Here’s the new books you can find at Yates Community Library this month:

Adult Fiction:

Postmistress, by Sarah Blake
Ordinary Thunderstorms, by William Boyd
Forbidden Falls, by Robyn Carr
Red Velvet Turnshoe, by Cassandra Clark
The Yellow House, by Patricia Falvey
Deeper Than the Dead, by Tami Hoag (Audiobook)
A Wife’s Tale, by Lori Lansens
La’s Orchestra Saves the World, by Alexander McCall-Smith
Lying With the Dead, by Michael Mewshaw
Vanishing Act, by Fern Michaels
The Information Officer, by Mark Mills
The Many Deaths of the Firefly Brothers, by Thomas Mullen
Too Much Happiness, by Alice Munro
Worst Case, by James Patterson
Across the Years, A Dream to Call My Own, & Under the Lights, by Tracie Peterson
Model Home, by Eric Puchner
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society, by Mary Ann Shaffer
Last Snow, by Eric Van Lustbader

Adult Non-Fiction:

Double Take:  A Memoir, by Kevin Michael Connolly
The Giant Encyclopedia of Circle Time and Group Activities for Children
Bomber Boys:  Heroes Who Flew the B-17s in World War II
Intrepid:  The Story of America’s Most Legendary Warship
Ghostbread, by Sonja Livingston
Worship in the Melting Pot, by Peter Masters
Salad Leaves for All Seasons, by Charles Dowding
Embryonic and Adult Stem Cells
Teen Suicide
Alternative Therapies
Vaccines

Juvenile Fiction:

Star Wars, Episode I:  four volumes
Star Wars, Episode II:  four volumes
Robot Dreams
The Day of the Pelican
Paint the Wind
Now it is Winter
Where Should Turtle Be?
Out of the Ballpark!
The Lion and the Mouse
The Evolution of Capurnia Tate

Juvenile Non-Fiction:

Claudette Colvin:  Twice Toward Justice
Scholastic Book of World Records 2010
Solar Power
Water Power
Wind Power
The Internet and the World Wide Web
Movies and Video
Polar Bears
Wolves
Medical Technology
Forensic Biology
The Story of Coca-Cola
Ancient Technologies:  Egypt
Ancient Technologies:  Rome
The Story of the Buffalo Bills
The Story of the New England Patriots
The Story of the Philadelphia Eagles

Young Adult Fiction:

Wild Girls
The Ranger’s Apprentice:  Erak’s Ransom  (book #7 in series)

As we ring in the New Year, we have several new books for you!

Adult Fiction:

Sizzle (Garwood)
Evening’s Empire (Flanagan)
Noah’s Compass (Anne Tyler)
Not My Daughter (Delinsky)
Unfinished Desires (Godwin)
Beloved on Earth (poems)

Adult Non-Fiction:

Making the Most of Your Money (Jane Bryant Quinn)

Kids’ Fiction:

Minerva Louise and the Colorful Eggs
Danielle the Daisy Fairy
Ella the Rose Fairy
Olivia the Orchid Fairy
Dino Pets
Operation Teamwork
Firehouse Fun!
Penny
Bird’s Best Friend
A Cars Christmas
Crimson Dynamo Reruns
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
Stuck in the Mud
Here Comes the Great Big Dust Bunny!

Kids’ Non-Fiction:

1,2,3 - I Can Build!
Sea Monsters
Trucks!

Here’s a list of the new books the Library received in December:

Adult Fiction:

31 Hours (Hamilton)
Americans in Space (Mitchell)
Bed and Breakfast (Battle)
Bed of Roses (Roberts)
Blood Game (Johansen)
Bone by Bone (O’Connell)
Breaking the Rules (Bradford)
Evidence (J. Kellerman)
Finding Stefanie (Warren)
Ford County (Grisham)
Grave Secret (Harris)
Haiku (Vachss)
The Help (Stockett)
The Humbling (Roth)
I, Alex Cross (J. Patterson)
Kindred in Death (Robb)
Last Night in Twisted River (Irving)
The Missing (Lewis)
No Less Than Victory (Shaara)
No Time to Wave Goodbye (Mitchard)
Pursuit of Honor (Flynn)
Rainwater (S. Brown)
The Scarpetta Factor (Cornwell)
The Secret (Lewis)
True Blue (Baldacci)
U is for Undertow (Grafton)
Undone (Slaughter)
The Wrecker (Cussler)
The Wrong Mother (S. Hannah)

