JULY 2010 LIBRARY NEWS

BUY A BRICK on the 4^th of July OR at the library; Summer Reading; Reading Buddies; Bike and Hike every other Friday -- finding the alphabet in nature; Music Mondays (banjo), Tuesdays (slow jam), every other Friday (singing + instruments); piano lessons and practice times; hot spot computer use; new books; Want to use the conference room or library outside open hours? Contact your library today!

Your library is open 6 days a week!

Weekdays 1:30 – 4:30 p.m.   Nights  M & W  7:00 – 9:00 p.m.    Saturdays 11:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. 

JULY LIBRARY FUND RAISER:  BUY A BRICK

Help support your library.  Set your name and/or your thoughts in stone, on a LIBRARY BRICK to be added to the floor of the sunroom/entry at the library.  $100 per brick -- a great way to leave a legacy! Sign up after the 4th at the LIBRARY.

SUMMER READING:

Come to The Library Summer Reading Program every Wednesday June 2 - August 4: 10:30 - 12:00.

THEME:  "Make a Splash."  Hear stories and songs from librarians, Summer Reading folks, and NPS Naturalists each week.  Hear tales and do arts and crafts activities.  For everyone pre-school - 6th grade.  Pick up a gameboard, read hours for clues, find gifts at local INCREDIBLE WONDERFUL businesses helping sponsor this activities for our readers!  YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE...THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH!

Call or stop by if you'd like to volunteer to read, make a presentation, lead a song or a hike, lead a craft project, bring snacks!...

READING BUDDIES:  The town is buzzing with readers and reading buddies!  This is very exciting, a continuation of 19 years of reading with readers throughout the summer. 

BIKE AND HIKE Program on every other Friday:   Come to the library every other Friday at 10:00  (If you're new, bring your parent to sign the permission slip!).  We'll talk about what we're heading off to find:  Bring a water bottle, compass, and rain coat (if cloudy or rainy).  There will be a front biker and a "sweep" biker at the back of the line.  We'll be back by 12:00 noon, probably before, to look in our field guides and write down what we saw!  July 2:  Nagoonberry Trail; July 16:  looking for beach asparagus at the Gustavus beach with Judy Brakel; July 30:  at the Library, making Alphabet Nature books.

Call if you'd like to volunteer to read, make a presentation, lead a song or a hike, lead a craft project, bring snacks!...

STUDENT-MADE BOOKS FROM ELLIE SHARMAN'S ELEMENTARY CLASS OVER THE YEARS FROM 1991- 2010.  Now on display at the library on a table under the windows in the sun room.  Come see what you and your children have written and drawn over the years!  (These are not to be checked out -- on display only!)

NEW BOOKS :

Touching Peace

Teachings on Love

Start Where You Are

A Walk in the Woods

King Leopold's Ghost

Reason for Hope

Tattie's River Journey (J)

Brushed By Feathers

Life of Lincoln

Bach book and CDs

Our Game

With Speed and Violence

Trains (J)

Creating Magic

D-Day

80 Days that Changed the World

A Whale is Not a Fish and Other Animal Mix-ups (J)

An Affair with Africa

Savages

Bedford Square

End in Tears

Uncover Crocodile (J)

The Magic School Bus Hops Home (J)

The Magic School Bus Spins a Web (J)

The Magic School Bus Blows Its Top (J)

Dinosaurs Are Different (J)

The Wild Swans

Aesop's Fables (J)

Lullabies and Night Songs

Seals and Walruses (J)

Wolves (J)

Stones into Schools by Mortenson, author of Three Cups of Tea 

Freaks Geeks and Asperger Syndrome

Just Give Him the Whale!

The Captain's Verses

Echo Maker

UAS Literary & Arts Journal 2010; Late Nights on Air; Silver Wings

WANT TO DISPLAY ONE OF YOUR QUILTS AT THE LIBRARY?  OR A PIECE OF ARTWORK?  Give us a call or stop by!

 MUSIC : 

• Join us for BANJO every Monday afternoon at 5:00 p.m. (Beginners at 4:30) ; also for other instruments -- guitar, mandolin..
• Join us for SLOW JAM every Tuesday afternoon from 5:00 - 6:00, learning a few songs each week and playing them slowly for all instruments: so far we've had bass, fiddle, banjo, mandolin, piano, and guitar.
• Every other Friday weekend music night at the Library with library piano, borrowable guitars, snacks:  July 2; July 16; July 30
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  Thanks to all of our FANTASTIC desk sitters and volunteers:  Hank Lentfer, Emma Johnson, John Hawley, Dana Miller, Allison Banks, Heather Sellards, Lori Zimmer, Eileen Clark, Carole Baker, Rita Wilson,  Carolyn Elder, Adrianna Cahill, Aimee Youmans, Bonnie Harris, Robin, and Celia Fortino, and Penny Woodall! Thanks to Library Board Members Eileen Clark, Artemis Bona Dea, Lynne Jensen, George Jensen, Jaenell Manchester.  Thanks to our City liason, Jim Mackovjak!

Help with Library "Weeding":  Every year the Library works a schedule of "weeding" out old, unread, broken books to make way for new donations and purchases.  This year, 2010, is a big year:  We will be weeding all adult and juvenile books in the 000, 100, 200, 300, 500, 600, and 800's. It takes 2 people to agree to the letting go of any one book.  If you would like to volunteer to help with this project, let us know at the front 

JUNE LIBRARY STATISTICS:  During June, 2010, we had 1030 visits (adults, school children, preschoolers, jr/sr high, in-house computer users, library computer users), checked out 441 books, and 175 movies; for a total of 642 items.  Programs included:  Summer Reading Wednesdays; Bike and Hike Fridays; Reading Buddies reading; Summer School theater presentation;  NPS Sea Lion and Whale Entanglement slide show presentations; singing sessions;  piano lessons and piano playing; banjo, slow jam, and song sessions (with instruments); and a wonderful whittling workshop by Harvey Van Patten.