Congratulations to KML!!!!
We are winners of the prestigious Litchfield Magazine’s
2023 Reader's Choice Contest!!!!!
Thank you for @litchfieldmagazine readers who voted for us! Here’s to reading, learning, and imagining even more in 2023.
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WELCOME TO THE LIBRARY! January 30-February 4, 2023
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JOIN US FOR OUR WEEKLY CHILDREN'S PROGRAMS:
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Tuesdays and Wednesdays at 10:30 a.m. Rhythm & Rhyme for 0-3s. Tuesdays and Wednesdays in the Junior Room and on Zoom. Links to Tuesday's livestreamed Zoom are available on our website calendar.
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Thursdays at 12:30 p.m. Lunch Bunch! Bring your lunch, listen to stories and enjoy a fun craft. Individual craft kits will be available. All ages. This event will be offered as a hybrid on Zoom or in person in the Junior Room of the Library. Numbers are limited and registration is required. Please register on our events calendar.
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IN FEBRUARY:
Art Exhibit: Local Color by Susan Grisell. Exhibit on display in the Gallery from January 5 - February 28, 2023.
Tuesdays – Rhythm and Rhyme for 0-3s at 10:30 a.m. In-person in the Junior Room and via Zoom.
Wednesdays - Rhythm & Rhyme for 0-3s at 10:30 a.m. In-person in the Junior Room.
Thursdays – Lunch Bunch at 12:30 p.m. In-person in the Junior Room and via Zoom.
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Throughout the Month of February - Write Letters to Your Library Staff for a personal book recommendation! Write us a letter and tell us what you love to read about! We will write you back (via snail mail!), and suggest some books that we think you might enjoy. Please be sure to leave a return address (and then don’t forget to check your mailbox for your return letter!). We can’t wait to hear from you! You can either drop off your letter with us (at the front desk or in the book drop), or send it in the mail (Kent Memorial Library, PO Box 127, Kent, CT 06757). All ages are welcome to participate, just tell us how old you are in your letter!
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THIS WEEK:
Saturday, February 4 at 11:00 a.m. Reading with Wynton and Wylie. Join Lee Sohl and her dogs in the Junior Room for Storytime! Kids of all ages are welcome to participate. Please call or email the Junior Room to register, or register online.
Saturday, February 4 from 12:00 to 2:00 p.m. One-on-One Tech Advice. Need help with your iPad, iPhone, or Mac? Have questions about: iCloud, iTunes, your Apple ID, Siri, Apps – or something else? Let our technology tutor and former Apple store specialist allow you the opportunity to get individualized one-on-one instruction. These practical, hands-on sessions are designed to help you solve problems, learn new techniques, and discover tips and tricks. Bring your iPhone, iPad, MacBook – and your questions! Must register - call 860.927.3761. Only room for 4-5 registrants. 30-minute sessions. APPLE PRODUCTS ONLY.
Saturday, February 4 from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. Take Your Child to Library Day. Join us for our annual celebration! We will have a Library Scavenger Hunt (with prizes, of course!), a “Guess How Many Items are in the Jar” game, and fun activities for the whole family! Children of all ages are welcome to participate. We will be meeting in the Junior Room. Please call or email the Junior Room to register, or register online.
UPCOMING IN FEBRUARY:
Wednesday, February 8 from 3:30 to 5:00 p.m. Chocolate Fest at KCS! Join our Junior Room staff at Chocolate Fest! We will have a Valentine making station and opportunities to learn about and register for programs.
Sunday, February 12 from 3:15 to 5:15 p.m. Family Skating Party at the Kent School. Join KML’s Parent’s Committee for this Junior Room Fundraiser. Food, fun, and skating or all! Helmets are required on the ice. Skates are no longer available to rent in Kent, please make other arrangements. $2/child, $4/adult, $10 maximum per family.
Wednesday, February 15 at 1:15 p.m. Half Day Special, STEAM Activity: Candy Cane Coding. We will be learning about binary code, the base of most standard coding systems used by computers, and making encoded candy canes! Can you write your name in binary code? This program is recommended for school-aged kids. We will be meeting in the Junior Room, please call or email to register, or register online.
Thursday, February 16 at 7:00 p.m. Third Thursdays Young Locals Board Game Night. We are hosting a special series at the Library with games and refreshments for those who are 21-30 years in age! New to the area, or back and looking to meet your peers? Free & Open to the Public. Please register.
Friday, February 17 from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Teen & Tween Movie Night. Join us for movie night! We will be watching Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2019). Grades 5 and up only. We will be meeting in the Junior Room, please call or email to register, or register online.
Monday, February 20 - Library Closed for Presidents' Day.
Wednesday, February 22 at 3:30 p.m. TAB & Book Club. Want to get involved at the Library? Come to our Teen Advisory Board meeting and help us plan upcoming events! For book club, we will be discussing A Galaxy of Sea Stars by Jeanne Zulick Ferruolo. Stop by the Junior Room to pick up a copy of the book. Grades 5 and up are welcome to join. Please call or email the Junior Room to register, or register online.
Saturday, February 25 at 2:00 p.m. In Unison: Creating Harmonious Combinations for Pollinators and You with Tovah Martin. Your garden has so much potential. This lecture explores how to combine the flowers pollinators crave while creating color harmonies to make your heart sing. Join Kent Memorial Library and the Kent Garden Club to hear from Tovah Martin, whose lecture is an idea-filled chronicle of plant communities through the growing season with advice galore. Free & Open to the Public. Please register. Co-sponsored by the Kent Garden Club.
