I picked up Elie Wiesel's two volumes of memoirs, All River Run to the Sea and The Sea is Not Full. I have read his Holocaust novels: Night, Dawn.

Book one of the memoirs cover birth to Holocaust. Naturally, Elie's life story is quite sad. He lost his younger sister,
both parents, and his grandparents to the Nazis.

I and the teens are very excited to receive a Caldwell Community Foundation grant. It means I have just ordered 90 new graphic novels!

At a recent librarians meeting, I found some others negative about buying graphic novels for the library. "Why?", I wondered.

Is it the physical building, the books, the DVD's, the computers, the friendly staff, the programs? What makes a library a good one?

In a rural setting with a part-time librarian, programs are limited and selection of books/other media can be limited. So what can we offer?