SCPL news & updates
July 2022
Upcoming Events
See what's happening this month.

Click on the Events Calendar to see a detailed listing of programs and events happening at SCPL. Click on the video to view events happening in July.
Mesker Park Zoo & Botanical Garden
Evansville's Mesker Park Zoo has graciously provided SCPL with 4 Zoo Passes! Here are the guidelines for use of the passes:
  • Zoo Pass is valid ONLY for free general admission for up to two adults and four children.
  • Zoo Pass is exclusive for individuals; it cannot be used by businesses, organizations, schools, or daycares.
  • No additional membership benefits will be provided to visitors using the Zoo Pass
  • A photo ID is NOT required to be checked when a visitor presents a Library Zoo Pass.
Zoo Passes will check out for 1 week and are NOT renewable. A $1 per day fine will be assessed for late passes. For more information, please call 812-649-4866.
Summer reading is underway! Enjoy books or audiobooks while on the go. Dowwnload our free e-book and audio app-Libby! Stop by or call the Library and we can help get you started.
Library Pickup Lockers Offer 24/7 Contactless Service
Library patrons who are unable to get to the library during regular business hours can now choose to have their reserved materials placed in a library pickup locker for convenient self-service pickup. Lockers are located at the Rockport-Main Library at the Third Street entrance. Call 812-649-4866 for more information.
Your Opinion Matters!
SCPL is seeking your thoughts about our library system. We have created a quick survey to help us understand what we do well and identify areas we need to improve. Please take a few minutes to respond to the questions. You may scan the QR code or find the link to the survey on our website. We will also offer paper copies of the survey at each of our locations.  The survey is intended for residents of Luce, Ohio or Hammond townships in Spencer County Indiana ages 12 and older. Please complete only one survey. Thank you for sharing your thoughts with us.
Summer Reading 2022!
Oceans of Possibilities
SCPL will be offereing a variety of programming this summer. There's something for everyone! Win one of many "Instant Winner" prizes when checking out Library materials.
Book the Box
Patrons ages 9-12 may book an hour time slot with up to 4 people to play Xbox. Please call 812-649-4866. A variety of games will be offered including, Cuphead, Mine Craft and Lego Marvel.
Enter to Win!
Each month SCPL will feature a new puzzle challenge. For this month's challenge, download or pick up a puzzle sheet at any branch and solve as many of the puzzles as you can. Return your sheet by email or drop it off at any SCPL location. Each person who solves the puzzle correctly will be entered into a drawing for a $10 local gift card.
Download your June puzzle challenge here.
Memorial and Honor Donations
Selections From the New Shelf
Staff & Patron Selections
Child Programs and Events
1000 Books Before Kindergarten
Do you have a baby, toddler or preschooler? If so, join SCPL's 1000 Books Before Kindergarten program to help your child be ready for kindergarten. This program promotes reading to newborns, infants, and toddlers and encourages parent and child bonding through reading. The goal of the program is to establish strong early literacy skills that will allow children to gain the confidence to become strong readers. Contact our Children's Department or Click here for more information.
Adult Programming
In Person Classes!
Rockport Book Club
The Book Club at Rockport meets the first Friday of every month at 1:00 PM. You can join virtually or at the Main Library in Rockport. For more information please contact Erin by calling 812-649-4866.
August 5th at 1:00 PM at Rockport in the Large Meeting Room
Discussing The Girls in the Stilt House by Kelly Mustian

Set in 1920s Mississippi, this debut Southern novel weaves a beautiful and harrowing story of two teenage girls cast in an unlikely partnership through murder—perfect for readers of Where the Crawdads Sing and If the Creek Don't Rise.

Ada promised herself she would never go back to the Trace, to her hard life on the swamp and her harsh father. But now, after running away to Baton Rouge and briefly knowing a different kind of life, she finds herself with nowhere to go but back home. And she knows there will be a price to pay with her father.

Matilda, daughter of a sharecropper, is from the other side of the Trace. Doing what she can to protect her family from the whims and demands of some particularly callous locals is an ongoing struggle. She forms a plan to go north, to pack up the secrets she's holding about her life in the South and hang them on the line for all to see in Ohio.

As the two girls are drawn deeper into a dangerous world of bootleggers and moral corruption, they must come to terms with the complexities of their tenuous bond and a hidden past that links them in ways that could cost them their lives.

-Excerpt from Amazon.
Hatfield Book Club
July 13th at 3:30 PM at Hatfield in the Community Room

Discussing A Dog's Purpose byW. Bruce Cameron

Heartwarming, insightful, and often laugh-out-loud funny, A Dog's Purpose is not only the emotional and hilarious story of a dog's many lives, but also a dog's-eye commentary on human relationships and the unbreakable bonds between man and man's best friend. This moving and beautifully crafted story teaches us that love never dies, that our true friends are always with us, and that every creature on earth is born with a purpose.

-Excerpt from Amazon.
Richland Book Club
July 11th at 1:30 PM at Richland Branch

Discussing The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave

Before Owen Michaels disappears, he smuggles a note to his beloved wife of one year: Protect her. Despite her confusion and fear, Hannah Hall knows exactly to whom the note refers—Owen’s sixteen-year-old daughter, Bailey. Bailey, who lost her mother tragically as a child. Bailey, who wants absolutely nothing to do with her new stepmother.

As Hannah’s increasingly desperate calls to Owen go unanswered, as the FBI arrests Owen’s boss, as a US marshal and federal agents arrive at her Sausalito home unannounced, Hannah quickly realizes her husband isn’t who he said he was. And that Bailey just may hold the key to figuring out Owen’s true identity—and why he really disappeared.

Hannah and Bailey set out to discover the truth. But as they start putting together the pieces of Owen’s past, they soon realize they’re also building a new future—one neither of them could have anticipated.

With its breakneck pacing, dizzying plot twists, and evocative family drama, The Last Thing He Told Me is a riveting mystery, certain to shock you with its final, heartbreaking turn.

-Excerpt from Amazon.
SCPL Virtual Recipe Swap

If you find yourself stressing over what to make for dinner then join SCPL's Virtual Recipe Swap page on Facebook. Click here to request to join. This group allows members to share tips, tricks, and recipes with each other. Join today!