Don't Come to the Library Tomorrow!

We will be closed on November 11 for Veterans Day. We will be open normal hours on Saturday the 13th.
That's a Wrap for Fall Storytime

Miss Debbie just finished up the last Fall Storytime, and I can speak for everyone here at the Library when I say it has been lovely having the kids back in the Library. The Winter Storytime schedule will start up on January 3, and I hope that by then we will be able to significantly increase the cap on group size.
Laptops in the Library

Soon, our public access computer terminals are going to disappear. They've been working hard for the last 6+ years, and we have kept them limping along for as long as we can. Rather than replace them with new workstations, we have ordered a collection of laptops that will circulate over the desk for use anywhere in the Library. These will run Windows 10 instead of Ubuntu and get reset every time they power off. We hope that the flexibility of laptops combined with the more familiar operating system will be a positive change for our patrons.
December Book Clubs!

Kids Book Clubs:

December 9 @ 4:00pm: The Book Wizards are discussing Santiago’s Road Home by Alexandra Diaz.

December 14 @ 4:00pm: The Young Readers are discussing Nora’s Ark by Natalie Kinsey-Warnock.

December 27 @ 4:00pm: The Book Bunch is discussing I Survived the Children’s Blizzard, 1888 by Lauren Tarshis.

Adult Book Clubs:

December 2 @ 6:30pm: The Greatest Book Club Ever is discussing Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty.

December 7 @ 6:30pm: The SciFi Book Club is discussing Hogfather by Terry Pratchett.

December 14 @ 6:30pm: The Intrepid Readers are discussing Woodswoman by Anne LaBastille.
Ceiling Repair

At fall town meeting, funding was approved to repair the Library's ceiling. If you've ever looked up from in front of the circulation desk, you can see a major fault-line where two halves of the 120 year old horsehair plaster have decided to go their separate ways. Throughout the building, the story is much the same. We do not have the precise details yet, but at some point in the next few months the cracking ceilings throughout the main floor are going to get fixed.

We will either have to close to the public while the work is done or section off the building and provide limited services while the contractors work on one area at a time. We will inform you of the details as soon as we know and do our utmost to accommodate everyone's needs as best we can, but expect a service interruption sometime this winter.
Brought to you by the Friends of the Simon Fairfield Public Library.