Summer Reading Program “Kicks Off” at Whipple City Days
Ice Cream Social and Summer Reading Sign-Up
Please join us on Saturday, June 15th from 1:30 PM-3:30 PM on the library’s front lawn, as we kick off the Summer Reading Program with an Ice Cream Social and an opportunity to sign up for the Summer Reading Program. The theme this year is Dig into Reading and many cool prizes are available each time a child or teen reads an hour or is read to for an hour.
The library has a wonderful line-up of program presenters and performers, arranged by Deb Sgambelluri, Youth Services. Free sign-up at the front desk. Programs include:
• Thursday, July 11, Magicman Entertainment, (all ages), 6:30-7:30 PM.
• Thursday, July 18, Animal presentation with Howard Romack, (all ages), 6:30-7:30 PM.
• Thursday, July 25, Let’s Drum! With Jonathan Duda (all ages), 3:00-4:00 PM.
• Tuesday, July 30, Tang Museum Art Craft Program (ages 6+), 10:30-11:30 AM.
• Thursday, August 8, Eeny Meeny Music, with Sylvia Bloom (ages 1-6), 3:00-4:00 PM.
• Thursday, August 15, River JackZ-Songwriting & Recording Program (all ages), 1:30-2:30 PM.
Join Deb for Summer Story Hours every Wednesday, at 10:30 AM in the Hedbring Community Room, for ages up to 4 years and at 11:15 AM on the Town Green, for ages 5+ (weather permitting), in cooperation with the local Inter-Faith Food for Kids program.
Check out the wooden flower boxes in the tiny yard behind the library, where kids and their caregivers were able to plant sunflowers, courtesy of a donation of seeds from High Mowing Organic Seeds. Seed packets are also available as Summer Reading Prizes. Soil for the boxes was donated by Booth’s Blend and the boxes themselves were assembled by Mike Sgambelluri. The gardening program was conducted by Annie Miller and Deb Sgambelluri.
Programs this summer are made possible in part by Federal Library Services & Technology Act funds, awarded to the New York State Library by the Federal Institute of Museum & Library Services, and in part by funds from the New York State Library’s Family Literacy Library Services Grant program.
Additions to Collection
A total of 177 items were added to the collection this week. The bulk of these were additions to the downloadable eBook collection.
New/Popular: Fiction-The Kings of Cool (Winslow). Non-Fiction: Brutal Simplicity of Thought: How it Changed the World; Environmental Debt: the New Economics of the 21st Century (Larkin); Millionaire & the Mummies: Theodore Davis’s Gilded Age in the Alley of the Kings (Adams); Stolen: Escape From Syria (Monaghan); Super Boys: the Amazing Adventures of Jerry Sigel & Joe Shuster—the Creators of Superman (Ricca).
New to Us: Fiction: 1222: a Hanne Wilhelmsen Novel (Holt); An Army at Dawn: the War in North Africa, 1942-1943 (Atkinson); The Burning Wire: a Lincoln Rhyme Novel (Deaver); Dead in the Family (Harris); I’d Know You Anywhere (Lippman); Never the Face: a Story of Desire (Sands); No Mercy (Kenyon); A Vintage Affair (Wolff).
New to Us Music: No Turning Back: 1985-2005 (Glass Tiger); Romeo & Juliet: Music From the Motion Picture.
Children’s New & Popular: Books on CD-A to Z Mysteries H-J & W-Z; The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Baum). The following items were purchased with Libri Foundation Grant funds: Easy Readers: Dinosaurs (Zoehfield); Frogs! (Carney); Planets (Carney). Fiction: Behind the Bedroom Wall (Williams); Born to Race (Steele); Dodger & Me (Sonenblick); Dragon Run (Matthews); Explorer: the Mystery Boxes: Seven Graphic Stories; Jefferson’s Sons: a Founding Father’s Secret Children (Bradley); Star Wars: the Complete Saga. Non-Fiction: Fire on Ice: Autobiography of a Champion Figure Skater (Cohen); Freedom Heroiness: Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Jane Adams, Ida B. Wells, Alice Paul, Rosa Parks (Wishinsky).
eBooks (courtesy SALS and its member libraries, available at salon.sals.edu): Bailout Over Normandy: A Flyboy’s Adventures (Fahrenwald); Birthmarked (O’Brien); Black Irish (Talty); Chasing Alaska: a Portrait of the Last Frontier Then & Now (Bernard); Gardening for Geeks… (Wilhelmi); The Great Cake Mystery (McCall Smith); The Kings & Queens of Roam (Wallace); The Silver Linings Playbook (Quick); Thinking of You (Mansel).
Young Adult-Graphic Novels: Avalon High Coronation. Vol. 1, The Merlin Prophecy (Cabot); Friends With Boys (Hicks). Fiction: Airborn (Oppel); Interworrld (Gaiman).
Programs & Calendar: Story hours-Wednesdays at 10:30 AM (up to 4 years). Theme: Summer. Osteo Exercise Tuesdays & Thursdays from 8:30-9:15 AM. The Board meets the third Wednesday of the month from 7-9 pm in the library. The public is welcome to attend. The exhibit for the month of June is a photography show by Kelli Marie Lovdahl.
June 13: Social Media Basics (Pushing the Limits grant), with Kathy Handy, Computer Lab Instructor from the Saratoga Springs Public Library. To be held at the High School Media Center. Free registration at the public library. 7:00-8:30 PM.
June 13: Why in the World Are They Spraying? Free film, 7:00 PM.
June 15: Ice Cream Social and Summer Reading Program sign up on the front lawn during Whipple City Days, 1:30-3:30 PM.
June 17: Girl Scout Troop 3547, 6:30-8 PM.
June 18: Knitting, 6:30 PM.
June 19: Discussion of Erik Larson’s Thunderstruck, led by WAMC’s Joe Donahue. (Pushing the Limits grant), 7-8:30 PM. Board meeting, 7:00 PM.
June 20: Battenkill Community Services, 10-12; Social Media Next Steps, with Kathy Handy at the High School Media Center, Pushing the Limits Grant, 7-8:30 PM.
June 25: Bereavement, 6:30 PM; Knitting, 6:30 PM.
June 26: Time Traders, 6:30-8 PM.
June 27: Battenkill Community Services, 10-12; Battenkill Pine Homeowners’ Association, 7:00 PM.
June 28: Blue Shield of Northeastern New York, 1:00-3:00 PM.
June 29: Exhibit de-installation.
Library Hours are Monday & Friday 10-5, Tuesday-Thursday, 10-8 and Saturday 10-1. The library website is http://greenwich.sals.edu/. We are also on Facebook. The library offers wi-fi, faxing, photocopying & color printing. We have 8 general usage computers and 3 early literacy game computers. Desktop Video Magnifier available for those with low vision.