This Week at the Library

Last week was a fun, busy week on the township complex! Tuesday especially, with the Community Day event! We hosted the end-of-book-sale bag sale and a coloring contest… both well attended, thanks to you! I ran around stickering kids during the start of the community day and everyone seemed to be enjoying themselves as usual! We had the repeat good times of the PhotoBooth, petting zoo, bounce house and vendor exhibit in the gym, but this year’s new features like the rock wall and games for adults were big hits as well!

We posted pictures to our Facebook page if you want to see some of the behind the scenes and during the event fun! There’s also a link on our page to the PhotoBooth company’s album from that night we posted the end of last week. Check it out!

Now this week’s programs and events…

This week at the library:

Monday: Intro to Computer Basics, Level 2; 5-7pm. Learn how to cut and paste, file management, webpage toolbar functions, control panel functions, and simple web searches. Advanced registration and a $5 class fee required.

Tuesdays: Intro to the Web; 5-7pm. Introductory course on learning to navigate web pages, basic searches, downloading files, and printing. Advanced registration and a $5 class fee required.

Wednesday: May Drop-by Storytimes; 10:30am and 12:30pm. We've finished up the regular school year cycles and have some time before the summer reading drop-bys start up... so join us through the month of May for drop-bys to keep in the storytime groove! No signup required. Open to children who were 2-5 years old as of 9/12/12.

Intro to MS Word 2010: 11am-1pm. Learn the basic skills to understand and use Word 2010, which is the word processing program that makes documents easier to create, share, and read. Advanced registration and a $5 class fee required.

Thursday: Ancestory Library Edition, Part 1 (Formerly the "Genealogy Basics" class); 11am-1pm. Learn genealogy basis while researching your family tree history using these international databases and other online resources. (Part 1 is a prerequisite to take the Part 2 class). Advanced registration and a $5 class fee required.

Friday: Baby Lapsit, 9:30am, a “beginner storytime”/introduction to the library for children who were 11 months old or younger as of 9/12/12; advanced registration required.

Ones Storytime, 10:30am; a “beginner storytime”/introduction to the library for children who were between 12-23 months as of 9/12/12; advanced registration required.

A few other reminders we mentioned last week: Parents and friends of Alburtis Elementary School 2^nd, 3^rd and 4^th graders—come check out the display of “Happy 100^th Birthday, Alburtis” cards we have over the children’s VHS made by the students. Alburtis had a big Centennial celebration over the weekend.

And we also did some updating of our Facebook page in the past couple of weeks. Check out the additions of a direct link to our OverDrive site, Pinterest boards  and our new GoodReads group, all from the tabs under our cover picture. The GoodReads group is new, so join that and get/give some good reading recommendations to your neighbors!

As always, if you have any questions on programs or the library in general, please stop in, call or visit our website!