Stroud Public Library will celebrate National Library Week by once again offering to forgive fines for overdue materials. It doesn’t matter if the borrowed item is days or months late as long as it is in good shape and ready to be borrowed again. So, during your attack on dust bunnies (a.k.a. spring cleaning) check for late library books!
Since receiving the annual State-aid money, the library has 124 new books.
Funds from the American Rescue Plan Act grant provided through the Institute of Museum and Library Services and the Oklahoma Department of Libraries have purchased a Chromebook Flex 3 for teens, a Fire 8 for Kids with lots of Amazon Kids+ content for the younger kids, and for the little ones a water doodle mat and an interactive alphabet poster all for use in the library. The library also purchased fun new book bags and a whiteboard that you will see in the Tiny Tots reading program this year.
The ARPA grant is to help libraries in responding to COVID-19, so the library also received many items for sanitization/PPE: two new hand sanitizer stands found at each door, dividers between the computers and at the circulation desk, a wireless barcode scanner, four easy-to-clean chairs, masks and headphone covers for patron use, and a UV sanitizing light.
Librarians also discovered that there exists a thing called anti-microbial pens. The surface of these ink pens resists the growth of viruses and bacteria and are safer for use by multiple people.