Manchester City Library

It is with great pleasure that I get to announce the release of the Libraries’ Spring Newsletter. The newsletter is produced quarterly by a few of our bright staff members so thank you to Amy, Karyn, Steve, Ruth, and Deb who does the layout and graphics. It’s truly a ton of work and they do a really wonderful job.

I even did my part by outlining a few of the recent changes on the website.

We’ve been busy all winter adding some Manchester Library goodies to the wide world of the Internet. Among the most exciting is a blog to help us provide updated, casual, library-related news as well as details about upcoming library events. The information there also shows up on the front page of the website. This means that you’ll find an accurate, up-to-date list of events in both library buildings right on our front page.

These are some more of the changes we’ve made:

• If you’re a blog reader, you can subscribe to library news and library events via our RSS feeds. If you prefer to have your information by email [news email or events email], you can do that, too! There are links for both RSS and email at the bottom of the news and events columns.
• In order to show off the richness of daily life inside the library, we’ve joined 375 libraries worldwide in the 365 Library Days Project. The concept is simple: we’ve committed to post a library-related photo for every day of the year. You can see the photos in a banner on our website or track our progress at Flickr.
• If you have been frustrated by the number of clicks it takes to get from our front page to the screen to search the library’s collection, you’ll be happy that there is now a search box right on the homepage. Underneath that is a link to renew your books online with your library card number and a PIN (be sure to obtain your PIN through at the circulation desk first).