Join Your Neighbors for Drop-In Knitting
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The library has two drop-in knitting groups:
It means you can show up at any time and leave at any time. You can come to every meeting or you can come just once in a while. Who should come to drop-in knitting?
If you find yourself in any of these statements, drop-in knitting is for you. Drop-in and have fun!
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Labels: events/activities for adults, rec room
This Week @ Your Library...
Drop-in Knitting Group from 10:00AM-Noon
If your hobby is knitting crocheting, cross-stitch or any other kind of stitching, bring your project to the library and stitch with our group! Perfect for all skill levels--even beginners. In Stitches meets the 1st, 3rd and 5th Tuesday of the month.
Preschool Story Time @ 10:30AM
Join Miss Carrie-Anne in the Young Readers' Room for stories, songs and fun!
Wednesday
Adult Book Group @ 6:30PM
Join All Booked Up as they discuss A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman.
Friday
Infant Story Time @ 10:30AM
Book Babies is a lap-sit program for infants (newborn to 18 months) and their caregivers. This 20 minute program includes simple board books, rhymes and songs.
Toddler Story Time @ 11:30AM
Tiny Tales is a lap-sit program for toddlers (ages 18-35 months) and their caregivers, bridging Book Babies and Preschool Story Time.
Adult Book Group @ 1:00PM
Join All Booked Up as they discuss A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman.
Check Out What Our Book Groups are Reading!
All Booked Up, AM & PM: Inside the O'Briens by Lisa Genova
Book of the Month Club: Longbourn by Jo Baker
Book Bunch: Nuts to You by Lynn Rae Perkins
Page Turners: Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson
Library Warrant Articles for 2016
The library has two warrant articles on this year's March 8th ballot. We hope you consider supporting these articles.
ARTICLE 10 - FIRST YEAR
OF LIBRARY NON UNION WAGE PLAN IMPLEMENTATION
To see
if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $10,648.00 to fund salary adjustments to bring
Library employee salaries in line with the non-union employee wage plan, as approved by the Library Board of Trustees in 2015. This article represents the first year of a three
year implementation plan. Estimated 2016 tax rate impact: $0.01.
Recommended by the Board of Selectmen (Vote: 5-0-0)
Recommended by the Budget Committee (Vote: 5-3-0)
Explanation:
Library employees, by NH State Statute, are not employees of the Town, but rather the Library Board of Trustees. Therefore, library employees were not included in the Town's non-union wage plan implementation warrant passed at last year's Town Meeting.
The Library Board of Trustees adopted the Town’s
revised wage plan for non-union employees in 2015, and this warrant funds
the year-one implementation of that plan ensuring all non-union employees
of Litchfield are on equal footing.
ARTICLE 12 - LIBRARY
EARNED TIME EXPENDABLE TRUST FUND
To
see if the Town will vote to discontinue the Library’s Vacation Accrual
Expendable Trust Fund created in 2012 and return the balance of such fund to
the Town's general fund. The balance of this fund as of December 31, 2015 is
$7,374.00. And further, to see if the Town will vote to
establish an Earned Time Accrual Expendable Trust Fund under the provisions of
RSA 31:19-a for the purpose of annually accounting for the cost of earned but
unused vacation time so that the expenses associated with employee
resignations, retirements and buyouts of accrued earned time do not impact the
current year budget, and to raise and appropriate the sum of $7,374.00 to put in the fund, with this amount to come
from the unexpended fund balance as of December 31, 2015; and to further
appoint the Library Board of Trustees to serve as agents to expend from the fund.
This would have a net cost to 2016 general taxation of $0.
Recommended by the Board of Selectmen (Vote: 5-0-0)
Recommended by the Budget Committee (Vote: 8-0-0)
Explanation:
This is basically a "housekeeping" warrant. The name of the trust fund needs to be changed from "vacation" to "earned time" to reflect the updated language of the library employee policy. In order to make this name change, the existing fund must be closed out and a new fund opened. The balance of the current fund will be moved into the new fund.
