This Week at the Library: 'Canawling'

We had a great week celebrating National Library Week last week, but as a reminder, the raffle is going on all month! $2/ticket or $5/3 tickets gets you in the running for a 42” HDTV, Kindle Fire or a couple of great gift cards to places like Wegman’s, Walmart or Texas Roadhouse. On top of a chance for these great prizes, you are helping support the library!

Another great way to support the library is by Saving the Date for the next Friends’ Book Sale… Thursday night, May 2, is the Friends’ Preview, then the Sale runs May 3 and May 4. On Tuesday, May 7 to coordinate with the Community Center-wide Community Day event, there will be a bag sale! New this year: for your $5 bag sale purchase on Tuesday, the Friends’ are providing free totes! $5 gets you a nice red tote and all the books you can fit in it!

Now back to this week’s programs…

This week at the library:

Tuesdays: 4 year old storytimes, 10:30 a.m and 12:30 p.m. Advanced registration is required for storytimes, as there’s a limit to how many kids I can fit into the program room, plus advanced registration helps me prepare for the right number of kids… not ending up “short” or wasting craft supplies when people don’t show, and there’s an age cutoff date of 9/12 based on the East Penn School District

Canawling on America’s Canals; 6:30 p.m. Richard Pawling is owner and educational/interpretive specialist of History Alive!SM — a consulting firm founded in 1991 that provides living history and traditional music programs throughout the United States. He will present a program called, “Canawling on America’s Canals,” where he will talk about the history of America’s canal system in the character of “Cappy Hummel,” a canal boat captain. This presentation is a program of the Pennsylvania Humanities Council supported in part by National Endowment for the Humanities.

Wednesday: 3 year old storytimes, 10:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. Again, advanced registration is required for storytimes, for the same reasons as above.

Social Networking; 11am-1pm. Learn the fundamentals of the most popular sites, how to create a new account, discuss the more commonly used functions, and make sure you’re taking the  steps needed to protect you and your information. Advanced registration and a $5 class fee are required .

Thursday: 2 year old storytimes, 10:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. Again, advanced registration is required for storytimes, for the same reasons as above.

Heritage Quest, 11 a.m to 1p.m. Learn search techniques to access unique American genealogical databases dating back to the 1700’s which can be accessed from home computers. It will include US Census records, Revolutionary War records, book and periodical indexes of local and family histories from around the world, post-Civil War southern and African American family records, and US House and Senate documents. Advanced registration and a $5 class fee are required.

Friday: Intro to PowerPoint 2010; 10 a.m. to noon. Learn how to create and present professional-looking slide presentations.  Students will be introduced to navigating basics that will enable them to insert text, themes, images, SmartArt graphics, sound, and video in a presentation.

Saturday: Ancestry Library Edition, Part 2—Fine Tuning Information Retrieval; 10 a.m. to noon. Learn genealogy basis while researching your tree history using these international databases and other online resources. (Part 1 is a prerequisite to take the Part 2 class. If you have taken the Genealogy Basics in the past you can take Part 2.) Advanced registration and a $5 class fee are required.

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