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Record Breaking Circ!

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Sunday
Feb 10,2008

In June the Meadville Public Library circulated a record 30,068 items. That averages an item being checked out every 31 seconds that the library is open. This is the first time in the library’s 127-year history in which over 30,000 books were circulated in one month.

John Brice, Executive Director, comments that “The last two weeks were especially busy in June. Every time I walked through the library there were many patrons using computers, reading newspapers and checking out lots of items. The Children’s Room has been especially busy this year.â€

In one category alone, Children’s picture books, circulation rose from 2,775 items in May to 8,646 books in June. The library also saw increases over May in fiction, magazines, videos, and YA Fiction.

In June the Non-Fiction Department checked out 6,090 items. Pat Bailey, Adult Services Librarian said that “not only books but foot traffic into the library has increased. We are seeing more and more people use our Internet computers and we have seen large increase in the number of patrons connecting to the web through our Wireless hotspot.â€

Fiction’s 7,183 circulation was an increase of over 1,200 books from last year. Joice Imel, Fiction Librarian hearing the news exclaimed, â€Cool, that makes seven months of increases for the Fiction Department! I am especially pleased to see Young Adult circulation rise. We have been expanding the YA collection for over a year and the kids are really responding to the new books.â€

Children’s circulation for June was 16,795 items up over 3,000 from last year. Mary Lee Minnis, Children’s Librarian was unavailable to comment because “it is just to busy to think up something clever to sayâ€. Once she caught her breath she said, “Summertime is always such a pleasure because the the children are enthusiastic and take great pleasure in exploring new things to read. I can always sit down again after the the ten weeks of summer reading club are over.â€

The previous monthly circulation record was set in June 2004 when 29,371 books circulated. The past 12 months circulation for the library now stands at 247,244 which is 4,523 items higher than last year.

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    • “God Hath Pitched His Tent”

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    Friday
    Feb 8,2008
    -Susan Cummings
    10-27-07
    2:00 PM

    “God Hath Pitched His Tentâ€

    In the vision, I saw a huge vast valley stretched out before me. It was so wide that it actually looked more like a plain. But it was a valley that had been prepared and that had seen many battles in it’s history. There was much blood spilled on the ground and you could feel it through the ground rising up to be released.
    All throughout the valley were men and battle gear, and machines, and the various camps they were all stationed at. There were men that had gathered into an area, so I felt to go and see what they were saying. They were generals and many leaders of their various camps and they had come together to solidify their plans and to take stock of their inventory that had been brought with them. Each leader was given a certain area to patrol and to be responsible for. Each general gave them their positions and their orders for engagement. “This time, the timing is going to be perfect,†he said to them.
    I noticed then that there were no people anywhere. Not even helping in the ranks among the troops. I did not see any in the valley where the troops had amassed. I asked someone where the people were. A voice said, Oh, they are all in the infirmary.â€
    Then I was suddenly taken to the infirmary and shown the place where the people were. There was a place set apart from the valley area where the troops were gathered, it was set up in a blasted out area, like where a rock quarry once had been. There were high rock walls of earth and debris and then a flat open area was seen, this was where all of the good things of that area had been removed long ago. The infirmary was built here. There were multitudes lined up that were as far as you could see. They were lined up in rows. They each had a number around their neck and they were waiting for their turn in the waiting room. Rows upon rows of people who were standing like they were half-alive, overly tired, or they had been broken down somehow. Each one just stood and waited.
    Then suddenly, I was back at the original valley scene looking down at the vast array of men and armament, and all of their preparations. I then heard Jesus voice. He said, “This Valley is your City. These are your leaders. They are preparing for My coming. They have heard that I am coming to set My People free. You see their plans and their strategies. But they have failed to walk with Me, so they will miss what I will bring.â€
    Then I heard a loud audible voice above me in the air. It cried out loudly, “God Hath Pitched His Tent.â€
    Then suddenly multitudes of angels descended with a tent that flew upon the winds. It had a glorious light that emanated from it, and it went over to the North East Side of the Valley area, outside the camps of the multitudes of leaders and men. It was near the edge of the forest that started at the edge of the valley floor, before it rose up the slopes of the mountains.
    The tent then was set upon the ground and the land shook when it landed. The whole camp of the leaders and men were shaken and they wondered at the shaking. But they saw nothing, and they quickly went about organizing their plans. The angels busily began to blow trumpets, but nothing was heard, no sound came out of them that I could hear. The Lord was still beside me as I watched. He said to me, “The sound that they are blowing, is My Voice. My Sheep will hear My Voice, and will come to Me.†After a few minutes of watching, the Tent seemed to grow larger as it was settled into place. But as I looked closer it was not the Tent that grew, but the Glory that emanated from it.
    A wind began to blow in the valley, and it was swirling around the camp of the troops, the leaders, and the generals that had gathered in the valley. It was like a huge whirlwind that was enveloping the whole scene down below, surrounding them and debris was being scattered all around. The wind blew their papers everywhere, and their plans were thrown down off of their tables. The leaders began to cry out and to try to catch their papers, while others began to order the troops to build a wall to protect them against the winds. Troops ran in all directions, and they stuffed all the papers, trash, and whatever they could find that was not important into bags and built a chest high wall that offered some relief.
    As the winds blew into the camp of the men, the Tent was radiating with the glory of God and the angels were blowing their trumpets. Soon, I could see a line of people coming from the rock quarry. They had heard the Lord’s Voice and had come out of the waiting room in the infirmary and had followed the sound. I went over closer to see them. I asked one of them how they knew they were to leave. The man close to me, said, “I heard the voice saying whosoever is hungry and thirsty, come and follow Me. I have not eaten any food or drank any water for years. I have dreamed of this day. I saw an angel standing by me in the waiting room, and he showed me to follow Him, and we went out through the storage room. Then, I find myself walking in this line right here.†He looked so disoriented and yet relieved to be out of the infirmary. There were so many behind him and around him that were also in similar conditions.
    Then, I saw the Tent. It was now surrounded by the angels and the people were going into the Tent. I wondered how so many people would fit into the Tent. The Lord said, in My House are many mansions, and I have prepared a place for each, to meet with Me. They have found their place, and now I will reveal to them My Face.â€
    One by one, they emerged radiating with the same Glory as that which emanated from the Tent.
    The Lord then said, “No one that is not found within My House, will partake of My Glory. For I will not let men touch My Glory nor control Me anymore. They have received their just reward. For they did not love Me more than themselves nor of all their works. They will now partake of their works, but will not partake of Me. I have been given to the thirsty and to the hungry. Those who hear My Voice, and those who will indeed come to Me, will be healed and truly set free. This is your destiny, to both hear and to see, what will now befall thee and those within your city. For to you has come the Glory, but to many will now come the Winds of Adversity. For I Have Pitched My Tent.â€
    2 Corinthians 12:9b Therefore, I will all the more gladly glory in my weaknesses and my infirmities, that the strength and power of Christ (the Messiah) may rest (yes, may pitch a tent over and dwell) upon me!
    Job 29:2-4 Oh, that I were as the months of old, as in the days when God watched over me. When His lamp shone above and upon my head and by His light I walked through darkness; As I was in the (prime) ripeness of my days, when the friendship and counsel of God were over my tent.
    1 Corinthians 10:1FOR I do not want you to be ignorant, brethren, that our forefathers were all under and protected by the cloud [in which God’s Presence went before them], and every one of them passed safely through the [Red] Sea, 2And each one of them [allowed himself also] to be baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea [they were thus brought under obligation to the Law, to Moses, and to the covenant, consecrated and set apart to the service of God]; 3And all [of them] ate the same spiritual (supernaturally given) food. 4And they all drank the same spiritual (supernaturally given) drink. For they drank from a spiritual Rock which followed them [produced by the sole power of God Himself without natural instrumentality], and the Rock was Christ. 5Nevertheless, God was not pleased with the great majority of them, for they were overthrown and strewn down along [the ground] in the wilderness.
    Exodus 16: 4Then the Lord said to Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from the heavens for you; and the people shall go out and gather a day’s portion every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in My law or not.
    35And the Israelites ate manna forty years, until they came to a habitable land; they ate the manna until they came to the border of the land of Canaan .
    Exodus 17: 6Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock at [Mount] Horeb; and you shall strike the rock, and water shall come out of it, that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel .
    Numbers 20: 11And Moses lifted up his hand and with his rod he smote the rock twice. And the water came out abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their livestock.
    Isaiah 51: 1HEARKEN TO Me, you who follow after rightness and justice, you who seek and inquire of [and require] the Lord [claiming Him by necessity and by right]: look to the rock from which you were hewn and to the hole in the quarry from which you were dug; 2Look to Abraham your father and to Sarah who bore you; for I called him when he was but one, and I blessed him and made him many.3For the Lord will comfort Zion; He will comfort all her waste places. And He will make her wilderness like Eden , and her desert like the garden of the Lord. Joy and gladness will be found in her, thanksgiving and the voice of song or instrument of praise.
    -Susan Cummings
    10-27-07
    2:00 PM

