24/7 Self-Service Porch Sale
The Friends of the Library have announced their 24/7 Self-Service Porch Sale will be held the month of May!The sale will include fiction, non-fiction, and videos for adults, teens, and children at unbelievably low prices:
hardcover--50 cents or 5/$2
paperbacks--25 cents or 5/$1
children's paperbacks--15 cents or 5/50cents
videos--50 cents or 5/$2
Payment can be made at the circulation desk during library hours. Payment can be made in the audio/video return box at the back door after hours using the envelopes provided. Additional materials will be added to the sale as space becomes available, so be sure to shop the porch more than once and stock up on some great reads!
Photo by Lorena Vigil-Escalera.
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Labels: book sale, FRieNDS' CoRNeR News
Board Meeting Minutes
The approved minutes from the March13, 2006 Board of Trustees Meeting are now available for viewing. If you are interested in reading these minutes, please click here.
April showers bring May flowers! Children of all ages are invited to stop by the library to pick up a Bloomin' Blossoms craft kit. Each kit contains all the fixin's to make a lovely May flower, complete with its own stand.
While you're here, check-out one of our many books featuring beautiful blooms!
Clipart from Clipart Heaven.
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Check-Out Coretta Scott King Award Winning Books
In honor of Coretta Scott King's birthday on April 27th, check-out one of the many fine books to win the Award given in her name! "Commemorating the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and honoring his widow, Coretta Scott King, for her courage and determination in continuing the work for peace and world brotherhood, the Coretta Scott King Award is presented annually by a task force of the American Library Association. Recipients are authors and illustrators of African descent whose distinguished books promote an understanding and appreciation of the American dream." (Amazon.com)
Click here for a list of winners.
Be a Poet
Help us wrap-up National Poetry Month! Stop by the library and make your contribution to the Poet-Tree. Completed lines of poetry are displayed on the Poet-Tree in the upstairs hallway.
Guessimate
As April comes to an end, so must the Silly Raindrops guessing contest. All entries are due April 29th.
Photo by Murat Cokal.
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Warner Brothers has announced the next Harry Potter movie extravaganza, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, is set to be released to movie theaters on July, 13th. If you're like me, you'll be pulling out your copy, or borrowing, the Order of the Phoenix for a "quick" re-read to refresh your memory before attending the movie. Of course, maybe I just have a memory problem...
Click here for news updates and other Harry Potter miscellanea!
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The latest issue of Bookmarks Magazine Preview Newsletter is available online. Visit the libraray to view the entire issue, or other back issues.
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Feed the Poet-Tree
Help us celebrate National Poetry Month by contributing a word to the Poet-Tree. Completed sentences are displayed on the Poet-Tree in the upstairs hallway.
Pick-a-Poem
Pick up a poem this week at the Circulation Desk to take home, read, and pass along.
It's Raining, It's Pouring
We've a large number of raindrops in a jar! Make your guess in the Silly Raindrops contest and you could be a winner. Closest without goin over wins! Contest ends April 29th.
Photo by Jyn Meyer.
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From Oxford University Press:
Renowned poetry anthologist David Lehman has selected 10 poems from The Oxford Book of American Poetry that he feels represent the most popular American poems ever written. We’d like you to vote on which of these poems is the most loved – is it Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven,” Emma Lazarus’s “The New Colossus,” or perhaps you prefer something a bit more contemporary? Cast your vote today! The poem that wins the distinction of being “America’s Favorite Poem” will be announced on May 1st.
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NHewLink has added a new resource to its database package. Biography Resource Center contains over 400,000 biographies on more than 320,000 people from around the world.
Check it out
A simple search on Beverly Cleary yields 6 narrative biographies, 2 thumbnail biographies, 38 magazine articles, and 1 website. Sources include Contemporary Authors, Encyclopedia of World Biography, Major Authors and Illustrators for Children and Young Adults, Almanac of Famous People, Writer's Dictionary, Newsweek and School Library Journal.
So if you have a school assignment or are just curious, give Biography Resource Center a try! You'll find this and other online databases in the sidebar under Library Services.
To receive access information to NHewLink databases, please stop in the library, email, or call us at 424-4044.
