The Second Floor Librarians

Lots of folks are thinking ahead and have asked what tax information and tax help will be available at the library and other local sites this year.

Tell us how YOU use the library by taking a short survey and learn how Oregonians and people across the country are using THEIR library.

The Library has about eight Kill A Watt monitors available right now for you to check out!  The monitors can tell you the amount of electricity used by small to medium-sized electrical devices in your home.  It will also help you discover the items that are turned “off” but still draw power– adding to your [...]

Free reading and lecture by Oregon Poet Laureate Paulann Petersen who will discuss the importance of creative expression for women and read from her latest poetry collection, The Voluptuary. Wednesday, September 28 at 7:00

Ready for Fall?  The Fall Festival starts this week and the library book club also meets this week.

In honor of library card sign-up month in September, we want photos of you with your library card!    Photos will be displayed on the Library’s Facebook page.  Don’t want your face in the photo?  Feel free to get creative–take a look at this photo for one cool idea–and then email your photo to: alexandra.regan@ci.corvallis.or.us Click [...]

Quilt County 2011 If you come to the library today you will notice that it has been temporarily transformed by color and pattern.  The gorgeous quilts hanging from the atrium and on the walls of the second floor today through September 29th were made by members of the Santiam Scrappers Quilt Guild of Lebanon.  The [...]

Every summer the second floor librarians review the magazine collection at the library.  We consider adding titles that folks have suggested, we look at Library Journal‘s annual list of best new magazines, and we also consider canceling titles that are expensive and/or not well used.

There are five of us blogging for The Second Floor Librarians. You may have seen us at the reference desk or around town,  but if you don’t know who we are, here’s what we look like and something about us.

Well April rolled in yesterday, and that means Tax Day (April 18th this year) is quickly approaching. If you are a bit of a procrastinator (you know who you are) and haven’t started your taxes yet, this post is for you! Here is a recap what the library has (and doesn’t have) at tax time.