South Londonderry Free Library - September, 2010
The 2009 ANNUAL REPORT is available in the Londonderry Town Report
In the Janeway Wing - Marjike Westberg's watercolors. Westberg's exhibit will be shown at the South Londonderry Free Library through September.
ADDED FEATURE: We're archiving our exhibits at arts.html.
Ann's Garden in Bunny Hollow.Marjike Westberg's watercolors
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.
Vintage Vermont photographic display - Vaile Collection
To date over 1,900 images from the Vaile glass plate collection have been printed and mounted in 16 photo albums. These albums depicting life in Vermont in the late 1800s and early 1900s will be on display for all to enjoy. Comments or additional information about the people or places viewed will be welcome.
For the past five years Dan Hescock and Bob LeBlond of Wardsboro have been meeting weekly to develop the Vaile collection and invite anyone interested to go to Wardsboro to learn the process. To date Hescock and LeBlond have developed approximately 1,700 prints. Ellen Lyman and various library volunteers have mounted these prints in 13 albums identifying them by plate number, title and date. The library thanks the Thrifty Attic for their help in funding this on-going project.
The Vaile Collection consists of many family pictures, portraits of babies and pictures of houses which are no longer standing and many that still exist. The library invites everyone interested in local Vermont history to stop by to see if you can identify any people or places and view way of life long gone through these splendid photographs.
New books: Wild Child by T.C. Boyle, Super Freakonomics by Levitt, Pirate Latitudes by Michael Crichton, National Parks by D. Dayton, Lost Symbol by Brown, What the Dog Saw by Gladwell, Last Night in Twisted River by Irving, Under the Dome by Stephen King, Breathless by Koontz, I, Alex Cross by Patterson, My Life in France by Julia Child, True Compass by Edward Kennedy, Lacuna by Kingsolver, Stones Into Schools by Greg Mortenson, U is for Undertow by Grafton, New York by Rutherford, Price of Malice by Archer Mayor, Help by K. Stockett, Nine Dragons by Michael Connelly, Too Much Happiness by Munro, Good Fall by Ha Jin, Look at the Birdie by Kurt Vonnegut, That Old Cape Magic by Richard Russo, Changing My Mind by Zadie Smith
For Children: Waddle!, Only a Witch Can Fly, Gallop! Where the Mountain Meets the Moon, To the Beach, Snow Day, Odd Egg, Fancy Nancy
Due to the overwhelming supply of donated books, we cannot accept any more at this time. While we welcome your interest and support, the library is reorganizing rooms and we do not have storage space.
Library hours are: Mondays from 10 am to noon and 1 to 5 pm; Wednesdays – 10 am to noon, 1 to 5 and 7 to 9 pm; Fridays from 1 to 5 pm and Saturdays we are open from 10 am to 1 pm. The phone number is 824-3371.
See you at the Library!
