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The Yarmouth Port Library Newsletter
297 Main Street (Route 6A), Yarmouth Port, MA 02675
yarmouthportlibrary.org • PH: 508-362-3717 • Fax: 508-362-6739
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Yarmouth Port Library...Where you find more than just books for readers young and old.
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Hello Summer! And a highlight for YPL during the summer is the Annual Book and Plant Sale. Make sure to stop by on Saturday, June 24th from
9 AM to 1 PM. Bargains galore! And there are lots of activities at the library this summer for the kids - including Fun Fridays and Storytime. Keep reading below for details. Now it is time to visit YPL and select the perfect "Beach Read." Have a great summer!
Lee Peters, Editor
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Annual Book & Plant Sale
Saturday, June 24th from 9 AM to 1 PM
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Annual Book and Plant Sale - a highlight of the summer season!
Books, CDs, & DVDs for adults and children.
Hardcovers, trade books, and paperbacks, including best sellers, classics, oversize, and more!
Perennial plants from our local expert gardeners.
Gardening items too!
ALL SOLD AT BARGAIN PRICES!
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ATTENTION LIBRARY GARDENERS!
Plants — named and labeled sun or shade — are needed for the library plant sale.
Gently used gardening items — tools, planters, decor, etc. may also be donated.
Please deliver plants to the library on June 22nd and 23rd.
Temporary loan of wheelbarrow or garden carts would be helpful.
Please deliver to the library on June 22nd and June 23rd
Call Sally Hockenbury at 508-685-8038 (cell) or 508-362-6045 (landline) if you need help digging up and potting plants.
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Book and Plant Sale Help Needed
Friday, June 23rd afternoon: carry books from cellar and set up book tables.
Saturday, June 24th morning: move books outside and finish setting up.
Saturday, June 24th, 9 AM—1 PM — two shifts for cashiers and general help.
Please sign up at the library starting June 6th.
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The 2023 Hydrangea Festival
The Festival runs from Friday, July 7th through Sunday, July 16th.
Gardens are open 10 AM to 4 PM.
Yarmouth Port Gardens:
Saturday, July 8th and Monday, July 10th.
Stay tuned for details as to which Yarmouth Port gardens will be part of the Festival!
There will also be a raffle for a birdhouse.
Volunteers are needed!
Volunteers are needed for two hour shifts to collect entry fees and sell raffle tickets.
Sign up sheets will be in the library closer to the event.
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Community Preservation Act Grants | |
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The Yarmouth Port Library was thrilled to be the recipient of a $100,000 grant from the Community Preservation Act (CPA). With these funds, the library will have new copper-colored gutters installed on the front of the building, the bricks at the main entrance will be re-pointed, and the old air conditioning units will be replaced with energy efficient heat pumps.
All of this ensures that we will have a well-preserved and well-maintained building so that the Yarmouth Port Library remains available to our patrons for many years to come.
Work on these projects will occur in July (gutters) and September/October (brick repointing and heat pumps). Many thanks to the Yarmouth CPA Committee for approving the library’s application and making this restoration work a reality.
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Administrative Director’s & Children's Librarian Report | |
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by Carrie Bearse, Administrative Director & Children's Librarian
Here it comes! Another summer on Cape Cod. Since I’m not much of a beach goer and live in a tiny house, I often escape having to deal with friends and relatives staying with me during the summer months. Occasionally as they're passing through Barnstable on their way to Chatham or Provincetown, they will ask me out for dinner, which is just fine with me.
Summer on the Cape also means more traffic — traffic inside the library and traffic outside the library. We welcome that traffic and the opportunity to show off our charming little community library. We welcome returning snowbirds, we welcome children and grandkids of patrons, we welcome the family that rents an AirBnB in the neighborhood, and we welcome the occasional traveler who just needs to use the restroom. Everyone is always appreciative and interested in this unique library and we are happy to share its story and history.
With the summer influx of patrons and with our new circulation system still giving us a little bit of trouble, we apologize in advance if things take a little longer at the checkout desk. We were hoping that the system would be more intuitive and efficient in dealing with checkouts and hold requests (on our end and on yours), yet that hasn't proven to be the case. So, we will keep working with it and hoping we all can get the hang of it soon.
Monthly adult community programming is suspended during the summer months, but is replaced by our Annual Book & Plant Sale, and YPL’s participation in the Cape-wide Hydrangea Festival. For children, we have a self-reported summer reading program as well as weekly special Fun Friday activities planned behind the library (weather permitting) in July and August (please check our website for details). Storytime will continue throughout the summer inside in the Thacher Children’s Room on Thursdays at 11 AM. I am so pleased that we have such a wonderful, devoted group of families that participate, and there is always room for more!
