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If there is inclement weather outside, please call the library before venturing out.  You can reach the main library in Gettysburg at 334-5716, ext. 225,  where you can get an update on any library in system.

You can also check on WGAL, Channel 8 to see if the library is closed.

If there is inclement weather, the library will be flexible on due dates and fines.  Please be safe this winter season.

eBooks are up!

Happy reading!

We have received notification from our eBook provider that the Cloud Library will be down for maintenance on Tuesday, December 18th.  Here is the information that we have at this time:

We are pushing another update to the 3M Cloud Library System as a part of our effort to continue to improve upon our overall system and to address certain issues. The implementation of this update will occur on Tuesday December 18th at 12:00AM CST and will cause our system to be down for 4- 8 hours. Due to the nature of this update we will have to shut down the system completely, which means patrons and libraries will not have access to any applications or programs on the 3M Cloud Library. This is due to the nature of this update and to ensure that everything is implemented correctly, we do apologize for this inconvenience.

We will let everyone know when the eBook service resumes.

Want to know when your library is going to be closed over the Holidays?

This should easily answer your questions.

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Kids InfoBits contains full-text proprietary content from Blackbirch Press® and U•X•L. Also included are more than 100 full-text, age-appropriate magazines, more than 6,400 searchable, indexed images, Merriam-Webster®’s Elementary Dictionary and 1,200 maps, flags & seals and over 1,700 colorful charts and graphs. It features a developmentally appropriate and visual graphic interface.

Broad subject categories include animals, arts & entertainment, geography, health, history & social studies, inventions & technology, plants, people, science & math, sports, stories & literature and transportation. Users may explore these
categories, working their way down to more specific subcategories, or they may perform subject or advanced searches.

Books & Authors brings ease, authority and fun to the question of “what do I read next?” It is the reader’s go-to site for everything: book suggestions from
experts, titles, biographies and more. It complements the browsing habits of today’s Web user, with menus that easily broaden and narrow searches according to author, title, character, subject and other criteria.

This “best of both worlds” arrangement combines the depth of Gale expertise in literature with the Internet’s capacity to build and foster communities of readers:

• More than 146,000 titles in a continually growing list

• All books are recommended by librarians or other experts, are award winners or appear on bestseller lists

• 54,000 authors are represented via biographies and other resources

• 40,000 nonfiction titles are included in business, biography, science and more

• Fiction selections reflect the genres readers like best: mystery, science fiction, inspirational, romance, nonfiction, western, horror and fantasy

On behalf of the Friends of the Library, attached is a flyer for a fundraiser at Ruby Tuesday’s.  On November 30^th  and December 1^st and 2^nd if you dine there and present the flyer to your server, Ruby Tuesday (25 Camp Letterman Drive) will “give back” 20% of your purchase to the Friends of the Library.

Please feel free to share this flyer with your family, friends and neighbors.

We thank you for your continued support.

The East Berlin Community Library is proud to present local Abbottstown author Jill Pritchett, author of the novel View From My Soul. Jill will be offering a reading of her novel on Thursday November, 29th at 6:30 pm inside the library. Jill is also an accomplished artist and will be bringing some of her artwork along as well.

Here is a review of her novel published on Amazon.com, “Sarah Seere, coal baron heiress, debuting psychic, mountain climber and equestrienne, has some monumental dilemmas to resolve: Two murders. A missing child. A threatening foe. A budding practice as a psychic. Sure she’s bewildered. And even her psychic powers seem uncertain. It’s a beautiful autumn day when Sarah rides her horse up Stony Mountain and discovers a crime scene. Another young girl, Katie Sackett, has been brutally murdered, her body dumped on the mountain. As Sarah approaches, Katie’s ghost makes an impassioned plea: Will Sarah find the man who killed her? Riding away, Sarah finds herself involved in an interview with the local TV station, WSTB. That evening, the news anchor wraps up the murder segment by stating that Sarah is using her psychic abilities to discover the identity of the killer. He’s beaten two girls to death. Now the news reveals that some busybody psychic is after him. There’s only one thing he can do about it, and he has to do it soon—find and kill the psychic.”

To save your seat for this event, please contact library staff by calling 717-259-9000 or emailing eblib@adamslibrary.org. We hope to see you there!

There will be scheduled outage impacting the 3M Cloud Library system Saturday, November 10th 2012 starting at 3:00 pm until 6:00 pm EST.

Why is this happening?
3M is implementing a major network upgrade to increase their network capacity, which in turn will make their network even more reliable and faster, in addition to enabling future expandability as they continue to grow. Due to the nature of this upgrade, it cannot be performed without an outage. During the times specified, you may experience sporadic or no access to the 3M Cloud Library system.

How does this affect you?
You will be able to read the books you currently have checked out but will not be able to browse, search or check out any new materials.