee?

Have Coffee with Friends on the second Saturday of each month from 10:00 to 11:00 a.m. in the library’s Community Room.

The Friends of the Library offer complementary coffee and donuts, so stop by to chat with friends or bring your newspaper to read while you sip your coffee, and grab some movies and books for the weekend.

See you on February 9th!

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New Nook?  Check Out Nook 101

Need help figuring out how to download ebooks from the library? Let us show you how easy it can be! Just bring your Nook and a Jay County Public Library card to get personal assistance. You’ll be able to access a world of digital content in no time!

Nook 101
February 6th 2:00-3:00pm (drop in as you wish) Community Room
Audience: adults/teens
No registration required

Note: participants will need a password to connect to the library’s wireless Internet. If you do not have a password, visit the Circulation Desk to receive one.

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What’s new for you @ your library?

When you visit the library be sure to look for

• What’s new in the display cases and spaces
• Community bulletin board announcements
• Upcoming programs posted on the front kiosk
• The latest issue of Bookpage (free to take home!) full of reviews and reading ideas

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February Club Dates

Couponing Club
February 4th, 6:00 p.m.
Swap coupons & tips!

Cookbook Club
February 11th, 6:15 p.m.
It’s “Freezing Weather” so bring a dish that is served frozen (think frozen deserts) or frozen just prior to serving.

Crochet Club
February 26th, drop in 5:00—7:00 p.m.
Bring your own supplies, but share ideas and projects.

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Tax Time Info

The library has individual income tax forms for both federal and state taxes. However, we receive fewer and fewer of these forms each year as the IRS and the Indiana Department of Revenue encourage online filing. We have some forms to copy, or you can find them online and print. Copy/print for 15¢ per sheet.

For individuals: check out www.in.gov/dor/index.htm and click on “individual income taxes” in the menu to the left. Includes forms, electronic filing instructions, FAQs, and more.

For businesses: effective Jan. 1, 2013, ALL businesses in Indiana must file and pay their sales and withholding taxes electronically.

The Indiana Tax Center website (www.intax.in.gov) has instructions, forms, and resources for business owners. Also check out www.in.gov/dor/index.htm and click on “business tax” in the menu to the left.

Need information about the how the American Taxpayer Relief Act affects you?

Printed information is available at the library, including a brief summary sheet you may take home or a more detailed version in a binder to use in the library.

Or visit check this USA.gov blog and printable information.

 

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Friends of the Library

• Don’t forget “Coffee with Friends” on the second Saturday of each month. The Friends offer complementary coffee and donuts from 10:00 to 11:00 a.m. in the Community Room. Come join us!
   
• Thanks to all the volunteers who helped fold the January newsletter.
   
• Welcome to new/renewing members Shirley Herrin and Lisa Arnold.
   
• Thanks to the volunteers who are helping sort that impressive stack of books waiting for our sale next summer.

Are you interested in becoming a Friend and helping with the great book sorting project? Contact Molly at the library for details.

Next regular Friends of the Library meeting is Tuesday, February 19th at 6:30 p.m.

Come spend the evening with Friends!

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From Newsnotes Past

15 years ago - The Eagles Auxiliary gave $500 for the purchase of large print books.

10 years ago - “Music for Your Valentine” suggested browsing music CD categories from Jazz to Popular, especially Oldies if looking for a particular song or year, but cautioned those looking at “Miscellaneous” that wedding music was there!

5 years ago - Ancestry Library Edition and Heritage Quest Online were added to the library’s resources for folks with genealogy questions.

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Computer Classes

Classes for adults or teens. Call 260-726-7890 to register.

Beginner’s Internet If you think using the Internet is difficult and confusing, you’re not alone. Learn how to use a mouse, navigate a webpage, surf the web, and more!

Choose from two dates this month:

February 15, 10:00 am – 12:00pm (register by February 14) OR February 27, 10:00 am – 12:00pm (register by February 26)

Call 260-726-7890 to register. Questions? Ask for Molly.

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Book Discussion Group

Stretching out their Valentine’s celebration just a few more days, the book group will meet Monday, Febuary 18th to discuss A Very Long Engagement by Sebastien Japrisot .

"A kind of latter-day War and Peace...This is a book that is many things: a war story, a story of official corruption, an idyll of young summer love, and a rich and most original panorama of French men and women living in peace and robbed of it. Finally, giving it all an intent energy, it is a hybrid of the detective story and the classical quest." ---Richard Eder, Los Angeles Book Review

Discussion starts at 7:00 p.m.

New members welcome!

See past titles

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Gifts to the Library

Many thanks for recent gifts to the library for the purchase of new materials and support of library programs. Gift books are marked with a bookplate.

Given by Barry & Elizabeth Hudson

Lost Shipwreck of Paul / Robert Cornuke (DVD and audio book format)

Given in memory of Bill Puckett & Shirley Puckett Shepherd
by Lisa Anderson

Franklin and Lucy / Joseph Persico

Make a gift in honor or in memory of someone special.  Print a donation form or for more details call the library at 260-726-7890.

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The things I want to know are in books. 
My best friend is the man who'll get me a book I [haven't] read.

             -- Abraham Lincoln

 

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