Alpine Public Library News

Marathon Public Library branch of Alpine Public Library summer reading program begins on June4th. We will have a drawing for four bicycles:
Children read 10 books in 10 weeks and can put their name in the drawing for a bike. The Junior and Senior High reads 10 books and writes 10 pages to be viewed by library friends and will receive $100.00 for their effort. Must finish all 10 books and papers. Please come to the library to type page on computer or write out your paper. Our goal is to include all ages into our program and have the children reading and using the library.

Our program includes a reading time, crafts, puppet shows, and fun from 1-2 pm, Wed. during the month of June and July. Our end of summer program party date will be scheduled sometime in August. Come join the fun at the Marathon Public Library. We welcome parents to join the fun and anyone that would like to volunteer to help. marathonlib@yahoo.com Please come by and register for the program. 432-386-4136 Donations are being accepted to help with the funding for the older grades.

Marathon Public Library

106 N. 3rd Street East

Marathon, Texas 79842

In 2009, all television signals will be digital. Do you have an analog TV or questions about digital conversion? If so, please visit www.dtv2009.gov.  Or, you can visit www.alpinepubliclibrary.org and click the links section. The DTV 2009 site will even tell you how to get a free converter so your television will do digital signals.  If you have any questions, please ask a librarian.

The first computer class at the Marathon Public Library branch of Alpine Public Library will be held on June 7, June 14, and June 28 from 9am -12pm and June 26 6-9pm at the library located 106 N. 3rd Street East, Marathon. For more information please contact Carol at 432-386-4136 or marathonlib@yahoo.com.

Another class has been scheduled for May 28, 29, June 4, 5, 11, and 12 from 6-8pm. (Sorry this class was cancelled).  The Sat. class is full.

   Quilt made by Carol. (Queen size quilt)

Friends of Marathon Public Library Quilt Drawing.  Drawing will be 4th of July dance in Marathon, Texas at the Post Park. Ticket donations are $5.00 each or 3 for $12.00. Contact Carol at marathonlib@yahoo.com or 432-386-4136. Donations are a fund raiser for the Libri Foundation Books for Children Program Grant.

Marathon Public Library branch of Alpine Public Library.

BASIC COMPUTER CLASSES

Where: Marathon Public Library

This course consists of 12hours of instruction. Will have introduction to Computers, Internet & Email.

APPLICATIONS FOR CLASSES CAN BE PICKED UP AT THE LIBRARY.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CALL:

CAROL TOWNSEND AT 432-386-4136 (MARATHON PUBLIC LIBRARY) OR

NINFA RODRIGUEZ AT 432-837-9800 X2762

(WORKFORCE SOLUTIONS/UPPER RIO GRANDE) 

Four Marathon residents attended the Texas Library Association Conference in Dallas April 14-18. Carol Townsend, librarian of the Marathon branch of the Alpine Public Library attended classes on library management and summer reading programs. Friends of Marathon Public Library president, Steve Griffis, who is also West Texas sales representative for University of Texas Press, manned an exhibit booth at the conference. Library volunteers Sky Townsend and Arlene Griffis worked in the UT Press booth and Arlene attended some classes, as well. 

On Wednesday Carol and Arlene attended the Author’s Luncheon where Carol was recognized as one of eight recipients of a Tocker Foundation grant which issues stipends to librarians from small communities, thereby enabling them to attend conferences such as TLA. The two women also attended the Bluebonnet Award Luncheon on Thursday, which honored author Lucy Nolan whose book Down Girl and Sit: On the Road is the winner of the 2007-2008 Bluebonnet Award for children’s literature. 

During the conference Carol and Arlene were able to purchase approximately 100 new books which will be added to the shelves of the Marathon Library. Carol would like to thank Carole Henthorne and Lynn Lindsay for keeping the Marathon Library open while she attended the conference.

Marathon Public Library has received “We the Peolple Bookshelf” from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Library Association. The collection contains the following books:

Abigail Adams: Witness to a Revolution

Abraham Lincoln the Writer

Amistad

Breaking Through

Elijah of Buxton

Flowers for Algernon

Freedom Walkers

The Gettysburg Address

Give Me Liberty

Lincoln: A Photobiography

Lincoln’s Virtues: An Ethical Biography

Lyddie

Many Thousand Gone

Pink and Say

Saturnalia

That all People May Be One People

The Ugly Duckling

Four Books in Spanish:

Pink y Say

Lyddie

Senderos Fronterizos

Flores Para Algernon

We wish to thank Arlene Griffis for applying for the grant for us. This is the third year Marathon Public Library has received this book grant. We also have new books recently donated so please come by the library to check them out. We are a great little library with wonderful community support.

Carol Townsend
Branch Manager
Marathon Public Library

 Came Lujan our 1st place winner in the Marathon Public Library “Spring Break Poster Constest.

Came won an art kit with posters of dinosaurs and markers. His poster says “Giddy up! Let’s go to the library!”

 Posters will be displayed around Marathon to view.

Everyone is a winner. 

1. Came Lujan
2. Courtney Stringer
3. Gage Ganter
4. Alexis Bowers
5. Elizabeth Hernandez
6. Jesse Lopez Jr.
7. Karl Stringer
8. Erica Kelly
9. Kallie Duncan
10. Britton Marin
11. Sarah Arenas
12. Bailey Marin
13. Colee Charlesworth
14. Mason Priest
15. Kenton Duncan
16. Rachel Kelly
17. Kyler Duncan

Other Posters: #1-#17

Thanks to Connie Springfield for being our judge this year and to all the children for their wonderful posters. All children will receive a “Certificate of Participation” for their posters. Please come by the Marathon Public Library to pick them up.

Carol

MPL

 Kick up your heels and design a poster for the “Spring Break Poster Contest” at the Marathon Public Library this week. Poster boards, crayons and colored pencils available at the library to use.

Marathon Public Library will be closed on Friday March 21, 2008 for Good Friday. We wish everyone a Happy Easter week-end. Open regular hours on Monday March 24, 2008, from 11am-5pm.

Marathon Public Library

106 N. 3rd Street East

Marathon, Texas 79842              432-386-4136

Tocker Foundation Grant

The Marathon Public Library branch of Alpine’s Public Library received a grant from the Tocker Foundation so that Carol Townsend may attend the Texas Library Conference in Dallas. The Conference will be held April 14, 2008-April 19, 2008 at The Dallas Convention Center. The grant covers expense for TLA Conference Registration, Travel, Hotel, and meals.

Grant requirements include attending educational seminars and volunteer time to TLA. We thanks Arlene Griffis for the time she spent in preparing the grant application.

Carol Townsend

Branch Manager

Marathon Public Library,

Branch of Alpine Public Library