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Friends of the Radnor Memorial Library to Resume Collecting Book Donations
The Friends of the Radnor Memorial Library will resume collecting book donations on the first Thursday of each month from 11am to 1pm at the Radnor Library Storage Facility located adjacent to the Wayne Post Office. We are pleased to accept donations of books in good condition. At this time space does not allow for the acceptance of other types of materials. The first collection day will be on Thursday, March 2.
For additional information, please visit www.radnorlibrary.org/friends
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Radnor Library and Radnor Township School District Host Lecture and Discussion on Youth Sports with Local Author Rick Eckstein
The Radnor Memorial Library and Radnor Township School District are proud to present Playing Youth Sports for Fun, Not College, a lecture and discussion with local author Rick Eckstein. The program will be held on Tuesday, March 21, 2017, at 7pm, in the Radnor Middle School Auditorium.
Families are pouring countless dollars into youth sports under the exaggerated belief that it will pay off with significant college scholarships or admissions advantages into elite universities. In his new book, How College Athletics Are Hurting Girls’ Sports: The Pay-to-Play Pipeline, Villanova sociology professor and long-time Radnor youth sports coach Rick Eckstein excoriates this expensive and misleading pay-to-play youth sports system.
Eckstein’s lecture will focus on ways that families and schools can make youth sports more about fun, friendship, and fitness.
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Featured Program
Radnor Library presents the Eighteenth Annual Chanticleer Lecture
Radnor Memorial Library is proud to announce its 18th Annual Chanticleer Lecture, Aaron Bertelsen presents The Great Dixter Cookbook: Recipes from an English Garden on Monday, March 27 at 7:00 PM at Wayne Art Center. Originally from New Zealand and trained at Kew Gardens, Mr. Bertelsen joined Great Dixter in 1996 as a student and has worked there as a vegetable gardener and cook since 2007. This spring, his garden-to-table recipes will be published in The Great Dixter Cookbook.
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Featured Resource
Get rid of magazine clutter with Zinio
Have you tried Zinio yet? Zinio, the world’s largest newsstand, offers full color interactive digital magazines. Browse the Delaware County Library System collection for access to popular titles with no holds, no checkout periods, and no limit to the number of magazines you can download.
Over 200 titles are available including
Apple Magazine
,
The Atlantic
,
Better Homes and Gardens, Parenting,
and
Popular Mechanics.
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Storytime will be on break from March 10 to March 27. Storytimes will resume on Tuesday, March 28.
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Spring Storytimes
March 28 to May 25
Mother Goose on the Loose
Thursdays at 10:00 AM
RML REcollection
Storytime for birth to age 2
Preschool Storytime
Tuesdays at 10:00 AM
RML REcollection
Storytime for ages 3 to 5
First Wednesdays: STEM Storytime
at Main Point Books
Wednesday, March 1 at 10:30 AM
Kids ages 2 to 5 will enjoy stories and songs followed by open play with STEM toys and games. No registration required.
Play K Storytime
Thursday, March 16 at 6:00 PM
RML REcollection
Play K is a new storytime and play experience for ages 3 to 5 and their families, with emphasis on Kindergarten readiness skills. No registration required.
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Tail Waggin' Tutors
Monday, March 13 at 6:00 PM
RML REcollection
Practice reading to therapy dogs Daphne and Lanky. For grades K and up. Register here.
S.M.Art Kids: STEM Lab
Wednesday, March 29 at 4:00 PM
Radnor United Methodist Church
Part of a monthly series of wild and crazy science experiments for kids in grades 1 to 4. Register here.
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Hamil-Teen Book Club: The World Turned Upside-Down Book Discussion and Cooking Class
Friday, March 3 at 6:00 PM: Book Discussion
Monday, March 13 at 6:00 PM: Cooking Class
Join us to discuss books on the immigrant experience featuring a guest speaker and international candy guessing contest on Friday, March 3 from 6:00 to 7:00PM. The first ten participants will receive a copy of the book, American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang. Participants will then be invited to attend a cooking class at Wayne Arts Center on March 13, 6:00-7:00PM. Teen Reading Lounge is a program of the Pennsylvania Humanities Council and supported in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Learn more about PHC and the program at www.pahumanities.org. Please register here.
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Yoga for All Ages
Monday, March 13 at 7:00 PM
Wayne Art Center
pAge Turners Book Club
Wednesday, March 15 at 10:30 AM
Wayne Senior Center
J
oin in a lively discussion on the month's selection. March's selection is The Tiger's Wife by Tea Obreht
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Jackson Hole Wild On Tour: Conservation Film Series
Wednesday, March 15 at 7:00 PM
Radnor Township Building
Join RML, Radnor Conservancy, Radnor Bird Town, and the Radnor Township's EAC as they screen
David Attenborough's Life on Earth,
an entry at the 2015 Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival.
Radnor Library Cookbook Club
Monday, March 20 at 6:30 PM
Wayne Senior Center
Select and prepare a recipe from Italian Moms by
Elisa Costantini and bring it to the Wayne Senior Center where we will eat and share our thoughts over a delicious meal. Stop by the front desk of the
RML REcollection to register and select your recipe.
The Inklings: A Group for Writers
Tuesday, March 21 at 7:00 PM
2nd Floor of the Gryphon
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Meet the Staff
Sara Owens, Business Manager
What is your role at RML?
For the last 15 years my title has been Business Manager but my real role is doing everything that nobody else does. I do payroll, bookkeeping, financial reporting, manage the meeting rooms, substitute at the circulation desk, make sure we stock everybody's favorite coffee flavors, decide whether it really is too hot or too cold, investigate funny smells....
What is your favorite thing about working at RML?
Despite my occasional complaints, I really do enjoy the variety. Also, Radnor has the best staff and patrons!
What is something you do as a librarian that people would be surprised to learn?
At the old library I dealt with everything that was broken or malfunctioning. The library looked nice so I don't think most people were aware that the HVAC system and much of the equipment was literally falling apart.
What are you most excited about in the library renovation?
A brand-new building where everything works!
What's on your bucket list?
Right now it's to make it to Berlin later this month without my flight being cancelled by a Philadelphia snowstorm. I've been there before but the last time was in 1974. Can't wait to see the many changes since east and west have been reunited.
What was your favorite subject in school?
History, and it still is! I'd much rather visit a medieval city than hike in a national park.
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