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So, why should you keep your knives out of sight in your kitchen? Here's what you thought:
75% arguments (and quarreling)
0% pimples
0% stomach pain
25% backaches
According to the Feng Shui 365 Dos and Taboos Calendar, their visible presence does indeed cause arguments.
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Bloomin' Blossoms Take 'n Make
April showers bring May flowers! Children of all ages are invited to stop by the library to pick up a Bloomin' Blossoms craft kit. Each kit contains all the fixin's to make a lovely May flower, complete with its own stand.
While you're here, check-out one of our many books featuring beautiful blooms!
Clipart from Clipart Heaven.
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Labels: events/activities for kids, KiDS' RooM News, take 'n make
This Week @ Your Library...
Check-Out Coretta Scott King Award Winning Books
In honor of Coretta Scott King's birthday on April 27th, check-out one of the many fine books to win the Award given in her name! "Commemorating the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and honoring his widow, Coretta Scott King, for her courage and determination in continuing the work for peace and world brotherhood, the Coretta Scott King Award is presented annually by a task force of the American Library Association. Recipients are authors and illustrators of African descent whose distinguished books promote an understanding and appreciation of the American dream." (Amazon.com)
Click here for a list of winners.
Be a Poet
Help us wrap-up National Poetry Month! Stop by the library and make your contribution to the Poet-Tree. Completed lines of poetry are displayed on the Poet-Tree in the upstairs hallway.
Guessimate
As April comes to an end, so must the Silly Raindrops guessing contest. All entries are due April 29th.
Photo by Murat Cokal.
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Labels: this week
2006 Pulitzer Winners
by Geraldine Brooks
by David M. Oshinsky
by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin
by Claudia Emerson
by Caroline Elkins
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Labels: ReaDiNG RooM News
Release Date for Next Harry Potter Movie
Warner Brothers has announced the next Harry Potter movie extravaganza, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, is set to be released to movie theaters on July, 13th. If you're like me, you'll be pulling out your copy, or borrowing, the Order of the Phoenix for a "quick" re-read to refresh your memory before attending the movie. Of course, maybe I just have a memory problem...
Click here for news updates and other Harry Potter miscellanea!
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Labels: KiDS' RooM News, ReC RooM News
Bookmarks Magazine Preview
The latest issue of Bookmarks Magazine Preview Newsletter is available online. Visit the libraray to view the entire issue, or other back issues.[ THe ReaDiNG RooM ]
Labels: ReaDiNG RooM News
This Week @ Your Library...
Feed the Poet-TreeHelp us celebrate National Poetry Month by contributing a word to the Poet-Tree. Completed sentences are displayed on the Poet-Tree in the upstairs hallway.
Pick-a-Poem
Pick up a poem this week at the Circulation Desk to take home, read, and pass along.
It's Raining, It's Pouring
We've a large number of raindrops in a jar! Make your guess in the Silly Raindrops contest and you could be a winner. Closest without goin over wins! Contest ends April 29th.
Photo by Jyn Meyer.
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Labels: this week
What's America's Favorite Poem?
From Oxford University Press:
Renowned poetry anthologist David Lehman has selected 10 poems from The Oxford Book of American Poetry that he feels represent the most popular American poems ever written. We’d like you to vote on which of these poems is the most loved – is it Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven,” Emma Lazarus’s “The New Colossus,” or perhaps you prefer something a bit more contemporary? Cast your vote today! The poem that wins the distinction of being “America’s Favorite Poem” will be announced on May 1st.
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Labels: ReC RooM News
Biography Resource Center Now Available Online!
NHewLink has added a new resource to its database package. Biography Resource Center contains over 400,000 biographies on more than 320,000 people from around the world.Check it out
A simple search on Beverly Cleary yields 6 narrative biographies, 2 thumbnail biographies, 38 magazine articles, and 1 website. Sources include Contemporary Authors, Encyclopedia of World Biography, Major Authors and Illustrators for Children and Young Adults, Almanac of Famous People, Writer's Dictionary, Newsweek and School Library Journal.
So if you have a school assignment or are just curious, give Biography Resource Center a try! You'll find this and other online databases in the sidebar under Library Services.
To receive access information to NHewLink databases, please stop in the library, email, or call us at 424-4044.
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Labels: library services, ReFeReNCe RooM News
The Results Are In!