This warrant has no tax impact.
This warrant has no tax impact.
Labels: BoaRD RooM News
Kid's Book Group Reads Nuts to You for March 16th
About the Book
Jed, TsTs, and Chai are the very best of friends. So when Jed is snatched up by a hawk and carried away to another realm, TsTs and Chai resolve to go after him. Mysteriously, the hawk has dropped him. They saw it. Jed could be alive. New communities are discovered, new friends are made, huge danger is encountered (both man-made and of the fox and bobcat variety) and the mysteries of squirrel culture are revealed. Nuts to You is wholly original, funny, lively, and thought-provoking.
Labels: book bunch, book discussion for kids, events/activities for kids, KiDS RooM News
This Week @ Your Library...
Final Week of Dinner and a Movie Raffle
Purchase raffle tickets for your chance to win $50 to a T-Bone's family of restaurants and 2 tickets to the Derry Five Star Cinemas. Tickets are $1 each or 6 for $5. Sponsored by the Friends of the Library.
Wednesday
High School Drop-In Tabletop Role-Play Game Night from 6:00-8:00PM
This drop-in fantasy/sci-fi role-play game group meets the 2nd and 4th Wednesday of the month. New faces are always welcome!
Check Out What Our Book Groups are Reading!
All Booked Up, AM & PM: Inside the O'Briens by Lisa Genova
Book of the Month Club: Longbourn by Jo Baker
Book Bunch: Nuts to You by Lynn Rae Perkins
Page Turners: Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson
Labels: this week
Check Out an Activity Pass for Vacation Week
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Click on the above links to get the full rundown on each pass and what it provides.
Labels: ReC RooM News
Read 63 Magazines on Your Mobile Devices
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Learn more about borrowing digital magazines.
- The Atlantic
- Better Homes and Gardens' Diabetic Living
- Better Homes and Gardens
- Bloomberg Businessweek
- Bon Appétit
- The Box Magazine
- Budget Travel
- Car and Driver
- Cook's Country
- Cook's Illustrated
- Cosmopolitan - US edition
- Country Living
- Discover
- Do It Yourself
- EatingWell
- ESPN The Magazine
- Family Tree
- FamilyFun
- The Family Handyman
- Fast Company
- Field & Stream
- Fine Cooking
- Fine Gardening
- Fine Homebuilding
- Food Network Magazine
- Game Informer
- Gluten-Free Living
- Golf Digest
- Good Housekeeping - US edition
- HGTV Magazine
- Hobby Farms
- Interweave Knits
- Knit Today
- Martha Stewart Living
- Men's Fitness - US edition
- Motor Trend
- National Geographic Kids
- National Review
- Newsweek
- Outside
- Parents Magazine
- PCWorld
- Popular Photography
- Popular Science
- Prevention
- Rachael Ray Every Day
- Reader's Digest
- Rodale's Organic Life
- Runner's World
- Seventeen
- Ski
- Smithsonian
- Sound & Vision
- Taste of Home
- Threads
- Vanity Fair
- Vegetarian Times
- The Week
- Weight Watchers Magazine
- WIRED
- Women's Health
- Writer's Digest
- Yoga Journal
Labels: ReaDiNG RooM News
This Week @ Your Library...
Kid's Make 'n Take Craft
Bring your kids to the Young Readers' Room for our "Love Your Library" Losbta! Notes: Make 'n Take crafts are not available during Story Times.
Dinner and a Movie Raffle
Purchase raffle tickets for your chance to win $50 to a T-Bone's family of restaurants and 2 tickets to the Derry Five Star Cinemas. Tickets are $1 each or 6 for $5. Sponsored by the Friends of the Library.
Tuesday
Drop-in Knitting Group from 10:00AM-Noon
If your hobby is knitting crocheting, cross-stitch or any other kind of stitching, bring your project to the library and stitch with our group! Perfect for all skill levels--even beginners. In Stitches meets the 1st, 3rd and 5th Tuesday of the month.
