NEW THIS WEEK
Featured Highlights:
  • Join Us Saturday for "The Heron Hat' Video and Craft
  • Roswell Reads 2022 Features Best-Selling Author Laura Morelli
  • FulcoLibrary launches One Book, One Read with Caste
  • Help Us Shape Our Next Strategic Plan
  • "What is Your Favorite Long Running Series?" Learn more with Digital Resources
  • Newest Book Selection - 'The Good Neighbor: The Life and work of Fred Rogers by Maxwell King' with Online Book Club
  • Daily Digital Programs for All Ages
  • New Staff Book Reviews
Happy New Year! 

If you are like me, you may have been almost certain that the tide would turn when 2021 ended. You may have thought that we surely would be well past the age of COVID-19, and thing one and thing two, also known as the Delta and Omicron variants.  

However, kicking them to the curb may take a bit longer. We must persevere and look forward to things improving. 

It is my thought that we have the fortitude, inspiration, and determination to keep going, and not lose our stride. You stuck with the Library System during the pandemic and helped us to reach record levels of virtual program attendance; and you did not let business by curbside service keep you away from the Library. The services were reduced for a time; yet, you stayed with us and for that we continue to say, thank you. 
The year of 2022 can be a landmark year for all of us; although it may be that we have to continue to pivot, as we find ourselves doing most days. Some of us may decide to take up new hobbies; call and talk to family and friends more often; and just sit awhile, quietly contemplating our next move.
'THE HERON HAT' SATURDAY MORNING CRAFT & VIDEO
FULTON COUNTY LIBRARY BRANCH COMMUNITY CONVERSATIONS
Help us shape the Fulton County Library System's next strategic plan!

Step 1: Participate in our Thought Exchange and share your ideas for what would make your community a thriving one where people connect, learn, and create. Click here to participate in the Thought Exchange.

Step 2: Join us for a virtual community conversation and share your ideas on how the library can support a thriving community. Please register using the links found here to receive the meeting invitation for the library branch conversation of your choice.  
ROSWELL READS 2022 HAS SELECTED LAURA MORELLI
Is there anything more satisfying than finding a new (to you) long-running series to read? The joy of serial fiction is something only true book lovers understand - discovering that new character or world you love is only enhanced by finding that the author has a long list of titles with the same setting already on the shelf!
To help library users find and download favorite series, an end-of-year experiment has been launched. Six of our patron's favorite series of the past year have been given Top Pick lists to make downloading them in order easier. These are:
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If these lists prove to be popular, more will be published quarterly. What long-running series do you think should have a Top Pick list? Comment below, and in March new complete series lists will be made available on the Digital Library page under the Digital Recommendations section. Looking for more guides for downloadable books? Click on the FCLSeResources tag below any list to see all the guides of exclusively downloadable content.
For help playing eAudiobooks on the go, read the Digital Library News post on How to Listen to Downloadable Audiobooks in Your Car.
JOIN THE ONLINE BOOK CLUB
The fall selection is almost complete with our Online Book Club! The book selection for Jan 2022 - Mar 2022 is The Good Neighbor: The Life and work of Fred Rogers by Maxwell King

Please take a moment to join the Online Book Club, it's not too late to jump into The Good Neighbor; The Life and Work of Fred Rogers and join the conversation. We look forward to exploring The Good Neighbor; The Life and Work of Fred Rogers . 

If you have not been able to join us before now, please take a moment now to sign up for the Online Book Club.
STAFF REVIEWS
A RECOLLECTION AND MUSINGS ON THE GONE-AWAY WORLD
Brazos Price, Technical Services Administrator
I find myself during these pandemic days and nights thinking often of The Gone-Away World by Nick Harkaway. The novel was published in 2008 and I must have read it in or around 2012 when the world did not in fact end.

The Gone-Away World is a dystopia, one where a pipe, which is for all intents and purposes the size of the world and as important to the world as the sky, is on fire. The pipe consumes to make a substance that keeps the gone-away world at bay. The pipe is on fire and the gone-away world is getting closer day by day. Read more
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