The Library Board of Trustees will be meeting on Wednesday March 10 at noon in the Mary Vinson Memorial Library Meeting Room. The public is welcome to attend but if you wish to address the Board, you must first request this in writing to the Board Chair.

We've bid a fond farewell to Amber Hightower, who's been running the Lake Sinclair Branch for the past few years. She's done a terrific job and we're definitely going to miss her! Taking over for her is Virginia Greene, who's been wowing our patrons at the Mary Vinson Memorial Library for quite awhile. Stop by the LSL and say hi to Virginia, everyone!

We'll be receiving the Georgia River of Words display on March 8 and
will be hosting it for about a month. From their website: "Each year,
in affiliation with The Library of Congress Center for the Book, River
of Words conducts a free international poetry and art contest for
youth on the theme of watersheds. The contest is designed to help
youth explore the natural and cultural history of the place they live,
and to express, through poetry and art, what they discover."

http://gaprojectwet.org/gawet_row2.html

The Employee of the Month for February 2010 is... Elaine Pinter! Congrats, Elaine!

If you know of a young one who is a reluctant reader, please bring them by our popular We Read on Wednesday program, where Anne Moore and her staff will help encourage them in their reading habits. We Read begins at 3 pm at Mary Vinson.

The Twin Lakes Library System is closed Monday February 15 in observance of Presidents' Day. We will reopen at our usual hours on Tuesday February 16. Thanks!

All three library branches will be closed tomorrow, due to the expected snowfall. We hope to open up at our regularly scheduled hours on Tuesday February 16, 2010 (remember: Monday is a holiday!).

The Twin Lakes Library System Board of Trustees will be meeting on Wednesday at noon at the Mary Vinson Memorial Library. The public is welcome to attend but if you wish to address the Board you must ask for permission in writing prior to the meeting.

Today at the Floride Allen Library we'll be showing "I Love You, Beth Cooper". The movie begins at 2 pm and is FREE to everyone! Stop by and see this heartwarming comedy that imdb describes like this: When a geeky high-school valedictorian throws caution to the wind by expressing his love for a popular cheerleader during his graduation speech, life finally starts to get interesting in this coming-of-age comedy adapted from the book by journalist/author/screenwriter Larry Doyle.

Many of you have wondered why we have instituted a number of cost-saving measures over the last couple of years and I'd like to take a few minutes to explain our actions. Please bear with me because I think we need to go back into the past to fully understand our current situation. The City of Milledgeville and Baldwin County have what is called a Service Delivery Agreement that lays out exactly who is responsible for certain shared services. Under the prior Service Delivery Agreement, we were funded entirely by the City while the County took on other agencies.