From Gypsy’s Corner: The counters are coming.  What? New furniture you say? No.  I mean representatives from the US Census Bureau are coming to your Library several days in March and April to host info and assistance sessions with the public.  Why do we need to be counted by the government you ask?  Well that’s a good question, and it turns out that a whole lot of people wonder the same thing.  And so the folks in charge of all that counting want to be here (and all over the …

Kieran’s notes from the back room:  Have you ever learned a trade or picked up a hobby because you wanted to use the fancy tool associated with it?  (I want to use that neat wrench, I think I ‘ll become an auto mechanic!) Yeah, probably not – well maybe when you were ten years old.  It’s more likely you found a whole bunch of neat shiny tools that you could use to do something you already had an interest in.  (This wrench will help me when I have to change …

Kieran’s notes from the back room: So there I was checking my email when I saw it. In an email from the Association of Rural and Small Libraries there was a link to Woman’s Day Magazine. While I will grant you that a lot of librarians are women, a random link to a women’s magazine is a little odd. But I am brave, so I clicked, I read. The article was titled, “How the Public Library Can Save You Money”. Women’s Day had an essay contest and there were four …