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The newsletter of the Friends of the Rowley Public Library
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The Rowley Public Library will be closed on February 15 for the President's Day Holiday.
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Save the date - March 4 - for Mobile Mini-Golf at the Library
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The Friends of the Rowley Public Library are excited to kick off the year-long125th anniversary celebration of the Library's founding in 1891 with a Mobile Mini-Golf event on Friday, March 4 (an early release day in the Trition Regional School District). Save the date and watch our web site and facebook pages for more information TBA! The Library will be transformed into a challenging Mini-Golf course - we hope you will join us for a fun day of Mini-Golf in the library!
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Genealogy club to meet February 8 at 6 pm
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Interested in researching your family history? Start with yourself! Feel free to join us from 6-8 PM on February 8 in the Local History Room for Genealogy Club, where like-minded researchers can make use of the Library's resources, share ideas, and make progress on family stories. No experience necessary. No expert on hand, but those who have been working on this for a while will help you get started.
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A Genealogist's Family Tree
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Currently showing in the Display Case: A Peabody traces her family back through four generations of paternal and maternal ancestors, with historical records, photos, and memorabilia.
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Friends of the Rowley Library to meet February 10
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The Friends attract a committed and active group of library volunteers who are dedicated to giving back to the community. Won't you consider joining, and getting more involved in your library? The meeting will be held in the Local History Room at 7:00 p.m on Wednesday, February 10. Email any questions to [email protected].
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Adult yoga classes continue Wednesday evenings 5:30-7 pm
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Guest teacher Elissa Shoreman is back for two weeks!
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Elissa Shoreman is the owner and founder of Buddhaful Souls Yoga Studio in Rowley. She will facilitate the class on February 3 and 10, and Maura Mastrogiovanni will return on February 17. As always, students of all fitness levels are welcome to join the class at any time. No pre-registration is required. Classes are $12 each or $10 for members of the Friends of the Rowley Public Library. All proceeds benefit the Friends.
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Author Dana Owen at the Rowley Library
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Saturday, February 27, 1PM
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Dana Owen, a former Police Officer in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, wrote a true-crime book telling his own story of how he pursued a hijacked United States Postal truck, with a hostage inside. During the chase, he was shot in the head twice, but lived to investigate his own shooting and write Shotgunned. Join us on Saturday, February 27 at 1 p.m. as he tells of his recovery and his years of pursuing justice.
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Rowley Book Club to meet Thursday, March 3 at 6:30 p.m.
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The Rowley Book Club is currently reading Elephant Company by Vicki Croke. Billy Williams moved to Burma after WWI to work for a British teak company. As he became skilled working with the elephants that did the heavy lifting in the jungles, he became a champion of more humane treatment of these magnificent animals. But when WWII began, Williams and his elephants worked behind enemy lines to help defeat the Japanese, culminating in a daring escape over the mountains and earning him top military honors. Whether you like biographies, war epics, or animal adventures, this book has it all. Click here to reserve your copy, or pick one up at the library, so pick one up today, then join us for a discussion on Thursday, March 3 at 6:30 p.m. April's title will be Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
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Photography display in February at Rowley Public Library
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Our featured artists this month are the students at Parker River Preschool. The photos on display are of children and the wonders they find on their forest walks. Many of the photos were taken by the kids themselves, and some include stories written by the children based on what they discovered. Students range from two to six years old.
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Commonwealth Catalog is now live!
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Statewide Library Resources now available
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If you can't find what you need in the Merrimack Valley Library Consortium, try searching the Commonwealth Catalog. It allows you to search nine Massachusetts Library Networks and two Academic Library Catalogs at one time, with more members scheduled to come online soon. The Commonweath Catolog replaces the previous Virtul Catalog to link Massachusetts library resources.
