Since the 1890s Verona residents have frequented the Verona Public Library for anything from children’s books to magazines, to archived newspapers, to newly released books, and encyclopedias. All this time though, even with the ability to reserve or renew a book through the VPL Web site, we haven’t been able to download one. That’s...
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A recent Huffington Post story named customer service as another example of a lost, or certainly dying, art. As a veteran salesperson for eight years, I find this truly disappointing. Aside from the mantra, “the customer is always right,” there is the mantra “we want a customer to come back.” Customers return to stores,...
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Verona loves to read. We have the Verona Public Library, one of the original Carnegie grant libraries, and six public school libraries, where increasingly computers sit alongside books. But above all, we have a lot of readers: There’s a furious trade in books between the adults at the Verona Pool in summer. The pool...
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The Friends of Verona Public Library are holding their annual sale of gently used books. The three-day event kicks off tomorrow night, Friday, November 4, with a members-only sale from 7 to 8:30 p.m. On Saturday, anybody can stop by to buy books from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. or 2 to 4 p.m....
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A little over a year ago, sitting in Jack’s Cafe, the MyVeronaNJ.com team was brainstorming ideas to get readers more involved with the site. Our traffic was growing rapidly, and readers were reading lots of stories every day, but they weren’t talking back to us as much as we wanted. Then Fred Goode suggested...
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Rebecca Burkhart, the long-time children’s librarian at the Verona Public Library better known as “Mrs. B”, passed away yesterday. She had retired from the library in March. Library Director Jim Thomas says that there will be a memorial service for her, but does not yet have details. We will publish them as soon as...
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The heads of several departments of Verona municipal government gave previews of their 2011 budgets last night. If you came wanting to hear about 10% cuts across the board, you came away disappointed. If you came wanting to hear about cost savings and cost management, you didn’t. Actually, very few people came. When you...
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Rebecca Burkhart has probably read more books to more people than anybody in Verona. Now “Mrs. B”, as she is better known, is retiring from her job as children’s librarian at the Verona Public Library. There will be a party in her honor at the library on Saturday, March 19 at 10:30 a.m.
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There’s going to be a lot of reading and rhyming for pre-schoolers going on at the Verona Public Library this fall. But if you want to sign up someone in your family, you’ve only got until tomorrow, September 17, to do so. Here’s what’s on tap: “First Timers”, a nursery rhyme program for babies...
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The Verona Public Library will have lots of activities for the town’s youngest readers this summer. First up is the Reading Club. Kids can track their summer reading in a log book and win prizes for their efforts. There will be stickers for every 8 to 10 books read and a grand prize drawing...
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