Goffstown Public Library's
MONTHLY NEWSLETTER
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Library Hours: Monday, Thursday, Friday 9am - 5pm
Tuesday, Wednesday 9am - 8pm
Saturday 9am - 2pm
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If you’re reading this, you probably already have a Goffstown Public Library card, and now during September, we’re asking that you share how fabulous a library card is with your family & friends to get them signed up for one of their own.
September is Library Card Sign-up Month! Goffstown Public Library cards are available FREE to Goffstown residents, non-residents employed in Goffstown, & non-resident students of Goffstown schools. See the Library Card Requirements chart.
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For students, a library card can be one of their most valuable resources for the upcoming year, and every year after. Having a library card allows users to access the more than 2 million items in our state’s libraries’ collections. If our library does not own a particular item, it can be requested from another library in our consortium of 12 libraries or anywhere in the state.
Keep reading to find out how great it is to have a library card!
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September is here and we've wrapped up the Summer Experience. Congratulations to the raffle prize winners and to everyone who read books and participated this summer.
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Listening Session
The recording of the August 13 Listening Session event is now available to watch. This event was hosted by the Library Board of Trustees, and presented by Jason LaCombe from SMP Architecture. Attendees heard about the planning process for a library addition, viewed the plans, and had an opportunity to ask questions and provide feedback.
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September Calendar Highlights |
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CLOSED for Labor Day
Saturday, September 3 thru Monday, September 5
Open Saturdays 9am-2pm
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I Never Finish Anyth—
A Crafting Catch-Up Night
Tuesday, September 13 at 6:30pm
It’s back! The Goffstown Public Library’s quarterly gathering devoted both to brushing the dust off abandoned handicrafts and to the ancient communal pastime of reading aloud. Crafters will resurrect defunct projects while readers will provide live audio.
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Constitution Day and Citizenship Day is September 17. Visit the Library to pick up a copy of the Constitution that you can keep—WHILE SUPPLIES LAST. Read more ...
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A Review of the U.S. Supreme Court with Professor John Greabe
Tuesday, September 20 at 6:30pm
As we celebrate Constitution Week, join us for an up-close look at the U.S. Supreme Court. Professor John Greabe, director of the Warren B. Rudman Center for Justice, Leadership & Public Service and an instructor of constitutional law at the UNH Franklin Pierce School of Law, will discuss the decisions handed down in the Court’s historic last term, as well as the cases to appear on its upcoming docket.
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Pokémon Passion Club
Wednesday, September 21 at 3:30pm
Kids in grades 1-5 can drop in to talk, trade, and play with the other Poke-fans! No registration required.
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Coming in October... Story Time!
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Borrow • Read • Repeat |
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This Month's Book Groups - Join Us!
Pick up your copies at the Circulation Desk today.
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Tuesday, 9/6 at 6:30pm: Evening Book Group The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee by David Treuer
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Wednesday,9/21 at 1:30pm: Afternoon Book Group 100 Things We’ve Lost to the Internet by Pamela Paul
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hoopla Book Club
Through September 30
"Kravetz, a magnetizing storyteller with a satiric wit, has crafted an incisive, suspenseful, and head-spinning tale of the perils of artistic obsession, coveted objects, ferocious ambition, and tragic betrayal."
The Last Confessions of Sylvia P. by Lee Kravetz is available instantly, in e-book and e-audiobook formats in the hoopla app. There are unlimited digital copies - no holds, no waiting!
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hoopla Graphic Novel Book Club
Through October 31
"One of the most original, innovative, well-executed comic books anywhere to be found." - Stan Lee
Usagi Yojimbo Book 1: The Ronin, written and illustrated by Stan Sakai, is available instantly, in e-book format in your hoopla app at www.hoopladigital.com. There are unlimited digital copies - no holds, no waiting!
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Kids' Graphic Novel Book Club
Tuesday, September 27 at 3:30pm
This month, kids in grades 2-4 will be reading Chunky by Yehudi Mercado. Come ready to talk about what you loved and what you didn't, and to learn more about reading and making comics!
