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Visit Us at our New Location - During our New Hours
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The move is complete and we are now settling in at our new temporary home at 21 Governor Street (the former HayDay/Balducci's location). The mailing address remains 472 Main Street, Ridgefield, CT 06877 and phone is still 203-438-2282. Staff emails are all the same, but some phone extensions may have changed. Check our staff directory for details. Please note that our hours have changed: Monday - Thursday 9 AM - 7 PM Friday - Saturday 9 AM - 5 PM Sunday 1-5 PM starting this week, September 9th |
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Q & A about Library Service in the Temporary Location
| What's changed? What hasn't? What about parking? Programs? See the attached for details of what you can expect in our temporary location. Have a question that isn't addressed here? Send it to mfrind@ridgefieldlibrary.org.
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Take Your Time to Return Your Borrowed Items
|  To ease the pressure when we first re-open, we invite you to return borrowed items anytime between September 4th and 9th without penalty, even if marked as due during that week. This first week in the new location will be fine-free for everyone! |
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Library Tag Sale September 7th and 8th
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Friday, September 7, 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Saturday, September 8th, 9:00 Am - 5:00 PM
Old Ridgefield Library, 472 Main Street
Library Tag Sale
The Ridgefield Library invites individuals and organizations such as schools, libraries and non-profits to their 472 Main Street location on for a tag sale of furniture, fixtures and equipment. Among the items available will be quantities of chairs from our program room, glass front display cabinets, study tables,child-size furniture, display racks, chairs, desks, microform machines, kitchen-style cabinets and other built-ins, and more. Some items will be marked with very modest prices, "make an offer" for others; some will be free to a good home. Please be prepared to remove most items purchased by the end of the day on Saturday the 8th. For more information, contact Assistant Director Mary Rindfleisch at 203-438-2282 ormfrind@ridgefieldlibrary.org.
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Author Talk with Novelist Peter Steiner
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 Wednesday, September 5, 7:00 PM
Library Program Room
Author Talk
Peter Steiner started out teaching literature and later became a successful cartoonist for the New Yorker and other publications. He more recently turned to fiction and has produced a total of four thrillers featuring former State Department (CIA) analyst Louis Morgan. The latest is The Resistance, published in August and described by Kirkus Reviews as "a subtle and complex thriller/whodunit, written with wit, intelligence and luminous precision."
This program is co-sponsored by Books on the Common. Copies of books will be available for sale and signing at the event. No registration.
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Adult Book Discussions this Week
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Tuesday, September 4, 7:15 PM Please note new time.
Library Program Room
The Nonfictioneers
This month: Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History by C. S. Gwynne
Click here for more about this and upcoming Nonfictioneers selections.
Thursday, September 6, 10:00 AM Please note new time.
Library Program Room
Murder by the Book
This month: Case Histories by Kate Atkinson
Click here for more about this and upcoming Murder by the Boom selections.
New members are always welcome at Library book discussions. Copies of selected titles are available at the Circulation Desk or may be purchased at a special book club discount at Books on the Common. No registration.
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Shutterbugs Meet Saturday
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Saturday, September 8, 9:30 AM
Shutterbugs
The Ridgefield Library's photography group meets on the second Saturday of the month to discuss their craft and/or head out on their many field trips. They will meet in the parking lot at 21 Governor Street at 9:30 to then go out on field trips.
New members are always welcome. Please contact Mary Harold at 438-7350 or e-mail ridgefieldshutterbugs@yahoo.com if you are interested in joining the group and to find out the location of the field trips.
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Scholarly Series on Proust Starts this Month
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 The Library is pleased to announce its latest scholarly program series. This fall we will join forces with The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum to present Dipping into Proust, a multi-media series of programs based on Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time, better known as Remembrance of Things Past or, in its original French, À la recherche du temps perdu. The novel, in seven volumes, is one of the longest in the world at 1.5 million words. Our series will focus on just the first book, Swann's Way, the volume that contains the now famous "episode of the madeleine" which sparked the involuntary memories of the book's narrator.
Events taking place in September and October include book discussions, a lecture by Yale scholar Mark Schenker, and a concert of classical music from Proust's era. Click here for a full schedule and information on how you can participate.
Dipping into Proust is made possible by the support of the Friends of the Ridgefield Library and the Wadsworth Russell Lewis Fund.
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Children's Programs this Week
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Our schedule of regular drop-in programs for youngsters resumes this week. Please note that some old favorites are now at new times or in new locations.  Tuesday 10:00 AM only, Parks and Recreation Center, 195 Danbury Road
Mother Goose: Movement, music and rhymes for infants to 2 year olds with a caregiver. No registration.
Please note return to Tuesdays for Mother Goose.
Tuesday 4:30 PM, Library Program Room
Junior Critics
Children in grades 4 & 5 get together to share the books they've been reading. Snacks are served. No registration.
Friday 11:00 AM, Library Program Room Friday Flicks Movies based on favorite children's books for ages 2 and older. No registration. PLEASE NOTE: Remaining Summer Reading prizes may be collected at 21 Governor Street from September 4th through 7th. |
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It's Not Too Late to Reserve your Memento of the Old Library!
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 You can take home a little piece of the Ridgefield Library once construction starts and a large part of the building is demolished. For just $10 you can purchase an authentic brick from the old Library as a keepsake. They make a great bookend, paperweight or doorstop. Purchase your bricks now online. |
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