In keeping with standard library practices, effective Jan. 1, 2012, overdue fines will be in place at the library:

$.10/day for children

$.20/day for adults

The library will continue to print date-due slips for all borrowers.  The library will no longer place a courtesy call for overdues, however, pre-due and overdue notices will be emailed.  If patrons wish to receive these notices, please ensure that the email address the library has in its database is one that is checked regularly.  Patron details, including email addresses, are not shared with any other organization.

If patrons wish, they may renew material online.  This will require a password.  Any borrowers who wish to renew or reserve material online who do not have a current  password, please call your local branch.  (This is the same password used when downloading material from elibraries.)

The Jan./Feb. newsletter is now available in all branches.  Please drop by to pick up a copy, or click here. 

In now:

Fiction:

Believing the Lie  Elizabeth George

Death comes to Pemberley  P. D. James

The Cat's table  Michael Ondaatje

The Night circus  Erin Morgenstern

Scottish Prisoner  Diana Gabaldon

The Marriage Plot  Jeffrey Eugenides

House of Silk  Anthony Horowitz

Twelve drummers drumming  C. C. Benison

A Good man  Guy Vanderhaeghe

A Dance with dragons  George R. R. Martin

The Sisters brothers  Patrick deWitt

A Dance with dragons  George R. R. Martin

The Help  Kathryn Stockett

The Girl who Played with Fire  Stieg Larsson

The Girl who kicked the Hornet's Nest  Stieg Larsson

Non-Fiction

Catherine the Great  Robert Massie

Steve Jobs  Walter Isaacson

Back in the bigs  Randy Turner

Swerve  Stephen Greenblatt

Arguably  Christopher Hitchens

Into the silence  Wade Davis

The Table comes first  Adam Gopnik

Civilization  Niall Ferguson

Mennonite Giirls can Cook  Lovella Schellenberg

Jerusalem  Simon Sebag Montefiore

Henry Kalen's Manitoba  Henry Kalen

Bossypants  Tina Fey

Heaven is for Real  Todd Burpo

Something Fierce  Carmen Aguirre

Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life  Karen Armstrong

Compiled from Maclean's & Winnipeg Free Press bestseller lists

To reserve these new bestsellers, or any material in the South Central Regional Library catalogue, please call your local branch, or click here

Collection boxes for used glasses and lenses are available at the Morden, Winkler and Altona branches during regular library hours.  The eyeglasses are sent to the Lions Eyeglass Recycling Centre in Calgary where they are tested, calibrated and then packaged for shipment to third world countries.