The Friends of the Library invite you to celebrate National Library Week with them. They have planned an interesting evening on Monday evening, April 14 at 7:30 with local author, Alyson Richman. Ms. Richman has penned three highly acclaimed novels – The Last Van Gogh, which is her most recent work of historical fiction, The Swedish Tango and The Mask Carver’s Son. Richman will discuss her craft and read from her books. There will also be time for questions and answers from the audience. After Ms. Richman’s program, please join us for refreshments and a book sale and signing.
You may also wish to read The Last Van Gogh prior to attending the lecture, so be sure to reserve it as a single copy or read it with your book group and reserve it as one of our “Book Club in a Bag” titles. We are looking forward to seeing you at this exciting event.

I’ve picked out some old pictures from our Local History Collection to decorate our new lobby. It will take a bit of time for them to be framed and hung, but I hope they bring back some good memories. I had a lot of fun going though our pictures and deciding what to use. Our community sure has changed. We went from farm country to a hustling, bustling suburban town in a very short time. Enjoy the pictures!

PIMSLEUR FOREIGN LANUAGE CDs

The Media Center has just expanded our foreign language collection
We now have, on CD format, Arabic, French, Italian, and Spanish that POB residents may borrow
These popular Pimsleur series are all without manuals, so you just listen and learn

PLAYAWAYS

We now have 39 titles in our growing collection
We even provide the batteries
You just provide the headphones
Truly “Plug & Play”

If you’re reading this blog post, you’re on our website. Did you notice the small photo with the URL www.flickr.com above it? If you click on that photo, you’ll enter the world of Flickr, much more than just a photo album. It’s a place where the Library is posting all their photos, so you can view them at any time. But it is also a community of photo sharing folks. You can post your photos on flickr and make them public for anyone to view or private, and share them with your chosen friends by invitation only. You can write descriptions of your photos and invite people to post their comments, just like you can comment on this blog.

Even the Library of Congress is posting pictures on Flickr! They have a page on Flickr called the Commons where you can look at photos from a collection called 1930’s and 1940’s in color and another collection called News in the 1910’s. There are thousands of photos in each collection and they would love to get your comments.

The library is pleased to announce the development of our first teen garden. The flower and vegetable garden will be planted in the late spring and tended through harvest time in the fall. A kickoff workshop, under the guidance of the Cornell Cooperative Extension, is currently being planned for May. Teens in grades 7 – 12 will have the opportunity to plant, tend, and enjoy the beautiful flowers and delicious vegetables from the garden. Additionally, a portion of the vegetables grown will be donated to the Interfaith Nutrition Network as part of the Plant a Row for the Hungry program. Teens who are interested in participating are encouraged to contact the Family Center. All participants will earn community service credit.