Pick up your copy of the book at the Circulation desk.
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Librarian's Pick of the Week
Watch the Latest Episodes
What will you read next? Discover your next great read with suggestions from Goffstown Public Library Staff, also airing on GTV Community Channel 16. A special thanks to GTV for producing these videos! Subscribe on YouTube and don't miss a thing!
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Banned Books Week
September 18-24
Books Unite Us. Censorship Divides Us.
Books encourage boundless exploration and allow readers to spread their wings. Stories give flight to new ideas and perspectives. Reading—especially books that set us free—expands our worldview. Censorship, on the other hand, locks away our freedom and divides us from humanity in our own cages.
The books featured during Banned Books Week have all been targeted for removal or restriction in libraries and schools. The ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom tracked 729 challenges to library, school, and university materials and services in 2021. By focusing on efforts across the country to remove or restrict access to books, Banned Books Week draws national attention to the harms of censorship.
Celebrate the right to read. The Goffstown Public Library supports your Constitutional right to access the information you want and hopes you will exercise that right by reading a challenged book. Visit the Library to interact with this week's banned book displays, and check out a book.
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From the Director:
As we look ahead to 2023 and a request for money to build an addition to the GPL, there is the potential for federal money for library construction. Money of this kind has not been available for decades, and the opportunity is finally here to possibly reduce community funding. Please consider supporting the Build America’s Library Act by reaching out to the NH delegation, below. Thank you for supporting libraries.
Dianne Hathaway
#BUILDLIBRARIES
ALA Public Policy & Advocacy Team
We've recently achieved an uphill policy victory thanks to the long-term work of advocates like you. The Senate Appropriations Committee's proposed budget for fiscal year 2023 includes the first dedicated federal funding for library facilities in 26 years!
For more than two years, ALA advocates across the country have urged Congress to #BuildLibraries. Your work made sure Senators received this message - the Senate's fiscal year 2023 budget proposal includes $20 million to modernize libraries nationwide. This victory shows the power of longer-term policy engagement - but the fight isn't over.
While the Senate Appropriations bill includes this crucial funding, the House has not signed on. Congress may act on these bills as early as September. We need to do all we can now to ensure that the House bill includes this much-needed funding.
Will you reach out to your representatives today and urge them to support this historic library facilities funding?
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Now Accepting Book Donations |
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The Friends of the Library need your book donations for the October 15 Book Sale. All categories of books are desired: history, cooking, gardening, fiction, non-fiction, science, nature, travel, children, YA, sports, politics, biography, self-help, religion/spiritual, and crafts; DVDs & CDs, too.
Please deliver books, in bags or boxes, inside the Goffstown Public Library during business hours. *** Please remember, we CANNOT accept textbooks or damaged books, VHS cassettes, Reader's Digest condensed books, encyclopedias or magazines, or titles that are dusty or moldy. ***
Your donations help the Friends of the Goffstown Public Library fully fund the Museum Pass Program. Thank You!
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Building Addition Information |
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Building Addition
The Goffstown Public Library belongs to the community and that has been our focus for over 100 years.
The Library Board of Trustees has been working diligently behind the scenes to prepare for an addition to our historic building. The bond vote for the money to break ground and start construction has not been requested of the voters as of March 2022.
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Let MTA pick you up!
Call 603-623-8801 (option "2") for free transportation options.
Manchester Transit Authority provides on-demand service now available Monday through Friday, 9am to 2pm. Make a reservation directly with Manchester Transit Authority as early as 1 week prior, and at least 24 hours in advance.
Rides to medical appointments, riders with disabilities, and those age 62+ receive priority booking. Service will be provided on a first come first serve basis and will be available "curb to curb" from any location in the Town of Goffstown to any other location in the Town of Goffstown or any medical facility in the City of Manchester or Town of Bedford. All buses are ADA accessible.
For more information contact Planning and Economic Development Director Jo Ann Duffy at 603-497-8990 x118 or JoAnn.Duffy@goffstownnh.gov
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