Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Have You Given Us Your E-mail Address?

As the Kenny Roger's song goes "you've got to know when to hold ...." Increasingly our patrons certainly do know when to hold. Our hold shelves are full to bursting with books, movies and cds that people have put on hold. We are very grateful for the many people who are now using e-mail for contact with the libraries. Everytime a book arrives in the library for you, an e-mail goes out informing you that it is ready.

Several days before your items are due, another e-mail goes out reminding you to return or renew your items. People have told us that they appreciate the reminders and it does cut down on fines. You also receive overdue and billing notices by e-mail for the items that have not found their way home to the library shelves. This saves the library postage costs when we do not have to mail notices.

We are happy to call patrons who are not e-mail users, but if you are, please consider giving us your e-mail address. We will be in touch!