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12 (more) ways a Juniata County Library card saves

Last time, I gave you a list of 12 ways you can save money with a free Juniata County Library card. I had to cut that list short because I was going to run out of column space! Today, I give you the rest of the list: another 12 ways you can save money with a free Juniata County Library card: 1. Let us get you a book from another library: if we are unable to purchase a book for our collection, we can look to borrow it from another library. You can submit requests in person or on our website. 2. Borrow print and digital reference books: we still have reference books in print, but many ...

Think this is hot? Don’t sweat it

We have entered the dog days of summer. Those days when your makeup melts off before you even make it out of the bathroom. When you step outside and understand how it must feel to endure the purification process inside a traditional Mexican sweat lodge. How would I know that you may ask — because I indeed took part in an ancient Mayan ceremonial experience in a sweat lodge somewhere in the depths of the jungle in Cozumel. It all began when my all-inclusive resort package offered the option to experience a true Mayan religious ceremony. Wanting to immerse myself in the culture, ...

Old book unfinished, new one is better

I confess. I wasn’t able to finish Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin. I’m sure it’s a very good book and I hope that the author will appear on talk shows and that will motivate me to finish the novel. Here’s the deal: I give myself one week (seven days) to finish a book. So if I read 50 pages a day, that means the book is very good and I don’t want to put it down. Potentially, I can read a 350 page book in a week. Fifty pages a day was a struggle for me and then another book that I had on hold arrived. Isn’t that always the way? Every time I put ...

12 ways you save money with a Juniata County Library card

When my father was growing up and would move to a new town, the first thing he would do is find the nearest library and get a library card. One of the many things he taught me was how to save money and find ways to cut costs. A free library card with the Juniata County Library is your ticket to saving money! Any Pennsylvania resident, from Juniata county or any of the other 66 counties, can get a Juniata County library card for free. Here are 12 ways you can save money and cut costs with your free Juniata County Library card: 1. Borrow books from us: We carry over 50,000 physical ...

Reading Jimmy’s Book Club selection

A couple of months ago, I wrote that I was eagerly waiting for Jimmy Fallon to begin his Book Club selection. In the past, and really, he’s only done this twice before, Jimmy would talk about a different book each night, usually in July. On Friday, after the show aired, viewers could vote on Twitter for the book that they thought they wanted to read for the Fallon Book Club. I don’t have Twitter, but I wanted to see which books would be talked about and which book would be the big winner. Sometime in August, the author appeared and Jimmy interviewed them. Not this year! This ...

Library workers face trauma, stress and burnout on the job

Presented at the 2022 American Library Association’s (ALA) annual conference was a groundbreaking study that detailed the trauma, stress, and burnout library workers face in the workplace. The results of the study are relevant to not only library workers but customer service workers outside of libraries. Andrew Albanese in Publishers Weekly summarized the study titled “The 2022 Urban Libraries Unite Trauma Study,” which draws upon “a wide-ranging literature review, survey responses from more than 435 urban library workers (conducted between August and September 2021), focus ...