Preschool Story Time @ 10:30AM
Join Miss Carrie-Anne in the Young Readers' Room for stories, songs and fun!
Wednesday
Kid's Book Group @ 4:00PM
Book Bunchers in grades 3-5 meet to discuss A Long Way From Chicago by Richard Peck and complete a short activity.
Tween and Teen Tabletop Game Night from 6:00-8:00PM
Drop-in on the 3rd Wednesday of each month and play a variety of games.
Friday
Infant Story Time @ 10:30AM
Book Babies is a lap-sit program for infants (newborn to 18 months) and their caregivers. This 20 minute program includes simple board books, rhymes and songs.
Toddler Story Time @ 11:30AM
Tiny Tales is a lap-sit program for toddlers (ages 18-35 months) and their caregivers, bridging Book Babies and Preschool Story Time.
Check Out What Our Book Groups are Reading!
All Booked Up, AM & PM: Inside the O'Briens by Lisa Genova
Book of the Month Club: Longbourn by Jo Baker
Book Bunch: A Long Way From Chicago by Richard Peck
Page Turners: Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson
Labels: this week
Tween Book Group Reads Chains for March 10th
About the Book
If an entire nation could seek its freedom, why not a girl?
As the Revolutionary War begins, thirteen-year-old Isabel wages her own fight...for freedom. Promised freedom upon the death of their owner, she and her sister, Ruth, in a cruel twist of fate become the property of a malicious New York City couple, the Locktons, who have no sympathy for the American Revolution and even less for Ruth and Isabel. When Isabel meets Curzon, a slave with ties to the Patriots, he encourages her to spy on her owners, who know details of British plans for invasion. She is reluctant at first, but when the unthinkable happens to Ruth, Isabel realizes her loyalty is available to the bidder who can provide her with freedom.
From acclaimed author Laurie Halse Anderson comes this compelling, impeccably researched novel that shows the lengths we can go to cast off our chains, both physical and spiritual.
Labels: book discussion for tweens, events/activities for tweens, KiDS' RooM News, page turners, TeeN RooM News
Adult Book Discussion Group Reads Inside the O'Briens for March 2nd
Copies of the book are available on the Upper Level of the library.
About the Book
Joe O’Brien is a forty-three-year-old police officer from the Irish Catholic neighborhood of Charlestown, Massachusetts. A devoted husband, proud father of four children in their twenties, and respected officer, Joe begins experiencing bouts of disorganized thinking, uncharacteristic temper outbursts, and strange, involuntary movements. He initially attributes these episodes to the stress of his job, but as these symptoms worsen, he agrees to see a neurologist and is handed a diagnosis that will change his and his family’s lives forever: Huntington’s disease.
Huntington’s is a lethal neurodegenerative disease with no treatment and no cure, and each of Joe’s four children has a 50 percent chance of inheriting their father’s disease. While watching her potential future in her father’s escalating symptoms, twenty-one-year-old daughter Katie struggles with the questions this test imposes on her young adult life. As Joe’s symptoms worsen and he’s eventually stripped of his badge and more, Joe struggles to maintain hope and a sense of purpose, while Katie and her siblings must find the courage to either live a life “at risk” or learn their fate.
Labels: all booked up, book discussion for adults, events/activities for adults, ReaDiNG RooM News
Tax Season is Upon Us
Did you know 95% of taxpayers filed their tax returns electronically last tax season? As a result, the Internal Revenue Service is reducing the variety of paper forms offered to agencies like the library.
This year, we expect to receive the following forms and instructions:
Form 1040
Form 1040A
Form 1040EZ
Instruction for Form 1040
Instruction for Form 1040A
Instruction for Form 1040EZ
Form 1040
Form 1040A
Form 1040EZ
Instruction for Form 1040
Instruction for Form 1040A
Instruction for Form 1040EZ
Additionally, the library expects to receive reference copies of Publication 17, Your Federal Income Tax for Individuals and Publication 1132, Reproducible Copies of Federal Tax Forms and Instructions. Both of these items may only be used in the library.
