Our First 40 Day Reader

Congratulations to Bridgit Austin!

Bridgit Austin was the first 40 day reader in the children's summer reading program.
Her name will go on a Get a Clue Bookplate in the book
Ben and The Sudden Too Big Family by Colby Rodowsky.

For very child who reads for 40 days,
the library will put a book plate in a book of their choice.

-vicky

Sparky's Puppets - The Book Detective!

Hurry! Hurry! Hurry!

While there is still room in this program!

Call now to sign up 665-8720!

Thursday, July 19 at 10:30 a.m.

This larger than life raccoon detective

loves searching the library for

how and why folktales.

Giacomo Gates Jazz Trio - Wednesday

Wednesday, July 18, 7:00 p.m.
in the Community Room.

Enjoy an evening of jazz
with vocalist Giacomo Gates and his band.

Admission is free.

Sponsored by the Friends of the Library.

Listen to some tracks from his cds.
( You will need windows media player.)


Girl Talk

Summertime

Land of Oo Blah Dee

A Different Look for the YA Area

The Young Adult area has some new furniture and a bulletin board.

Surf the net at the new computer station or read for a while in the new chairs or work on a project at the new tables.

A Big Thank You to the Board of the Lucy Robbins Welles Library for making this possible.

-vicky

Town Wide Clue Game

As part of our summer reading program, Get a Clue @ Your Library, the children's department is sponsoring a town wide clue game.

Here's how children in town can join in on the fun.

1. Come to the children's department at the library and pick up your list of locations, books and suspects.
2. Visit the locations in town and look for the clue poster with a suspect reading a book.
3. When you find the poster cross out the person, the location and the book on your list.
4. When you know who did it - Fill out your accusation card and deliver it to the library by August 1.

Prizes will be announced.

-vicky

Tool Chest for Self Marketers

For those of you who participated in our brochure workshop or other patrons who are interested in the book Tool Chest for Self Marketers by Cheryl Dauphin and Nancy Simonds the link in iBistro is fixed. I contacted Library Connection, our library network that provides our catalog, and here is the response.


Hi Vicki,
Thanks for bringing this issue to our attention. There were a few problems with the record that caused it not to show. It's all set now. Actually, South Windsor had the book, too, but the title was typed in differently, so there are now three copies available for interested patrons.
Thanks,
Chris

If you attended this program, post a comment and let us know what you thought of it.

-vicky

Magic the Gathering

Registration is still open for the Magic program on
Thursday, June 28 @ 2:00 p.m.

Call the library 860-665-8700 or
stop by the information desk to sign up.

Teens in grades 7 - 12 are welcome to come play Magic. All levels of of players from experienced to new are welcome. The program is free and refreshments will be provided.

-vicky

Bus Trip to Block Island

Join the Friends of the Lucy Robbins Welles Library on a bus trip to Block Island.

The bus will leave the back parking lot of Newington Town Hall at 6:45 a.m. on Saturday, July 28. It will take approximately 2 hours to get to Pt. Judith where passengers will board the ferry for the one hour ride to Block Island. Once on Block Island, passengers will be free to explore the Island on their own. An optional tour of the Island by minivan will be available for approximately $10. Passengers should take the 5:00 p.m. ferry back to Pt. Judith. The bus will leave Pt. Judith at 6:00 p.m. for the two hour return trip to the Town Hall parking lot.

The cost is $43 per person. Register at the Adult Information Desk.

Fossil Hunter

Wednesday, June 27 at 7:00 p.m. Walter Heinz, the fossil hunter, will be at the library. He will bring

• Megaladon shark tooth
• woolly mammoth molar and
• amber with an insect embedded

Free tickets are available NOW.

For children in grade 1 and up.

Sponsored by the Friends of the Lucy Robbins Library.

-vicky

Summer Reading Programs for the Whole Family

Everyone is invited to join one of the three summer reading programs the library is offering this summer. They are all free.

• Adult readers will earn a raffle ticket for each book they read, which will be entered in weekly drawings for special gift baskets. Sign up at the Adult Information Desk.