So, why should you keep your knives out of sight in your kitchen? Here's what you thought:75% arguments (and quarreling)
0% pimples
0% stomach pain
25% backaches
According to the Feng Shui 365 Dos and Taboos Calendar, their visible presence does indeed cause arguments.
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Labels: poll questions, ReC RooM News
This Week @ Your Library...
Don't Forget to Sing in the Rain
Stop by the library for a "Singing in the Rain" Take 'n Make craft kit for your kids.
Has There Ever Been An Age of Innocence?
Pick up a copy of Edith Wharton's classic novel of the same name and decide for yourself. Then, if you have time, join All Booked Up on May 3rd and share your thoughts.
Test Your Estimation Skills
If 96 raindrops fit in a teaspoon, how many raindrops are in the jar for this month's Splish-Splash contest? Make a guess and you could win!
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Here are the new items added to the collection in March.
To view the lists, click on a link below:
New to the Children's Collection
New to the Teen Collection
New to the Adult Collection
Clipart from Clipart Heaven.
All Booked Up, the library's adult book club, has chosen Edith Wharton's An Age of Innocence for discussion in May. Copies of this classic are available at the Circulation Desk.
Published in 1920, "the work presents a picture of upper-class New York society in the late 19th century. The story is presented as a kind of anthropological study of this society through references to the families and their activities as tribal. In the story Newland Archer, though engaged to May Welland, a beautiful and proper fellow member of elite society, is attracted to Ellen Olenska, a former member of their circle who has been living in Europe but who has left her husband under mysterious circumstances and returned to her family's New York milieu. May prevails by subtly adhering to the conventions of that world. The novel was awarded a Pulitzer Prize. " (From The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature )
About the Author
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Gardiner, Maine retired librarian Glenna Nowell has published the results of her 18th annual celebrity survey, “Who Reads What?” Nowell began her celebrity inquiry in 1988, and uses an ever changing mix of names based on suggestions from friends and others. This year’s list includes actors, authors, governors, a Supreme Court Justice, and a Harvard astrophysicist. Be sure to check out the list so you can amaze your friends with who’s reading what!
Photo by Wyand Van Niekerk.
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Bring your kids to the library April 11th-15th for Miss Carrie-Anne's Singing in the Rain Take 'n Make. Each kit contains all the necessary pieces to make a cute springtime duck at home.
Clipart from Clipart Heaven.
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You May Be a Poet and Not Know It!
Contribute to the Poet-Tree by supplying just one word, and help us celebrate National Poetry Month. It's a collaborative effort that should prove to be fun.
All Booked Up on Wednesday
Join the book group Wednesday evening at 6:30 to discuss We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver. Then pick up a copy of Edith Wharton's An Age of Innocence for the May 3rd meeting.
How Big is a Raindrop??
Get in on the fun and guess how many raindrops we've collected in a jar! Closest without goin over wins! Contest ends April 29th.
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April showers bring the opportunity for another exiciting round of "Guess How Many." That's correct, this month patrons of all ages will be asked to guess how many raindrops are in a jar at the Main Desk. It should be a real stumper! Prizes will be awarded in three categories: child, teen, and adult. The closest guess without going over wins. Entries are due by April 29th, and winners will be announced on May 2nd. You'll need to put on your thinking caps for this one!
Photo by Dania Lolah.
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April is National Poetry Month! Sponsored by the Academy of American Poets, National Poetry Month strives to bring poets and their poetry to the public is innovative ways, encourage people to read poetry for pleasure, and highlight the legacy of American poetry.
Here at the library, we are asking patrons of all ages to participate in a collaborative poetry excercise called the Poet-Tree. When you come in, we will ask you fill in a slip of paper with a single word. That word will be used to compose a line of poetry, and a leaf on our tree. The results are sure to be entertaining if nothing else. (To participate from home.)
We are also giving the gift of poetry this month. Each week, patrons will receive a poem with every check-out to take home, read, and pass on.
If you would like to receive more than one poem a week, you should sign up for Poem-a-Day, and Poets.org will send one new poem to your inbox each day in April.
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Stop by the library for a "Singing in the Rain" Take 'n Make craft kit for your kids.
Has There Ever Been An Age of Innocence?
