A DAY FOR HONORING
MOTHERS BEGAN IN 1908
GET A CLUE!
Planning for Summer activities at the library
is heating up!
In the United States, Mothers' Day is a holiday
Watch for the schedule
celebrated on second
for “Get A Clue @ Citrus
Sunday in May. It is a
Ridge” and plan now to take
day when children
part in the afternoon programs.
honor their mothers
Movie Mondays, Terriwith cards, gifts, and
fic Tuesdays, Scrapbooking
flowers. The first obWednesdays, and Super Saturservance was in Philadays will feature shows, demonstrations, crafts and
delphia, Pa. in 1907,
much more.
based on suggestions
by Julia Ward Howe
SECOND SATURDAY
in 1872 and Anna Jarvis in 1907.
MATINEE IS MAY 12
There were days honoring mothers even in the
days of ancient Greece. In those days, however, it was
Family movie matinees, based on children’s
Rhea, the mother of the gods that was given honor.
books, are presented each
Later, in the 1600's, in England there was an annual ob- month on the 2nd Saturday
servance called "Mothering Sunday." It was celebrated at 1p.m. at Citrus Ridge
during Lent, on the fourth Sunday. On Mothering Sun- County Library.
day, the servants, who generally lived with their emThe show on May 12
ployers, were encouraged to return home and honor their will be Shrek based on the
mothers. It was traditional for them to bring a special
book by William Steig.
cake along to celebrate the occasion.
In the U.S., in 1908 Ana Jarvis, from Grafton,
U.S. LIBRARY DATA SHOWS
West Virginia, began a campaign to establish a national ALMOST TWO BILLION SERVED
Mother's Day. Jarvis persuaded her mother's church in
Ten years after some experts predicted the
Grafton to celebrate Mother's Day on the anniversary of
demise of the nation's system of libraries as a result
her mother's death. A memorial service was held there
of the Internet explosion, the most current national
on May 10, 1908 and in Philadelphia the following year
data on library use shows that the exact opposite has
where Jarvis moved.
happened. Data released recently by the American
Jarvis and others began a letter-writing campaign
Library Association (ALA) indicates that the numto ministers, businessmen, and politicians in their quest
ber of visits to public libraries in the United States
to establish a national Mother's Day. They were successincreased 61 percent between 1994 and 2004.
ful. President Woodrow Wilson, in 1914, made the offiAccording to the 2007 State of America's
cial announcement proclaiming Mother's Day a national
Libraries report, there were nearly two billion visits
observance that was to be held each year on the 2nd
to U.S. libraries in fiscal year 2004. In the case of
Sunday of May.
academic libraries, the number of visits exceeded
Many other countries of the world celebrate their
more than one billion for the first time in 2004, up
own Mother's Day at different times throughout the
more than 14 percent in just the previous two years.
year. Denmark, Finland, Italy, Turkey, Australia, and
A full copy of the 2007 State of America's
Belgium celebrate Mother's Day on the second Sunday
Libraries is available at www.ala.org/2007State.
in May, as in the U.S.
Citrus Ridge County Library
17445 US Highway 192, Suite 18
Clermont, FL 34714
352-243-1840
Toll Free 877-292-7930
Fax 352-243-3230
Katherine Spurgeon, Branch Manager
www.lakeline.lib.fl.us
LIBRARY HOURS
Monday—Thursday 9:30a.m. to 8p.m.
Friday—9:30a.m. to 5p.m.
Saturday—9:30a.m. to 4p.m.
Sunday—Closed
The Checkout Desk
Citrus Ridge County Library
May 2007
AUDIOBOOKS MAY BE
DOWNLOADED BY
LIBRARY PATRONS
Snorkeling at Barco Quebrado from “La Música de Paul
(Paul's Music),” by Vicky Ramos. The illustration was
created in 2002 using acrylic on paper.
CHECK OUT A FREE PASS
TO ORLANDO ART MUSEUM
Visit a special exhibit at the Orlando Museum of Art free with your library card!
Members of the Citrus Ridge County Library
may check out a special pass that entitles a family of
up to six people free admission.
The exhibit is called This is Our Land: Discovering America and the World through Original
Illustrations from Children’s Books and will be presented through July 22. It is organized and circulated
by the Meridian International Center in Washington
DC in collaboration with the Center for the Book at
the Library of Congress.
The Museum is located at 2416 North Mills
Avenue in Orlando and is open 10a.m. to 4p.m.
Tuesday through Friday and 10a.m. to 5p.m. on Saturday and Sunday. The Museum is closed Mondays.
CITRUS RIDGE LIBRARY
WILL BE CLOSED MAY 26—28
The Lake County Library System recently
announced that audio books are now available for
downloading to a personal computer through
NetLibrary.
At press time almost 2000 titles were
available
to
be
downloaded to a Windows-based computer or
MP3 player. The program does not support
Macs or iPods.
Patrons must register at no cost with NetLibrary through a Lake County Library System
Computer and then download to their own computer
either at home or through the library’s wireless connection. A list of available titles is available by typing “downloadable” in the Subject Browse section of
Catalog Search.
NetLibrary is a division of OCLC Online
Computer Library Center, Inc. (www.oclc.org).