• Teens will earn book bucks throughout the summer to use at the teen finale auction in August. Sign up at the Adult Information Desk.


• Children up through grade 8 can earn prizes by reading or being read to for at least twenty minutes a day. Sign up in the Children's Department.

** All the summer reading events, giveaway books and raffle prizes are provided by a generous donation from the Friends of the Library.

Wizard Rock for ages 9 to 90

If you like rock music, 80’s music or Harry Potter books then consider joining us for the Wizard Rock Concert. Draco and the Malfoys, an energetic two man band will perform wicked wizard rock, as inspired by their namesakes.

The concert will be on July 13th at 6:30 p.m. in the Senior Center Auditorium.

Free tickets are available at the Adult Information Desk.

Learn What Makes a Good Business Brochure

Join Cheryl Dauphin and Nancy Simonds on Monday, June 18 at 7:00 p.m., as they talk about what makes an effective business brochure. Bring your brochure to share and get feedback on the content and design. This program is geared to the small business owner and home-based business.

To Anonymous: Thank you for your diligence in searching out errors on our website, to the extent that you look at other websites to find them. However this time the http://self-marketer.com/about.html website appears to have a typo. The business brochure program will be on June 18 at 7:00 p.m. as previously stated in this post.

Vicky Chase, Librarian at Lucy Robbins Welles Library.

Bus Trip to New York City

Join the Friends of Lucy Robbins Welles Library for a special trip to New York City and spend the day as you wish.

The bus will leave from the back parking lot of Newington Town Hall at 7:30 a.m. this Saturday, June 16. It will arrive in New York City at approximately 9:30 a.m. The bus will drop passengers off at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rockefeller Center and Times Square. Passengers will have plenty of time to enjoy the city before boarding the bus at 6:00 p.m. behind St. Patrick's Cathedral for the trip back to Newington.

The cost of the trip is $27. Register at the Adult Information Desk.

Sue S.

Lucy's Librarians Learn Library2.0

About on month ago the librarians and staff at the library started learning about Library2.0. Two of us have created a learning blog. We post lessons once a week. The rest of the staff do the lessons at their own pace. We are available for one on one instruction or other help along the way. As I have been researching for my entries and reading Sue's entries in the learning blog I too am learning. I wanted to share this youtube video with you. It's a video explaining RSS. I found it entertaining and informative. Hope you enjoy it and learn something.

-vicky

Get a Clue @ Your Library

This Saturday, June 9 from 10 a.m. to 12 noon, the library will officially kick off the summer reading program, Get a Clue @ Your Library, with an all ages outdoor fair in the Town Hall parking lot. Besides registration for the 3 different reading programs, adult, teen and children, activities will include the popular Touch-a-Truck event co-sponsored by Parks and Rec and the Newington/Wethersfield Women's Club, with 11 different vehicles lining Mill Street (which will be closed to the public until noon). Also there will be face painting, tattoos, fingerprint pictures, a mystery word game, free balloons, chess, checkers and Radio Disney!

Parking will be available in the Garfield St. lot, along Garfield St. and at the Senior and Disabled Center.

Bring the whole family and start reading!

Here's a photo from a previous kick-off to whet your appetite! Hope to see you there!

Helen

Chess Club 6/6/2007 @ 3:30 p.m.

Join the Newington High School Chess Club members Wednesday for their last meeting of the youth chess club for the school year. Bring your own boards and meet other's interested in chess.

The club is open to all levels of players in grades 3-8.
No registration required.

-vicky

Organize your kitchen

Monday June 4, 7:00 p.m. Library Community Room

Is your kitchen cluttered; are your closets crowded?
Stop by the library Monday evening and
JoAnne Grabinski will tell you how to get organized.

New Parenting Books

There have been some excellently reviewed parenting books published this spring so I thought I'd share some with you.

By far, the most requests I get as a parenting topic, both in the library and as a member of the town's Early Childhood Council, is discipline. Here are three of the newest titles in our collection on this subject:

The author of The No-Cry Discipline Solution is Elizabeth Pantley, bestselling author of The No-Cry Sleep Solution. Her discipline book promotes gentle ways to encourage good behavior without whining, tantrums and tears.

