Library

A Message from our Library Director
Shawn Bliss

Hello, library friends!

I can’t believe June is already here! May was incredibly busy for the library’s staff: our statewide library conference, the Health Days parade and festivities, high school graduation, and of course, preparing for our Summer Reading Program! Do you remember when I wrote last month that we were planning great summer programs and events for all ages? I finally get to tell you about some of them and believe me, I’m excited for what we’re offering!

The staff have been working so hard to put together two months of fun and engaging programming for everyone, no matter their age,  who loves the library! As always, we’ll have Miss Karen’s weekly Storytime in the Park and Music and Movement programs for our youngest library kiddos. Kids who are 5 to 11 can make awesome crafts during Fidgety Fingers and choose their own adventures at our CYOA Book Club. I’ll be teaching tweens (9-13) about some of the amazing science of our mountains and canyons during our Trail Science program.

Library teenagers will have weekly Saturday Teen Campouts with movies and related crafts, as well as Dungeons and Dragons, Crafting with CAPSA, and our new July Life Skills classes. Family members of all ages can enjoy our Afternoon Adventure Movies (in air-conditioned comfort) and our new Family Library Evening activities on Monday nights. (We’re super excited for this program, which will provide exciting games, puzzles and interactive fun for the whole gang.)

Adults will also have some stimulating and engaging events of their own! We’ll continue our popular Stitch and Stories, Adult Book Club, and Conversaciones programs, and we’ll be doing a real-time Read-Along of Amor Towles’ amazing book The Lincoln Highway over its ten-day span in June, with a discussion and party at the end.

All of these programs are awesome enough on their own, but we also have reading logs for all of these age groups, so you and your family can track your reading over June and July and then turn in your logs for fun prizes! Every child that finishes the program will receive a free book, and teens and adults will also have the chance to enter prize drawings. The ever-popular Tortilla Blanket will again be a possibility for one lucky teen, along with several other cool items like a record player and a mini-fridge!

Registration for the Summer Reading Program begins on Monday, June 3, and our Finale Party will take place on Saturday, July 27.  Come sign up to be a part of the fun.

WE’LL SEE YOU AT THE LIBRARY THIS SUMMER!

Your friendly neighborhood library director,

Shawn Bliss