North Baltimore Public Library

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The North Baltimore Public Library receives mini-Grant!

Library Director Lesley McKinstry is pleased to announce that the Library has been awarded an LSTA mini-grant by the State Library of Ohio in the amount of $15,794.

The grants were proposed along a “Trading Spaces” concept where the Director and staff of the Library would propose changes to “spruce up” the look and feel of the Library creating a more comfortable, user-friendly atmosphere. Ideas could include new furniture, new signage, new lights, and new equipment.

Lesley and our staff talked many hours last year about how we would like to improve our Library’s “look” and “feel”. We’ve already done some changes; moving and expanding some areas and made better use of existing furniture, and now we can add many new pieces of furniture and signs.

We hope the Library will become even more comfortable for our patrons to use. We invite you stop by and take some time to sit and read a good book in one of the many sitting areas we have.

Watch for changes in the coming months!

Picture of original construction completed in 1958. We've come a long way since then.

230 North Main Street
North Baltimore, Ohio 45872

Phone: 419-257-3621 Fax: 419-257-3859

The North Baltimore Public Library strives to serve the entire community's needs for learning and entertainment through print and non-print media, in an atmosphere both open and supportive of patrons' information needs.

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture.
Just get people to stop reading them.
~ Ray Bradbury ~

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Our May selection: WATER FOR ELEPHANTS

by Sara Gruen

From Publishers Weekly
With its spotlight on elephants, Gruen's romantic page-turner hinges on the human-animal bonds. The novel, told in flashback by nonagenarian Jacob Jankowski, recounts the wild and wonderful period he spent with the Benzini Brothers “Most Spectacular Show on Earth”, a traveling circus he joined during the Great Depression. When 23-year-old Jankowski learns that his parents have been killed in a car crash, leaving him penniless, he drops out of Cornell veterinary school and parlays his expertise with animals into a job with the circus, where he cares for a menagerie of exotic creatures[...]

Despite her often clichéd prose and the predictability of the story's ending, Gruen skillfully humanizes the midgets, drunks, rubes and freaks who populate her book.

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Last updated March 12th, 2008 by S. Cram

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