Weathersfield Proctor Library June and July Happenings

Weathersfield Proctor Library

June and July Happenings

 

New library cards are here! You'll be issued a new teslin library card with key tag at the Weathersfield Proctor Library!  Your current id will change a little bit, but you'll be able to keep your current number when you get your new card.

Why are you getting new cards? In June we went to a new and improved free online catalog called Koha that is user friendly and offers more options for you. The online catalog in Koha will allow you to search the library catalog and other library catalogs in the Koha system in Vermont, such as nearby Windsor and Hartland. Through your library account you will be able to place holds, maintain reading lists and much more - all from the comfort of your home.

Don't forget your library card will give you access to many online resources: downloadable audiobooks and eBooks, Chilton's Auto Repair, Powerspeak Languages, Universal Class with over 500 free online classes and more.

New Library Hours Starting July 1
The library will now be open on Wednesday mornings
at 10:00 am!
Watch for a new children's storytime this fall
Wednesday mornings at 11:00 am.

Programs!

WPL Book Group meets on the third Thursday of each month 
July 18 at 6:30 pm.
This month's selection is Atonement by Ian McEwan

On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister, Cecilia, strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching her is Robbie Turner, her childhood friend who, like Cecilia, has recently come down from Cambridge. By the end of that day, the lives of all three will have been changed forever. Robbie and Cecilia will have crossed a boundary they had not even imagined at its start, and will have become victims of the younger girl's imagination. Briony will have witnessed mysteries and committed a crime that creates in her a sense of guilt that will color her entire life. Ian McEwan has in each of his novels drawn the reader brilliantly into the intimate lives and situations of his characters. But never before has he written on a canvas so large: taking the reader from a manor house in England in 1935, to the retreat to Dunkirk in 1941, to a London hospital soon after where the maimed, broken, and dying soldiers are shipped from the evacuation, to a reunion of the Tallis clan in 1999. Atonement is Ian McEwan's finest achievement. Brilliant and utterly enthralling in its depiction of childhood, love and war. England and class, it is at its center a profound-and profoundly moving-exploration of shame and forgiveness, of atonement and the difficulty of absolution.
Copies of the book are available at the library.

 

Summer Reading Program July 10th - August 14th, 2013

Dig into Reading for kids up to Grade 5
Beneath the Surface for Grades 6 - 12
 Groundbreaking Reads for Adults

Register online or at the library! Pick up a reading log starting July 10th. You'll be entered in weekly prize drawings and each time you stop in you can dig into our fun bin for a treat!  All programs are free and open to all ages.  Some events require registration. Stop in, call 674-2863 or email weathersfieldproctorlibrary@gmail.com with questions.

Special website just for the Summer Reading Program!

Check it out at http://wplsummerreadingprogram.blogspot.com/

Friday July 12
The 2nd Annual Stuffed Animal Sleepover - drop off your stuffie all day today!

Wednesday July 17th at 11 am
Hearts of Rock and Talking Stones with Michael Caduto

Wednesday July 24th at 11 am
 Make a Leaf Print t-shirt

Wednesday July 31 at 11 am
Diggin in the Dirt with Michael Clough from the Vermont Natural History Museum

Wednesday August 7 at 11 am
Painting Peg People

Wednesday August 14th at 6:30 pm
Pizza Party finale!



Beneath the Surface Summer Writing Club for Grades 6 -12
Thursday mornings at 11:00 - Noon beginning July 11. Bring a bagged lunch if you'd like and we'll have cold drinks. 
Beneath the Surface History Jeopardy! on Friday night August 9 at 7:00 pm.



Groundbreaking READS for Adults
Saturday July 13 at 1 pm - Brick Books!
Paint a brick to resemble your favorite book. Use in your garden, as a door stop or bookend.Sign up required.
Saturday August 10 - Veggie Swap 9:00 - 1:00 pm Bring produce to share/exchange with others!

Ongoing: Computer Tutor every Friday morning 10:30 - 11:30 am learn how to use a mouse, set up an email account, use facebook, write, save and print a document and more.  Sign up is required.

 

See you @ the Library and around town,

Nancy and Lynn



Geek the library uses 'geek' as a verb - the things you geek are the things you are passionate about. Everyone geeks something, and whatever you geek, the public library supports you.  Geek the Library is coming to Weathersfield! Stay tuned for special geek events!

Nancy Tusinski, Library Director
Lynn Esty, Assistant Librarian