Fireman Jim postponed - again

Due to personal family circumstances, the program Fireman Jim's Safety Tips, originally rescheduled for Friday, October 19 at 10:15 a.m., has been postponed again until December.

Fireman Jim postponed

Due to personal family circumstances, the program Fireman Jim's Safety Tips, originally scheduled for Friday, September 21, will be postponed to Friday, October 19 at 10:15 a.m. Signups will be taken beginning immediately for this rescheduled performance.

Fireman Jim's Safety Tips Program
Friday, OCTOBER 19, 10:15 a.m.
It’s a rock ‘n rollin’ good time as Fireman Jim Jansen teaches children ages 4 and up basic fire safety through easy to learn songs and live demonstrations.Call 665-8720 to register.

Family Place Registration begins Sept 17

First-time Newington participants may register for the Parent-Child Workshop beginning Monday Sept 17. This program is a 5 week series of free workshops for parents and children ages 1-3 years old. Meet other families, share thoughts and experiences, and talk with librarians and local child development experts as you play and read with your children. This program is designed to help you find out about community services available to children and parents.

Brothers and sisters under 5 are invited to join the fun.

The Workshop begins Monday Oct. 1 and runs to Monday Nov. 5 at 6:00 p.m. and Tuesday Oct 2 - Nov. 9 at 10:15 a.m.

A light supper is served before the evening session.

Call the children's department 860-665-8720 to register.

Out of town families and repeat participants may register begining September 24.

-vicky

Trinity College Returns to Newington

Tuesday Sept 18, 25 and Oct 2, 9 at 11:00 a.m. Trinity Professor Andrew De Rocco will lecture on "Nobel Lives: Five Women and Their Paths to the Prize." The classes will be examining five women who were honored with Nobel Prizes in the sciences: the Curies, mother and daughter; Marie Goeppert-Mayer(physics, Rita Levi-Montalcini(physiology), and Barbara McClintock(genetics). The classes are presented by the Academy of Lifelong Learning at Trinity College. There is still room in the class.

Please contact Trinity at 297-2125 or email them or visit their web page for more information.

I attended the class about E=MC2 last fall. I learned a lot from the professor and the other students in the class.

-vicky

Librarians Learn Web 2.0

The librarians at the Lucy Robbins Welles Library are learning about the social web and new applications that we can use to improve service to our patrons.

One new project is the teen book review blog - Teen Reviews. Currently teens can fill out a comment card and one of our librarians will add their review to the blog. See what other teens are reading and what they think about the books. We hope in the near future teens will be able to post to this blog themselves.

The reference department has created an internal wiki for our reference polices, memos, FAQs, bookmarks. We watched this YouTube video from Commoncraft shows to learn about wikis



As part of the reference wiki our Head of Reference also created a Del.icio.us account with our frequently used bookmarks. You can check out the ReferenceDepartment Bookmarks to see what sites we often go to when we answer your questions. Commoncraft also has YouTube video on social bookmarking.



If you have any suggestions for web2.0 applications that the library could use to improve service please leave a comment on this post.

-vicky

Fireman Jim's Safety Tips

Join us on Friday, October 21st at 10:15 a.m. for a rock ‘n rollin’ good time as Fireman Jim Jansen teaches children ages 4 and up basic fire safety through easy to learn songs and live demonstrations.

Call 665-8720 to register beginning September 7.

Nutmeg Nights - Project Mulberry

Children in grades 3 and up are invited to participate in a monthly activity and discussion of the 2008 Nutmeg Book Award nominees.

September’s title is Project Mulberry by Linda Sue Park on Wednesday, September 19th. Join us for pizza at 6:30 p.m. The discussion will begin at 7:00 p.m., then we’ll do a silkworm project of our own!

Call 665-8720 to register.

Beading and Reading for Teens

Students in grades 6 - 12 are invited to join us for beading and reading on Thursday, September 20th at 3:30 p.m. There will be hundreds of different beads to choose from to make necklaces, bracelets and more. No experience is necessary. Each person who attends will leave with a nice piece of unique jewelry. They will also hear about some of the most popular and enjoyable books in the teen area of the library.

The program is free, but registration is necessary. Stop by the Adult Information Desk or call the library at 665-8700.

Library Board Annual Meeting

The Library Board of Trustees invites all Newington residents to attend this year’s annual meeting on Monday, September 10, at 7:00 p.m. There will be a brief business meeting and the Board will recognize the following for their contributions to the library: Newington Chamber of Commerce, Alan Budney, Newington UNICO, Target, Stephen Cronin, Danny Cronin and Sherry Gray of UConn Extension.

Internet Computer Down Friday 8/24

The internet computers on the first floor of the library near the reference desk will be down Friday morning to mid-afternoon. The dividers between the stations are being replaced that day. The computers in the Young Adult area will be available as well as the 15 minute access computer.

Feel free to call the library 860-665-8700 to see if the computers are available Friday afternoon.

Please make your plans accordingly.

The computers should be up and running on Saturday.

-vicky

Harry Potter Party Photos

Thank you Marian Amodeo for the photos of the Harry Potter Party last month.

Left to right:
Michelle Royer, Helen Aveline, Pat Pierce,
Joanne Ferry in costume for the party.

Left to right: Michele Royer and Karen Benner

Denise Durante

Waiting for the magic hour of 12:01 a.m. July 21

AT LAST I'VE GOT IT!

Joanne Ferry

Anna Eddy and her neice

Reading along with the book on cd at 12:08

Locked in the Library - SATURDAY NIGHT!

****CORRECTION LOCKED IN THE LIBRARY IS SATURDAY NIGHT AT 7:00 P.M.*******
SATURDAY night at 7:00 p.m. the library will be hopping. This is the 7th year the brave souls in the Children's Department have had an annual sleep over. Parents and children stake their claim to a spot in the library then join in the activities planned by the staff. Breakfast is over by 8:00 a.m. so the library can be ready for our day time patrons at 10:00.

This year there will be 195 children and parents at the sleepover.

-vicky

Artist - Robert Giovino

Stop by the library and look at Robert Giovino's oil paintings. When you walk into our community room you will feel like you are at the seashore with his colorful pastel seascapes.

-vicky

YNK Movie for Teens

Are you entering grades 6 - 10? If you are, then consider joining us on August 2nd at 7:00 p.m. for a movie.

YNK what PG13 movie and unusual and mysterious refreshments will be offered. Those who just show up will be surprised.

The more cautious may register at the Adult Information Desk or call 665-8700.

Gotta Sing - Gotta Dance Movie Series

Join us on Tuesday, August 7th at 6:30 p.m. for the first movie in our Gotta Sing - Gotta Dance series of 4 movie musicals from the 40's and 50's with Bob Larsson.

Three Little Words (1950) with Fred Astaire, Red Skelton, and Vera Ellen.

A Hollywood song and dance-filled version of the lives of songwriting team Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby.

The Perils of Superman

Brown Bag it with a Movie - Hollywood Mysteries on Tuesday, July 31, Noon

What really happened to George Reeves was it suicide or not?!

Come at noon on Tuesday the 31st to see a movie about George Reeves.
Bring your brown bag lunch. We will provide dessert and drinks.

-vicky

Teen Auction Prizes

This is just one of many prizes for the teen summer reading auction.

Check out more of the prizes here.

The auction will be held on Thursday August 23 @ 6:30 p.m. in the Community Room.

-vicky

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