Summer Junior Volunteers:
Students finishing fourth grade are invited to be junior volunteers this summer. A letter explaining the program was sent to all fourth grade students in the Lodi schools. Space is limited, so drop off your application today.
Grand Opening of "Peg's Green Grove"
The dedication ceremony was a lot of fun - see our Peg's Green Grove page for more. Thanks to all the donors, friends and library patrons who came out to help us celebrate!
Stop by to check out the AMAZING functional sculpture created for us by Lodi artist Dean Allen - that book stack is really our new bike rack! Bikes will get locked onto the metal rings, rather than blocking the entrances locking them to the railings. Here's Claire (our space-naming expert) sitting on the stack.
New Library Email Newsletter
Sign up in the box on the right-hand sidebar over there ====>>> (toward the top of the page) to get the latest library news delivered right to your inbox. The newsletter will feature events, happenings, and lots of library love about once a month or so.
Woman's Club 
Cookbooks Arrive!
We've just received the new cookbook "Appetizers & Beverages: Easy Entertaining with the Lodi Woman's Club." These beautiful, classy cookbooks are only $7 each (and makes a great gift!). Proceeds help support our library and an annual LHS scholarship.
Additionally, the Woman's Club has a beautiful cherry Lowery Royale SU500 premier electronic organ for sale. Stop in the library or click the link to see the info sale sheet. If you're interested, leave a message with the library at 592-4130 and a Woman's Club member will return your call.
Novel Thoughts
Quarterly, the staff of the library writes a column for the Lodi Enterprise. We've also got a page full of live catalog links for the books and movies mentioned.
Coupon Clipping Secrets
In a special presentation at 6 pm on Tuesday, May 22, Dannelle Gay will tell how she saved $40,000 in less than a year! Learn WHERE to get coupons, HOW to organize them, and the right way to USE them. With these tips, you can save 60% to 80% on groceries every trip.
Library Run & Walk
Mark your calendar: the Lodi Library Run & Walk will be Saturday, August 11. And this year's top prize for pledge-earners is an Apple iPod!!!
View the 2012 brochure (pdf) or if you just need the easy-to-print forms (pdf).
How Valuable Is The Library In Your Life?
Take a minute with the value calculator to see just how much the library services you're using are worth. What would you have to pay, if the library didn't exist?
Once you've had the chance to plug in your numbers and calculate your personal library use, we encourage you to contact your government representatives and remind them how important libraries are to our community. Or, tell your story at Libraries for Real Life.
Tell us your library story: 
Our SCLS libraries are gathering unique tales about how libraries change lives. Have a story to tell? Tell it here.