Catasauqua library: Snow White visits the library tonight
Blondie’s Rebecca Zukowski-Gillespie becomes Snow White 6 p.m. tonight, Sept. 29, in the library’s auditorium. There is a lot of room for families to enjoy Zukowski-Gillespie’s reading of the children’s classic.
The children will certainly enjoy asking Snow White about her life after living with seven dwarfs - and getting her autograph, too!
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WiFi is here! The generosity of one of our library’s patrons has allowed us to upgrade our tech environment and provide WiFi access to all our patrons.
Bring your laptops and/or devices and make yourselves comfortable in one of our cozy chairs or at one of our roomy tables.
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It’s been back to school for a month or so. The time is right to thank our student volunteers for their dedication to helping the library better serve our patrons.
Catasauqua High School students Marissa Montanez, Lucas Bloszinsky and Cody Walker are to be commended for their pleasant attitudes and fine work ethics. Thank you, Marissa, Lucas and Cody!
And thank you, also, to Boy Scout Christopher Rarick, grandson of Carol and Don Rarick, who undertook a needed library project as a requirement for a Scout badge.
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Here at The Public Library of Catasauqua, we want to take the mystery out of how to find what you want in the library. So, here’s what important to know: The key to understanding how the library is organized may be found in two words: fiction and nonfiction.
Fiction - anything that is made up - is arranged alphabetically by author. Nonfiction - anything that is factual - is arranged by the Dewey Decimal System (DDS).
Every imaginable subject has a specific DDS number. You will find both fiction and nonfiction materials for adults, teens, older children and very young children. We have an excellent collection of popular fiction by contemporary writers and a marvelous selection of biographies, which are nonfiction works arranged by the subject of the biography.
You absolutely will want to visit our children’s room upstairs for its inviting atmosphere that young children love.
Also, always remember that Kath, Kathy and I are here to help you in any way we can.
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Next month’s column will focus on what’s available online.
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New Books: Fiction: “Ada Twist, Scientist,” Andrea Beaty; “Home,” Harlan Coben; “Razor Girl,” Carl Hiaasen; “Woman of God,” James Patterson and Maxine Paetro; “Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children,” Ransom Riggs; “Apprentice in Death,” J.D. Robb; “The Light Between Oceans,” M.L. Stedman; and “Rushing Waters,” Danielle Steel.
Nonfiction: “Love Warrior,” Glenn Doyle Melton; “Killing the Rising Sun,” Bill O’Reilly; and “A People’s History of the United States, 1492-2001,” Howard Zinn.








