VENTRESS MEMORIAL LIBRARY
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Ventress Voice
December 2018, Volume 1, Issue 2
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The Library will be making some major changes in the New Year! You may have noticed the activity in the Non-fiction area of the library. The Non-fiction collection is moving out from under the lower ceilings and will be housed in the current location of the Biography & Large Print books. The Biography & Large Print books will be moving to the area that currently houses the Young Adult collection. Yikes! Why is the Library making all these changes? We thought you might ask that question.
The answer is to create a space for the new Young Adult Room and Innovation Center. As you may know, the Library received a $15,000 LSTA Tweens and Teen grant from the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners. One of the grant’s requirements is to have a designated teen space complete with partitions and teen-selected furniture. Due to the extremely high ceilings in the main library, the only place we could create this space was in a location with lower ceilings. Therefore, after much consideration and hours of measuring, we decided to move the collection as mentioned above.
This project is expected to take place during the months of January/February so stay tuned for more details to come!
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VML Cultural Series Lecture
Join us for a book discussion on
Christmas Traditions in Boston
with Author Anthony Sammarco on Monday, Deccember 17, 2018, 7 - 8:30 p.m., Library Plaza Program Room - Free, no tickets. Learn more about The Enchanted Village at Jordan Marsh, hand bell ringing on Beacon Hill, and caroling on the Boston Common. Come revisit the shared holiday traditions near and dear to the hearts of Bostonians.
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e hope that you’ll visit us soon for a fun-filled storytime, Lego Club, or tween event! On a tight schedule? Come borrow one of our books, audiobooks, or movies, or enjoy our train table, Lego table, and large collection of puzzles!
Looking for some fun way to get out of the house during the upcoming winter break? Join us for a Winter Drop-In Craft (Dec. 26th from 11:00 am- 12:00 pm), a family movie screening of Disney’s Frozen (Dec. 27th at 2 pm), and a Noon Year’s Eve Celebration for those too small to stay up until midnight (Dec. 31st at 11:30 am). Are you struggling to find a good children’s book for you or your child to read for the break, or to give as a gift? Our children’s room staff would be happy to give recommendations!
Reminder: we will not have our regularly scheduled storytimes during the weeks of Dec. 24th or Dec. 31st. Our January storytime schedule will resume in full beginning on Wednesday, January 2nd.
Click here for link to December calendar!
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Winter Pop Up
Flower Garden
We are creating a Winter Pop Up Flower Garden at the Library, a project begun by a group of teens at the December Young Adult Early Release event. Want to join in and recreate a native Marshfield flower? You can create any one of the flowers pouring out of this basket every Sunday that the library is open in December from 1 - 5 p.m.. This project is for all ages, drop-in; no registration required. Each flower will be added to an outdoor display that we'll unveil in January to brighten up the library this winter.
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Managing Your OCLN Account
Did you know that there are features that you can use to manage your library account? You can be in the "driver’s seat" when it comes to knowing what you have out, what you’ve read in the past or what you want to read in the future. Want to check on what you have out or when it’s due? Renew it before it becomes overdue?
"My Account” in the top right corner. After you enter your library card number and pin, you can instantly check over your own account. You can also reserve a title you want to read on this website.
Have you ever read a book and then forgotten what the title was? The Ventress Memorial Library protects your privacy so we do not track what you’ve read. However, YOU have the option to do so by turning on your
“Record my checkout history” and
“Show my checkout history “.
As always, the entire library staff are here to answer any questions you may have - so please do not hesitate to ask.
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Ventress Memorial Library
Holiday Hours:
Closed: Sun., 12/23 - Tues., 12/25
Early Closing at 4:00 p.m.: 12/31
Closed: Tues., 1/1
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Library Hours:
Mon. - Thurs., 9:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m.; Fri. and Sat., 9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m., Sun. (December - April),
1:00 - 5:00 p.m.
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