HOLIDAY BOOK TALK ON DECEMBER 4TH |
Don't forget to tune in on Saturday, December 4th at 11:00 AM for the Friends of the Shorewood Public Library's annual Holiday Book Talk. Join us as Boswell Books' proprietor Daniel Goldin gives a presentation on the best books to look out for this holiday season. The Holiday Book Talk will be held virtually via ZOOM, and you can find more information about the event and how to join HERE. As a special treat, Daniel will also reveal the 2022 Shorewood Reads book and author during this event!
Boswell Books will also be donating 10% of the sales from Saturday, December 4th and Sunday, December 5th to the Friends of the Shorewood Public Library, making it the perfect time to shop for any book lovers on your list while supporting the Library Friends.
Make sure to follow the Friends on Facebook if you haven't already! |
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Library Hours:
Monday-Thursday
9:30 AM - 8:00 PM
Friday
9:30 AM - 6:30 PM
Saturday
10:00 AM - 3:30 PM
Sunday
11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
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ANCESTRY LIBRARY EDITION REMOTE ACCESS ENDING |
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Ancestry Library Edition, one of the the genealogy databases available through the Shorewood Public Library, will no longer be available outside of the library after December 31, 2021. Even though remote access is ending, you will still be able to access Ancestry Library Edition from inside the library, either from a library computer or a personal device.
Aspiring genealogists and family historians have no need to worry, as library card holders will continue to have remote access to the HeritageQuest Online and History Reference Center databases. You can learn more about the family history and genealogy resources available online and in person from the library HERE. |
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FREE ONLINE TUTORING FROM BRAINFUSE HELPNOW |
The Shorewood Public Library is pleased to offer access to Brainfuse HelpNow, which provides differentiated learning solutions for users of diverse needs and backgrounds. Students communicate with live tutors using an interactive whiteboard to chat, write, draw, copy/paste text or images and graph homework problems. HelpNow is available to all library patrons from the public computers at the library or outside the library from any computer with internet connection, and live tutoring is available from 2:00 PM – 11:00 PM. To access HelpNow or to learn more, visit the library’s website HERE.
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As we approach the winter holiday season, we want to remind everyone of our upcoming holiday hours of service. The Shorewood Public Library will be CLOSED on Friday, December 24; Saturday, December 25; and Sunday, December 26. The library will re-open for normal hours on Monday, December 27th. The library will also be CLOSED on Friday, December 31 and Saturday, January 1, but will be open for normal hours on Sunday, January 2. We hope you all have a safe and joyful holiday season and look forward to seeing you at the library soon! |
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TAKE AN ONLINE CLASS WITH GALE COURSES |
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Gale Courses offers a wide range of highly interactive, instructor-led courses that you can take entirely online. As a Shorewood Public Library card holder in good standing, you have access to these courses at no cost. Courses run for six weeks and new sessions begin every month.
There are over 100 courses to choose from, including test prep for the ACT, SAT, LSAT and GRE; grant writing, technical writing, and creative writing; graphic design, web design, digital photography, and more. New course sessions begin on December 15th, so sign up today!
You can access Gale Courses and explore the course catalog on our website HERE. |
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As we near 20 months of enduring a global pandemic, I want to express my sincere gratitude to my coworkers. The times have called on flexibility, compassion, resilience and creativity, traits the Shorewood Public Library team members have in abundance. I’m proud of the consistent and outstanding library service that each one of them has provided to you, your family and the community. Let me name the staff that have served you over these last 20 months.
A heartfelt thank you to:
Current staff: Angela, Carolyn, Dan H., Emily, Gerry, Halea, Hayley, Heide, James, Joan, Lisa, Lizzie, Maria, Mia, Nala, Nancy B., Paige, Sarah, Sheila and Susan.
Past staff: Andrew, Dan X., Jessie, Kate, Lucy, Nancy S., Nathan A., Nathan B.
Rachel Collins
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RENEW YOUR LIBRARY CARD ONLINE |
Did you know that you can renew your library card online, without having to come to the library? Here at Shorewood, we ask you to renew your library card every two years. This helps ensure that we have the most up to date contact information for you, and gives you a chance to review and reaffirm the library's terms and conditions. Take a look at our online renewal form HERE. |
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Fun for families and children continues this month at the library!
Be sure to check out our event calendar for the most up to date information about events for children and families this month. |
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Teen Take and Make Thursday continues this month! Pick up your kit from the library on Thursday, December 23rd! This month's kit includes supplies to make a Self-Care kit. Kits are available on a first come, first served basis and available while supplies last.
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This month's PM Book Club and AM Book Club fiction pick follo ws the lives of fifty-four-year-old concierge Rene Michel and extremely bright, suicidal twelve-year-old Paloma Josse as they are transformed by the arrival of a new tenant, Kakuro Ozu.
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Brilliant and witty Annabelle Archer is elated to join in the first cohort of women at Oxford University in 1879 and to be offered a scholarship from the Suffragette movement. On top of lobbying men of influence for the suffrage cause and keeping up with her studies, Annabelle finds herself dodging one near-scandal after another as fate repeatedly thrusts her and the cold but handsome Duke of Montgomery together. The first in Dunmore’s League of Extraordinary Women series, Bringing Down the Duke is a fun romance for readers who love strong but quirky leading ladies and historical romances.
Recommended by LIZZIE
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A stirring and strange story, Cusk's latest novel explores the meaning of art and the reverberating impact events can have on our lives. A woman who rents out a guest home on her land to artists finally gets the chance to invite a painter whose work made an indelible impression on her during a chaotic time in her life. When he doesn't live up to the idealized image she has of him, because how could he, she is thrown off center and nearly loses the stable life she has built for herself.
Recommended by EMILY
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INFORMATION YOU CAN TRUST |
With so many sources for information, it can be hard to sort out fact from fiction and to determine who to trust.
The Wisconsin Department of Health Services webpage has up-to-date information about the COVID-19 pandemic including data about vaccinations, who is eligible, and where to get a vaccine.
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SHOREWOOD PUBLIC LIBRARY
3920 North Murray Avenue
Shorewood, WI 53211
414 847-2670
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