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Library Hours
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Monday:
9:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Tuesday:
9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Wednesday:
9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Thursday:
9:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Friday:
9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Saturday:
Closed
Sunday:
Closed
Our Saturday hours will resume after Labor Day
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Summer Food Service
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 The Summer Food Service Program is is available every weekday through August 16th, from 11:00 am-1:00 pm in the Children's Room, children and teens under the age of 18 can stop in for a free lunch. We hope to see you there! Thanks to the students and coaches of the Southern Worcester County Educational Collaborative who have partnered with us for the past three years to staff the lunch service. To the staff of the Food Service Department of the School System we also express our gratitude for their support and hard work. |
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Getting Ready for the 100th Anniversary!
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Plans are well underway for the forthcoming centenary anniversary of the Jacob Edwards Library.
Starting in May 2014, the anniversary year will begin. It is a time to think about what the library has achieved and where we are headed for the future. Many programs are planned to bring the community together to celebrate. We hope you will join us.
A research team is working on the history of the library and a book will be published in 2014.
If you have any pictures or memorabilia of the library that you would like to share with us, please let us know!
The planning committe meets on the first Saturday of each month.
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WRTA Bus Service
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The WRTA bus service is proving very popular with folks in Southbridge! There are more than 2,000 riders each month!
The bus stops at the library and bus riders are welcome to wait inside the library.
Up-to-the-minute information on tracking the bus is available inside.
Printed schedules available for you to pick up for the various routes. Did you know that you can bring your bicycle with you on the bus.
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Ongoing Programs
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Anime Club for Teens
The Anime Club meets every Tuesday in the Pioppi Room, from 3:10 - 4:30 p.m. Stop by for manga, video games, cosplay, movies, and more!
Knitting with Sonya
From 10:30-12:30 every Tuesday, come knit with Sonya in the Reading Room! Assistance will be given to anyone needing help with a pattern. Any handcrafters are welcome to join!
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Library eBooks!
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You can download FREE ebooks from the library!
Library ebooks are available to download for Nook, Kindle, Sony, iPad/iPhone, and other devices! Just visit the Digital Catalog to get started.
Why Can't You Find the eBook You Want From the Library?
Although demand for eBooks is growing, the biggest book publishers are limiting library access to their eBooks.
Some publishers cite security concerns while others point out that eBooks, unlike print books, will never need replacing in a library's collection. They fear that library eBook lending cuts into income for both publishers and authors. As library users, it means limited access to some of the current, popular titles we want to read on our new e-readers.
As we continue to expand our eBook collection, we hope you understand some of the limitations that are placed on us. The eBook industry continues to evolve and we're optimistic that a workable solution between publishers and libraries will come about.
If you have any questions about downloading an ebook or transferring it to your device, just ask a staff member!
Informational brochures for each device are also available at the desk to walk you through the steps. | |
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Friends of the Library
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The Friends will meet in the Mills Room at
6:00 p.m. on Monday,
August 19th.
The Friends extend an invitation to all library patrons to join their group. To find out more, please visit
The Friends Page
on our website.
Books are available for purchase on the lower level. Paperbacks are 50 cents and hardcover books are $1!
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The Board of Trustees of the Jacob Edwards Library will meet on Tuesday, August 20th at 12:00 Noon. All meetings are open to the general public.
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AJ Petro Pool
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The refurbished swimming pool is open again, on Randolph Street! It is a great new resource. Have you been there yet?
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JEL News & Events
August 2013
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Greetings!
Summer Reading is here, and it's not just for kids anymore! We have a program for Adults 18+, and for Teens 12-17 (and of course for kids through age 11)!
Summer Reading runs through August 15th - There's still time to sign up and get your raffle entries in!
Just ask at the Main Desk to sign up or register online (those wishing to participate in the children's program must sign up at the Children's Room desk).
  All you have to do is read - for every book (whether you read it for pleasure, a school assignment, or any reason at all) fill out a slip or an online log. Each slip/log counts as another entry into the end-of-summer raffle!
See our website for more information on the Summer Reading program for all ages.
We also have copies of books assigned for school summer reading for all ages - please ask at the desk, and a staff member will be happy to show you where they are located. As we get to the end of the summer copies may not be available in-house right away, but we can always request a copy from another library - so please ask us if you don't see what you're looking for!
Please read on for information on all of this month's programs, library news, and more!
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August's JEL Staff Picks
Looking for a good book? Here are some that JEL staff have recently enjoyed! Clicking on the title will take you right to
 the library's catalog, where you can check to see if it's available, and put a hold on popular titles! |
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August's Artist: Katherine Mrazik
Reception Thursday, August 1st at 6:30 p.m.
Please join us in welcoming Katherine Mrazik as our featured artist for August! Her work will be on display throughout the month, and a reception will be held on Thursday, August 1st from 6:30-7:30 p.m. Light refreshments will be provided by the Friends of the Library. We hope to see you there!
