National Library Week has come and gone. The theme this year was You Belong @ Your Library. The emphasis was on all the varied things libraries provide for patrons with a wide range of interests. The week kicked off with a cookie and lemonade reception on Monday, the 9th. Patrons were invited to put their names into a drawing for neat prizes in the children’s, teen, and adult categories. If you were called as a prize winner, be sure to stop by the library and pick up your prize.
The final sessions of spring story time took place on Thursday, the 19th. The next group of story times begins with the start of summer reading the week of May 29. Speaking of summer reading, something new is available this year for attendees of our program. In order to speed up the sign up process, which begins the week of May 21, patrons have two options. They can either stop by the library for the forms necessary to enroll their children in the summer program OR they can go to our website at www.lmlibrary.org, click on Youth Pages, then Kids’ Corner, then Summer Reading and the forms will be available to print out. In fact, it is set up that you can fill them out before printing them out. Then all you need to do is stop by during sign up week with the completed forms and we’ll get your children enrolled. This should make sign up a much more pleasant experience. Should you have any questions, please call the Children’s Desk at 626-0180, ext 4.
Today is Earth Day. Second graders in our district got to start celebrating early with a special program on Monday, April 16, provided through the partnering of Liberal Parks & Rec, Natural Resource Conservation Service, Seward County Conservation District, and Memorial Library. Educator Tarra Tyson and docents Joe and Connie from the Lee Richardson Zoo presented a program about how our conservation practices here impact wildlife in other parts of the world. They brought along boa constrictors, desert tortoises, and chinchillas. The students not only got to see the animals but got to touch them as well.
It’s always impressive how well behaved these second graders are even when they become excited about seeing the animals. The second grade teachers are to be commended for guiding their students in the proper behavior out in public.
In honor of Earth Day, here are a few resources available in the library. Two popular book characters are featured in Earth Day stories. Mercer Mayer’s Little Critter presents It’s Earth Day and the ever-popular Jane O’Connor character Fancy Nancy stars in Every Day is Earth Day. Diane de Groat, who is famous for her ‘catchy’ titles, has penned Ants in Your Pants and Worms in Your Plants, another fiction offering. Wilma Gore and David F. Marx have each written non-fiction books about Earth Day with the title Earth Day. The 333.7 section in the Children’s Library will net a plethora of various titles having to do with the conservation of our many resources. Another non-fiction title is Recycle this book : 100 top children's book authors tell you how to go green edited by Dan Gutman who is also the author of Honus and Me, The Kid Who Ran for President, and the My Weird School series, among others. The book offers simple things that anyone can do. Gutman points out that if enough people do these simple things, it will make an impact. So check out these and other titles and see how you can join others in making that impact. Have a happy Earth Day. See you at Memorial Library!
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