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May 2024 at Shorewood Public Library

Summer Reading 2024 and Storytime Sessions

This year's Summer Reading Challenge sign-up begins Tuesday, May 28th! The summer reading theme this year is "Adventure Begins at Your Library".

Children and Teens can sign-up online at shorewoodlibrary.beanstack.org!

Join fellow readers online by logging into your Beanstack account to track your reading, activity, and review badges digitally to earn electronic tickets to be entered into grand prize drawings of your choice!

Our Adult Summer Reading Challenge, also starting Tuesday, May 28th, will be a BINGO card you can pick up at the library with many fun reading and enrichment activities and a prize drawing for each BINGO earned!

Shorewood Public Library's Summer Storytime Session begins Tuesday, May 7th for our Music and Movement Storytime and on Thursday, May 9th for our All-Ages Storytime. Both storytimes will continue every other week through August!

May is a month of library fun and gearing up for summer! Stop in at the library to join in the springtime growth and discovery.

NEW Harley-Davidson Museum Passes

Shorewood Public Library will have three new Harley-Davidson Museum Passes available for checkout starting in May!

Each pass allows admittance for two adults and children under 17 free admission to the museum. Other benefits include 50% off additional general admission tickets, and 10% off at the Harley-Davidson shop and MOTOR Bar & Restaurant.

Click here for more information about our museum passes!

NEW Children's AWE Stations

We have two new AWE Early Literacy Digital Learning stations available in the Children's Section of the library.

They have thousands of fun learning activities, including great new games. Stop in and check them out!

Family Fun: STEM Night

Join us for an evening of STEM activities for the whole family on Friday, May 10th in the Library Program Room.

Try your hand at mini-science projects and learn about new technologies!

This is a drop-in program, so feel free to stop by anytime between 3:30 PM and 5:00 PM.

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Staff Highlights

Meet Quinn, Shorewood Public Library's Inclusive Services Librarian.

Quinn's favorite thing about working at the library is being able to act as a resource for the community.

Some of Quinn's favorite hobbies are cosplay, board games, and Dungeons and Dragons.

Say hi the next time you see Quinn at the library!

Peeps Diorama Contest: Meet Your Winners!

Our Peeps Diorama Contest was a blast and a great way to bring in spring!

After a count of all the votes, our Peeps Diorama Contest Winners have been decided! Check out the winners below:

Adult: Erika Gundmundsson for Peepsommar

Children: Luther Larson

for Peep Wars

Staff: Abby Ott

for The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Teen: Janice Marschka

for Scythe

Mixed Ages: The Sindhu Family for Night, Night, Bunny

National Library Week: Library Appreciation

We had a week of special celebration April 7th through 13th for National Library Week, including a celebration with cake and coffee as well as a special thank you treat for library staff from our Friends of the Shorewood Public Library. Thank you for all the extra appreciation and for helping us make the week great!

Tortoise Library Visit

Larry and Tracker the tortoises are coming to visit the library on World Turtle Day!

Join us Thursday, May 23 from 9:30 AM - 3:30 PM in the Shorewood Public Library Program Room to celebrate all things turtle and tortoise with Larry and Tracker.

Star Wars - DIY Lightsabers

Join us on Friday, May 3rd from 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM to make your very own light-up lightsaber in celebration of Star Wars Day!

This program is geared towards children and teens in 4th - 8th grade, and registration is required as space is limited.

Click Here to Register

Friends of Shorewood Public Library: Board Updates

New officers for the Friends were elected earlier this year, including:

Mary Armstrong as president
Jeannee Sacken as vice president
Elizabeth Jonas as treasurer
Laurel Brooks as secretary

The backbone of the Friends organization is its over 130 members who contribute financially and volunteer their time to make Shorewood Library our most-valued community resource. Consider becoming a Friend! You can enroll on the library website or by completing a membership form found in the library foyer.

COMING SOON!

A New CountyCat Library Catalog

In June 2024 we'll have a new, branded CountyCat library catalog with many exciting features, like searches that return results with multiple formats - Libby (e-books and audiobooks) included!

Milwaukee County Federated Library System's information page has previews of our new catalog and the great features coming soon.

Stay tuned for more updates on using our awesome new catalog!

Library Book Clubs

May's PM Book Club fiction pick is Stone Blind by Natalie Haynes, a dark-comic retelling of the Greek myth of the gorgon Medusa. Join the conversation on Wednesday, May 1st at 7:00 PM.

May's AM Book Club fiction pick is an action packed thriller. Check out Killers of a Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn, and join the conversation on Thursday, May 16th at 11:00 AM.

Memorial Day Weekend

Library Hours

Shorewood Public Library will be closed all day on Sunday, May 26th and Monday, May 27th in observance of Memorial Day.

We will be open regular hours all other days.

Have a safe and enjoyable holiday weekend!

What We're Reading

As we gear up for summer, we're getting ready with some books we're very excited to read! Check them out at the library:

Horse

by Geraldine Brooks

"Based on the remarkable true story of the record-breaking thoroughbred Lexington, Horse is a novel of art and science, love and obsession, and our unfinished reckoning with racism."-- Provided by publisher.

Recommended by CAROLYN, who also recommends visiting the Museum of the Horse in Lexington, KY!

The Winter's Tale: Texts and Contexts

by William Shakespeare; Edited by Mario DiGangi

Recommended by BEN, who notes that Shorewood Public Library's copy of this work "includes not just the play, but also a varied selection of essays interpreting and relating it to actual life". Ben also notes he likes the irony of recommending a book with winter in the title for a summer read!

A Short Stay in Hell

by Steven Peck

"A damned man struggles to find meaning in a library, the dimensions of which are measured in light years." --Provided by publisher.

Recommended by KAYLA, who notes it's a "a lovely, existential little horror book" with "purgatorial concepts within this book (that) are extremely creative, thoughtful, and very uniquely beautiful."

SHOREWOOD PUBLIC LIBRARY

3920 North Murray Avenue

Shorewood, WI 53211

414 847-2670