Holiday Adult Fiction:

Amish Christmas:  December in Lancaster County (Wiseman)
Christmas Blizzard (Keillor)
Christmas Cake (Hinton)
Creed Country Christmas (L. L. Miller)
The Perfect Christmas (Macomber)
That Holiday Feeling (Macomber)
The Christmas List (R. P. Evans)

Biographies:

My Dad Knew Santa Claus:  The True Story of Christmas Park and the Santa Claus School in Albion, NY (Johnson)
American on Purpose:  The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot (Ferguson)
Going Rogue:  An American Life (Palin)
True Compass (Kennedy)
Lit (Karr)
We’ll Be Here For the Rest of Our Lives (Shaffer)

Other Adult Non-Fiction:

Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man (Harvey)
Better Homes & Gardens Best Christmas Ideas
Christmas With Southern Living 2009
Feltique:  Techniques & Projects
Have a Little Faith (Albom)
Leonard Maltin’s Movie Guide 2010
Mason-Dixon Knitting:  The Curious Knitters’ Guide
Mean Mothers (Streep)

Young Adult Fiction:

Catching Fire (Collins)
Everafter (Huntley)
Shadowland (Noel)
The Hunchback Assignments (Slade)

Kids’ Fiction:

Otis
I Will Be Especially Very Careful
Diary of a Wimpy Kid #4
Odd and the Frost Giants

Kids’ Holiday Fiction:

I Spy Little Christmas
No Room at the Inn
The Christmas Sweater
On This Special Night
Maddie’s Gift

New DVDs:

Up
The Mask of Zorro
Little Fish
King Kong
Blue Crush
Happy Feet
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Beyond the Gates
Bobby Jones’ Stroke of Genius
Grand Canyon
Betwitched:  the first three episodes from the first season
The Great Escape
DreamGirls
The Heartbreak Kid

 Check back often for more new books!

Here’s a list of the new books the Library received in December:

Adult Fiction:

31 Hours (Hamilton)
Americans in Space (Mitchell)
Bed and Breakfast (Battle)
Bed of Roses (Roberts)
Blood Game (Johansen)
Bone by Bone (O’Connell)
Breaking the Rules (Bradford)
Evidence (J. Kellerman)
Finding Stefanie (Warren)
Ford County (Grisham)
Grave Secret (Harris)
Haiku (Vachss)
The Help (Stockett)
The Humbling (Roth)
I, Alex Cross (J. Patterson)
Kindred in Death (Robb)
Last Night in Twisted River (Irving)
The Missing (Lewis)
No Less Than Victory (Shaara)
No Time to Wave Goodbye (Mitchard)
Pursuit of Honor (Flynn)
Rainwater (S. Brown)
The Scarpetta Factor (Cornwell)
The Secret (Lewis)
True Blue (Baldacci)
U is for Undertow (Grafton)
Undone (Slaughter)
The Wrecker (Cussler)
The Wrong Mother (S. Hannah)

Holiday Adult Fiction:

Amish Christmas:  December in Lancaster County (Wiseman)
Christmas Blizzard (Keillor)
Christmas Cake (Hinton)
Creed Country Christmas (L. L. Miller)
The Perfect Christmas (Macomber)
That Holiday Feeling (Macomber)
The Christmas List (R. P. Evans)

Biographies:

My Dad Knew Santa Claus:  The True Story of Christmas Park and the Santa Claus School in Albion, NY (Johnson)
American on Purpose:  The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot (Ferguson)
Going Rogue:  An American Life (Palin)
True Compass (Kennedy)
Lit (Karr)
We’ll Be Here For the Rest of Our Lives (Shaffer)

Other Adult Non-Fiction:

Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man (Harvey)
Better Homes & Gardens Best Christmas Ideas
Christmas With Southern Living 2009
Feltique:  Techniques & Projects
Have a Little Faith (Albom)
Leonard Maltin’s Movie Guide 2010
Mason-Dixon Knitting:  The Curious Knitters’ Guide
Mean Mothers (Streep)

Young Adult Fiction:

Catching Fire (Collins)
Everafter (Huntley)
Shadowland (Noel)
The Hunchback Assignments (Slade)

Kids’ Fiction:

Otis
I Will Be Especially Very Careful
Diary of a Wimpy Kid #4
Odd and the Frost Giants

Kids’ Holiday Fiction:

I Spy Little Christmas
No Room at the Inn
The Christmas Sweater
On This Special Night
Maddie’s Gift

New DVDs:

Up
The Mask of Zorro
Little Fish
King Kong
Blue Crush
Happy Feet
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Beyond the Gates
Bobby Jones’ Stroke of Genius
Grand Canyon
Betwitched:  the first three episodes from the first season
The Great Escape
DreamGirls
The Heartbreak Kid

 Check back often for more new books!

Here is a history of the Yates Community Library
as it appears in a special pamphlet in the library:

On November 10, 1948, a group of citizens of the Lyndonville
community gathered at the Town Hall for an informational
meeting about forming a library association for the purpose
of establishing a free public library.  Six more meetings
were held, with more and more interested residents attending.

After receiving its provisional charter from New York State,
the Yates Community Library opened on July 16, 1949 with
approximately 900 donated books from local citizens.  The
new library was open ten hours per week, averaging 160
books circulated each month.  The library was located in
a small frame building on Main Street originally used as
an office for Dr. David Fraser in the 19th century, and
is currently home to Bill’s Sub Shop.

The library soon outgrew the small building and in 1952
moved into two rooms on the second floor of Yates
Town Hall.  In June of 1959, with an inventory of nearly 2,600
books, the library moved to larger accomodations in
the Weber Building on the left side of the coffee shop,
now the hardware section of the Pennysaver Market.

In May 1959, the library board voted to join with
other libraries in Orleans County, along with those
in Genesee and Niagara counties, to form the
Nioga Library System.

 In 1969, Mr. William Smith approached the library board
with an offer to give land, along with a gift of $30,000 for
the construction of a new library, providing the community
would raise matching funds.  The library board accepted
the offer and the townspeople responded generously to
the fund drive.

Within a few short months, $45,000 was pledged for the
construction of the Mary M. Smith Memorial Building,
named for Mr. Smith’s deceased wife.

 Groundbreaking ceremonies were held in the
spring of 1970.  The building was completed and dedicated
on May 2, 1971 with Congressman Barber Conable as
the featured speaker.  The new library was a
local project; no state or federal funds were
used.  Beginning with Mr. Smith’s offer through
construction, relocation, and completion, the entire
undertaking was accomplished in only two years.

 Total circulation in 1998 was in excess of 17,000
and in the past fifteen years the library has witnessed
much growth and activity.  The library has beocme
a fully funcitonal “online” library, with Internet
services used by 5,500 persons annually, an
electronic card catalog, and inter-library loans
with all libraries in the three-county system.
In the 1990s, the purchase of the MacDonald Hardware
Building on the south side of the parking lot enlarged our
property.  THe building was razed and a blacktop
parking lot was enlarged for library use as well as the
use of the community business district.

In 2001 the library hired an architect to advise on the
feasibility of enlarging our building.  After studying
the plans and proposals for three years, the board
decided on an extensive renovation of the current
facility.  In 2008, the Book House was added to the
property so that the community has access to
purchasing gently used books at minimal expense.

The community garden, giving visual interest to
Main Street, was added in 2009 and has been
well-received by the community for honoring
local citizens and enhancing Main Street.

Today, the library’s collection - including books,
audiobooks, DVDs, and magazines - numbers
over 17,000 items.  The library is open 41
hours per week to serve its 1,600 patrons.

In the coming years, the library board hopes to
continue the mission set before us to strengthen
the community through education, cultural
entertainment, outreach, and civic committment
to our community.

The Board of Trustees and Staff of
Yates Community Library
wish to thank you for sixty years
of invaluable support.

YCL Board of Trustees:

Tom Wenhold, President
Jim Watson, Vice President
Pam Durow, Secretary
Ginny Hughes, Treasurer
Gail Foss
Ed Michel
Jim Simon

YCL Staff:

Emily Cebula, Director
Nancy Bartlett
Ryan Burgess
Kelly Cousins
Margaret French