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Library Community Picnic
What a great way to end the summer! Thank you Nancy Blessing and Doug Johnstone for organizing our final pot luck of the summer. Thank you Angelique Lee for organizing the summer reading program and handing out certificates and ribbons. Thank you Picarello's Pizza for donating free Pizza certificates to this summers big readers. Thank you Joe and Courtney Desena for loaning us their projector for our screening of "A Bug's Life." What a treat to have a movie right here in town, and the popcorn was free!
Thank you to everyone who participated in our summer picnics. We hope you will continue to stop in the library through out the year.
Thanks to Carl Oertell (Odell) the kids at Saturday's story time got to try on real firefighter helmets, boots and even a coat. They read about volunteer firefighters putting out fires in small towns then put out a pretend fire using an Indian Pump.
COMING UP:
September 2nd 4pm Volunteer Jason Hayden leads a mushroom walk.
September 4th 6:30pm Volunteer and trustee meeting, new volunteers always welcome.
September 11th Olympic Skier Doug Lewis 6pm.
September 27th Pittsfield Bazaar and Library Book Sale.
Our July Pot Luck community picnic became a pot luck dinner, but in spite of the rain we had a great turn out. Several of us came home with Amish Friendship Bread starter (thanks Shari). If you loved Angelique's cole slaw, the recipe can be found here (Angelique suggests cutting the oil in half).
It was a great honor to have "Children Gather Round" and their huge drum here in our little town hall. Here are a few photos.
Join us Wednesday the 23rd at 6pm for a nature scavenger hunt, and every Saturday morning for stories and crafts.
See our whole summer programming list here.
CHILDREN GATHER ROUND Drumming from the Heart has performed at schools, libraries, camps, festivals and 1st Night celebrations in Vermont and New England.
Gather with us around the drum and celebrate the heartbeat of Mother Earth.
Children and adults alike...everyone gets to drum, dance and sing with us!
The picnic is by the playground next to the Pittsfield Roger Clark Memorial Library on the green on route 100. The picnic starts at 4pm and the drumming program will be at 6pm. The event is rain or shine and will be held in the Town Hall next door in the event of rain. Please join us and bring your friends and neighbors to this free community event.
Read about the rest of our library summer programs here.
We had our first picnic of the summer and kicked off our summer reading programs. If you couldn't be there, stop in any time during our open hours to start summer reading logs. After 5 visits to the library you get a coupon for a free small pizza donated by Picarellos. Our next picnic is July 20th and will feature the great company of neighbors and friends as well as Native American drumming group Children Gather Round. Please join us, we love to make new friends.
Summer has started! Please join us Sunday for our first Library Community Picnic of the summer. This is a chance to reconnect with friends and neighbors after a long snowy winter and see the MANY new books we've added to our collection. Invite a neighbor you've always wanted to talk to. Mention it to friends. We welcome anyone of any age.
The details:
June 29 - Sunday, 4pm - 7pm
Pot Luck Community Picnic next to Pittsfield's Roger Clark Memorial Library on the Green off Rt 100
Featuring Outdoor Games for Everyone and Summer Reading Program Kick-Off.
KIDS - Come pick up your FREE Summer Reading Program T-Shirt,
and learn how to earn a free pizza donated by Picarello's and a pass to the Champlain Valley Fair!
The library will be open and our volunteers are shelving hundreds of new books for adults, kids, and young adults, great summer reading is ahead.
For information on programs look here.
For dates and times of summer programs here.
To get regular e mail updates about library activities send a note to pittsfieldvtlibrary@gmail.com.
Greetings Friends and Neighbors!
The 100% volunteer Roger Clark Memorial Library is once again gearing up for a season of wonderful summer programs, with something for everyone - including outdoor activities, music and picnics. Our volunteers are shelving hundreds of new books for adults, kids, and young adults, great summer reading is ahead.
A collection of children's magazine subscriptions from Muse, Calliope and Ask, to Young Rider and Animal Baby have arrived for the coming year.
Our summer hours will start the weekend of July 12th when we will add Saturdays from 9 to 11am to our Tuesday and Thursday hours.
New this summer we are participating in the Vermont Department of Libraries Summer Reading Program for Children: Catch the Reading Bug. Remember way back in February kids signed up for a free t-shirt? We'll have those and more incentives to kick-off the program at our first community picnic June 29th. We look forward to seeing you this summer - AT THE LIBRARY!
June 29 - Sunday, 4pm - 7pm
Pot Luck Community Picnic
with Summer Reading Program Kick-Off
and Outdoor Games for Everyone
KIDS - Come pick up your FREE Summer Reading Program
T-Shirt, and learn how to earn a free pizza donated by Picarello's and a pass to the Champlain Valley Fair!