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Rowley Reads 2016 title is The Time Machine by HG Wells
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As the Rowley Public Library celebrates the quasquicentennial (125th) anniversary of its founding in 1891, we'll be looking both forwards and backwards in time. Wells' classic, (he coined the term "time-travel!") first published in 1895, will be our Rowley Reads selection. It is available as a free audiobook or ebook download from Project Gutenberg. If you'd like to help the Rowley Reads team start planning for this exciting project call Library Director Pam Jacobson at 978-948-2850 or email [email protected].
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Weekly notifications of new Library materials now available
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The Rowley Public Library buys many thousands of new books, movies, and CDs each year. We are now offering weekly email alerts showing you the newest books, DVDs, CDs, and audio books that we purchase each week. We hope you'll enjoy hearing about the many exciting bestsellers, movies, music, and recorded books almost the very moment they arrive at the library. Whenever you spot something of interest, you'll be able to click instantly, reserve it, and check it out at your convenience. And of course, like everything else in the library, this service is free, with sponsorship from the Friends of the Rowley Public Library.
To get started and see what the emails look like, just visit www.wowbrary.org. You can quit the weekly emails any time you wish.
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Free music downloads & streaming with Freegal
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5 downloads per week ; three hours of streaming per day
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Freegal® Music is a free music service from your library. All you need is your library card number. Freegal offers access to about 8 million songs, including Sony Music's catalog of legendary artists. In total the collection is comprised of music from over 28,000+ labels with music that originates in over 80 countries. There is no software to download, and there are no digital rights management (DRM) restrictions. Access to Freegal is limited to patrons of subscribing libraries. Rowley patrons may download 5 songs per week (to keep!) and stream 3 hours per day. Visit
www.rowleylibrary.org to get started.
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Reserve a museum pass for discounted admission
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Make your reservation now for school vacation week!
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Commonwealth eBook Collections available
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The Rowley Public Library is participating in the Commonwealth eBook Collections. Click here to get started, or call 978-948-2850 for more information. This is a new statewide program in addition to our OverDrive ebook subscription through the Merrimack Valley Library Consortium. There are currently over 177,000 titles in the collections.
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From the Children's Room:
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Mondays:
4:00 - 5:00 PM Drop in Lego Club for all ages
Ongoing Story Times on Tuesdays and Wednesdays
Story Times and activities are most appropriate for children birth to age 7 except otherwise indicated. Caregivers must be in the program room or close by during the story time.
Tuesdays:
Stories and Songs (ages 18 mos. - 3yrs.) 10:30 -11:00 AM
Wednesdays:
Babies and Toddlers (ages 0 - 3 yrs.) 10:30 - 11:00 AM
Family Story Time with craft (Preschool ages) 12:00 - 12:45 PM
Yoga for kids (all ages) 1:00 - 1:30 PM
Regular story times will not meet the week of February 15 - Drop in crafts will be available
Monthly Cooking Club on Tuesdays: 4:00 to 5:30 PM for boys and girls in grades 3 and up.
Group 1 will meet on 2/16 and Group 2 will meet on 2/23
Thursdays:
4:00 - 5:00 PM Afterschool Club for elementary ages. Weekly activities will vary and include stories, arts & crafts, and board games. Other ideas are welcome.
Check us out at our website or Facebook for updates and special programs or call the library.
Questions on any programs, please call the library, 978-948-2850
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Check out one of our exciting discovery kits to complete at home as a family or to dig deeper into a topic or to explore a new topic. We have 22 kits covering a range of topics. Check the online catalog for details, give us a call at the library or pick up a brochure in the Children's Room the next time you visit the library. Ongoing in-depth learning all year long!
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Learn a new language with Mango Languages
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 The Rowley Public Library is excited to announce the launch of Mango Languages.
Learning a new language with Mango Languages is free for all library patrons, and offers a fast and convenient solution for our community's increasing language-learning needs. Each lesson combines real life situations and audio from native speakers with simple, clear instructions.
There are more than 40 foreign language courses available and 16 English as a Second Language (ESL) courses.Visit
rowleylibrary.org to get started.
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