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Holiday Hours
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December 24 - CLOSED
December 25 - CLOSED
December 31 - Close at
2:00 p.m.
January 1 - CLOSED
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Regular Library Hours
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Monday-Thursday 9:30 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Friday-Saturday 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Sunday 2:00 to 5:00 p.m.
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Interested in Exploring Your Family History?
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Program: Genealogy Users Group
Date: Wednesdays, December 4, 11, 18
Time: 7:00 p.m.
The library's genealogy club meets on Wednesdays at 7:00 p.m. This group provides an opportunity to get together with peers to learn and to share research tips and tricks. Bring a laptop or tablet computer, or check out one of the library's laptops from the Information Desk. Everyone is welcome! Contact Jo at jpearson@cityofmarion.org with questions.
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Explore New Worlds!
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Program: Coffeehouse Fiction
Date: Tuesday, December 17
Time: 4:00 p.m.
Our Coffeehouse Fiction books discussions will challenge you to read books that may not have captured your attention before. Looking for a fun group where you can share books? Even if you don't care for a book, or if it wouldn't have been something you chose, talking about it with others will often give you a new perspective. For our December Coffeehouse Fiction discussion, we are reading science fiction: a book from one of the most renowned sci-fi authors: Orson Scott Card. We hope you'll challenge yourself this Holiday Season and pick up a copy of Ender's Game, then join us to talk about it at Wit's End Coffeehouse (630 10th St, Marion). The library will buy you a treat from the coffeehouse; you can purchase a beverage of your choice if you like. Maybe Cathy will have the fireplace on for us! Hope to see you there.
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Small Business Series
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Program: Picking a Winning Business
Date: Thursday, December 5
Time: 6:30 p.m.
Professionals from SCORE continue their popular series of workshops for entrepreneurs this month. This great session will be facilitated by SCORE mentor Greg Tomsic. Want to start a business? Pondering what a good business would be? Wondering how to select a business that will deliver a decent profit, paychecks and good growth potential? This workshop is for you. Each session begins with a brief lecture and is followed by engaging Q&A and discussion. There is no charge for workshops in this series. There will be no workshop on December 19 due to the holidays. Contact Jo at jpearson@cityofmarion.org with facility questions; visit the SCORE local workshops webpage with class questions.
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December at a Glance
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December 2 - Writing Group
December 3 - Lost Linn County with Linda McCann
December 4, 11, 18 - Genealogy Users Group
December 5, 12, 19, 26 - Knit Wits
December 5, 12, 19, 26 - Scrabble Club
December 5 - SCORE Small Business Series
December 5 - Salon Series author program at Campbell Steele
December 6 - Christmas in the Park events in lobby
December 9 - Marion Library Board of Trustees Meeting
December 12 - History Club
December 12 - Estate Planning
December 15 - A Choral Christmas: Lessons & Carols with 1st United Methodist Church
December 17 - Coffeehouse Fiction
December 24 - Christmas Eve, Library closed
December 25 - Christmas, Library closed
December 31 - New Year's Eve, Library closes at 2:00
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Please bring in new gloves, mittens, scarves, hats, and blankets to the donation box in our lobby up through the Christmas in the Park events on Friday night, December 6! We are a collection point for this charitable project by the Marion Chamber. We'd love to show the community how generous our patrons are, so we hope you will consider sharing with those less fortunate this season.
Get ready for our Winter Reading Program for Adults -- kick-off will be Monday, January 6 and the theme this year is "Fill Your Bucket: What's On Your Bucket List?" We'll have great prizes and programs!
--The Staff at the Marion Library |
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Tom Quach to Speak at Salon Series
Program: Salon Series
Date: Thursday, December 5
Time: 7:00 p.m.
This convivial author series from the Metro Library Network presents new and aspiring voices from the UI Writer's Workshop. We're pleased to introduce to you as our final author this year, Tom Quach.
Tom grew up in Orange County, California. He has been awarded a Lew and Edie Wasserman Grant and has won the Ruth Brill Scholarship Award. He is currently a Truman Capote Fellow at the Iowa Writers' Workshop.
We partner with the Campbell Steele Gallery, which provides a lovely intimate salon setting for our series. There is no charge, just come and spend an evening getting to know a bright young voice. We'll provide light hors d'oeuvres and Campbell Steele offers a cash bar.
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Lost Towns in Linn County
Program: Lost Linn County with Linda McCann
Date: Tuesday, December 3
Time: 6:30 p.m.
Join us for a historical evening with Linda Betsinger McCann, whose new book, Lost Linn County, came out in October. Linda will share tales of some of the lost towns and previous names of communities in Linn County. Lost Linn County is Linda's 22nd book, and the 5th in her Vanished Towns of the Cedar Valley series. She is currently working on Prohibition in the Cedar Valley. Linda will have books available to purchase.
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A Choral Christmas
Program: A Choral Christmas: Lessons and Carols
Date: Sunday, December 15
Time: 2:00 - 5:00 p.m.
This musical program is presented by the First United Methodist Church of Marion, Michael Ransom, Director of Music. Many of you may remember their popular Messiah program last year! This year the choir presents "A Choral Christmas - Lessons and Carols," similar to the popular "Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols" presented annually at King's College Cambridge. There will also be a Christmas carol sing-along!
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Adult Writing Group
Meets 1st Monday Each Month
Program: Writing Group
Date: Monday, December 2
Time: 6:30 p.m.
Are you an aspiring author? You'll want to join our new writing group; the group meets on the first Monday of each month at 6:30. Meetings are a chance to meet, learn from, and share with other writers in a variety of ways including critiques and accountability. Contact group coordinator Denise at denise@marionpubliclibrary.org with questions.
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Estate Planning Workshop
Program: Estate Planning: Who Gets the Leftovers and How?
Date: Thursday, December 12
Time: 6:00 p.m.
This session is about planning for the inevitable, the eight key steps to estate planning. If you have anything left to give after you're gone, you want to do it as smoothly and efficiently as possible, and you don't want to cause family breakups or make Uncle Sam rich. Professional financial advisers from Principal Financial offer free no-obligation financial literacy classes here at the library on some of the tough personal finance issues you face. Please join them for these great monthly sessions and learn how to manage your money better to meet your own personal goals.
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 Christmas Ornaments & More!
Program: Christmas in the Park
Date: Friday, December 6
Time: 5:00 - 6:30 p.m.
Stop in at the library while you are uptown for the community Christmas in the Park celebration. We'll have an ornament-making craft for the kids. Friends of the Library will have a holiday book and media sale going on: check out the great prices on your holiday favorites! And our ever-popular tuba ensemble will perform holiday tunes in the lobby from 6:00-6:30. |
Preview of January at the Library
January 1 - Library CLOSED
January 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 - Scrabble Club
January 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 - Knit Wits
January 6 - Fill Your Bucket Winter Reading for adults begins!
January 6 - Writing Group
January 8, 15, 22, 29 - Genealogy Users Group
January 8, 15, 22, 29 - Fill Your Bucket Winter Reading programs
January 9 - History Club
January 9, 16 - SCORE workshop (tentative date change on Jan 9; confirm at website)
January 21 - Coffeehouse Fiction |
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