From Our Director

Dear Jesup community,

Happy May Day! As the month turns over, all our thoughts are on the expansion. I’m happy to report that the library is past the first milestone in getting the elevator certified. With only two more steps in that process, and with all the work being done on the interior and exterior by the contractors and subcontractors, we are that much closer to being able to open our doors to you. I’m pretty dang confident in saying that you will be able to come into the building before the end of this month. However, opening the doors doesn’t mean this project is done. So many post-construction projects are in the works right now, and those will be going on concurrently with our soft opening. We’re planning a grand opening in the second half of July - actual date to be announced in the next newsletter.

Starting today, May 1st, your Jesup Library card includes access to Kanopy’s collection of critically-acclaimed movies, inspiring documentaries, award-winning foreign films, and popular TV series. Kanopy includes access to Great Courses, and there’s also a dedicated Kanopy Kids area with shows geared for preschoolers and other youngsters.

Kanopy is an ad-free video streaming service that you can access on your phone, tablet, computer, or smart TV. Once the Kanopy app is downloaded, you can set up an account using your Jesup Library card number. Every month, you’ll receive 25 tickets to use for streaming.

Visit your Kanopy platform at https://jesuplibrary.kanopy.com/ and follow the prompts to enter your library card credentials and create a Kanopy account. Users are required to create a Kanopy account immediately after entering valid library credentials.

Your booksale crew is now keeping regular hours to accept donations. We will be at our sorting location on Tuesdays from 4 to 5:30pm, Saturdays from 1 to 3pm, or by appointment through Ruth (ruth.eveland@gmail.com and 207-610-2355) if you can’t make those times. 

The sale will begin on August the 15th and last for several days this year. We will be back in the Jesup, using the new community room and commons spaces. We will be able to set up before Saturday morning and will be indoors so we’ll be able to set up more Specials than the last few years. 

The call for volunteers will go out at the end of the month. We will need people to move the books from our sorting location to the Jesup, to help set up, to sell for several days, and then to pack up the remaining items and move them out. If you have helped in the past, Ruth will be in touch. If you are new to this experience and interested in helping, please contact Ruth. This is a wonderful community event and a great way to meet fellow readers. 

As always we accept a wide variety of books, but not items that smell funny or have wavy pages, old textbooks (unless they are the seminal text for a field), outdated medical and financial books, dictionaries unless they are in other languages, or more copies of The DaVinci Code. Puzzles and games are welcome as long as they have all their pieces; directions are helpful for games.  Records, CD’s. DVD’s are welcome, but we can’t use videotapes or cassettes since there are so few people able to play them any more. 

Let’s make this our best-ever sale.  Since we will be back in the library, we may try a few new tweaks, so please make sure this is on your calendar!