Periodical Back Issues
Hinsdale Public Library will be discarding the 2006 issues of its periodicals. This is to make room for the 2009 issues. Beginning November 15th and ending November 30th current Hinsdale Public Library card holders may request a maximum of five (5) periodical titles. These requests will be considered on a first-come-first served basis. Request forms will be available at both the Reference and Concierge desks. Once the requested back issues have been pulled individuals will be notified and will have three (3) days to pick them up from the Tech Services office.
Email Newsletter, Overdues, Hold Notices and Courtesy Notices — Oh My!
When you give us your email address, here’s what you’ll receive:
Sent to you from Hinsdale Public Library:
• Our Email Newsletter will come to you every month with information about what is happening at the library along with pertinent information about us.
Sent to you from Metropolitan Library System:
• Overdue Notices will let you
know when your items are two weeks overdue and if you forget again you will receive a second overdue notice at four weeks overdue.
• Hold Notices will let you know when the item that you placed on hold is at the library waiting for you to pick it up.
• Courtesy Notices are just that - a courtesy to let you know that your items will be due in three days.
Though we hope that you receive your notices in a timely manner, you are ultimately responsible for your items to be returned on time.
Please remember that if you change your email carrier you should let us know so we can change it in your record.
SPAM blockers sometimes stop us from delivering your email so it may be best for you to put us into your address book.
There are sometimes glitches in the system but you may always check your record online through the library’s web site at
www.hinsdalelibrary.info or call us at
630.986.1976 and we will be glad to answer any questions about due dates, placing items on hold or if the item you need is on our shelf.
Forms that you can use to give us your email address are available at each of the library service desks.
Staff In-Service Day
The library will be closed Friday, March 7 for a Staff In-Service Day. The book drop will remain open.
Elevator Out of Service
The library elevator will be out of service due to refurbishment.
Construction Project Complete: A Job Well Done
Our construction is complete and library staff is putting the finishing touches onto the renovation project. The adult fiction collection has been relocated, the Teen Lounge is open and the Meeting Room on the lower level is accepting room reservations.
It has been exciting to participate in the changes of the library. All of the elements of the library’s improvements including the energy efficient lighting, new color scheme and furniture, technology upgrades, and space redesign have resulted in a community learning center that functions more effectively for its users.
The staff is pleased to bring all of the library’s collections back from storage and organize them in sensible and more accessible ways.
Changing the library’s hours of operation during the renovation project allowed staff to evaluate how the library could be used in different ways. Traffic patterns and circulation statistics – materials borrowed and returned - showed high levels of use on Sunday afternoons. Staff proposed to the board of trustees that the library remain open on Sundays throughout the year rather than close during the summer months. When the library resumes its morning hours of operation on March 10, these hours will also include a full seven day a week schedule for the entire year.
Elsewhere in this newsletter you will read about our opening events during National Library Week in mid-April. Please plan to be at the library with trustees and neighbors as we celebrate the library’s transformation and a job well done.
Lynn Elam, Executive Director