Library Events: May 1 - 7 |
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Expanded Library Hours Begin Monday, May 3 |
Monday, Wednesday, Friday: 9am - 5pm
Tuesday, Thursday: 9am - 9pm
Saturday: 9am - 1pm
Sunday: CLOSED
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AcornTV No Longer Available as of May 14 |
AcornTV has terminated its contract with RBDigital - the platform we currently use to deliver AcornTV to our patrons - and will no longer be available to library users beginning May 14.
Now is the time to catch up on all those British mysteries before AcornTV goes away! Click here to access AcornTV (click on "AcornTV").
The Rodgers Library is currently exploring other video streaming alternatives to offer to our patrons. We appreciate your patience and understanding, and will update with any new information as it becomes available.
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Qello Concerts, Great Courses and IndieFlix No Longer Available as of May 20 |
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RBDigital will turn off access to our remaining subscriptions: Qello, Indieflix and Great Courses.
The Rodgers Library is currently determining whether or not to make these services available through an alternate platform, mainly Overdrive. We'll keep you posted!
In the meantime, catch up on all your independent films, concerts, and learning by accessing these subscriptions by clicking here (scroll down to "Movies, Music and Television"). |
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Monthly Book Raffle: Enter to Win!
The Midnight Library
by Matt Haig
Through Saturday, May 29
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Enter your name for a chance to win a copy of The Midnight Library by Matt Haig, A dazzling novel about all the choices that go into a life well lived, from the internationally bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive and How To Stop Time..
Click on the book cover for the Goodreads description.
The book raffles are now held monthly. Enter every time you visit the library, all month long!
How to enter:
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Visit the library and submit a raffle ticket.
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Email Adult Services Librarian Amy Friedman by clicking the button at left and request she enter your name. Please include your name and phone number. NOTE: You may only enter once by email.
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Spice Club
Spice for May: Za'atar
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Pick up your Spice Club Kit for May featuring Za'atar.
Click on the button below to reserve your kit, or visit the Circulation Desk to pick up a kit while supplies last.
Each kit features:
- a small sample of the spice,
- a brief history of the spice, and
- a link to a curated list from our library databases featuring recipes that use the spice.
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ONLINE EVENT. Register for the Spice Club Chat Group with special guest speaker Nicole Gagliardi of The Spice & Tea Exchange in Portsmouth on Thursday, May 27 at 10:30am, by clicking on the button below.
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No-Till Gardening: Easy/Low Labor Methods for Starting a Garden From Scratch
Monday, May 10 @ 7pm
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ONLINE EVENT. Mark Gostkiewicz of Tri Gable Lea Farm will discuss a variety of easy ways to start a garden bed from scratch!
Registration required. Click on the button at right for more information and/or to register.
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Beginning Zentangle
Tuesday, May 11
Two workshops available:
1pm & 6:30pm
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ONLINE EVENT. Zentangle is an easy-to-learn, relaxing and fun way to create beautiful images by drawing structured patterns.
Join Certified Zentangle Teacher and Life Coach Diane MacKinnon for these introductory workshops! You can use your own supplies or buy a kit at the library for $6.
Registration required to receive a link to the event. Register for either time by clicking on the buttons below. List of supplies included in event description.
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Jane Austen Book Club
Northanger Abbey, by Val McDermid
Wednesday, May 12 @ 7pm
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ONLINE EVENT. In Northanger Abbey, McDermid delivers her own, witty, updated take on Austen’s classic novel about a young woman whose visit to the stately home of a well-to-do acquaintance stirs her most macabre imaginings.
Copies of the book are available at the Circulation Desk. Click on the book image to read the Goodreads summary.
Registration required to receive a link to the event. Register by clicking on the button below.
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Mystery Lovers Book Club
By Book or By Crook, by Eva Gates
Thursday, May 13 @ 10:30am
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Live meeting on Library grounds!!*
ONLINE EVENT. Lucy has hit a bit of a rough patch.
She spent over a decade at the Harvard Library, fulfilling her love for literature.
But after an engagement implodes and after enduring family pressure from all sides, she retreats to the Outer Banks and is quickly hired as a Lighthouse Librarian. Everything is going great, at first...but she quickly learns just how much simmers below the surface of small towns.
