Forester and Vermont author,
Lynn Levine, will present a one hour interactive program investigating
New England wildlife on Saturday, January 21 at 10:30 am. This presentation is hosted by the
South Londonderry Free Library and will be held at the Londonderry
Town Assembly Room, just up the hill from the library.
Levine is the author of Mammal Tracks and Scat: Life-Size Tracking
Guide and Snow Secrets and so she is well informed to transform participants
into animal detectives. Everyone will learn skills to interpret signs
of our wildlife neighbors in our backyards or in the woods. Through
storytelling, Levine’s passion for the forest shines through
and will engage and delight children and their adults. This program
is offered free of charge but donations are welcome.
In the Janeway Wing, Laura Megroz is exhibiting her pillows and rugs. All the sales are donated to the library. See view at Photo gallery.
South Londonderry Free
Library Extends Hours: The South Londonderry
Free Library is pleased to announce that we will be open
an extra 2 hours every week bringing
the total hours open to 23 hours per week. The new hours
will be on Friday mornings from 10 am to noon starting
August 5. We invite everyone to the library on
the following days and hours: Mondays - 10 am to noon and
1 to 5 pm; Wednesdays – 10
am to noon, 1 to 5 and 7 to 9 pm; Fridays 10 am to noon and
.
While visiting the library you
can view the current art exhibit,
use our computers and wi-fi, or check out books, magazines audios and
videos. If you have time please take a look at
the albums of old photographs of this area of Vermont in
the early 1900s that were made into prints from Everett
M. Vaile’s glass plates.
Learn Something New Today! A
wonderful new service is being provided by the Vermont
Department of Libraries and the South Londonderry Free
Library. You will now be able to take online continuing education courses at your
convenience for Free. Over 500 subjects include
classes about photography, poetry writing & cooking
to medical terminology, wedding planning or caring for
seniors. You will have up to 6 months to complete each
class. Go to vermontstate.universalclass.com to
see all the topics you might be interested in. You will then
need to call, Email or visit the Library to get your barcode number. It's as
simple as that to open the door to an interesting adventure.
Some new books that we recently received include The
Greater Journey by David McCullough, State of Wonder by
Ann Patchett, Thick
As Thieves by Peter Spieglman, Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
and Bayou
Trilogy
by Daniel Woodrell.
For Children: Let’s Do Nothing, Here
Comes the Garbage Barge,
11 Birthdays, Love-a-Duck, Toot Toot Zoom! How
the Nobble Was Finally Found, Detective LaRue - Letters from
the Investigation, and Just A
Dream. Recently donated were many new
DVDs for children and adults.
The South Londonderry
Free Library would like to gratefully acknowledge the
generous bequest of Karl Pfister III.
Karl was always an enthusiastic supporter of the Library
and his presence and contagious laugh will be missed. He
was the embodiment of the word “Gentleman”.
Karl was a gentle man and a man of science and letters
as well.
Karl’s involvement with the South Londonderry Free
Libraries goes back many years when he and his wife Peg
served on the Board of Trustees. They are responsible for
organizing the Everett M. Vaile glass plates, that depicted
life in this area in the early 1900s, and they were strong
advocates of the importance of this modest, local library.
One of Karl’s passions was genealogical research
and along with Peter F. Littlefield and the Historical
Society published Genealogies of Early Weston, Vermont
1800-1900. Karl would often come to the library to request
books on inter-library loan to aid in this research.
The South Londonderry Free Library will use Karl’s
bequest to improve a place that he thought valuable and
dearly loved.
Any
student (or adult) who is computer savvy and who would
like to donate some community services hours to the library
please call us at 824-3371. We are looking for
someone who can maintain and keep in good working order
our public computers and printers. This would entail making
sure that the 5 computers have anti-virus protection and
that they are up-to-speed. Installing learning-software
on our children's computer would also be great. Any help
will be gratefully accepted!
The South Londonderry Free Library is looking for volunteers
who enjoy books and people and have a few hours a week to spare.
Being in a stimulating and friendly environment surrounded
by books and meeting new people are but a few of the benefits
of volunteering at the library.
We are currently looking for volunteers for Wednesday evenings
and Saturday mornings but there are other time slots available
on occasion. Primary responsibilities would be managing
the circulation desk – checking in and out books,
shelving books and reminding patrons about their overdues.
If anyone enjoys reading to children we could arrange a pre-school
storytime once a week. Other volunteer possibilities could
be filing, cataloguing books, arranging magazines or adding
newly-developed Vaile photographs, taken in the early 1900s
in Vermont, into photo albums.