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Dear Library User,
Emma Weiler, our new Youth Services Librarian, started work here Tuesday, January 3. Please join us in welcoming Emma!
eReaders and eBooks: Did you receive a Nook or Kindle or tablet over the holidays? Do you have questions about how to access ebooks through OverDrive? Please call the Reference Desk at 978-664-4942.
New DVDs: Here's a link to our Newest DVDs added to the Evergreen catalog. You'll find this list updated regularly on our homepage.
Evergreen Online Catalog Survey: Please let us know what you think about the MVLC Library Catalog. The survey is short (probably less than five minutes) and asks questions about how you use the catalog. There are many places in the survey in which you can let MVLC staff know what you like or dislike about the catalog. The survey will be available until January 12. Please take the survey. Thank you!
Downsize Your Stuff - Start the new year off right. On Tuesday, January 17, Dave Downs of Downs Entertainment will talk about how to organize your belongings. We've heard it's a very popular program! Please call 978-664-4942 to register. Sponsored by the Friends.
Are you Considering a Career Change? Fred Nothnagel, Career Coach and Consultant, will give a presentation, Thursday, February 2 at 7PM. Please call 978-664-4942 to register. Sponsored by the Friends.
We wish you a Happy New Year!
Sincerely,
Helena Minton
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Happy New Year, Families! Please welcome our new Youth Services Librarian, Emma Weiler!
For Pre-Schoolers:
Winter Story Time Sign-Ups have begun.
Sessions begin the week of January 9.
Story Time Sessions:
Toddler Tales: Tuesdays at 9:30AM
Preschool Story time: Thursdays at 9:30AMBabies & Books: Thursdays at 10:30AM
Stories & Songs (2 & 3 year olds): Fridays at 10:30AM
Dads & Donuts, Saturday, January 7, 10:30AM.
Mothers and other caregivers are also welcome!
Music with Dara VanRemoortel: Tuesday January 10,
at 10AM.
For Elementary School Children:
Star Readers Book Club Monday, January 9, at 4-4:45PM For students in Grades 4 & 5. We will discuss Savvy by Ingrid Law.
Lego Club Tuesday, January 10 from 4-5PM An awesome activity for students in grades 2 & up!
Regular Readers: Be sure to ask for a Regular Reader card, if your child would like one. After several visits to the library, children may be entered to win a gift certificate to Ryer's Store, sponsored by the Friends.
Questions? Contact Emma Weiler at 978-664-4942 or email Emma at eweiler@mvlc.org.
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Dear Teens, Please welcome our new Youth Services Librarian, Emma Weiler. Find out more about Emma on the Teen Page. She is eager to get Teen programs going again soon! The Youth Advisory Board (YAB) is open to all students in grades 6-12. YAB members help choose books, CDs, and DVDs, organize programs, and special events. Want to Volunteer at the Library? Are teens looking for community service hours?Please call Dianne Dowd at 978-664-4942.
Not sure what to read? There are YA Book Suggestion sheets in the teen corner!
YAB is on Facebook. Just search for Flint YAB and add us as a friend for a convenient way to learn about what's happening for teens at the library!
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Stay up to date on library events & news
Winter Fiction is the theme of the third floor display. "Biographies" in the movies will be the theme of the DVD display on the first floor.
Book displays on the first floor include :
Notable Deaths of 2011, Winter Sports, and Resolutions.
There will be small displays for Downsizing, "If You Like Steig Larsson try... " and Martin Luther King, Jr..
New titles are always on order. Some of the new titles coming in January include: Breakdown / Sara Paretsky, Death of Kings / Bernard Cornwell, The Flight of Gemma Hardy / Margot Livesey, Gun Games / Faye Kellerman, How It Began / Penelope Lively, Hunter / John Lescroart, Need You Now / James Grippando, The Odds / Stewart O'Nan, Private: #1 Suspect / James Patterson, Rope / Nevada Barr, Running the Rift / Naomi Benaron and The World We Found / Thrity Umrigar. New DVD titles will include: Boardwalk Empire - Season 1, Justified - Season 2, Downton Abbey - Season 2, 50/50, I Don't Know How She Does It, Mildred Pierce, Moneyball, Restless, Real Steel, Ides of March, Drive, Contagion and Whistleblower. Recent Staff Favorites - Fiction favorites include : Second Grave on the Left / Darynda Jones, Sister / Roasamund Lupton, American Boy / Larry Watson, Boy in the Suitcase / Lene Kaaberbol, Barbarian Nurseries / Hector Tobar, The Drop / Michael Connelly, 11/22/63 / Stephen King, The Sense of an Ending / Julian Barnes, The Shipping News / Annie Proulx, Maine / J. Courtney Sullivan, Explosive Eighteen / Janet Evanovich, and The Stranger You Seek / Amanda Kyle Williams. Non-fiction favorites include: Country Driving / Peter Hessler, The End of Normal / Stephanie Mack and Exegesis / Philip Dick. Young Adult Fiction : A Monster Calls / Patrick Ness and Crossed / Ally Condie. Audiobooks include : Iron House / John Hart, I Am the Messanger / Markus Zusak and Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett. Favorite DVDs include: The Help, The Debt, Crazy Stupid Love, Another Earth, Blackthorn and The Art of Getting By. Do you wish you had "inside" information on the book industry? Subscribe to Shelf Awareness and receive news about forthcoming & recently published books and authors. This is a great way to stay on top of your favorite authors! |
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Flint Memorial Library
147 Park St.
North Reading, MA 01864
978-664-4942
Sincerely,
Helena Minton
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OverDrive to borrow downloadable audio and ebooks from the library.
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Investigating a problem... Developing Community Connections... Ideas for leisure time...
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Reserve a museum pass on TixKeeper!
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Monday, 1PM-8PM
Tuesday, 10AM-8PM Wednesday, 1PM-5PM Thursday, 10AM-8PM
Friday, 10AM-5PM
Saturday, 10AM-5PM (September-May)
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Search our catalog for a book, magazine, DVD, CD, or audiobook. If we don't own a title, we can request it from another library or sometimes we can purchase it. Please let us know what you're interested in. We're only an email away: mnr@mvlc.org
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Be sure to take a look at the Friends bulletin board in the first floor stairwell.
The Friends and their partner, Big Hearted Books, are collecting donations for the Book Sales year-round. Please leave donations in the bin located in the library parking lot or in the one at Eastgate Plaza.
Thank you all who participated and volunteered at the Fall Book Sale!
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