Pick up a copy of Edith Wharton's classic novel of the same name and decide for yourself. Then, if you have time, join All Booked Up on May 3rd and share your thoughts.
Test Your Estimation Skills
If 96 raindrops fit in a teaspoon, how many raindrops are in the jar for this month's Splish-Splash contest? Make a guess and you could win!
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Labels: this week
March Shelf Additions
Here are the new items added to the collection in March. To view the lists, click on a link below:
New to the Children's Collection
New to the Teen Collection
New to the Adult Collection
Clipart from Clipart Heaven.
Labels: new stuff for adults, new stuff for kids, new stuff for teens
All Booked Up for May
All Booked Up, the library's adult book club, has chosen Edith Wharton's An Age of Innocence for discussion in May. Copies of this classic are available at the Circulation Desk.
Published in 1920, "the work presents a picture of upper-class New York society in the late 19th century. The story is presented as a kind of anthropological study of this society through references to the families and their activities as tribal. In the story Newland Archer, though engaged to May Welland, a beautiful and proper fellow member of elite society, is attracted to Ellen Olenska, a former member of their circle who has been living in Europe but who has left her husband under mysterious circumstances and returned to her family's New York milieu. May prevails by subtly adhering to the conventions of that world. The novel was awarded a Pulitzer Prize. " (From The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature )
About the Author
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Labels: all booked up, book discussion for adults, events/activities for adults, ReaDiNG RooM News
What are Celebrities Reading?
Gardiner, Maine retired librarian Glenna Nowell has published the results of her 18th annual celebrity survey, “Who Reads What?” Nowell began her celebrity inquiry in 1988, and uses an ever changing mix of names based on suggestions from friends and others. This year’s list includes actors, authors, governors, a Supreme Court Justice, and a Harvard astrophysicist. Be sure to check out the list so you can amaze your friends with who’s reading what!Photo by Wyand Van Niekerk.
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Labels: ReC RooM News
Singing in the Rain Take 'n Make
Bring your kids to the library April 11th-15th for Miss Carrie-Anne's Singing in the Rain Take 'n Make. Each kit contains all the necessary pieces to make a cute springtime duck at home.
Clipart from Clipart Heaven.
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Labels: events/activities for kids, KiDS' RooM News, take 'n make
This Week @ Your Library...
You May Be a Poet and Not Know It!Contribute to the Poet-Tree by supplying just one word, and help us celebrate National Poetry Month. It's a collaborative effort that should prove to be fun.
All Booked Up on Wednesday
Join the book group Wednesday evening at 6:30 to discuss We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver. Then pick up a copy of Edith Wharton's An Age of Innocence for the May 3rd meeting.
How Big is a Raindrop??
Get in on the fun and guess how many raindrops we've collected in a jar! Closest without goin over wins! Contest ends April 29th.
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Labels: this week
Those Silly Raindrops!
April showers bring the opportunity for another exiciting round of "Guess How Many." That's correct, this month patrons of all ages will be asked to guess how many raindrops are in a jar at the Main Desk. It should be a real stumper! Prizes will be awarded in three categories: child, teen, and adult. The closest guess without going over wins. Entries are due by April 29th, and winners will be announced on May 2nd. You'll need to put on your thinking caps for this one!Photo by Dania Lolah.
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Labels: events/activities for all, KiDS' RooM News, ReC RooM News, TeeN RooM News
Celebrate National Poetry Month
April is National Poetry Month! Sponsored by the Academy of American Poets, National Poetry Month strives to bring poets and their poetry to the public is innovative ways, encourage people to read poetry for pleasure, and highlight the legacy of American poetry.
Here at the library, we are asking patrons of all ages to participate in a collaborative poetry excercise called the Poet-Tree. When you come in, we will ask you fill in a slip of paper with a single word. That word will be used to compose a line of poetry, and a leaf on our tree. The results are sure to be entertaining if nothing else. (To participate from home.)
We are also giving the gift of poetry this month. Each week, patrons will receive a poem with every check-out to take home, read, and pass on.
If you would like to receive more than one poem a week, you should sign up for Poem-a-Day, and Poets.org will send one new poem to your inbox each day in April.
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Labels: events/activities for all, KiDS' RooM News, ReC RooM News, TeeN RooM News
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