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This Week At Your Library: June 30
Happy 4th of July!
 
 
I'm writing this from the American Library Convention, where I have been looking at how the Library can better meet the changing needs of the Old Bridge community. 

One question keeps popping up: Over the next many years, we will be replacing worn out furniture, investing in collections, evaluating floor plans and workflows - but the missing piece of this puzzle is how YOU, as a member of the Library, use our facility - and more importantly, are there ways you would like to use the Library that are challenging or impossible? Without feedback from you, our community, we can't succeed in our mission to connect you with knowledge and be a space for your use.

So, please tell me what works for you here at the Old Bridge Public Library, or it there are options you wish were open to you in terms of space, facilities, and collections. I can't promise immediate change, but I can promise that when changes do get made, everyone's input will inform them.

Do you mainly study here? Research? Meet with friends? Are the programs at other libraries you wish we had, or ones you wish we would retire to make room for new offerings? Does the furniture meet your needs, or do you wish we had seating that worked better for your use of the building and its contents? Do you visit other libraries because of things they have that we lack?

Please let me know!

Thanks for your input, and have a GREAT 4th of July!

 
Regards,
Darren Miguez, Library Director
Events This Week
Monday
10am: Preschool Playtime
6pm-8pm: Tech Buddies - come get help from a tech-savvy teen!
6:30pm: Idea Farm: Handicrafts: Sewing a Pillow Part I [Registration Required]
Tuesday
6pm: Harbor Night at the Movies: "Non-Stop" (PG-13, 2014) - Laurence Harbor
7pm: Idea Farm Safety Class [Registration Required]
7pm: Summer Crochet and More Club
Wednesday
7pm: Teen Writing Group 
Thursday
4:15pm: Stories and More: Up, Up and Away (Grades K-3)
6:30pm: Critics' Choice Film: "The Cheap Detective" (PG, 1978)
Friday
Library Closed in Observance of Independence Day 
Saturday
11am-1pm: Tech Buddies - come get help from a tech-savvy teen!
11:30am: Toddler Dance Party
12pm: Garden State Speculative Writing Workshop
Sunday
Library Closed
Upcoming Events Next Week
 Monday 7/7, 10am: Preschool Storytime Craft
                      11am: Teens Taking Action Project 
6:30pm: Idea Farm: Handicrafts: Sewing a Pillow Part II [Registration Required]
7pm: Crazy 8's Club™ [Registration Required] (Grades 3-5) 
Tuesday 7/8, 11am:  Rockets Away: Lecture and Launches (All ages)
                      2pm: How to Dry Herbs Using a Dehydrator [Registration Required]
                      4pm: Teen Trivia
                      6pm: Laurence Harbor Night at the Movies: "Dave" (PG-13, 1993)
                      7pm: Summer Crochet and More Club
Wednesday 7/9, 2pm: Storytime in the Garden (Weather permitting) (Ages 4-5)
                      2:30pm: Teens Taking Action Meeting
                      3pm: Laurence Harbor Summer Reading Craft: Fish Hooks
                      7pm: Huff and Puff Family Competition (Ages 3-10)
                      7pm: MS Word 2007 Basics [Registration Recommended]
Thursday 7/10, 2pm: Terrific Tweens: 3-D Glasses (Grades 4-6)  
               2:30pm: Computer Basics [Registration Recommended]
               4:15pm: Stories and More: U.F.O.'s (Grades K-3)
               7pm: Idea Farm Safety Class [Registration Required
Friday 7/11, 11am: Children's Drop-in Craft (Ages 2+)
                       12pm: Tick Trouble with Kathleen Kirby
                       1:30pm: Friday Film: "Cloud 9" (G, 2014)

                       2pm: Intro to 3D Printing [Registration Required
                       3pm: Teens Get Crafty!: Temporary Tattoos 
Saturday 7/12, 2pm: Laurence Harbor Family Movie: "A Bug's Life" (G, 1998) 
                        2:30pm: Second Saturday: Kevin McGowan, Acoustic Guitar 
Sunday 7/13, Library Closed

"The library is not, as some would have it, a place for the retiring of disposition or faint of heart. It is not an ivory tower or a quiet room in a sanitarium facing away from the afternoon sun. It is, rather, a command center, a power base. A board room, a war room. An Oval Office for all who preside over their own destinies. One does not retreat from the world here; one prepares to join it at an advantage." 

Eric Burns-- Author, playwright, media critic 

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