Kids & teens are encouraged to Build a Better World with Summer Reading 2017!

Summer Reading sign up begins  Tuesday, May 30.  The 2017 Summer Reading theme, "Build a Better World", encourages kids of all ages to be constructive - whether they are building physical objects or positive relationships.

The 4th annual Shakespeare in Shorewood is Saturday, June 10 at 6:00 p.m.

Traveling actors, Stone Soup Shakespeare, return to Shorewood with their interpretation of Julius Caesar -  one of the bard's most ill-fated tragedies, complete with ambition, conflict, power, and manipulation. Stone Soup Shakespeare uses Shakespeare's original texts, but strives to make his plays accessible for all with the addition of dance, song and modern costumes.

Bring a chair or blanket and your favorite picnic snacks and let the play take you away! Saturday, June 10, 6:00 p.m. on the library lawn (rain location: Village Center). 

We haven't bought hard copies of music or video in our household for over seven years (Well, maybe a little vinyl!), thanks to the availability of streaming and digital content. Last weekend, I called my 71 year old mother in law and she couldn't stop raving about her subscription to Netflix and how easy it is to stream videos on her iPad. If my family is any indicator, I feel certain that the greater library community is ready to try a new digital content source from the library.

Thanks to a Milwaukee County Federated Library System commitment to set aside a bit of state aid money for digital initiatives, all library card holders in the county will have access to Hoopla - the most comprehensive digital content platform for libraries - all summer long. Hoopla offers videos, whole albums of music, comics, eBooks and audiobooks for all ages. You can use your computer or an app on your smart phone or tablet to access content.

 

We'll have June, July and August to pilot this new format for library content, so please join us for a Summer of Hoopla!

June is Monarch Month in Shorewood.

The Village of Shorewood has proclaimed June to be Monarch Month in Shorewood. Since taking the National Wildlife Federation's Mayors Monarch

 Pledge, Shorewood school students and staff from the Library and Senior Resource Center have been working together to encourage creation and support of healthy habitats for monarchs. The Shorewood Monarch Project will be distributing free milkweed plants at the June 25th Shorewood Farmer's Market. The library will once again be raising and releasing monarch butterflies throughout the summer. To learn more about our community efforts and how you can help, visit the Monarch Project web page and like the Shorewood Monarch Project on Facebook.