Director’s Notebook July, 2008 There are nine of them now;...
Director’s Notebook
July, 2008
Director’s Notebook
July, 2008
Summetime …and the reading is easy! Check out a good book from the library and enjoy one of summer’s greatest pleasures–reading!
The library will be CLOSED on Friday, July 4th and Saturday, July 5th,2008. Happy Independence Day!
Library Summer Hours:
Starting Tuesday, July 1st, the Library summer hours will be Monday-Thursday, 9 to 8; Friday-Saturday, 9-5. No Sunday hours in the Summer.
Evening programs at the library are not affected by this change of closing time.
Happy summer reading!
Calling all kids! Spin a yarn at Tikatok, a new website “where kids channel their imagination into stories – and publish those stories into books for you to share and treasure with friends and family.”
-Bri
Director’s Notebook
June, 2008
Some writers are identified with a particular country or region, others with a specific period in history. Willa Cather is known for both. When I think of her, I think of the prairie states, especially Nebraska, and I think of the days of the intrepid pioneers of the prairies, struggling to make a life for themselves that was tenuous, at best.
Lookybook is a new website that lets readers look at each and every page of a picture book “from cover to cover, at your own pace.”
Kind of like reading an actual book!
Lookybook argues, “We know that nothing will replace the magic of reading a book with your child at bedtime, but we aim to replace the overwhelming and frustrating process of finding the right books for parents and their kids.”
It’s HOT outside, but it’s COOL in here! Stop by the library: there’s no better place to browse through your favorite magazine or read a good book!
Question: Who is one of America’s most impassioned advocates for the rights of all children?
Answer: Jonathon Kozol, who recently was the keynote speaker at the commencement exercises for St. Andrews School in Barrington.
Follow this link to learn more about Kozol’s life and works: