2022 Jefferson County Free Fair

Don’t miss out! The Free Fair is just around the corner, August 18-20. Exhibit and guidelines books are available at the library. Animals and agricultural products will ALWAYS be a huge part of county fairs but this book will show just how many other exhibits can be entered and what the rules are. Come by and pick up a copy as soon as possible in case one (or more) of your areas of expertise is included.

Read the Book, Love the Book, See the Movie!

Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris book cover

Mrs. Harris is a down to earth London charlady who cleans the
houses of the very rich, and one day, while tidying a wardrobe,
she falls in love with a Dior dress, the most beautiful thing she has ever seen. She scrimps and saves for three years to get to Paris and buy her own. It doesn’t take long before she begins to transform the lives of people she meets along the way.

Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris is based on a 1958 novel by Paul Gallico. Gallico, talented, versatile, and prolific, wrote a number of popular novels and screenplays. Here is the link to Wikipedia’s
Gallico page, maybe you will see some old favorites or decide
to dig into other Gallico works.

Coming Soon, the Next Big Library Read!

An unforgettable historical fiction novel about one woman who believed in scientific medicine before the world believed in her.

From July 13th through July 27th The Girl in His Shadow will be available at the OKVirtualLibrary with no waitlists or holds. Call the library for your card # and password if you don’t have them. First time using the OKVirtualLibrary and Overdrive? Call in and we will be glad to help you through it.

From July 13-27, use #BIGLIBRARYREAD on social media for a chance to win a BLR giveaway bag. See official rules

Unboxing Day Arrived for Our Pilcrow Books!

Gary Unboxing 2018 19 Pilcrow booksThe Gleason Memorial Library is happy to announce we have received the books from The Pilcrow Foundation Children’s Book Project grant.  The grant is a 2-to 1 matching grant with the Pilcrow Foundation and Drs. Bill Strawbridge and Meg Wallhagen of California providing $800.00 and the Friends of the Gleason Memorial Library, as our sponsor, providing $400.00 from their annual “Death by Chocolate” fundraiser. In addition, to the 70 books selected from the Pilcrow grant, we received 23 math and science books, an additional $405.97 donation, from Hal Berenson and Laura Ackerman of Colorado and 6 titles, equaling a $92.74 donation, from the Maurice’s Valises series donated by Mouse Prints Press for a grand total of 99 new books to add to our collection worth $1708.34.

There are picture books, chapter books, young adult books and non-fiction books – something to suit everyone!  We were especially happy to be able to select some great titles, both fiction and non-fiction that will support our June 2019 Summer Reading Program Space theme “A Universe of Stories” celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon Landing.

The Pilcrow Foundation was founded in 2013 to continue the work of The Libri Foundation, supporting rural public library communities through the Children’s Book Project.  They ask that libraries, in partnership with the Friends of the Library or other local sponsors,  raise one third of the funds used to purchase the new books to build community investment in children’s literacy and the library’s future. The new books provided through the Children’s Book Project become part of the library’s permanent children’s book collection, thus ensuring children’s access to quality books for years to come.

Get Cookin’

Cookbook DisplayWe added a few cookbooks to our collection this week with a few more to be added next week.  Several of them are “charity” cookbooks produced by various Oklahoma groups.  What is wonderful about many of these cookbooks is you never know when you might find an old favorite your mom or grandmother might have made or talked about.  Another plus is that many of the recipes in these cookbooks use ingredients you probably have in your kitchen already.