About the artist: Katherine Mrazik is a recent graduate of UMass Dartmouth, is a graphic designer and is seeking work in the Boston area. She has had an affinity for creation her whole life and is thrilled to start a career where this can be utilized. As well as graphic design, Katherine studied Art History and has a unique understanding of form because of it. She is most interested in book design and printed materials but appreciates web and screen based applications as well. She graduated cum laude and wishes to find an intellectually stimulating work environment.
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Book Club: No One You Know by Michelle Richmond
Monday, August 5th at 6:30 p.m.
 The book club will meet to discuss No One You Know on Monday, August 5th at 6:30 p.m. in the Reading Room. All are welcome! Copies of the book are available to pick up at the Information Desk throughout the month.
"All her life Ellie Enderlin had been known as Lila's sister. Until one day, without warning, the shape of their family changed forever. Twenty years ago, Lila, a top math student at Stanford, was murdered in a crime that was never solved. In the aftermath of her sister's death, Ellie entrusted her most intimate feelings to a man who turned the story into a bestselling true crime book-a book that both devastated her family and identified one of Lila's professors as the killer.
Decades later, two Americans meet in a remote village in Nicaragua. Ellie is now a professional coffee buyer, an inveterate traveler and incapable of trust. Peter is a ruined academic. And their meeting is not by chance. As rain beats down on the steaming rooftops of the village, Peter leaves Ellie with a gift-the notebook that Lila carried everywhere, a piece of evidence not found with her body. Stunned, Ellie will return home to San Francisco to explore the mysteries of Lila's notebook, filled with mathematical equations, and begin a search that has been waiting for her all these years. It will lead her to a hundred-year-old mathematical puzzle, to a lover no one knew Lila had, to the motives and fate of the man who profited from their family's anguish-and to the deepest secrets even sisters keep from each other. As she connects with people whose lives unknowingly swirled around her own, Ellie will confront a series of startling revelations-from the eloquent truths of numbers to confessions of love, pain and loss.
A novel about the stories and lies that strangers, lovers and families tell-and the secrets we keep even from ourselves-Michelle Richmond's new novel is a work of astonishing depth and beauty, at once heartbreaking, provocative, and impossible to put down."
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Library Box Office: Off White Lies
Thursday, August 8th at 6:00 p.m.
 "After years of living apart from her dad, Libby, an introverted yet sharp-witted teenager, is sent to live with him is Israel. Her arrival coincides with the outbreak of the second Lebanon war. Libby quickly discovers that her dad, Shaul, is an infantile eccentric, and that he is 'in-between apartments' (in other words, homeless). Shaul comes up with a creative plan to put a roof over their heads - they pose as refugees from the bombarded northern region of Israel, and are taken in by a well-off family in Jerusalem. Finally in a 'normal' household, Shaul and Libby begin to build their father-daughter relationship, but their false identities can't last forever, especially as Libby unleashes teenage fury at the lies permeating her life; those she must tell now, and those she's been fed since childhood."
In Hebrew & English with English subtitles.
Running time: 86 minutes.
All screenings are held in the Pioppi Room, lower level.
About the Library Box Office: Most true independent and foreign films get squeezed out of commerical theaters by Hollywood blockbusters, and face skyrocketing costs that make it daunting - if not impossible - to reach appreciative audiences. JEL subscribes to the Film Movement series to bring "art house" independent and foreign films to you. |
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Book Signing: Patrice Demers Kaneda
Monday, August 12th at 2:00 p.m.
 Please join us for a discussion & book signing with Southbridge native Patrice Demers Kaneda! A Tale of Two Migrations is a novelization of the French Canadian experience in America, and sections of the book take place right here in Southbridge.
About the author: Pat Demers Kaneda was born in Southbridge, Massachusetts, one of the Little Canadas, and lived there until the age of thirteen. She had a career as a teacher and lecturer in Connecticut and Japan and turned to her love of writing when she moved to Chicago after retirement in the year 2000, where she has been a member of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the Northwestern School of Continuing Studies and a frequent contributor of short stories and poems to the OLLI Journal. She and her husband Kunihiro divide their time between Chicago, Connecticut and Miami Beach.
About the book: A French Canadian Odyssey...Between 1840 and 1930 millions of people passed through Ellis Island to New York from the countries of Europe, but what do we know of the descendants of the 10,000 original settlers of Nouvelle France, French Canada, who walked, came on horseback, or train and made their way to New England and to a new life during the same period?
In this adventurous tale, Pat Demers Kaneda finds her family, real and imagined, in 17th century France and brings them across the sea to North America where they face hardship and unimagined challenges and leaves them in New England in the 1950's to face a new decade. If you are one of the descendants of the Quebecois, this is your story. It is one more piece of the American mosaic.
