Welcome to National Singles Week, which celebrates single life and presents options for living a full and happy life without a partner. This is also National Dog Week, which promotes the relationship of dogs to mankind and emphasizes the need for proper care and treatment of man's best friends!

Wednesday is National Win With Courtesy Day, which defines courtesy as the big secret of business and social success. Sponsors encourage us to try saying "Please," "Thank you," and "Excuse me" to see that it's nice to be nice! You can practice again on Sunday, which is National Good Neighbor Day.

WHAT'S HAPPENING?

You can celebrate Honey Month with stories and activities about bees at Wednesday's 10:00 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. storytimes. Saturday morning's 10:00 storytime focuses on pigs in activities and a cut-and-tell story.

The annual Altrusa/Friends of the Library Book Sale is just around the corner. Mark your calendars now for October 10-12. Books will be sold for 75 cents an inch on Friday and Saturday, and Sunday afternoon they'll be a buck a bag!

BOOK TALK

Reference Librarian Loretta Clark provides this week's book reviews. One of the goals of the Roswell Public Library is to meet the informational needs of the community. The explosive growth of Internet information offers people more access to knowledge. However, this information ranges from frontline research to the outright fraudulent, which causes people to have difficulty in evaluating and interpreting the information.

"Consumer Health USA," located in the reference area of the library, provides accurate and authoritative information derived from federal agencies and prestigious and reliable health organizations. The book deals with the signs, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, and outcomes of specific diseases and medical conditions. Instead of "taking two web sites and calling the doctor in the morning," come look at the information to be found in "Consumer Health USA" and other medical handbooks, either before or after you visit your physician.

When children are ill or hurt, they usually want to know why. "Healthy Me" offers colorful illustrations with fun, lift-the-flap pictures, along with lively, informative text, to answer the many questions children ask about being ill and feeling well again.

For instance, one segment concerns Tom and his broken arm. The text tells the child to lift the flap, which looks like an envelope, and then see an x-ray of the broken arm. Across the page is a picture of Tom wearing his cast. When the child lifts the picture of the cast, it shows a picture of the arm. When the picture of the arm is lifted, a picture of the bones of the arm is revealed, including the broken bone that corresponds to the x-ray.
"Healthy Me" is fun to read, and it reassures children about what happens when they have a cold, an earache, chicken pox, or a broken bone. Children and adults will enjoy learning about how the body fights to make the body a "Healthy Me."

DID YOU KNOW?

We hear a lot about being a "team player" these days, but what is a team player? A recent study of 150 executives from the nation's largest companies reports that 37% said the single most important characteristic is meeting deadlines; 20%, avoiding office politics; 20%, being pleasant to work with; and 17%, supporting your supervisor.

THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK:

"When you stop to think, don't forget to start again." (unknown)

LIBRARY TOPICS FOR VISTAS, TUESDAY, September 23, 2025

JUDY ARMSTRONG, ROSWELL PUBLIC LIBRARY, 624-7276