Big Truck Day and Children’s Festival
Save the Date! Our annual Big Truck Day and Children’s Festival will be held on Saturday, May 18th from 10:00 until 1:00 outside the library. The cost is $5.00 per child, free for adults and babies under 12 months, and a maximum of $15.00 per family. Kids can explore and climb into their favorite trucks and vehicles. Also included at this event are an obstacle course, games, a bubble station, crafts, and refreshments. Please plan to join us!
Spring Book Discussion: The Environment
Stacy Boone, formerly of Step Outdoors, will lead a book discussion series beginning on Friday, April 12th at 4:30 p.m. The first book will be Entangled Life: How Fungi Make our Worlds, Change our Minds, and Shape our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake. Please call the library at 766-5063 to sign up or obtain more information.
Chair Yoga with Carolyn
Carolyn Hannan will teach a 4-week series of Chair Yoga classes beginning on Wednesday, April 17th at 9:00 a.m. Chair yoga is mostly seated but there is some optional standing for balance exercises. Please call the library at 766-5063 to sign up as the class limit is 10 participants.
Preschool Story Time
Preschool Story Time will begin again on Tuesday, September 5th at 10:30. Join Miss Julia for stories, games, songs, and a craft. Designed for children aged 0-6 years old but all are welcome.
Vermont Humanities Council Book Discussion Series
Our Winter/Spring Book Discussion series is “A Hard Look at America”. Scholar Rachael Cohen will lead our discussions which will be held on Sunday, January 21st (All the President’s Men by Woodward and Bernstein), Sunday, February 18th (For the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America’s Continuing Debate over Science and Religion by Edward J. Larson), Sunday, March 17th (Armies of the Night by Norman Mailer), and Sunday, April 14th (Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital by Sheri Fink). All sessions will be at 1:30, and books may be picked up at the library. This program is free and open to everyone.
Palace Project: New e-books and e-audiobooks
Great News!!! In addition to our Green Mountain e-book/e-audiobook library consortium (GMLC or the Libby App), we are now a member of the Palace Project, which will include e-books and e-audiobooks from the Palace App as well as a great new collection from the Vermont Department of Libraries. To access this collection, download the Palace App onto your phone or computer and use your library number and password (same as GMLC/Libby) to log in. Call us at 766-5063 or stop by the library if you need help.
New Login Information for Green Mountain Library Consortium
We have a new login system for GMLC including the Libby and Overdrive apps. The card number is the full number on your library card, and our default password is userpass. The password is only different if you created an account with a different password on our library catalog. Please call the library at 766-5063 with questions or if you need your card information.
Passes to Echo and Shelburne Farms
The library offers special passes to the Echo Center and Shelburne Farms. The passes may be signed out for several days, and patrons will be able to visit these attractions for a small entry fee (i.e. $7.00 for 2 adults and 2 children). Please call the library for details.
New Laptops
The library has obtained two brand new laptop computers for in-house loaning to our patrons for use in our conference room or in the gazebo.
Solar Powered Gazebo
Please take a look at the following website to follow the solar energy produced daily and monthly from our new solar gazebo.
Book Sponsors Wanted
Would you like to sponsor the purchase of a new book? Anyone who is interested would choose a book, pay the discounted price (we are given a 45% reduction in cost), and be the first person to read it before it goes into general circulation. Please contact the library if you are interested. Thank you for your consideration.
Little Free Libraries
We now have two Little Free Libraries registered and on the LFL World map. Located in Scampy's Store in West Charleston and next to the Town Clerk's Office in Morgan, the little libraries are dedicated to former librarian Barbara Whitehill. Please visit them anytime and take a book or leave one-they are fully stocked with both adult and kids' books.
