Family Story Time
Stories, songs, and crafts!
Daily at 11am
Alphabet Ready by 5
Celebrate a different letter of the
alphabet on Mondays!
Baby Lap Time
Tuesdays & Thursdays at 10:30am
Poet-Tree!
Write a poem on a leaf and add it to our poet-tree in honor of National Poetry Month
Lego Club
All ages welcome!
Wednesday, April 6th at 3:30pm
Magic with Caleb Sigmon
Saturday, April 8th at 1:45pm
Eggstravaganza!
Crafts and entertainment at the Library and a parade at 2:30pm to the Jones House for an Easter Egg Hunt at 2:45pm
Saturday, April 8th from 2pm-4pm
Kids Music
World Music and Musical Games
Wednesday, April 12th at 3:15pm
Elementary BOB Book Club
Tuesday, April 18th at 4pm
Peep Competition
Create a diorama from a favorite book with a peep from the library! Dioramas will be
displayed at the May 1st-7th and winners will be announced on May 10th
Saturday, April 22nd
Kids Music
Musical Theater
Wednesday, April 26th at 3:15pm
Story Walks
Scavenger Hunt
Cloud Identification
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Seed Library Opening
Celebrate with BRWIA and the Library!
Saturday, April 1st at 3pm
Legal Aid NC Clinic
Expungement
Tuesday, April 4th at 2:30pm
Genealogy Gathering
Thursday, April 6th at 2pm
High Country Lifelong Learners
Monday, April 10th at 2pm
Cook the Books: Mystery Book Club
Tuesday, April 11th at 4pm
Legal Aid NC Clinic
Divorce
Thursday, April 20th at 2:30pm
Third Thursday
Thursday, April 20th at 6:30pm
Your Favorite Poem
Celebrate Earth Day by presenting your favorite poem to others in the community!
Saturday, April 22nd at 11am
Tuesday, April 26th at 1:30pm
High Country Writers
Katerina Whitley
Thursday, April 13th at 10am
Critique Session
Thursday, April 27th at 10am
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Western Watauga Branch
1085 Old US Hwy 421
Sugar Grove, NC 28679
828-297-5515
Storyteller Sharon Clarke
Thursday, April 13th at 9:30am
LEGO Free Play
Open to all ages
Thursday, April 13th
Book Club
Wednesday, April 19th at 2:30pm
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National Library Week Excitement!
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Celebrate National Library Week with us!
April 10 - April 13
The Watauga County Public Library will have special programs all week long in celebration of National Library Week. The theme is "Libraries Transform". We invite you to tell us how libraries have enriched you. Take a butterfly from the library foyer and go to it! Post your butterfly on the board. You will help us promote the library and decorate the board!
Find the Coupons...
We are putting Stick Boy Bread Company Free Cookie or Bagel coupons as well as $1 off Fines coupons in books this week! Thank you to Stick Boy Bread Company for donating!
Get a Library Card..
Spring is a great time to get that library card, whether for the first time or to update it; many don't know that the cards expire after 3 years so... don't let that card expire, there are just too many great services that one can utilize with a card... just ask the staff!
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Please Welcome our Guest Readers
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Monday, April 10th at 11am
Francisco & Carrie Afanador,
authors of
Colombia se Escribe con Condor
Book selling and signing to follow.
Tuesday, April 11th
Lee Wittmann of the Red Cross
will present two programs.
911 Safety Program at 11am
Emergency Preparedness for 3rd-5th graders
at 3:30pm
Wednesday, April 12th at 11am
David Still, Meteorologist
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Storyteller Sharon Clarke to visit both Watauga Libraries April 13
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For more than 25 years Sharon Clarke has warmed the hearts of her audiences with storytelling and folk music. She weaves together song with story, imagery with imagination to delight and captivate the listeners. Her dramatic and unique style keeps her audience entranced... laughing and crying... as they quickly and unknowingly become part of the yarn-spinner's web.
On Thursday, April 13th, Sharon will be at the Western Watauga Branch at 9:30 am and at the Watauga County Public Library at 11am in the Evelyn Johnson Meeting Room.
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Historical Walking Tours of Downtown Boone
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Meet in the library lobby any day April 10th, 11th,
or 12th at 1 pm for a guided walking tour of downtown Boone. The tours will last approximately 30 minutes.
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Shred-It Truck Coming to Library April 13
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Have your confidential documents securely destroyed by a professional shredding service. There is a limit of three document boxes or 75 lbs of paper per attendee.
The Shred-It truck will be in the back parking lot on
Thursday, April 13th from 10am-1pm.
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Christine Simolke, Author of Children of Italy, to host a program on April 13
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Author Christine Simolke will share her research into her Italian immigrant roots and the immigrant experience in early 20th century America.
The program will be on on Thursday, April 13th at 2pm.
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Seed Library Grand Opening on April 1
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Share seed, grow food, spread knowledge
Blue Ridge Women in Agriculture
and the
Watauga County Public Library
are pleased to announce the Grand Opening of the Watauga County Seed Library!