Positive Discipline for Preschoolers and Positive Discipline for the First Three Years by Jane Nelsen are completely revised and expanded editions of her earlier discipline titles. As a matter of fact, there is a whole Positive Discipline series with titles for stepfamilies, caregivers, single parents and teenagers.

The adoption of a child is always a joyous moment in the life of a family but can also present its own unique challenges. The Connected Child by Karyn Purvis, Ph.D. addresses these issues with care and consideration. This book is for parents who have welcomed children from other countries and cultures, from troubled backgrounds or with special behavioral or emotional needs.

In a somewhat controversial title, Donna Bee-Gates, author of I Want It Now, compares today's culture of materialism and self-gratification with a simpler childhood that values good communication and interaction with peers and family.

These last two titles present specialized information not often written about for the mass market.

The Connected Father by Carl Pickhardt helps fathers become informed about changes and challenges that normally unfold during adolescence. He helps them navigate through the 4 stages of adolescence from ages 9 to 23 and deals with subjects such as communication, independence and authority.

While there have been several books on the parenting of infant through preschool twins and multiples, not much has been available on issues that develop during the school age. Parenting School-Age Twins and Multiples by Christina Baglivi Tinglof fills that gap. Her book answers questions such as: should your twins be placed in the same homeroom at school or how healthy is competition among your triplets? Drawing from the latest cutting-edge research, she guides you through the children's first days of kindergarten to the always drama-filled years of high school.

All of the above titles are brand new and are currently being processed. Call the Children's Department at 665-8720 to place a hold on any of them.
These and other books addressing child rearing can be found on the Parent Shelf in the Children's Department. Any Children's staff will be happy to show you the location.

Helen Aveline

Head of Children's Services

Parent Child Workshop photos

Here are some photos of children at our Parent Child Workshop. The Parent Child Workshop offers parents a chance to learn about services and meet local family specialists. Children can play with educational toys.


Created with Paul's flickrSLiDR.

-vicky

Philip R. Craig

The library staff was saddened to hear of the death of Philip R. Craig. He had been scheduled to speak at the library on June 12. His passing is a great loss to his many fans here at the library and around the world.

-vicky

Race Results are In

The results of the Newington Library 5k Challenge are in.

-vc

Teddy Bear Clinic Photos

Thank you Michelle for the photos!

Newington 5K Challenge 5/20/2007

Don't forget the Newington 5K Road Race starts at 9:00 a.m. on Sunday May 20 at Mill Pond Park. If you haven't yet signed up you can come into the library to get an application or go online to active.com to register.

The first 200 people to arrive at the race will get a free t-shirt and goody bag.

List of Books Given to the Library

All during the the year library patrons donate money to the library to purchase books in memory or in honor of a loved one. Jeanette Mercure, Head of Circulation and Collection Management created a list of recently purchased books with funds from our gift account. Gifts to the Library will now be on our new additions page along with the other new book newsletters.

Go take a look.

-vicky

Whole Foods Series Begins

Thursday, May 17 at 7:00 p.m. come to the library for the first of three programs on whole foods. This Thursday the library will show a documentary on the "disturbing truth behind the food we buy in the grocery store". It examines the complex forces that are changing how and what we eat and offers alternatives. There will be a moderated discussion after the film.

On Thursday, May 24 at 7:00 p.m. Holistic Health Counselor Corrina Richards will lecture on how to incorporate whole foods into your daily life.

On Thursday, May 31 at 7:00 p.m. Corrina Richards returns to give a whole foods cooking demonstration. She will prepare delectable, unprocessed, fresh-from-the-earth samples that will nourish your whole self.

Call the library to register for the lecture or the cooking demonstration. 665-8700.
No registration necessary for the documentary.

-vicky

One Book 4 Towns Finale - May 16

Archer Mayor will discuss The Surrogate Thief, his other books in the series and writing in general at the Berlin-Peck Memorial Library at 7:00 p.m. Archer will answer questions and sign books. Books will be available for purchase at the program. Admission is free.