Founded in 1967, OCLC Online Computer Library
Center is a nonprofit, membership, computer library
service and research organization dedicated to the
public purposes of furthering access to the world's
information and reducing information costs. More
than 53,548 libraries in 96 countries and territories
around the world use OCLC services to locate, acquire, catalog, lend and preserve library materials.
SCRABBLE CLUB
FOR YOUNGSTERS
The Four Corners Scrabble Club for students
in grades 3-8 will be on hiatus during
May. Look for meetings to return in
June.
MANAGER’S
MESSAGE
WOW! That’s what I told the staff when I returned from my first tour of the new library building.
On paper, it looks big. Up close, it looks HUGE compared to what we now have. County
officials and the library’s architect
are very pleased with the progress
that the construction company is
making. The room dividers have
been installed, so it was possible to
see how the different areas flow into
each other. It will be such an improvement over the
current facility that I know everyone who sees it will
say the same thing I did—WOW!
The county library system has just completed a
system upgrade which will give each library its own T1 line for Internet access. That should greatly improve
service to the public computers as well as to the circulation network. Since Citrus Ridge averages almost
12,000 check-outs per month and serves no less than
100 people per day on the public computers, this upgrade is a welcome improvement.
As you have read elsewhere in the newsletter,
the library is now offering downloadable audiobooks.
In addition, we have just purchased, and will soon be
circulating, a new product called Playaways. Playaways are the simplest way to listen to an audio book
on the go. They come with the book already on them.
Simply insert a AAA battery, plug in earphones and
enjoy. No cassettes or CDs. No downloads. There’s
nothing left to do but listen. There will be a variety of
titles from which to choose, ranging from adult fiction
and non-fiction to young adult and children’s titles.
Katherine Spurgeon
Branch Manager
CINCO de MAYO
CELEBRATES VICTORY
The holiday of Cinco De Mayo, The 5th Of
May, commemorates the victory of the Mexican militia over the French army at The Battle Of Puebla in
1862.
It is primarily a regional holiday celebrated
in the Mexican state capital city of Puebla and
throughout the state of Puebla, with some limited
recognition in other parts of Mexico, and especially
in U.S. cities with a significant Mexican population.
It is not, as many people think, Mexico’s Independence Day, which is actually September 16.
MAY 2007
Citrus Ridge County Library
SUNDAY
MONDAY
TUESDAY
1 Open 9:30-8
MEMORIAL DAY HONORS
AMERICA’S WAR DEAD
SINCE 1868
Memorial Day was originally known as
Decoration Day because it was a time set aside to
honor the nation's Civil War dead by decorating
their graves.
It was officially proclaimed on May 5, 1868
by General John Logan, national commander of the
Grand Army of the Republic and first widely observed on May 30, 1868, to commemorate the sacrifices of Civil War soldiers.
During the first celebration of Decoration
Day, General James Garfield made a speech at Arlington National Cemetery, after which 5,000 participants helped to decorate the graves of the more
than 20,000 Union and Confederate soldiers buried
in the cemetery.
By the late 1800s, many communities across
the country had begun to celebrate Memorial Day
and, after World War I, observances also began to
honor those who had died in all of America's wars.
In 1971, Congress declared Memorial Day a national
holiday to be celebrated the last Monday in May.
In 1999, there were bills introduced in the
United States Senate and House of Representatives
to restore the traditional day of observance back to
May 30th. The bills were referred to the Committee
on the Judiciary and the Committee on Government
Reform and there have been no further developments.
6 Closed
7 Open 9:30-8
Sawgrass Mill
Kindergarten
Registration 5-7pm
8 Open 9:30-8
WEDNESDAY
2
THURSDAY
3
FRIDAY
SATURDAY
4 Open 9:30-5 5 Open 9:30-4
Open 9:30-8
Scrapbooking for
Kids—All Ages
Teens Welcome
3:30-4:30pm
Open 9:30-8
Storytimes—
”Baseball”
Lapsit 11am
Preschool 11:30am
9
10 Open 9:30-8 11 Open 9:30-5 12 Open 9:30-4
Open 9:30-8
Scrapbooking for
Kids—All Ages
Teens Welcome
3:30-4:30pm
Storytimes—
”Mothers’ Day”
Lapsit 11am
Preschool 11:30am
Cinco de Mayo
Second Saturday
Matinee—”Shrek”
1pm
13 Closed
14 Open 9:30-8 15 Open 9:30-8 16 Open 9:30-8 17 Open 9:30-8 18 Open 9:30-5 19 Open 9:30-4
Mothers Day
Sawgrass Mill
Kindergarten
Registration 5-7pm
20 Closed
21 Open 9:30-8 22 Open 9:30-8 23 Open 9:30-8 24 Open 9:30-8 25 Open 9:30-5 26 Closed
Scrapbooking for
Kids—All Ages
Teens Welcome
3:30-4:30pm
Scrapbooking for
Kids—All Ages
Teens Welcome
3:30-4:30pm
27 Closed
28
Closed
Memorial Day Observed
Storytimes—”Dogs”
Lapsit 11am
Preschool 11:30am
Storytimes—”Cats”
Lapsit 11am
Preschool 11:30am
29 Open 9:30-8 30 Open 9:30-8 31 Open 9:30-8
Scrapbooking for
Kids—All Ages
Teens Welcome
3:30-4:30pm
Storytimes—”Fish”
Lapsit 11am
Preschool 11:30am
Sawgrass Mill
Kindergarten
Registration 10amNoon