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Hello Middleborough!
The summer months for most libraries is a busy time, and the Middleborough Public Library is certainly buzzing with activity! As our annual Summer Reading program begins, we hope that you will join us in signing up, attending some great programs, doing a few challenges, and winning yourself a prize or two.
We've got fun concerts for the younger set, metalsmithing and 3D printing for teens, even a day for making some unique custom bookmarks during the Make Your Mark Bookmark sale and crafting event on 7/22 from 10am-2pm. Programs and activities galore, all in the name of reading, which, let's be honest, you know you were going to do anyway. So let's have some fun in the sun, and get to reading!
See you at the Library!
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Summer Reading Programs for All Ages Continue through August 31
Our annual Summer Reading Programs for kids, teens and adults kicked off in June and run through Thur., Aug. 31.
Go to www.midlib.org to register and log your reading and challenge activities. Great prizes for all ages!
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Children's Summer Reading Program in Full Swing
There's still plenty of time to sign up and start logging your child's reading time so they can earn many great prizes like free meals, books, and Lego sets. Visit midlib.org
an
d choose Children's log, then follow the instructions to sign up.
Check out these upcoming events:
- Songshine Music for kids 2-5 years of age on Thurs., July 13; one session at 10:15 a.m., and another at 11:00 a.m. Miss Lisa brings her World Music program to the Library with songs, movements, and instruments. Space is limited. Stop by or call the library at 508-946-2470 to register.
- Help us create a Kindness Rock Garden on Mon., July 17 at 11:00 a.m. All ages are welcome to help design a rock with inspirational words or pictures to be put in the Library courtyard.
- 3D printers visit the library on Tues., July 18, from 10:00 a.m.-noon. Kids ages 8-12 are encouraged to sign up and learn more about this new technology. Space is limited. Registration required.
- Mon., July 24 at 1:00 p.m., Sciencetellers return to the Library for their Pirates program! Their interactive shows are popular with kids and adults. Full of science experiments, this program will help a crew of quirky pirates build a pirate ship. Space is limited. Pick up your free ticket for everyone attending beginning Sat., July 22.
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Crafting Workshops for Teens
Have you ever crafted with metal or used a 3D printer? Join us at the Library for a chance to make your own creations and to learn more about the techniques of metalsmithing and the technology behind 3D printing machines.
Metalsmithing: Making Copper Bookmarks
Thursday, July 13 - 2:00-3:30 p.m.
Create your own customized copper bookmark!
Learn how to use shape and letter stamps
to create textures and words on copper bookmarks. Stamp your name or favorite quote and use a sulphur dip to make your design really pop!
For youth in grades 6-12.
3D Printing Workshop
Tuesday, July 18 - 12:30-2:30 p.m.
Ever wondered about 3D printers and Robotics? Teens 13-18 years of age can sign up for a workshop to learn about this new technology and create something that will be printed using these machines. Father and son team Arthur and Peter Evans will teach us about this super cool tech!
For teens ages 13-18.
Space is limited for these free programs. Register by
calling the library at 508-946-2470 or e
mailing the Teen Services Librarian Christine Dargelis at cdargeli@sailsinc.org.
These programs are made possible by the support of the Friends of the Middleborough Public Library.
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We hope you're working hard to log and record your library and volunteering challenges, since we've got great prizes to award at the program's end.
Look for the glass display case in the Library to check out our prizes. We've got gift certificates from these generous local eating establishments: Boston Tavern, the Cabin, Charred Oak Tavern, Coffee Milano, the Main Ingredient, and Persy's Place.
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Make Your Mark Bookmark Sale and Crafting Event
Stop by the Library on Sat., July 22, 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., for a Friends of the Middleborough Public Library fundraising event.
Hundreds of laminated bookmarks will be for sale, and you'll also be able to purchase supplies to make your own creation(s), laminated on site. There will be individual stickers and full sticker sheets and patterned papers for sale to make bookmarks for gifts or to keep for yourself.
There will be prize raffles including Peaceful Meadows Gift Coupons
and more, as well as a Ticket Trade bowl. You can buy a ticket to instantly win a bookmark, supplies, extra tickets, or a choice from the Prize Bowl.
Bookmarks and supplies donated by Bookmarks by Randi.
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This Month's Marvelous Museum Pass
Zoo New England
operates both the Franklin Park Zoo in Boston and the Stone Zoo in Stoneham.
Franklin Park Zoo -- A 72-acre site nestled in Boston's historic Franklin Park, FPZ was founded in 1912 and has long been considered the "crown jewel" of Frederick Law Olmsted's Emerald Necklace Park System.
The Stone Zoo, formerly known as the Middlesex Fells Zoo, and founded in 1905, is located on a 26-acre site near the sparkling Spot Pond reservoir in Stoneham.
Each pass may be used at either zoo, and admits six
people at $9 per adult and $6 per child.
Please remember you may pick up your pass any time during the three days before your visit. This pass is disposable and doesn't need to be returned to the Library.
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Did You Know?...
The Library offers the Middleborough High School yearbook collection in digital format on our website?
Now you can look through the digitized versions of every MHS yearbook from 1929 to 2015. Whether you knew it as Timaron, the Centennial, the Orange and Black, the Orange Peal, or the Memorialite, you can find it online on our homepage. Go to
www.midlib.org
and click on the photograph of the Timaron cover.
Every page from each yearbook can be viewed, enlarged and searched. Searchable terms are highlighted for easy finding on the page. In addition, the visually-impaired can click on an audio button to have any text read out loud.
The digitization of the MHS yearbooks was made possible by the Middleborough Public Library, the Boston Public Library and Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners.
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It's Our Birthday. Celebrate The Fourth with some Fun Facts.
1. Thomas Jefferson changed the wording of the Declaration of Independence from "the pursuit of property" to "the pursuit of happiness."
2. John Adams and Thomas Jefferson both died on July 4, 1826, in what may be the most extraordinary coincidence in all of history.
3. The Liberty Bell had nothing to do with July 4th. It wasn't called the "Liberty Bell" until the 1830s and that's also when it got its famous crack.
Courtesy of CBS This Morning.
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Middleborough Public Library
102 North Main St., Middleborough, MA 02346
508-946-2470
www.midlib.org
Monday--Thursday: 10:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Saturday: 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Closed on
Fridays and Sundays (through September 9)
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