Stress Management Workshop for Library Staff

Please join us for a stress management and coping skills workshop presented by nationally renowned psychologist and best-selling author Patricia O’Gorman, Ph.D.  Learn how to manage the daily stresses of the workplace and how to cope with difficult situations from an expert.

Participants will earn 3 contact hours for attending a workshop and will receive mileage reimbursement.

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Mental Health Workshop for Library Staff

When: Next Wednesday, May 19th

Where: Saratoga Springs Public Library, Harry Dutcher Community Room

Join the CDPC Mental Health Players as they portray precarious library scenarios and answer questions about mental illness. The Mental Health Players are an improvisational theater group whose task is to develop a better community understanding of mental health problems and to dispel the myths, misconceptions and stigma surrounding major mental illnesses.  Following lunch will be a discussion with a mental health professional.

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New “Always Available” eAudiobooks

Can you believe it has been about 1 year since the SALON project began offering downloadable eAudiobooks for people living in  Hamilton, Saratoga, Warren and Washington County?  Over 2500 people have signed in to listen to approximately 9500 eAudiobooks.

The collection development committee met last week to refresh the list of “Always Available” eAudiobooks.   Here is a list of the new offerings:

Comfort Food by Kate Jacobs
Faceless Killers by Henning Mankell
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Knit the Season by Kate Jacobs
Lily White by Susan Isaacs
Marine One by James W. Huston
Master and Commander by Patrick O’Brien
The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Steveson
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte