Shelburne Library News: Literacy, Living, and Learning @ YOUR Library!

September 9, 2016 · 0 Comments

Shelburne Public Library will be hosting an evening of exciting cultural and educational events for Culture Days/Savour Shelburne on Friday, September 30, from 5 – 8 p.m.

We will have book-ish hors d’oeuvres, poetry and six-word memoir walls you can write on, as well as short group sessions on how to use our Ancestry database (registration required)! You can let us know you’re coming by calling or coming into the library, or by adding our activity to your Culture Days schedule @ www.culturedays.ca. Watch for details on Facebook (/shelburnelibrary) and our website.

New and ongoing Partnerships

We have some incredible partnerships going on, as you will know from reading the paper, checking our website and Facebook pages, and generally participating in the many activities with which we are involved.

It connects the library and you, our patrons, with many aspects and areas of our community in much more depth and enriches all our lives.

You will note our involvement with Culture Days above and we have just been involved in the highly successful, Authors in the Hills of Mulmur; we are gearing up to organize Dufferin Reads: One Book One County with our partners, BookLore, Orangeville and Grand Valley Libraries, and the sign-out by students of the Chrome books, which we have here in partnership with the Upper Grand District School Board is consistent every day. With school starting up, I can see the demand increasing even more.

With thanks to two of our long-time patrons and supporters, we have just established a wonderful connection with NASA and the Kennedy Space Center. The resources that they have sent us, activity books, bookmarks and posters will help us develop a very exciting science and space program for our youngsters within the next few months.

We have many other partnerships that are ongoing -Dufferin Oaks, Shelburne Residence with our Focus on Seniors program and businesses in the community who support our Silent Auction and other events.

Now for the newest partnership with the Wellington-Dufferin- Guelph Health Unit: We will be housing and distributing a number of health and wellness resources and kits that can be borrowed by teachers for classroom teaching of health concepts; by community groups who want to incorporate health concepts in their meetings especially with young people. A more detailed description of these outstanding materials will be posted in the coming weeks.

Children’s Programs.

Story Time will return on Friday, September 30 at 10.30. If you would like to be part of Story Time, please call or drop in to see us.

Paws to Read will start on Wednesday, September 14 at 3.30 p.m. There are four 15 minute places for your child to read to Mac, the Therapeutic Dog. This is a great program for your child to practice his/her reading skills.

Lego Club will return – 3.30 – 4.30 p.m. on Wednesday, September 28.

Teen Scene

Our Teens are back to school and we have some exciting plans for this school year!

YOUR Library is putting the call out for responsible, ambitious individuals who are eager to be a part of a team which will plan and implement Teen events at the Library. In order to be considered for a position, individuals must reside in either Shelburne, Mono, Melancthon, Amaranth, or Mulmur, and be between 13-18 years old.

The commitment duration will be for at least one school year, September to June, with possibility of extension. Community service hours will be given for the planning meetings and duration of the events to successful Advisory Board members. Applications can be found in person at the Library, and online at www.shelburnelibrary.ca/TAB.

Successful candidates will be contacted by phone to schedule an interview.

Moreover, Teen Scene will meet this Thursday, September 8 @ 6 p.m. to decorate the YA bookends! Wear older clothes, this is going to be messy. No Teen Scene meeting will take place on Thursday, September 15. For those also interested in participating in our Teen book club, Pizza & Pages, Natalie Richards’ book Gone Too Far will be available to sign out in advance of our book club meeting on September 29.

New Books:

Fiction
The Charmers by Elizabeth Adler
Summer at Little Beach Street Bakery by Jenny Colgan
The Watercolourist by Beatrice Masini
First Comes Love by Emily Giffin
Someone Always Knows by Marcia Muller
Age of Myth by Michael J. Sullivan
Midnight Crossing by Tricia Fields
Magic by Danielle Steel
Dating Tips for the Unemployed by Iris Smyles
Seashell Season by Holly Chamberlain
Love You Dead by Peter James

Born of Legend by Sherrilyn Kenyon
My Last Continent by Midge Raymond
The Pursuit by Janet Evanovich and Lee Goldberg
Invincible Summer by Alice Adams
Ghosts of War by Brad Taylor
The Games by James Patterson
Buffalo Jump Blues by Keith McCafferty

Non-fiction:
Mindblown by Matthew Santoro
Unearthed by Alexandra Risen
Glow Kids by Nicholas Kardaras
Naturally Sweet: Bake All Your Favourites with 30-50% Less Sugar by America’s Test Kitchen
Strala Yoga by Tara Stiles
A Good Death by Sandra Martin
Reclaiming Conversation by Sherry Turkle
The Happiness Equation by Neil Pasricha