Julie Catenacci Archive | Windsor Public Library

WPL Joins Instagram!

Posted in: February 26, 2015 by Julie Catenacci | No comments

#throwbackthursday #flashbackfriday #picoftheday #instagood #bookworm #library WPL is joining the Instagram world and bringing our picture taking and hastagging to another level. WPL already has a presence on many social media platforms, such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. So far, we’ve been very successful at reaching our patrons and the wider community through these outlets. This week alone the WPL Twitter has blown up with the very popular Freedom to...

Community gardeners come in out droves despite the chill

Posted in: February 24, 2015 by Julie Catenacci | No comments

Over 50 people interested in learning more about local community gardens ventured out in the frosty temperatures last night to visit the Central Library for a documentary screening and information session. It’s tough to imagine with the snow heaped around us but for gardeners this is certainly the time to start planning! The documentary, titled “A Community of Gardeners”, presented a history of the community garden movement in the US...

HOOPLA UPDATE…it’s music to our ears!

Posted in: September 24, 2014 by Julie Catenacci | No comments

You’ve been hearing us promote our Hoopla video downloading service for a while. Well, things have just gotten even more exciting in Hoopla-land. In addition to movies and TV shows, you can now download music and audiobooks through the same easy-to-use Hoopla interface! The Hoopla music catalogue is very impressive with over 100,000 albums in a variety of genres available for you to check out. This collection is growing daily as...

Library Value Calculator

Posted in: September 10, 2014 by Julie Catenacci | No comments

You know that satisfied feeling you get when you score a really good deal on something? You can get that feeling every time you use a resource from the public library! Every book, movie, CD, magazine, newspaper or video game you check out or download from us is one less thing you have to buy yourself. Following the lead of many other public library systems, WPL has come up with...

Longer checkout period for TV Series

Posted in: July 7, 2014 by Julie Catenacci | No comments

You told us you couldn’t watch a whole season of a TV series in 3 days, and we listened. In response to customer requests, we are lengthening the loan period for adult TV series on DVD to 2 weeks – shortened to 1 week when the holds build up. These DVD sets are highlighted with a yellow spine label. Each patron is limited to borrowing 2 TV seasons at a...