Who is the surrogate thief?

Should Gail run for office?

Do you think she knew what her campaign manager did near the end of the book?

What emotions do the two cases stir up in Joe?

Get these and many more questions answered at the finale of our One Book 4 Towns program.

-vicky

Spring Family Place Begins

Monday nights and Tuesday mornings from April 23 to May 22 famlies will be attending our Parent/Child workshops. The will meet with child development experts and discuss their concerns about nutrition, health and other parenting issues. Parents can talk to other parents with children of the same age. The library provides age appropriate games, toys and books for this program.

So if you are in the reference area during these times you may hear the children enjoying themselves while their parents are learning about community services available to them and getting answers to common parenting questions.

Thank you to the Friends of the Lucy Robbins Welles Library for co-sponsoring this event.

-vc

Brattleboro Bus Trip Canceled

The bus trip to Brattleboro, VT on Saturday, April 28 has been canceled. If you are signed up and have paid please contact the library for a refund. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

-vicky

Brown Bag It with Art

Next Tuesday, April 24 at Noon the library will have a speaker from the Wadsworth Atheneum. Anne Butler Rice, Associate Museum Education, Will speak about their new exhibition, Faith and Fortune: Five Centuries of European Masterworks.

This program has been very popular in the past so come early with your bag lunch. We will provide beverages and desserts.

If Ms. Rice's talk encourages you to visit the museum stop at our reference desk and we will reserve a free pass for you. You can also reserve one yourself on our web page.

If you like to read more about the Wadsworth or Faith and Art -I have created a book list for this program.

-vicky

An Evening with Kate Klise

Children's author Kate Klise will be speaking and signing books in the library's Community Room on Tuesday, April 24 at 7:00 p.m. Books available for sale are Regarding the Fountain, Deliver Us from Normal and Trial by Journal (paperbacks for $5.00) and her newest title, Far from Normal (hardcover for $12.00). All are invited - school-aged children, parents, teachers, librarians and aspiring writers. Come early for refreshments! Call 665-8720 with any questions.
Helen

New Location for Book Sale

Due to unforseen circumstances the Friends May Book Sale has been moved to the Senior and Disabled Center on Cedar Street diagonally across from the library.

Ladd, Thanks so much for your polite suggestion. I will ad a link to this post.

For more information about the booksale.

http://www.newington.lib.ct.us/9_friend.html


-vicky

Downsizing - Monday, April 16 at 7:00 p.m.

Are you moving to a small house? Are you parents moving to a smaller house? Come to our downsizing program. Join Karen J. Martin, R.N., M.S.N., author of Gaining Control over Home Downsizing and owner of Life Moves, LLC of Farmington, a home moving services company. Ms. Martin has combined her talents in nursing and her expertise in antiques, to guide families through the transition of leaving the family home. If you or family members are thinking of changing your present lifestyle and moving to a smaller home, this is the program for you. Learn practical tips and tricks that will save you time and money. Gain insight that will enable you to better control your own life moves. Books will be available for sale after the program. No registration is necessary.

-vicky

No more book donations, please.

The basement is overflowing, the sorters are working full speed and it's only three weeks until the books sale. So in order to work more on preparing for the actual book sale, we are not going to accept donations after April 14. We will begin to accept donations again starting May 8.

-vicky

Evening Book Discussion

This month’s reading is The Ox-bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark.

All interested persons are invited to attend on Thursday April 5 at 7:00 p.m.

Sue S.

Wireless internet access is working again!

All of you who have been visiting Panera for their free wireless connection come on back! Feel free to bring a cookie or bar from Panera and we have our self serve coffee bar.

Yes our wireless is up and running. We apologize for the long down time and thank you for your patience.

-vicky

Annual Teen Poetry Slam .......NOT!

On Tuesday, April 3 at 6:30 p.m. poets in grades 6-12 are invited to read aloud their own poetry, a favorite poem or a poem written by a friend. Friends and family please come to listen and enjoy these readings.

Refreshments will be served.

No registration necessary.