And finally, speaking of being busy on a personal level, when I was leaving for work the other day my eyes landed on the stack of library books that I have yet to tackle and most of which have probably reached their maximum number of auto-renewals and beyond. I feel somewhat guilty when people come in and ask if I can suggest a good book or something I recently read and liked.
Let me be completely honest, as Administrative Director and Children's Librarian (with my focus mainly on children's books), I have very little time to read “big kid” books. I love to read, but I also love to play tennis, run, walk my dog George, ride my bike, work in the yard, etc. So, finding the time to read is an issue with me and perhaps with some of you, no matter how much we hope to read as many books as our book whisperer Susan Saposnik or get through that list of suggested titles that I “must read” which patron Elliot Lipstock adds to whenever he visits.
Toward that end, for the summer months of June, July, and August I am declaring Friday afternoons from 2 PM to 3 PM (unfortunately, for a number of reasons it will be from 2 to 2:30 for me!) A Reading Room Respite. Join me in the Simpkins Reading Room to make time to read. Bring a book, read a newspaper, grab a book or magazine off the shelf, but make time to read. Enjoy the coolness on a hot summer day, enjoy the delightful quiet and the silent comradery of fellow readers. Just relax and read. We will put out a light snack for nibbling...come early, come when you can, come read!
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For Kids: Summer Activities
Click here for details
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Fun Friday:
Weekly special Fun Friday activities planned behind the library (weather permitting) in July and August (please check our website for details).
Big Stories:
Second Thursday of month at 4:30 PM. June only.
Registration required.
Storytime:
Thursdays at 11 AM.
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Afternoon Legos:
Thursdays, 3 PM to 5 PM.
(Appropriate for ages 6 and up, only.)
Fun Behind the Library:
Blowing in the wind - bottles of liquid bubbles plus wands available!
Stay a bit to picnic, play or grab a good book inside the library.
Reading Program:
Self-reported summer reading program.
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YPL Book Group
Led by Leslie Altman, the YPL Book Group meets the third Thursday of the month @ 2 PM.
No meeting July or August.
June: Thursday, June 15th at 2 PM.
The Secret River
by Kate Grenville
Click here for Book Group details.
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Neighborhood Book Group
Led by Rick Woods, the group meets the second Thursday of the month
@ 4 PM.
Neighborhood Book Group is not meeting in June, July, and August. When they meet in September they will discuss two books: East of Eden by John Steinbeck and Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver.
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Summer Book Sale Donations | |
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Summer Book Sale Donations
The library is again accepting donations for our summer book sale on Saturday, June 24th.
Book Sale Donations:
Monday afternoons from 1-3 PM through the East side door.
For times other than Mondays from 1-3 PM, please call YPL at 508-362-3717 to make an appointment.
What we accept:
Children’s and adult books in clean salable condition, DVDs, music CDs, and audio books.
Please don’t bring:
Clearly outdated books, such as travel guides, financial advice, diet/medical or technical manuals, damaged, soiled or mildewed items.
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“Under the Spiral Staircase Book Sale Corner ” | |
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Book Sale Corner
For a selection of “almost new” 2018 to 2023 titles: Bestsellers, children’s books, gardening books, cookbooks, and more.
We add new titles weekly with donations from our generous patrons, so check the Book Sale Corner the next time you are at the library.
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Help is here!
Come with your phone or tablet tech questions and our staff will try to assist you and/or steer you in the right direction.
Every 1st and 3rd Thursday of each month from 4 to 5 PM.
Please call us to make an appointment, so we know you are coming.
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Board of Trustees
Officers and Trustees
President: Dinah Wolff
Vice President:
Everett Wilson
Treasurer: Michael Poissant
Ass't Treasurer: Les Peat
Secretary: Susan Bonnell
Karen Alexander
Brian Dudley
Michael Kiehnau
Members of the Corporation
Leslie Altman
Brian Fulton
Donna Fulton
Dorothy Halmstad
Sally Hockenbury
Susan Kiehnau
Ralph Menconi
Carol Oliver
Duncan Oliver
Jean O’Toole
Lee Peters
Elvira Reynolds
Pat Tafra
Melissa Wilson
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Library Staff Administrative Director & Children's Librarian
Carrie Bearse:
cbearse@clamsnet.org
Circulation, Marketing & VolunteerCoordinator
Carol Riley:
criley@clamsnet.org
Circulation Assistant
Susan Saposnik:
ssaposnik@clamsnet.org
Adult Collection Development, Book Group
Leslie Altman: laltman@clamsnet.org
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Did you know?
YPL is a privately funded, public library.
Click here for ways to give.
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