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Remember to Vote!
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Tuesday, November 5th
 Check out this important information about the Library Levy and Local Option Sales Tax.
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Story Time Schedule
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Family Time (All Ages)
Mondays at 6:30 p.m.
Got the Monday blahs? Start your week off right by coming to Family Time! Each week will feature a different activity appropriate for all ages and open to everyone! We'll have crafts, movies, games, fun presenters, and seasonal activities to get the whole family geared up for the week.
November 4th Laura Ingalls Wilder presentation
11th No Family Time - Library Closed
18th Bingo Night
25th No Family Time - Holiday Week
Baby Time (0-18 months)
Thursdays at 10:30 a.m. (15 minutes of structured time followed by free play)
Baby Time is a language enrichment program just for babies. The five best things you can do with your child to help develop language skills are: Talking, Singing, Reading, Writing, and Playing. We will do all of these things in Baby Time! It is an enjoyable time for you and your child full of rhymes, short books, bounces, and much more!
*No Baby Time November 28th--Thanksgiving.
Toddler Time (18 months-3 years)
Tuesdays & Fridays at 10:00 a.m. (20 minutes)
Toddler Time is a great way to build early literacy skills and a love of reading from an early age! We do lots of songs, rhymes, fingerplays, and books that will keep even the wiggliest toddlers engaged and learning!
*See November themes below.
Preschool Story Time (3-5 years)
Tuesdays & Wednesdays at 10:45 a.m. (30 minutes)
We have lots of great stories to share with your preschoolers! On top of the books we have fun songs, rhymes, and activities for you and your kiddos!
Toddler Time and Story Time Themes November 4-8 Pop A Bubble! No Story Time Nov. 5th--Elections 11-15 Let's Eat! No Story Time on Nov 11th--Library Closed 18-22 Family Favorites 25-29 No Story Times - Holiday Week Nov 26 at 10:45 a.m. Doodlebugs Art Program For more information about all story times, visit our website.
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Laura Ingalls Wilder Presentation
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Monday, November 4th at 6:30 p.m.
 We are lucky to have an expert on Laura Ingalls Wilder right here in Eastern Iowa, and she is coming to share her Wilder Wisdom with us at this program, courtesy of a grant from Humanities Iowa.
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Come Write In for National Novel Writing Month
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Every Saturday in November from 2:00-4:00 p.m.
The Library is hosting five Come Write In events this November to support our local writers who are attempting National Novel Writing Month. Join us every Saturday 2 - 4 p.m. in the Conference Room to scribble or type away with your fellow Wrimos. If you're writing something other than a novel, come write along anyway--the more the merrier.
Writers kindergarten-age through high-school-age can find more information at the Young Writers Program website, including workbooks to get them started and suggested word-count goals by grade.
New to National Novel Writing Month? It's an annual event where thousands of people all over the world attempt to write 50,000 words of a novel in just 30 days. Learn more on NaNoWriMo.org.
The library has resources for writers of all ages. Ask at the Children's Desk for suggestions.
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International Games Day
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Saturday, November 16th from 9:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
Marion Public Library and hundreds of libraries across the country and around the world will join the American Library Association (ALA) in celebrating the popularity and educational value of games for International Games Day @ your library on November 16, 2013.
Learn how to play Yu-Gi-Oh! and find other players in the area. There will be 3 demonstration sessions at 10:00, 12:00 and 2:00, but a Yu-Gi-Oh! expert will be here all day, so stop by any time!
Join in a world-wide game of Telephone (aka Global Gossip)! We will get the secret message whispered to us sometime during the day, which we get to pass on to our patrons. Then we will call another library across the country and pass on our own version of the secret phrase!
We also have a great collection of board games--Including Tapple and Cross Ways which are new games this year! They will be available for friends and families to play throughout the day. Try out a new one, or play an old favorite!
Stop by and game on!
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Barnes & Noble Fundraiser
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Saturday, November 30th 9:00 a.m.-10:00 p.m. (and Online!)
Planning on doing some Christmas shopping this year? Include us in your plans! Mention Marion Public Library as you check out at Barnes & Noble and we get a percentage of the sale!
Come to a special story time with Miss Olivia for all ages in the Barnes & Noble Children's Area at 10:30 a.m. Visit your favorite librarians at our table morning or afternoon on the 30th. Need some ideas for gift-giving (or just yourself)? Ask us for book recommendations and make a bonus bookmark. Also, our Friends group will be gift-wrapping for free! Or if you're shopping online between November 30th and December 5th visit bn.com and enter Bookfair ID 11189560 to make a donation that costs you nothing at all.
At the checkout screen, go the Payment section and select Change.
Scroll all the way to the bottom of that page and check the box that says "this is a Bookfair Order."
Insert our Bookfair ID 11189560.
You get books in the mail, and we get donations from B&N that let us buy awesome reading program prizes like Nook tablets. Everybody wins!
THANK YOU for supporting your library!
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Basic Info
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Hours:
Monday-Thursday
9:30 a.m.-9:00 p.m.
9:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
2:00-5:00 p.m.
Election Day November 5th-NO STORY TIMES
Library Closed November 11th--Veteran's Day
Library closes at 5:30 p.m. Nov. 27th--Thanksgiving
Library Closed November 28th--Thanksgiving
319-377-3412 1095 6th Ave. Marion, IA 52302
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LEGO Club
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Thursday, November 14th 3:00-5:00 p.m.
Build with our stash of Legos twice per month, on the second and fourth Thursdays.
Thanks to all the generous people who donated Legos! Would you like to donate? We'd be glad to take them and share the Lego love!
No Lego Club November 28th or December 26th
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November 26th at 10:45
Doodlebugs become litter bugs today. We're collecting "found objects" to create sculptures like Grant Wood's "Lilies of the Alley."
Doodlebug's fall semester celebrates the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art's new exhibition, Some Assembly Required, which features works of collage and assemblage from CRMA's collection. We'll spend this autumn creating works of art from a huge array of materials, so prepare for some messy and unique projects!
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R.E.A.D. Dogs
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Sunday, November 24th between 2:00 and 3:30 p.m.
Bring your kids to read to our Reading Education Assistance Dogs (R.E.A.D.) to grow their skills, confidence, and love of reading! The dogs are all registered therapy dogs who are patient, friendly and are good listeners. Dogs don't care about a reader's abilities, help kids relax and offer a new setting for practicing to read aloud. Research and anecdotal evidence show that children can improve their reading skills and confidence by reading to a dog. And it's fun!
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Christmas Ornaments in the Library!
Friday, December 6th from 5:00-6:30 p.m.
Families are invited to the library during Christmas in the Park to warm up and make cinnamon dough ornaments. Make some memories here at the library!
We will also have Santa's Mailbox during the month of December for kids to send their special notes to the North Pole.
December 12: Lego Club
December 15: Stories & Carols
December 22: R.E.A.D. Dogs
December 23--January 5:
STORY TIME BREAK
December 24 & 25 LIBRARY CLOSED--Christmas
December 31: Library closes at 2:00 for New Year's Eve
January 1: LIBRARY CLOSED--New Year's Day
Introducing our Winter Reading 2014 theme: Kids Create!
Starting January 6th.
Kids will use their imaginations to create art out of recycled book pages, make masterpieces inspired by famous artists, and even get creative with their bodies through dance and yoga!
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