American Fork in the News

Link: http://www.heraldextra.com/content/view/270723/

This is great news for library cooks like my wife and I. Four times the libraries, one card! This is a program for residents of American Fork, Eagle Mountain, Lehi and Pleasant Grove. Visit the link above for the full story.

Link: http://www.brandonmull.com/blog/2008/06/key-to-library.html

Brandon Mull writes a little on his blog about visiting the American Fork Library’s Fablehaven party last week. Among other things, Brandon recieved the Key to the Library.

Dixie and I have been reading the Fablehaven series and are in the middle of book three. If you haven’t read any of it, I personally find the brother/sister protagonists to be much more interesting (and even more likeable) than Harry Potter (who grew increasingly dark and moody through the HP septet). I highly recommend Fablehaven. It’s nice to know that a local author is getting this kind of National recognition. Good things do come from Utah after all!

Link: http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_8056145

This is good news for American Fork residents:

North Utah County unites on library services
By Steve Gehrke
The Salt Lake Tribune

Residents in northern Utah County will have more flexibility when it comes to borrowing books.

Eagle Mountain, Lehi, American Fork and Pleasant Grove are establishing a cooperative borrowing service that will allow patrons to check out materials from any of four participating libraries.

The service will allow, for example, Lehi residents to borrow books from American Fork using their current library cards. Residents in cities without a library, such as Highland, will be able to buy nonresident cards to participate in the service.

The cooperative pilot program, set to begin this spring, will be tracked over a two-year period.

Patrons in cities without a library will be charged $70 for a nonresident card. Those in Eagle Mountain, where the fledgling library has a smaller collection than its neighbors, will be charged $35.