Monday February 27 & March 6 at 6:00 p.m. Mindfulness & Meditation: A Two-part Workshop with Sheila Klapper. We will explore the role of thoughts and the impact of stress in our lives. Then, learn simple techniques that help us have a different, more easeful relationship with those inevitable components of life! There will be a short guided mindful meditation experience and time for questions and comments. We will meet the following week to discuss our experiences and challenges of the practice and continue learning methods of becoming more present as we practice pausing and stepping more fully into all moments of our lives. Free & Open to the Public. Please register.
UPCOMING IN MARCH:
Thursday, March 2 from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. Spring Book Discussion Series: Contemporary Family Chronicles. This Spring we will look at a traditional type of novel, particularly common in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, to see how this kind of tale is being used in contemporary novels. What holds families together, or breaks them apart? This month's book is Marrying the Ketchups by Jennifer Close. The discussion is conducted by Betty Krasne, PhD., writer, professor emerita, and longtime Kent resident. Free and open to the public. On Zoom. To register and reserve books call 860-927-3761 or email.
Saturday, March 4 from 12:00 to 2:00 p.m. One-on-One Tech Advice. Need help with your iPad, iPhone, or Mac? Have questions about: iCloud, iTunes, your Apple ID, Siri, Apps – or something else? Let our technology tutor and former Apple store specialist allow you the opportunity to get individualized one-on-one instruction. These practical, hands-on sessions are designed to help you solve problems, learn new techniques, and discover tips and tricks. Bring your iPhone, iPad, MacBook – and your questions! Must register - call 860.927.3761. Only room for 4-5 registrants. 30-minute sessions. APPLE PRODUCTS ONLY.
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Did you know you can find recordings of
recent adult programs right here?
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Say Goodbye to Overdrive and Hello to Libby
At the end of April 2023 Libby will take over for Overdrive.
Here are some helpful ways to make the transition:
Options for Kindle Fire devices: Amazon has not yet accepted our submission of the Libby app to the Amazon Appstore so the OverDrive app will remain available for Kindle Fire users to download and access until further notice. Users with Kindle Fire devices can also sideload Libby manually following these steps.
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Books Make Great New Year's Gifts!
Did you know? We have three glass cases inside the Library filled with very special books – all for sale? See books signed by Ogden Nash, Alexander Woollcott (member of the Algonquin Round Table and model for Sheridan Whiteside in “The Man Who Came to Dinner”), Erica Jong, Gertrude Lawrence, A.S. Byatt and artist David Armstrong.
Also a pamphlet signed by paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey, and early Seth McFarlane drawings.
There’s a second case full of books by Kent’s Eric Sloane. And in the Reading Room — beautifully-bound books from the Franklin Library and the Easton Press, at only $10 each. All great gifts for the collector!
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Do you need Energy Assistance, Water Assistance and Free Tax Preparation For Kids Programs? Click below. |
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We are happy to offer you a free mobile app to download
for quick and easy access to your library catalog!
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The Acorn Catalog mobile app is streamlined & efficient, making it easy to:
- View & request holds
- View & renew items out
- Review fines
Acorn Catalog also...
- Puts your home library's contact info right in the palm of your hand
- Includes a digital barcode version of your library card
- Is a cool way to look at and create your own personal title lists (e.g. "To Be Read," or "Books I Hated," or "Movies for When My Nieces Visit")
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Get the Mobile Acorn Catalog App for your Apple and/or Android device.
Ask a staff member for details!
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Did you know about these resources? |
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iNDIEFLIX is a streaming movie service that offers access to pop culture favorites, box office hits, award-winning feature films, documentaries, and shorts.
It is accessed through
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The Great Courses offers engaging and understandable lectures by esteemed professors, professionals, and experts in topics ranging from history, better living, science, language learning, and much more. It is accessed through your Libby App.
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you by hoopla and gives you unlimited access to great online content - with a single borrow!
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Ask us for more information or help! It's worth it! |
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ONGOING INFORMATION
More Tech Help Need help with any mobile phone, tablet, or e-reader including Kindle, Nook, Amazon Fire, Samsung, LG, and many other Android devices. Our all-device expert, Bryan, can be reached at justfixittech@gmail.com.
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Make a difference. Be a Friend to the Library.
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Do you have access to Benevity through your employer?
Benevity is a software company that powers corporate giving, volunteering, and grant-making solutions for hundreds of Fortune 1000 companies from around the globe, including Google, Apple, Coca-Cola, and Microsoft (to name a few). Part of Benevity's social mission is to help improve the way global charities access and become eligible for corporate giving programs and to modernize the way organizations process and receive donation funds.
As an employee you can volunteer in what you are passionate about and your company turns your volunteer hours into monetary donations to the Nonprofit of your choice. The Kent Memorial Library is a nonprofit that you can choose to support through Benevity.
Ask your employer about it today!
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Help us celebrate our second century with a gift to our Endowment Fund.
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Kent Memorial Library provides a center for collaborative engagement, education and enrichment for the greater Kent community. The Kent Memorial Library is located at
32 North Main Street, Kent, Connecticut, 860-927-3761.
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