-vicky

Favorite Children's Programs Return

Many of your favorite children's programs are returning this spring.

Pick a few and come visit us .

Drop-in Spring Preschool Storytimes
March 26- May 10

Family Storytime
Thursdays, April and May at 6:30 p.m.

Play for all
Saturdays, April 7 & 21 and May 5 & 19 at 10:30 a.m.

Chess Club
Wednesdays, April 11 & 25 and May 9 & 23 at 3:00 p.m.

Parent/Child Workshop
Mondays, April 20-May 21 at 6:00 p.m.
Tuesdays, April 24-May 22 at 10:15 a.m.

Nutmeg Nights
Wednesdays, April 18 and May 16 at 6:30 p.m.

Call 665-8720 for more information or visit our Children's Events page on our website.

-vicky

Parent/Child Workshop

We will be taking registrations for the spring session of the Parent/Child Workshop in April. New Newington families may register beginning April 9. Repeat and/or out-of-town families may register beginning April 16. For those of you unfamiliar with the workshop, it is an organized playtime for parents and caregivers and their 1-3 year old children. There's also an opportunity to speak with community representatives and child development experts on a variety of subjects. This session we are happy to welcome Jane Bisantz & Associates, a Birth to Three program and CPTV as our resource professionals for the morning session.

One Book 4 Towns

Next week on March 27 @ 7:00 the One Book 4 Town reading program will Kick-Off at the Rocky Hill Public Library. A free bus will leave from Newington Town Hall parking lot directly across the street from the Lucy Robbins Welles Library on March 27 @ 6:15 p.m. Car pool with us to save some gas and help free up some parking spaces at the Rocky Hill Library.

Archer Mayor will speak on at the program on Tuesday and local community members will read from sections of The Surrogate Thief. Mr. Mayor will also sign books. If you haven't bought you book yet you can buy one at the program.

Rocky Hill is a lovely library. I you have never been there take this opportunity to go visit. They will have a nice selection of light refreshments available.

-vicky

Book News

The library is offering a new service. Look at our Book News page for a selection of the new additions to our collection by subject area. You can view the new additions from this page and link to the catalog or you can have individual monthly newsletters emailed to you on the 15 of each month. If you have a blog reader you can also add the rss feed to your blog reader.

From the Book News page you can also link to authors on the web, and awards and best seller lists. You can search the catalog from the awards and best seller lists and if we don't own a book you are interested in please contact us and we will be happy to get it for you.

Try this new service and let us know what you think about it.

-vicky

Tax Time!

We have a huge supply of the most common Federal and State tax forms and instruction booklets. They are on a table in the library's magazine area.

If we don't have the form you need, tax forms can be printed from the IRS website and the State of CT website.

Need assistance preparing your Federal tax return? Call 1(800)829-1040.

Sue S.

Prickly Things! 3/15/2007

Tomorrow @ 10:15 a.m. bring your 3-6 year old children to Prickly Things! Educators from the Lutz Children's Museum will teach them how to handle a puffer fish, porcupine quill, catcus and a live prickly visitor. There is still room so call 665-8700 to register or stop by in the morning.

-vicky

Time Travel

On Thursday March 15 @ 7:00 p.m., Ronald Mallett, professor of physics at University of Connecticut, will discuss his theory that time travel is possible.

If it were possible would you like to travel forward or backward in time?


Time Travel Books

-vicky

Surrogate Thief

Archer Mayor's book Surrogate Thief is now available for checkout or purchase at the circulation desk. Archer Mayor is our One Book 4 Towns author this year. Surrogate Thief won the 2004 New England Book Award for fiction. Publisher's Weekly says, "This is the prolific Mayor's most accomplished book - a character-driven novel that's enhanced by graceful prose and compelling narrative."

Watch for the Library News for more special events related to One Book 4 Towns.

-vicky

FilmFest Italiana

Library Director, Marian Amodeo's 5th annual FilmFest Italiana was well attended, as usual. Monday night over 60 people enjoyed watching Sophia Loren in Houseboat and eating italian cookies. Deb Gaudet gave an interesting talk on the star of our film festival, Sophia Loren and moderated a lively discussion after the film. The film festival has been co-sponsored by the local Newington Chapter of UNICO for all 5 years.