While some of these products have already arrived, others have not. Please feel free to call us at 424-4044 to see what’s in.
Other ways to access federal tax forms, publications and instructions include:
- IRS.gov/Forms (view, download or print) ;
- IRS.gov/OrderForms (order forms to be mailed to you) ; and
- 1-800-829-3676 (find a product or place an order by telephone).
Need help preparing or filing your federal income tax?
- Free tax preparation assistance is available courtesy of VITA (Volunteer Income Tax Assistance), AARP Foundations’s Tax Aide and the CASH Coalition. Visit www.NHTaxHelp.org to schedule an appointment, or dial 2-1-1 for assistance in booking an appointment by phone.
- Free electronic filing is available through MyFreeTaxes.com to anyone with an income of up to $62,000.
Access State tax forms online:
Labels: ReFeReNCe RooM News, tax forms
Longbourn is the Book of the Month in February
About the Book
If Elizabeth Bennet had the washing of her own petticoats, Sarah often thought, she’d most likely be a sight more careful with them.
In this irresistibly imagined belowstairs answer to Pride and Prejudice, the servants take center stage. Sarah, the orphaned housemaid, spends her days scrubbing the laundry, polishing the floors, and emptying the chamber pots for the Bennet household. But there is just as much romance, heartbreak, and intrigue downstairs at Longbourn as there is upstairs. When a mysterious new footman arrives, the orderly realm of the servants’ hall threatens to be completely, perhaps irrevocably, upended.
In this irresistibly imagined belowstairs answer to Pride and Prejudice, the servants take center stage. Sarah, the orphaned housemaid, spends her days scrubbing the laundry, polishing the floors, and emptying the chamber pots for the Bennet household. But there is just as much romance, heartbreak, and intrigue downstairs at Longbourn as there is upstairs. When a mysterious new footman arrives, the orderly realm of the servants’ hall threatens to be completely, perhaps irrevocably, upended.
Jo Baker dares to take us beyond the drawing rooms of Jane Austen’s classic—into the often overlooked domain of the stern housekeeper and the starry-eyed kitchen maid, into the gritty daily particulars faced by the lower classes in Regency England during the Napoleonic Wars—and, in doing so, creates a vivid, fascinating, fully realized world that is wholly her own.
Labels: book of the month club, ReaDiNG RooM News, reading suggestions
2016 Holiday and Other Closings
The library will be closed on the following days in 2016:
January 1st, Friday, New Year's Day - Closed
April 12th, Tuesday, National Library Workers Day - Closed
May 28th, Saturday, Memorial Day Weekend - Closed
May 31st, Tuesday, Memorial Day Holiday - Close
July 2nd - August 27th, Library Closed on Saturdays
July 5th, Tuesday, Fourth of July Holiday - Closed
September 3rd, Labor Day Holiday Weekend - Closed
September 6th, Tuesday, Labor Day Holiday - Closed
September TBA, Staff Development- Closed
November 23rd, Wednesday, Thanksgiving Eve - Closed at 5:00PM
November 24-26, Thursday-Saturday, Thanksgiving Holiday - Closed
December 24-27, Saturday-Tuesday, Christmas Holiday - Closed
Story Time Cancellations:
Story Time is cancelled whenever school is closed in Litchfield.
Winter Weather:
Watch WMUR (channel 9) for winter weather closings.
Labels: iNFoRMaTioN BooTH News
This Week @ Your Library...
Preschool Story Time @ 10:30AM
Join Miss Carrie-Anne in the Young Readers' Room for stories, songs and fun!
Wednesday
High School Role-Playing Game Night from 6:00-8:00PM
Join the group on the 2nd and 4th Wednesday of the month.
Thursday
Tween Book Group @ 2:30PM
Page Turners in grades 6-8 meet for a snack, a discussion of West of the Moon by Margi Preus, and a quick activity.
