Wednesday, August 26, 2020 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
LIBRARY: Browsing
and other services
will begin again
Sisters businesses partner to build community
By Jim Cornelius
Just being across the
Editor in Chief
Continued from page 3
" Services such as
Homeword Bound, interli-
brary loans (ILLs) and obitu-
ary research resume.
" All returned materials
are quarantined for 96 hours
before being checked in.
Customers who prefer to
remain out of public build-
ings and spaces can still
access much of Deschutes
Public Library9s resources
online at www.deschutes
library.org, including eBooks,
digital audio books, stream-
able films and television
shows and more. Outside
(walk-up) pick-up of holds
is also available for library
customers who want to check
out physical materials but are
not able to enter buildings.
Public seating, meeting
and tutor rooms, magazines,
newspapers, board books,
early learning spaces and
museum passes are not avail-
able during Phase 2.
The latest information
about Deschutes Public
Library9s current operations
can be found at https://www.
deschuteslibrary.org/about/
news/news?newsid=9301.
Library customers with
questions about the phases
or their accounts can call
or text their question to
541-617-0776.
5
Books and coffee go
together perfectly. For two
decades, Paulina Springs
Books and Sisters Coffee
Co. have enjoyed the sym-
biosis of growing up right
across Hood Avenue from
each other, becoming two of
Sisters9 signature indepen-
dent businesses.
Now, as both businesses
seek ways to stay connected
with their customers in the
constraints of the corona-
virus pandemic, they have,
for the first time, launched a
direct partnership.
The bookstore and the
coffee house are offering a
monthly subscription box
with a read and a supply of
coffee. It9s called Reads &
Roasts.
Each box includes a new
book, a choice of one or two
12 oz. bags of Black Butte
Gold coffee from Sisters
Coffee Company (or tea
from Metolius), and <an
assortment of other book-
ish swag or goodies from
Sisters Country businesses
and artisans.=
<Each book featured in
the box is hand-selected
from among thousands of
titles that are published
each month,= Paulina
Springs explains. <Some
might be from authors you
street from them, we’ve
always been looking for
ways to collaborate.
We love our little
corner of Sisters here.
— Lane Jacobson
recognize, but we9re sure
you9ll discover some new
ones, too! We emphasize
diverse, global, and under-
represented voices 4 but
above all else, these are
books that we believe in and
stories that deserve to be
shared.=
Reads & Roasts sub-
scribers also get access to a
monthly virtual book club to
talk about the books featured
in the box. Those sessions
may sometimes include
guest appearances by the
author.
<Just being across the
street from them, we9ve
always been looking for
ways to collaborate,= said
Paulina Springs owner Lane
Jacobson. <We love our little
corner of Sisters here. We
had some plans in the works
that COVID threw off the
rails.=
But, as they9ve been
doing since March, the shops
adapted and pivoted 4 and
the response so far has been
gratifying.
<So far the enthusiasm for
it has been high,= Jacobson
said.
Many patrons of both
Paulina Springs Books and
Sisters Coffee Co. are visi-
tors to Sisters who don9t
have an independent book-
store or coffeehouse in their
community and want to
support those homegrown
businesses year-round. The
Reads & Roasts program is
a good fit for that.
<It9s definitely meant to
feel like taking a piece of
Sisters,= Jacobson said.
Like many businesses
in town they are discover-
ing communities that exist
outside the confines of the
geography of Sisters. In
a time of limited interac-
tion and physical distanc-
ing, programs like Reads &
Roasts are helping to main-
tain a sense of community
connection.
<This is just another form
of attachment to the commu-
nity,= Jacobson said.
The first book of the pro-
gram is <Homeland Elegies=
by Pulitzer Prize-winner
Ayad Akhtar.
<It9s a biographical fiction
about the Muslim experi-
ence in post-9/11 America,=
Jacobson said. <It9s really
good. It9s a page-turner; it9s
compulsively readable.=
For more information
visit www.paulinasprings
books.com.
Each box includes:
• Newly released book
• Coffee from Sisters Coffee Company
(tea from Metolius also available)
• Bookish swag or goodies from
Sisters Country businesses & artisans
Learn more & subscribe at PaulinaSpringsBooks.com