Come early next week to make sure you have a seat for the movie Black Orchid starring Sophia Loren and Anthony Quinn.

Trinity College Class at Newington Library

On Tuesday March 6 Andrew DeRocco will teach E=MC²: “THE WORLD’S MOST FAMOUS EQUATION” in the Lienhard Room at the Library.

E=MC²: “THE WORLD’S MOST FAMOUS EQUATION”Hardly a day passes but what the word "energy" does not enter into conversation. When and how did the notion arise? And what, after all, does it mean? We will trace the history of its development, meet the important figures who contributed both to it and to its companion, "mass;" and, finally, unite them in what our author, David Bodanis refers to as the "world's most famous equation." Ours will not be a "technical" excursion. Curiosity and a little imagination will suffice.
Text will include E=mc², A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation, David Bodanis. Berkley Books, New York, 2000, a division of Penguin Books.
……………………………………………………………………………………
Andrew De Rocco
Four Tuesdays, 11:00-12:30 pm
Newington Public Library
March 6, 13, 20, 26.
________________________________________________________________________
Andrew De Rocco, former dean of the Faculty at Trinity, has also served as the president of Denison University and as Connecticut's Commissioner of Higher Education. His Ph.D. was awarded by the Rackham School of Graduate Studies at the University of Michigan, where he began his academic career before becoming Institute Professor of Molecular Physics at the University of Maryland.

from http://www.trincoll.edu/Academics/adultlearning/life_long/course.htm

If you would like to sign up contact Trinity:

Enrollment information:Academy of Lifelong LearningTrinity College300 Summit StreetHartford, CT 06106(860) 297-2125
lifelonglearning@trincoll.edu

-vicky

Online Book Clubs

Do you want a little taste of a book before you pick it up at the library or put it on hold?



Look for the Online Book Clubs logo on our website to link to the book clubs or click on the link below. You can sample 1-11 new books each week with our new Online Book Clubs.

After you read some of the book you can go to our catalog and see if it's in or place a hold on it.

You can also visit an online discussion group and talk with other people all over the country who are reading the first few chapters of the book you are reading.

The clubs start on Monday. Each day you will receive an email with a portion of this weeks book for each club you have joined.

Try it out and please let us know what you think.

-vicky

Newington Skates! Photos

Art of War

The Evening Book Discussion Group is reading The Art of War by Sun-Tzu. Wikipedia has an interesting biography of Sun-Tzu.

The group will meet in our Lienhard Room, Thursday March 1 @ 7:00 p.m. Drop by and join the discussion.

-vicky

Family Storytimes

Family storytimes for March begin with Birthday Bash. Come Thursday March 1 @ 6:30 p.m. to find out who's birthday will be celebrated.

March 8 - Lucky Number 3
March 15 - Happy St. Patrick's Day
March 22 - Spring Stories
March 29 - Backyard birds

The whole family is welcome to come to sing songs, and hear stories about the weekly themes.

-vicky

Vacation Week

The Children's Department was very busy during February Vacation last week. As well as their usual programs, they had at least one special event every day. A program based on the book Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type for kids in K-2. Over 100 children in grades K-6 came to two sessions of floor hockey on Wednesday. On Wednesday there was also a science program for K-2. Newington Skates! continued to be a big success. 400 people came to the Connecticut Skating Center for 2 hours of skating. Friday @ 11:00 a.m. featured a movie matinee about a sign-language-speaking, hockey playing chimp. MVP.

If you miss all the fun last week make plans to visit the Lucy Robbins Welles Library during April Vacation week.

-vicky

Library Closed Monday Feb., 19

The library will be closed on Monday February 19.

We are open Saturday 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. and Sunday 1:00 p.m. -5:00.

We will reopen after the presidents day holiday at 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday February 20.

-vicky

Survey Results

51 people answered our survey.

60% of the respondents were between the ages of 30 and 60.

