Friday, August 16, 2024

Fall Program Preview

 

8-16-2024

On Saturday the ETLPL is participating in the second 2024 Scavenger Games sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce. If you participated in the June games, know Miss Maria has created a completely different scavenger hunt. The clues and format are all new, but library skills will still be helpful. While Miss Maria works on that, I’m focused on how to do librarian hair given that I did not keep my vow to maintain long hair until the final games in October. I prioritized comfort and the family wedding on Friday. I should be ashamed.

We have also been working on Fall programming. Miss Anna created a September-December Calendar similar to the Summer Calendar handed out in the library this year. The fall calendar will also be handed out and run in the Fall Park & Recreation Guide. That meant being much better about planning ahead then in the past few years.

Two new programs I’d like to highlight are the Series Sampler Book Club and Writer’s Workshop.

Miss Maria is organizing the Series Sampler to replace the summer’s Choose Your Own Adventure Book Club. SS is also geared toward late elementary/middle school.  The book club will meet the third Monday of each month at 3:00 pm. She’ll start with an activity and snack to break the ice and allow time for students to make it here after school before the discussion begins. Each month will feature the first book in an age-appropriate series.

The September Series Sampler book is The Wild Robot by Peter Brown. The first book of this series finds Roz, a robot with amnesia, waking up alone on a remote, wild island. The September 16th discussion will take place eleven days before the movie’s release.

Copies of the book are available at the library for checkout.

The Writer’s Workshop will be led by Julianne Carlile. Prompts will be provided for writers who would like them; however, they are not required. The focus is on developing writing skills so writers will have opportunities to provide and receive feedback. Our target audience is adults, but high school students with an interest are more than welcome.

Writers will meet with Julianne the third Tuesday of the month 3:00 – 4:30 pm beginning September 17th. Bring the writing you’d like to discuss and/or the means of writing. The library will make copies for discussion, but they cannot be on thumb drives.

 Reading Now: A Man of Two Faces by Viet Thanh Nguyen

Listening to Now: White Teeth by Zadie Smith (PBS Great American Read book)

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