July 12 - Saturday, 10am - 11am
Susie Smolen Music Program for Young Kids
July 15 - Tuesday, 4:30pm
All Ages Mushroom Walk with Jason Hayden
July 19, Saturday, 10am - 11am
Story and Craft for Young Kids
Library opens at 9am
July 20 - Sunday, 4pm - 7pm
Pot Luck Picnic with All Ages Audience Participation Native American Drumming
and Storytelling by "Children Gather Round"
July 23 - Wednesday, 6pm - 8pm
All Ages Nature Scavenger Hunt
Bring a basket or container for your treasures
July 26 - Saturday, 10am - 11am
Story and Craft for Young Kids
Library opens at 9am
July or August TBD - Watch for Posters
Parachute Games for Kids
August 2 - Saturday, 10am - 11am
Story and Craft for Young Kids
Library opens at 9am
August 6 - Wednesday, 7pm-9:30pm
Teen Movie Night for 6th Grade and up
August 9 - Saturday, 10am - 11am
Story and Craft for Young Kids
Library opens at 9am
August 16 - Saturday, 10am - 11am
Story and Craft for Young Kids
Library opens at 9am
August 23 - Saturday, 10am - 11am
Story and Craft for Young Kids
Library opens at 9am
August 24 - Sunday, 4 - 8 pm
Pot Luck Picnic and Outdoor Movie A Bug's Life. Summer Reading Program Awards and Catch Fireflies! Bring your own jar!
August 30 - Saturday, 10am - 11am
Story and Craft for Young Kids
Library opens at 9am
A group of 10 volunteers showed up Sunday for our second library work day. We moved boxes, cataloged books, weeded shelves, set up new displays, updated spine tags, and generally spruced up books. Stop by, we add new books every week.
We have lots of plans for the summer including picnics, presentations, outdoor games, a big summer reading kick off and more. Our second Saturday of the month music and stories for toddlers will continue, and we'll start our Special Saturdays up again too. Check back here for details.
Have you noticed there are no photos lately? My camera's broken, I should have it back in a few weeks.
Roger Clark Memorial Library
Meeting Minutes
April 3, 2008
Attending: April Hayden (trustee secretary), Susie Martin (trustee treasurer), Karen Waterworth (trustee), Marion Abrams (trustee chair), Sharon Mayer (volunteer), Angelique Lee (volunteer).
Treasurer’s report
Expenses included $69.99 for supplies, $114.15 books, $63.12 after-school program, $100 for music - for a total of $347.26. Balance in our account is $5,293.67. The spaghetti supper collected $420 in donations; Joyce’s expenses have not been subtracted from that figure yet. Vonage account has $133.02. Our two CD’s have $1000 and $1,197.97.
Book Purchasing
We have $1,500 from grant to buy books this year. Angelique and April have made a list of approximately $1000 worth in Ingram. List needs to be checked against our collection. Could be part of our work day scheduled for April 27th.
A good selection of periodicals have been ordered using Winnie Bell grant.
Upcoming Programs
We will hold summer family picnics on Thursdays from 5-7 during the months of June, July, and August. Saturday story and craft time will be held from 9-11 in July and August. April, Angelique, Kelly?, others? will lead programs. A sub-committee to brainstorm the summer reading program was started: Joyce, Sharon, Angelique, April. We anticipate an active/outdoor focus. Are also thinking about targeting 10+ age group.
Picarello’s Pizza will donate pizza certificates for our summer programs. We still need to decide how we want to use them, how many and to submit a proposal.
Youth Book Advisory Session
…will be held on April 26th from 11-1 – with pizza!
Marion will send TYs to after-school program volunteers.
Grant Follow-up
We agreed that a comfy loveseat or small futon couch would be a good addition to the library. ? will look for one at a discount.
Game Nights…
were not a big success this winter. We hope to change time to Fridays after school next year and catch some bus traffic.
Summer Mailer
All agreed that we should continue to reach the community in this way/ be consistent with our message. Target date to send to all Pittsfield box holders is May 15th.
Adult Programs
We are still considering holding some special, informational, fun events for adults - such as Feng Shui, cooking, financial planning, wills… Interest of presenters and participants to be determined…
Work Day…
scheduled for April 27th at noon.
Announcements
Two new documentaries have arrived: VT Creative Economy and Eggs 101.
Book club will meet again on April 29th at 6:30.
Music for little ones is April 12th at 10.
The book club was featured in a front-page article in the most recent Vermont Journal.
Next meeting: May 8th at 6:30.
We had another great Library Community Picnic, if you missed it you'll have one more chance in August. Here are a few photos. Other news - Our next Volunteer and trustee meeting is August 2nd. Please join us, we need your help. Our children's story time continues to be well attended, it is every Saturday at 9:30 am. We will be having a GIANT book sale during the Pittsfield Bazaar on September 29th. This month's book club book is "Double Bind" by Chris Bohjalian. See the previous posting for more information. 170 new books just arrived from the mid state libarary, these include picture books, juvenile fiction and non fiction, and adult fiction and non fiction. If you haven't been into the library recently, come and see what we've been up to.
Thanks for checking in.
Library hours:
Tuesdays 3 to 5pm
Thursdays 5 to 7pm
Saturdays 9 to 11am
We'll be having a booksale at this year's Pittsfield Bazaar. If you have books to donate, bring them to the library during open hours (Tuesday 3 to 5, Thursday 5 to 7 and Saturday 9 to 11am).
Special Saturday's for kids have started. 9:30 am every Saturday in the Pittsfield Library. Our book club is reading Animal Vegetable Miracle, the next meeting is the 19th of July at 6:30 in the library. It's not too late to join in.
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You can view the Pittsfield Library's collection of books on tape here.
You can check Pittsfield Library's volunteer schedule here.
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