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Jarrett J. Krosoczka - Imagining Beyond Your Circumstances (for Grades 6+)
Thursday, August 22nd at 6:30 p.m.
Jarrett J. Krosoczka, author and illustrator of the Lunch Lady graphic novel series & children's picture books such as Ollie the Purple  Elephant, will soon visit Southbridge! To see which of Jarrett's books are available here at JEL, follow this link to the catalog!
Jarrett recently gave a very successful TED Talk in which he detailed the difficulties of his childhood and how he used his imagination to escape the realities that surrounded him. There have been many requests for Jarrett to share this story with students and we are now offering this lecture for older students. Jarrett paints the funny and touching story of a little boy who pursued a simple passion: to draw and write stories. With the help of a supporting cast of family and teachers, our protagonist grew up to become the successful creator of beloved children's book characters, and a vocal advocate for arts education.
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Jarrett J. Krosoczka has been passionate about storytelling through words and pictures since he was a kid. He began his professional career by illustrating educational readers for a national publisher while still an undergraduate at Rhode Island School of Design. Then, just six months after graduation, Jarrett received his first contract for a trade book that he authored. Knopf Books for Young Readers published
Good Night, Monkey Boy on June 12, 2001 and Jarrett hasn't stopped or slowed down since.
Jarrett is a two-time winner of the Children's Choice Book Award for the Third to Fourth Grade Book of the Year and is the author and illustrator of twenty books including the Lunch Lady graphic novels and the just released Platypus Police Squad middle-grade chapter book series. Jarrett's TED Talk on his journey from boy to artist has been viewed more than a half-million times. He is also the host of The Book Report with JJK on SiriusXM's Kids Place Live, a weekly segment celebrating books, authors and reading. His work was recently featured on the front page of The Boston Globe and on NPR's All Things Considered. It has also been recommended by national publications such as Newsweek, The New York Times and USA Today. His Punk Farm picture book and Lunch Lady series are both currently in development as feature films. Jarrett lives in Western Massachusetts with his wife, two daughters and their pug-Ralph Macchio.
Sponsored by the Southbridge School Department.
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Children's Corner
Upcoming and Ongoing Children's Programs
Special Programs
Jungle Jim Entertainer
Monday, August 5th, 6:30 - 7:30 p.m.
The Wild About Reading Balloon Magic Show combines balloon artistry, magic, comedy and improv to create an amazing experience for children!
Workshop on Bullying & Cyber-Bullying
Tuesday, August 6th at 12:30 p.m.
The definition and dynamics of bullying and cyber-bullying and ways to keep safe will be discussed, as well as relevant laws and legal issues. Current technology dangers will be outlined, and informational materials will be distributed. All welcome!
Art, Word & Motion with Susan Lozoraitis
Thursday, August 8th at 1:00 p.m.
Use you bodies to interact with poetry-rhyme and then reflect with art.
Henry the Juggler
Monday, August 12th at 6:30 p.m.
Henry the Juggler is considered armed (and legged) and dangerous. He is known to cause spontaneous outbursts of laughter. WARNING: Henry involves innocent bystanders in his act!
End of Summer Reading Program
Thursday, August 15th
Last day to report on summer reading and turn in your form for raffle tickets! All those who finished the summer reading program will be invited to a special event on Friday, August 16th.
Back to School Storytime and Craft
Monday, August 19th, 6:30 - 7:30 p.m.
Help us prepare for back to school with some stories and a special craft.
Toe Jam Puppet Band
Wednesday, August 21st at 2:00 p.m.
A special brand of hands-on children's entertainment that grown-ups can actually enjoy!
Regular Programs
Crafty Wednesdays
Every Wednesday, All Day, All Ages
For the Under 12's. Drop by make a special craft! Display of future crafts on view in the Children's Room.
SuperKids
Every Wednesday at 10:30 a.m.
Stories and songs aimed at the preschool crowd, but all ages welcome!
Lego Club
Every Tuesday 2:00 - 3:30 p.m. and Every Thursday 3:00 - 4:30 p.m.
Now two days a week! We'll bring the Legos - you bring the skills and ideas! Best for builders 5 years and older. Work on your own project or work as a team! Take photos of your creation.
No registration necessary for any of our regular programs!
Questions? Call 508-764-5426 or email Kim.
Thank you to the generous support of the Southbridge Cultural Council, the Southbridge Public Schools, and the Friends of the Jacob Edwards Library!
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The Jacob Edwards Library would like to acknowledge the support of the Southbridge School Department ELL Director and staff for providing a grant to the library for five additional programs this summer. As a result, we were able to add a concert, a magic show, an inspirational talk,
and a poetry and movement presentation! The library staff mentored three interns as part of this program.
Even when our doors are closed you can visit our website to access databases, renew and request materials, download ebooks, and so much more.
We hope to see you soon!
Staff
Jacob Edwards Library
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