Trouble with the SAILS App?

The SAILS Library app currently is not available, as its ability to connect to our main catalogue servers is broken. Some features may still appear to work, when in fact, they are showing old, outdated information. For example you may see books that you have returned showing up as checked out, or holds showing as "ready for pickup" when you've checked them out already.

Please don't delete the app, because when we get a replacement, your existing app should update automatically or at least manually, if you don't have auto-updates set.

In the meantime, you can still use your library card on the app to check out materials, and use the online catalog (which is viewable on a mobile device) to access accurate, up-to-date information about your account activity.

Thank you for your patience while we find another solution.  

Holiday Folded Book Page Candle Kits Still Available for Adults

Thanks to patrons Ashley Cox and her mother, Elizabeth Evans, for sharing pictures of their finished folded book candles from our take-and-make craft kits. Don't they look beautiful? Additional thanks to them for also donating two of their folded book projects to help decorate the library. Look for them on the main circulation and reference desks.

We have a handful of these kits left and each one includes one book, instructions, and the supplies you'll need to make one candle. (Rest assured, the kit contains a battery-operated tea light not a wax candle and matchbook.)

To reserve yours, please call 508/946-2470 or email through Thurs., Dec. 21. For adults ages 18+.

Library patron Renee Nolan sent us this photo of her completed candle.

You can use any size book to make one of these candles. The longer the book, the plumper the candle. If you'd like to try this at home with your own supplies, here's the link to the YouTube video.

Thanks to the Alison Russell Crochet Channel on YouTube for sharing this idea.

Next Up in Our Virtual Author Talk Series

Our virtual author talk series features bestselling, award-winning authors, covering a range of fiction and nonfiction genres in one-hour-long programs.

Register for upcoming events here and submit your questions for the author, or you can watch here, at any time, any of the previous programs archived up to a year back.

Embrace Love in the New Year: A Heartfelt Conversation with Rebecca Serle, Wed., Jan. 10, 8:00 p.m. (VIRTUAL)

Log on and kick off the New Year talking to Rebecca Serle about her journey writing epic love stories to span generations. Learning the love story formula with Serle, we’ll hear about her New York Times bestselling novels.

Additionally, in a special preview, Serle will briefly discuss her forthcoming novel (due out on March 5, 2024) Expiration Dates. In it, Daphne Bell believes the universe has a plan for her. For 20 years, every time she meets a new man, she receives a slip of paper with his name and a number on it—the exact amount of time they'll be together. Finally, on the night of a blind date at her favorite LA restaurant, there’s a name with no expiration date.

The result is a gripping, emotional, passionate, and heartbreaking novel about what it means to be single, and what it means to find love.

Rebecca Serle is the author of Expiration Dates, One Italian Summer, In Five Years, The Dinner List, and the young adult novels The Edge of Falling and When You Were Mine. Serle also developed the hit TV adaptation "Famous in Love," based on her YA series of the same name. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband. Find out more at RebeccaSerle.com.

Register here.

Family Movie Afternoon: Prancer, A Christmas Tale

All ages are welcome to drop in the Large Meeting room for a showing of "Prancer: A Christmas Tale," at 4:00 p.m. on Tues., Dec. 19.

Participants are welcome to bring their own snacks.  

This program is generously supported by the Friends of the Middleborough Public Library.

Kids and STEM Volcanoes with Self Help Inc.

Meet Ms. Jen and Ms. Gina from Self Help Inc. CFCE for STEM Volcanoes on Wed., Dec. 20 at 10:30 a.m. This program is geared toward kids ages 3.5 to 6 and their families. It's designed as an interactive parent/child program where you'll all learn about chemistry through games and activities.

PLEASE NOTE: This program is offered in multiple towns so please be sure to register for just one of them.

Libby Has All Your Favorite Magazines

If you're using the Libby app and loving all the ebooks and digital audiobooks you can access for free, check out the magazine collection, too.

Libby has all your favorite magazine titles even the ones that no longer publish a paper edition. You can even sign up to have the new issue delivered to your Libby account as soon as it's published.

Who really misses the days of the newstand anyway?

Sharebrary Item of the Week: LED Projector

Sharebrary: Borrow. Try. Experience.

Expecting a houseful for the December holidays? Borrow the LED projector from our Sharebrary collection and entertain them all with a movie night on your basement wall.

It comes with an instruction manual, remote control with batteries, lens cloth, power cord, one 3-in-3 AV cable, one 3-in-1 AV cable, one HDMI cable, and one VGA cable all packed inside an easy-to-get-home hard- shelled carrying case.

The LED projector is one of 40 different items we have in our Sharebrary collection. Check them all out!

Happy Holidays to All!

Our next newsletter will be emailed on Wed., Dec. 27, so we'd like to take this opportunity to wish you all Happy Holidays from the staff of the Middleborough Public Library.

We hope to see you here (or online) soon.