The library will be closed on Monday, December 31, 2012 and Tuesday, January 1, 2013 and return to regular hours on Wed., Jan. 2. Happy New Year to one and all!

New Bestseller

Notorious Nineteen, the latest edition in the long running Stephanie Plum series by Janet Evanovich has just arrived at the library and is available for circulation starting today!

Holiday Hours

Melvin Public Library will be closed all day Monday, December 24 and Tuesday, December 25 to celebrate the holidays.  Merry Christmas to all our library patrons!

eBooks at Your Library

Audiobooks and eBooks are available anytime from any place with MyMediaMall digital library.  Patrons with a valid library card can checkout and download digital content from this online service, available free to all patrons in the Illinois Heartland Library System.  Check out this link at MyMediaMall to get started!

Patterson Books

Is it possible for a library to sustain itself adding only James Patterson books to the collection?  It may soon be.  This is an author who went from writing one book a year, to a book a month, to a new book every 2 and 1/2 days.  How does he do it?  Simple--he doesn't write them anymore.  For a great noir article on the subject check out James Patterson’s “Books”: A Novel Not by James Patterson by Keir Graff; you'll get quite a chuckle out of it!

The library will be open regular hours on Wednesday, November 21 and Friday November 23 but will be closed on Thursday, November 22 to celebrate the holiday.  Happy Thanksgiving to one and all!

More New Books

A new book recently added to the library's collection is Killing Kennedy by Bill O'Reilly, popular author of both Killing Lincoln and Lincoln's Last Days.  Other new titles are Full Disclosure by Dee Henderson, Close Your Eyes by Iris Johansen and Shadow in Serenity by Terri Blackstock.