General Information
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The Towanda District Library is a member of the Alliance Library System.
You are entitled to use your Towanda library card at any public library
across the state of Illinois (depending on the lending policies of the
local library). This means you can use the Bloomington and Normal public
libraries as well as ours!
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Checkout
Policy:
At the Towanda District Library you may check out:
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Books for 2 weeks
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Audiobooks for 2 weeks
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Magazines for 1 week
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Videos & DVDs for 1 week
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CD
roms for 1 week
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Board games for 1 week
All materials may be renewed.
Overdue materials will be charged at the
following rates:
.10/day for books, audio books, magazines and board games
.25/day for videos, DVD’s and CD-ROMs.
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(See our
photo album for photos of some of these events!)
Children's Story
hour.
The Towanda District Library
has a weekly Monday morning pre-school story hour at 11:00. Pre-school Story Hours run from
first Monday after Labor Day to the Monday prior to Memorial Day.
Pre-schoolers may participate in the
Summer Reading Program on Wednesday mornings during the summer. Open
enrollment allows you to register your child whenever they turn three -
by stopping in at the library or by calling 728-2176.
Summer Reading Program.
Each year the library presents a Summer Reading Program designed to
preserve the reading skills of our young readers.
Studies
suggest that children who read as few as six books over the summer
maintain the level of reading skills they achieved during the preceding
school year. Reading more books leads to even greater success.
(Source:
http://teacher.scholastic.com/products/instructor/summer_reading.htm
)
Weekly programs at the
Towanda District Library provide engaging, interactive performances,
community speakers, craft projects, games, readers’ theater, and reading
challenges. Each Wednesday morning at 10 a.m. Joanna Ranninger and
Karen Bersche provide a variety of age-appropriate programs for youth -
ages 3 to 6 years and 7 to 12 years.
Open enrollment allows
children to join the fun anytime during the 6-week program – June 17
through July 22, 2009. The theme for the 2009 Summer Reading
Program is:
Read on the
Wild Side!
Senior Citizen Computer Class.
This class teaches basic computer skills in addition to instruction on
Microsoft Word.
Homebound Program.
We provide
delivery service for our homebound patrons.
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Equipment available for
public use
Photocopier
available for public use at 10 cents per side.
Fax machine
- donations encouraged.
Computers.
We have six computers for
public use. All have word processing programs. A DSL connection to the
Internet is available on each of the computers.
We also have a wireless wi-fi network. You
can bring your laptop to the library and access the internet for free.
Printed scans and copies: 10 cents
per page for black and white, 25 cents for color copies.
Built-in projection screen.
Call the library to schedule
a slide show.
Laminator.
Letter-size page: $ .75 for 3 ml laminate
$1.00 for 5 ml laminate
Legal-size page: $1.50 for 3 ml laminate
$2.00 for 5 ml laminate
We will try to help you answer any
questions you may have, whether it is health-related or homework
related. In particular, our director,
Karen Bersche,
is trained in reference work and is more than willing to assist you in
person or on the phone.
Interlibrary loan.
The library
will try to order any book for you to borrow that we don't have,
according to the interlibrary loan guidelines.
Tax forms.
Tax forms are
available during income tax season. We have several forms to give away,
as well as two books of reproducible forms (federal AND state forms)
from which you may make photocopies.
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The
mission of the Towanda District Library is to provide educational,
informational, and recreational services to persons who reside in the
area of the Towanda District Library. The library will make print and
non-print materials available. The library will also strive to make use
of developing technologies that meet the needs of the population served
by the Towanda District Library.
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Board
of Directors
Letitia
Hamblen, President
Rochelle Wardel, Vice-President
Mark Schwamberger, Treasurer
Dana Maughan, Secretary
Tim Mogill
Jane Foster
Rachel Andrews
Karen Stott
Bersche, Library Director
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