Photo By Samantha Harms | The children's room within Casey Memorial Library offers a separate space for children...... read more read more
Subscribe
FORT HOOD, Texas — The Casey Memorial Library offers a plethora of services for those here.
Patrons can check out and take home with them books, DVDs and Blu-rays, board games and video games for multiple consoles. Newspapers and magazines are available to read inside the library, along with CAC-enabled computers that can be used during library hours. The computers also offer printing, which costs 10 cents a page.
The library also has an entire room dedicated to children, which has doors that close so kids can enjoy themselves fully without bothering any other patrons. Children can check books out, and can use games, toys, puppets and kids computers while visiting the library.
“We have an absolutely enormous online collection,” said Rachel Bethel, public services librarian at Casey Memorial Library. “eBooks, downloadable audiobooks ... a streaming movie service, we have free online tutoring. There is access to quite a few different online resources that are commercially available but you would have to pay that you get free through the Army, such as Miss Humblebee’s Academy for younger kids. There’s (an) ancestry website for anybody who’s got a genealogy thing going on. People who like to repair their own cars would be extremely happy to find out we have the Chilton databases. There is a huge amount of stuff; I do recommend people go looking at it.”
To make things easier, the library is now offering a new service of automatic renewals. All patrons will automatically have access to automatic renewal. Materials will be automatically renewed as long as: you have renewals left for that item, another patron isn’t waiting for the item and your library account is in good standing.
However, digital materials such as eBooks and audiobooks will not be automatically renewed.
In order to use the services available, visitors will need to get a library card. Requirements to get a library card are simple: just show your DoD ID card. Department of the Army civilians, active-duty Soldiers, dependents and retirees are eligible. Library personnel will scan the ID card, creating an account to check out items in person and giving access to the online resources. The ID card then becomes the library card.
Patrons can also participate in the various programs throughout the year. Offered monthly, the library hosts a homeschool social hour, Dungeons & Dragons meetup, make & take craft, story time and all-ages coloring. The library also hosts both a winter and summer reading program.
In addition, patrons can find a variety of one-off programs, such as a Lego Builder’s Challenge, a Halloween party, Talk Like a Pirate party and a Teen Stop Motion Video event.
Despite the many services, many people don’t realize the library is available for use or even that the installation has a library.
“A lot of people ... have come in, and they’ve been here for several years, and told me, ‘I didn’t realize we had a library,’” Bethel shared. “The most common confusion seems to be that people think we’re the CTC library because CTC is at the other end of the building. They have their own library, we are the post library. If you see the sign outside that says ‘Casey Memorial Library, come on in. We’re happy to have you.”’
The library is Building 3202, located at the intersection of 72nd St. and 761st Tank Battalion Ave. Their current hours of operation are Tuesday to Saturday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Its catalog and online resources can be found at https://mwrlibrary.armybiznet.com/. You can pick up their monthly event calendar in person or find it on Facebook, by searching for #FortHoodCasey or going to Army MWR Library’s page.
| Date Taken: | 01.26.2023 |
| Date Posted: | 03.03.2023 17:23 |
| Story ID: | 439678 |
| Location: | FORT HOOD, TEXAS, US |
| Web Views: | 17 |
| Downloads: | 0 |
This work, Casey Memorial Library: check out their services, by Samantha Harms, identified by DVIDS, must comply with the restrictions shown on https://www.dvidshub.net/about/copyright.
No keywords found.