Kid's Drop-In Tabletop Game Night @ 6:00PM
You may drop-off** kids age 8-13 or stay and play with them! Led by Nick Ozmore, the tabletop game group meets the 2nd Thursday of each month and involves a wide selection of games on rotation. **Note: For children under 10 years of age, a parent or caregiver age 14 or older must remain in the building.
Drop-in Knitting Group from 6:00-8:00PM
If your hobby is knitting crocheting, cross-stitch or any other kind of stitching, bring your project to the library and stitch with our group! Perfect for all skill levels--even beginners. Unraveled meets the 2nd and 4th Thursday of each month.
Friday
Infant Story Time @ 10:30AM
Book Babies is a lap-sit program for infants (newborn to 18 months) and their caregivers. This 20 minute program includes simple board books, rhymes and songs.
Toddler Story Time @ 11:30AM
Tiny Tales is a lap-sit program for toddlers (ages 18-35 months) and their caregivers, bridging Book Babies and Preschool Story Time.
Check Out What Our Book Groups are Reading!
All Booked Up, AM & PM: TBA
Book of the Month Club: TBA
Book Bunch: A Long Way From Chicago by Richard Peck
Page Turners: West of the Moon by Margi Preus
Board of Trustees Meeting Canceled Tonight
Due to weather, tonight's meeting of the Library Board of Trustees has been canceled.
Tuesday
Drop-in Knitting Group from 10:00PM-Noon
If your hobby is knitting crocheting, cross-stitch or any other kind of stitching, bring your project to the library and stitch with our group! Perfect for all skill levels--even beginners. In Stitches meets the 1st, 3rd and 5th Tuesday of each month
Preschool Story Time @ 10:30AM
Join Miss Carrie-Anne in the Young Readers' Room for stories, songs and fun!
Wednesday
Preschool Story Time @ 12:30PM
Join Miss Carrie-Anne in the Young Readers' Room for stories, songs and fun!
Adult Book Group @ 6:30PM
Join All Booked Up as they discuss A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman.
Friday
Infant Story Time @ 10:30AM
Book Babies is a lap-sit program for infants (newborn to 18 months) and their caregivers. This 20 minute program includes simple board books, rhymes and songs.
Toddler Story Time @ 11:30AM
Tiny Tales is a lap-sit program for toddlers (ages 18-35 months) and their caregivers, bridging Book Babies and Preschool Story Time.
Adult Book 2 Group @ 1:30PM
Join All Booked Up as they discuss A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman.
Check Out What Our Book Groups are Reading!
All Booked Up, AM & PM: A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
Book of the Month Club: The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson
Book Bunch: A Long Way From Chicago by Richard Peck
Page Turners: West of the Moon by Margi Preus
Labels: BoaRD RooM News
This Week @ Your Library...
TuesdayDrop-in Knitting Group from 10:00PM-Noon
If your hobby is knitting crocheting, cross-stitch or any other kind of stitching, bring your project to the library and stitch with our group! Perfect for all skill levels--even beginners. In Stitches meets the 1st, 3rd and 5th Tuesday of each month
Preschool Story Time @ 10:30AM
Join Miss Carrie-Anne in the Young Readers' Room for stories, songs and fun!
Wednesday
Preschool Story Time @ 12:30PM
Join Miss Carrie-Anne in the Young Readers' Room for stories, songs and fun!
Adult Book Group @ 6:30PM
Join All Booked Up as they discuss A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman.
Friday
Infant Story Time @ 10:30AM
Book Babies is a lap-sit program for infants (newborn to 18 months) and their caregivers. This 20 minute program includes simple board books, rhymes and songs.
Toddler Story Time @ 11:30AM
Tiny Tales is a lap-sit program for toddlers (ages 18-35 months) and their caregivers, bridging Book Babies and Preschool Story Time.
Adult Book 2 Group @ 1:30PM
Join All Booked Up as they discuss A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman.
Check Out What Our Book Groups are Reading!
All Booked Up, AM & PM: A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
Book of the Month Club: The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson
Book Bunch: A Long Way From Chicago by Richard Peck
Page Turners: West of the Moon by Margi Preus
Labels: this week
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