Library Notes
July 9, 2003
By Pansy Hundley, Librarian.
Autumn, who is doing such a good job writing for the newspaper, came by the other day and looked through the scrapbooks that Doris Ann, and then I , have kept since the germ of an idea of a community center and library for Farmersville began. She was looking for information for an article.
You might say, looking through years gone by, reminded me that I need to do some bragging. Now, don't you put this newspaper down!! I am not going to fill these pages with interesting, humorous, lovely sayings and progress reports on my brilliant grandson. Even though, I could, so stop rolling your eyes immediately!!
I am also reminded when I attend library workshops and hear other librarians talk.
I sit and listen to those librarians gripe about their City Managers and Council not doing this or that. Or they fuss that they can't get money they should be entitled to for buying books. Well! I just sit there smugly and think how fortunate I am. And I tell them that sometimes.
What I intend to brag about is MY Library Board, MY City Mangers over the years, and MY City Council, and MY Centennial Board.
From the time that Ed Sharp and Bob Tedford hired me for this job 21 years ago, the cooperation and support has been there always.
You've heard me already talk about he total support that Bob Tedford always gave me.
Ed Sharp was always the very same way until he retired, against my vehement objections, and deserted the ship.
Then that Doris Ann went South. I wasn't sure that I could survive all three of them being gone. But, I did and I have. I have continued to receive the very good support from the ones who stepped in to fill the gaps that those three left.
So, here I am, all these years later and I'm still plugging away. The shelves fill with more books, yearly. There are computers and videos all over the place. New people are moving in continually. We look a little bit differently than we did when we started. We started with 800 sq. ft. of space, and have added 1,500 sq. ft. twice now. Appears that we've grown a lot!!!
Farmersville appreciates, enjoys and continues to use its' library. That's what the people wanted, the ones who started this whole business years ago. You can readily see that this library/civic center project worked very well from the very beginning, supported by the people of Farmersville all these years, including many Old Time Saturdays they've worked through. That was back when everything from that fundraiser was totally for the financial support of the library and civic center.
So, there's my bragging and my appreciation for so many. I believe that one should give roses while people can still see them and listen to them, instead of waiting until you have to buy some roses for their funeral, perhaps. (Throat clearing) You will notice that I did not brag even once about you know who!!!
Now, for the business at hand here at this library, books. Lisa Scottoline has a new one, hot off the presses and ready for reading. "Dead Ringer" is what it is entitled and here is what it is about.
"Philadelphia lawyer Bennie Rosato has her eye focused firmly on the bottom line, especially since she has three dedicated young associates and a very pregnant secretary on her payroll, and she takes a professional risk forging into a class action lawsuit that could make - or break - her career. Never mind that she's never handled anything like this before. Having won nearly every civil and criminal case she's ever tried, the brilliant and unconventional Bennie has the guts, and she'll do what it takes to succeed. Even if that means wearing pantyhose and putting herself on a crash diet.
Then her wallet goes missing, And Bennie's life goes crazy.
It's not just that one of her associates has dyed her hair pink. Or that another's old world Italian mother gives Bennie the evil eye. But someone posing as the outspoken, blue-eyed, blond attorney is wreaking havoc around town, apparently determined to destroy everything Bennie loves. Only one person can pull off this double deception -- Bennie's identical twin sister, Alice Connelly. But as far as Bennie knows, Alice left Philly long ago and never looked back.
When events escalate into murder, the maverick lawyer realizes that the stakes are far greater than she feared. But Bennie Rosato refuses to be anyone's victim. To find the killer, she'll plunge headfirst into a life-and-death investigation that will bring her face-to-face with evil darker yet more familiar then anything before."