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    • Poor Han Solo

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    Thursday
    Feb 7,2008

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    • As a new edition of a classic biochem text hits the shelves, CALS scientists and illustrators catch their breath

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    Tuesday
    Feb 5,2008

    lehninger-cover_.jpgA crisp new edition of a classic biochemistry text is now available from booksellers in college towns and online. And that means that four people on the UW-Madison can put their feet up for a while. (more…)

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    • Property Tax Relief Bill Moves Ahead As End of Legislative Session Looms

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    Sunday
    Feb 3,2008

    The latest version of a property-tax plan offered by House and Senate Republicans giving Hoosiers an immediate 30-percent cut in homestead property taxes is still not enough for some Democratic lawmakers in East Central Indiana.
    Among those opposing the plan is State Senator Sue Errington from Muncie, who voted against House Bill 1001. With property tax caps on homesteads based on assessed valuation instead of income, wealthy homeowners will get more of a break while middle income people with lower valued homes will see less while still paying an extra 1 cent in sales taxes.

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    • Measuring Business Blogging Success

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    Saturday
    Feb 2,2008

    It’s easy to start a blog. Not so easy to be successful. But what is success? Especially for a business blog?   Some of the measurable outcomes from business blogging include:

    • Media attention
    • Speaking requests
    • Customer loyalty
    • Inbound links to the blog
    • Search engine ranking for the corporate site
    • Corporate website traffic
    • Leads/sales initiated
    • Volume of blog traffic
    • Technorati and other credible rankings
    • Search engine ranking for the blog
    • Increased company visibility within the industry
    • Increased media coverage
    • Improved customer loyalty
    • Increased sales leads/revenue/new customers

    And there are more depending on the purpose of the blog, whether it’s to create thought leadership, announce new products, offer SEO friendly content for a troublesome CMS or ecommerce platform, generate leads, support media relations initiatives or simply serve as a sounding board for ideas.  The true measure of success for a business blog is entirely predicated on its purpose.

    Once defined, implemented and measurements are put in place, any business can create a successful blog. It’s simply a matter of time, resources and a willingness to try until “what works” reveals itself.   Here’s a more detailed exploration of this idea as well as a long list of considerations that companies need to be aware of when starting a company blog. If you’re into checklists, then be sure to read Stephan’s “Essential Checklist for Starting a Blog“.

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