Housed in repurposed card catalogs, the Watauga Seed Library offers free, open-pollinated seeds to community members who can take seed packets, grow and enjoy fresh vegetables from their gardens. Limit of 6 packets per family. Participants are also welcome to then save seeds from those plants, returning the seeds to the library to help sustain it.
The Grand Opening will be held on Saturday, April 1st from 3-5pm, with a ribbon cutting at 3:30 pm with Mayor Rennie Brantz. There will be music, poetry, art, demonstrations, children's activities, and snacks. Local agencies will be here to share their knowledge! All are welcome!
Thank you to the following for donating seeds:
- High Mowing Organic Seeds
- Seed Savers Exchange
- Sow True
- Mast General
- Jim Veteto
- Participants from the High Country Seed Swap
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Celebrate National Poetry Month with Us!
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We have a variety of events scheduled to celebrate National Poetry Month here at the Library. Join us as we celebrate the power and joy of poetry and write some of our own!
Poet-Tree
Write a poem on a leaf and place it on our Poet-Tree in Youth Services. The tree will be up throughout April.
NC Poet Laureate Shelby Stephenson
Bring your own lunch and the Library will provide refreshments and drinks for this program with the NC Poet Laureate.
Friday, April 21st from 12pm-2pm
Your Favorite Poem
Celebrate Earth Day by presenting your favorite poem at an open mic event with Behind the Stacks Poetry Group. Refreshments will be served.
Saturday, April 22nd at 11am
Thursday, April 27th at 6pm
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Annual Reading Challenge Winner!
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Congratulations to Audrey Hartley for winning the first quarterly drawing for the Annual Reading Challenge! The prize for this quarter's drawing was a $25.00 gift certificate to Lost Province. We're very grateful to Lost Province for their support of the Annual Reading Challenge. Thanks to everyone who submitted books to the Annual Reading Challenge website.
Click here to learn more about the Annual Reading Challenge and to submit books that you've read. The next drawing will be held at the end of June.
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Turner "Turnip" Stimpson to Speak April 28
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Turner "Turnip" Stimpson has been recognized for his work with Dementia and Alzheimer's patients by the Duke Center for Aging as well as the Council on Aging, and was awarded the Golden Rule Award for his service to the elderly in 1990. He has been the subject of two PBS documentaries and is the author of four books on the care of Alzheimer's patients.
The program will be Friday, April 28th at 2:00 PM in the Evelyn Johnson Meeting Room.
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Small and Mighty Acts and the Library are cosponsoring a series on civics, being constructive in our discourse, and better understanding the legislative process.
Pathways to Civil Leadership
Presented by Debbie Kelly of the North Carolina Institute of Political Leadership
Wednesday, April 5th 5-7pm
This workshop will explore ways to make change through politics, service, community organizing and more. Open to all! While there is no set entry price, donations will be collected to cover our guest's travel.
Constructive Conflict
Presented by Marisa Cornell of the Mediation and Restorative Justice Center
Wednesday, April 12th 5-7pm
Conflict, in itself, is neither positive nor negative - its value lies in how we respond to it. In this workshop, participants will explore conflict as an opportunity to learn, grow, reconnect, and ultimately, to create change. We will also discuss personal vantage points and develop productive conflict resolution strategies by constructing and manipulating creative representations of the physical and psychological "spaces" in which disputes occur.
Bills - How to Find and Understand Them
Presented by Justin Edge, NC Community Lawyer
Wednesday, April 26th 5-7pm
In this session of the Civics Series, a community development lawyer will give you a hands-on, practical dip into the resources and tools used by policymakers and advocates, including how to access local, state, and federal bills and laws, committees and boards, public hearings, and the legislators and staff themselves. Donations will be accepted to cover our guest's travel.
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Researching the Homework Gap
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If you're a parent of a K-12 student, you may spend hours each week driving your children to a nearby McDonalds or Starbucks to use their Wi-Fi because internet is not available to your house or it's too expensive. Or trek to the local library multiple times a week so your kids can use the computers because your digital device is broken, being used by one of your other children, or you don't have one at home because buying one doesn't fit in your budget.
This is what it's like to live in the homework gap. The gap occurs when K-12 teachers assign homework that requires access to the internet, but the students don't have internet access in their homes. Nationwide, an estimated 5 million school-age children suffer from the homework gap.
If you live in NC and have K-12 students, take the below survey to help NC Broadband and The Friday Institute gather valuable data on the homework gap in NC to design solutions.
Click here to take the survey!
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Volunteer for ARLE Preschool Outreach
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The Friends of the Watauga County Public Library have generously funded
the
new ARLE Program:
A
ppalachian
R
eading
L
iteracy for
E
arly Learning.
20 story time kits will be carefully crafted to support phonological awareness and alphabetic knowledge and themed to focus on a particular letter of the alphabet. The kits will include books, puppets, puzzles, flannel boards, activities, and suggestion sheets to support a fun and engaging story time presentation.
Volunteers will be trained on how to use the materials in these carefully crafted kits to present story times in local day care centers. If you are interested in becoming a volunteer for the ARLE program please contact Lisa Flanigan in Youth Services at [email protected].
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