This month, go green!

Spring is on the way! Spring cleaning and St. Patty's Day go hand in hand -- March is the perfect time to begin (or continue) becoming environmentally friendly. Along with the recycling pickups already offered by the city, the Friends of the Library are sponsoring recycling of those things you know you shouldn't put in the garbage, but you don't really know what else to do with them. Like your old cellphones, or empty printer cartridges, or the old computer equipment sitting down in your basement. Even the dead batteries you take out of your cd player -- those should not be in our landfills, leaking toxic chemicals into the water our children drink. Do your family a favor, and do your library a favor at the same time -- bring those recyclables to the Jensen Memorial Library and let us recycle them for you. We will be able to trade them for items the library can use, and keep our town safe and clean for our children at the same time.

(Please, no oil, paint, cardboard, glass, etc. The library is not set up to handle those kinds of things, and there are other places for them. Thanks!)

We Need You!

Spring is also the time to renew your Friends of the Library memberships -- don't forget! In times like these, the library needs our outside support more than ever. Every membership and every donation, whether it's dollars, or gently read books, or gently watched movies, or even magazines and (as was donated last month) 3-ring notebooks, is important if the library is to go on providing our patrons with the same services as it has in the past. And speaking of that ---

We want to thank very much everyone who loved their library during "Love Your Library" month. The request tree was a big success, the library received many of the dvds we asked for, as well as about the same amount of other donated dvds. Look for the "Love Your Library" tree next year!

--Mary Anne