75% were women.

60% like the new design. 2% are neutral and 20% don't like it.

95% like to be able to search the catalog from the home page.

65% found a new service because of the new design.

Thanks to all who have filled out the survey. If you haven't already filled it out why don't you fill one out now. Click here to take survey .

-vicky

Response to survey comments

Thank you to all of the people you responded to our survey about our library web page. We appreciate your input and will discuss all your suggestions and soak up your praise!

"I think you have a glitch in the catalog search on the home page...."
"... I don't like only being able to search the Newington library."

We have fixed the glitch in the search the catalog box. And when Sue gets back from vacation I will ask her about adding the ability to search all libraries directly from the that search box.

"I could not easily link back to the home page and found this VERY frustrating."

Our homepage has been in a state of change over the past month. We have had problems with it not being available and we are having problems with the JavaScript on the page. We are close to a solution to that problem. All this to say that the ability to go back HOME will be on every page very soon.

"Hard to find your phone number."

Our address and phone number should be on every page. As I fix the JavaScript on each page I will also check to make sure the address and phone number are there.

"Would like to be able to place a hold while I'm in my account."

Yes I agree that moving around in your account, in renew books and placing a hold are cumbersome. It would be lovely to be able to log in into our catalog like we log into Amazon.com and it would keep our information thus cutting down the number of times we have to put in our account information. I will bring this suggestion to our network meetings.

I'll close with one positive comment.

"great design, cool graphics and very user friendly! congratulations!!"

Thank you again for your input about our page. Please feel free to call us or to email us anytime with your comments and concerns. 860-665-8700 or refdept@newington.lib.ct.us.

-vicky

Library Closing 5:00 p.m. Valentines

The Lucy Robbins Welles Library will be closing at 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb., 14, 2007.

We will open tomorrow at 10:00 a.m.

-vicky

We Are Open Today!

Although the weather is nasty outside, we are open today - February 14th. We are currently planning to be open until 9PM tonight. If we need to close early due to the weather we will be sure to post our closing time here.

Sue S.

Time Travel

Do you believe in time travel?


Ronald Mallett and I do!


More info coming soon.....


-vicky

School Vacation Week

We have activities planned
for school vacation week, Feb 20-24,
so you don't have to!

Tues., Feb 20 - 1:00 p.m. - Stories and more!

Wed., Feb 21 - 11:15 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. - Floor Hockey

Wed., Feb 21 - 2:00 p.m. - AIR-Tastic

Thurs., Feb 22 - Noon - Newington Skates!

Thurs., Feb 22 - 2:00 p.m. - Fun and Food for Teen and Tweens

Fri., Feb 23 - 11:00 a.m. - Movie and Raffle

Sat., Feb 24 - 11:00 a.m. - Get Hooked on Crochet!

Sat., Feb 24 - 12:30 a.m. - Play for All!

Check the Children's activities page for more information.

-vicky

SmartPower=Clean Energy

Thursday Night, Feb 15 come find out how to use clean energy in your home or business. Bob Wall, Regional Director of SmartPower will discuss currently available electricity options from sun, wind and water.

Admission is free.

-vicky

Tax Forms

The tax forms are in at Lucy Robbins Welles Library.

Stop by and pick them up in the alcove between the reference room and the magazine reading room. Or if you prefer you can down load forms and instructions at these websites.

Federal Tax Form and Publications

State Tax Forms and Publications

-vicky

Family Storytime

If you have kids and you haven't been to our family storytime you are missing a fun evening!

The children's librarian leads the group in songs, sometimes with motions. She will tell stories and involve the whole family in other interactive activities. This month's themes are Valentines Day, Chinese New Year and the zoo.

6:30 p.m. every Thursday night.

Registration is not necessary.

Call the children's department for more information.

-vicky

Webpage down Tuesday 1:30 p.m.

Hi all,

Our web page is down again. The DNS server at our web host is down. Cleartel is working to resolve the problem.

Please call us if you want to renew, reserve a book, reserve a museum pass, place a hold or any other service you usually use the web page for. 860-665-8700.

-vicky