Someone is determined to get her job. And someone is after the rare Jane Austen editions being housed at the library.
And someone else just turned up dead.
Ahhh yes. This is the perfect little cozy mystery you need right now.
Copies available at the Circulation Desk. Click on the book cover to read the book summary.
Registration required. Click on the button at right to register.
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For both Adults and Teens!
Sea Shanty Singalong
Thursday, May 13 @ 7pm
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ONLINE EVENT. Sea Shanty Singalong is back!
Fill your mugs with your favorite grog and sing along to sea shanties with a shanty leader. Choruses and refrains will be screen shared.
Registration required. Click the button below for more information or to register.
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Genealogy Club
Genealogical Gold in New England Town Books & Reports
Friday, May 14 @ 1:30pm
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ONLINE EVENT. Genealogist Robert Cameron Weir will examine two important town-level resources: old town books, as maintained by town clerks since colonial times; and town annual reports, published from the mid-19th century to the present. They can provide the breakthrough clues needed to demolish your genealogical brick wall.
Where census and compiled vital records fail us, these resources can save the day.
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Registration required to receive a link to the event. Click on the button below to register and/or for more information.
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New Hampshire Astronomical Society Presents:
Dark Adaptation
Friday, May 14
7:30pm
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ONLINE EVENT. The New Hampshire Astronomical Society will feature a special presentation of "Dark Adaptation" by Stephen Grieco, DMA, Assistant Professor of Music at Cabrini University in Pennsylvania - a 10-movement orchestral suite inspired by Holst's The Planets.
"Dark Adaptation" combines the disciplines of art, astronomy, and music and features original artwork, original music, and a scientific glimpse into the astronomical elements of each movement.
Registration required. Please click on the button at left for more information and/or to register.
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Library Events: May 1 - 7 |
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Get Fit With Your Library
Stability & Stretch
Saturday, May 1
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ONLINE EVENT. DanceFit With Jess is inviting you to get Fit!
Register to receive a link to the video, which you may access any time, all week!
Join Jess for a session of Stability & Stretch! For balance, fall prevention, lower back and core strength.
Registration required to receive a link to a prerecorded video. Click on the button at right for more information and/or to register.
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Geopolitics
Thursday, May 6 @ 1pm
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ONLINE EVENT. The Geopolitics Class focuses on current world geopolitical events using information from multiple U.S. and world internet sources. Join us for some learning and informative discussions!
Registration required. Click on the button below for more information and/or to register.
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Evening Book Discussion
Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir, by Natasha Trethewey
Thursday, May 6 @ 7pm
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ONLINE EVENT. Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Natasha Trethewey explores this profound experience of pain, loss, and grief as an entry point into understanding the tragic course of her mother’s life and the way her own life has been shaped by a legacy of fierce love and resilience.
Moving through her mother’s history in the deeply segregated South and through her own girlhood in Mississippi, Trethewey plumbs her sense of dislocation and displacement in the lead-up to the harrowing crime that took place on Memorial Drive in Atlanta in 1985.
Click on the book cover image for the Goodreads description.
Books are available at the Circulation Desk.
Registration required. Click the button below for more information or to register.
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First Friday Tech Chat
Internet of Things
Friday, May 7 @ 11am
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ONLINE EVENT. What is the "Internet of Things (IoT)"?
Find out what it is, how it works, and how this giant network is used to connect people and things - and how it collects and shares its data to improve its services.
Registration required to receive a link to the event. Please register by clicking on the button below.
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First Friday Online Games
Bingo!
Friday, May 7 @ 6:30pm
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ONLINE EVENT. Play Bingo to win candy, books, and more!
Click here to download and print your Bingo card, or print Bingo cards from any online Bingo card generator.
If you don't have a printer, you can pick up Bingo cards at the Reference Desk.
Registration required to receive a link to the event. Please register by clicking on the button at right.
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Click on the button at right for a listing of all Children's Events! |
ONLINE EVENTS. Need something for kids to do while at home? Click the button to view all our virtual kids' events! These include:
- Storytimes!
- Snack Attack!
- Book Clubs!
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- Pokemon Club!
- Writing workshops!
...and so much more!
Registration required. Click on the button below for more information and/or to register.
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