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Special
Programs and Events
Rural Entrepreneurship Multi-media
Interviews - Youth opportunity:
As part of a State Library grant, the
library is seeking a cadre of teen youth who would like to learn to use a
FLIP video camera and movie-making software. Youth will volunteer to
interview and film local business people. The goal of the project is to
highlight local area businesses and entrepreneurs. The resulting short
video clips will appear on a web portal highlighting rural
entrepreneurship. Contact the library for more information.
Read to the Dogs
Tuesday evenings from 5:30 – 6:30pm
June 22 through July 27, youth read one-on-one with a trained and
certified canine friend - by appointment only.
Sign Up for the Summer Reading Program:
Families may
begin to sign up for the Summer Reading Program. There will be a drawing
on the first day of the program. Any parent or guardian who pre-registers
a child for the program will be eligible to win a $50 gift certificate.
Register now at the library.
Summer Reading Program
The theme for the library's Summer
Reading Program is "Scare Up a Good Book." We will be emphasizing that
"the more you know, the less you fear." The Zoo Lady will be here on
Wednesday, June 23 at 10:00am. "Corny" from the Cornbelters, along with
players from the team, will meet and greet library-goers on Wednesday,
June 30. In July a NOAA specialist from Lincoln, Illinois will discuss
scary weather and safety tips. Other frightful summer topics will include
bugs, snakes, skunks, owls, and the scare tactics animals use to keep
themselves safe. Sorry, no goblins or ghosts this summer! We'll save those
for our Halloween Party!
See
the full schedule here.
Family Movie Nights, Alternate
Thursdays Throughout the Summer
EARLY SHOW: 4:00pm
EVENING SHOW: 6:00pm
June 10 4:00: Toy Story (G)
6:00: Toy Story 2 (PG)
June 24 4:00: Monsters Inc (G)
6:00:
Monsters Vs Aliens (PG)
July 8 4:00: Mr. Troop Mom (G)
6:00: Leap Year (PG)
July 22 4:00: Alice In Wonderland (1951) (G)
6:00: Alice In Wonderland (2010) (PG)
Aug 5 4:00: The Princess And The Frog (G)
6:00: Up (PG)
Aug 19
4:00: Under The Sea (NR)
6:00: Cloudy With Chance Of Meatballs (PG)
Supported by the FRIENDS of the TOWANDA DISTRICT LIBRARY
Wii for Fwii at the Library
Tuesday evenings 4:00 to 6:30:
Play Wii games with your friends.
Friends of the Library
The next FRIENDS meeting will be
Wednesday, September 22 at 6:00pm at the home of a member. Call
the library at 728-2176 for location and directions.
TOWANDA READS Book Club
TOWANDA READS meets Wednesday,
September 22 at 7:00pm at the home of a member. Call the library
at 728-2176 for location and directions.
The group will will
discuss
Loving Frank, by Nancy Horan.
Pre-School Story Hours,
11:00am weekly during the school year
Pre-school Story Hours run from
first Monday after Labor Day to the Monday prior to Memorial Day.
Pre-schoolers may participate in the
Summer Reading Program on Wednesday mornings during the summer.
Mondays
each week during the school
year, preschoolers
learn the “joy of reading”. Youth Services Librarian
Erica Ensign reads to
children ages 3 through 5 and leads them in educational activities.
Younger brothers and sisters may listen to online, animated TumbleBooks or
enjoy board books with parental supervision. Open enrollment allows
children to enter the program whenever they turn three.
Topics:
April 26: Fishy Tales
May 3: Birds
May 10: Fabulous Families
May 17: Milk and Cookies
May 24: Vacations
Economize at the Library
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Magazines can be checked out
free-of-charge.
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There is no charge for DVD and video rentals.
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Summer Reading and other programs are
free.
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Books on Tape and MP3 Play-a-Ways
are free.
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Wireless access to the internet is free -
on our computers or on your laptop.
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Copier and Fax are available for a small
fee.
Buying children's books as gifts?
You can help support the
Towanda Library by purchasing your books through the Friend's of the Library
online book sale at
Usborne Books. A percentage of each sale will go to
benefit the library. Click on
Friend's of the Towanda District Library page at Usborne Books
to see and purchase books.
Towanda History
The Towanda
District Library has partnered with the Towanda Area Historical Society to
document and display Towanda Area History on the web at
towandahistory.org.
A new feature of the Towanda District
Library is a History Corner, with books, displays, and archives
of Towanda area history. Following is a list of history binders contain
information researched, compiled and donated to the library by Nancy J.
Miller of Bloomington:
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Census records for 1860,
1870, 1880, 1900, 1910, 1920, 1930
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Civil War Soldiers from
Money Creek Township
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Towanda in the Black Hawk
War - 6/3/1832 - 8/3/1832
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History of Elizabeth
'Mattie' Stephenson (1853-1873) of Towanda, Proclaimed a Heroine by Citizens
of Memphis, Tennessee
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Miscellaneous Collection of
Newspaper Articles on Towanda, 1850 - 2008
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Section 33 and Landowners
in Money Creek Township
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History of the William R. Duncan Family and Descendents,
1818 to 2008
Library delivery service
If you
have difficulties getting to the library due to age or health issues,
please call us and we can bring library materials to you. We have two
very dedicated volunteers ready to deliver books and other library
materials to your home monthly. Right now they only have one customer and
they want more! A staff member at the library will select items
based on your requests. Please call the library at 728-2176 and ask for
Karen.
Book Sales
The ‘Friends of the Library’ runs a book sale at
the 4th of July flea market. There are also donated used
books for sale at the library year round.
Please donate
your no longer needed books, videos, CDs, DVDs and audio books in
condition appropriate for resale.
Books appropriate for resale include:
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Only books published since 1985
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Hardcover
fiction books
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Up-to-date non-fiction items (ex., travel, medical and
science items less than five years old) or non-fiction items that will
never be out-of-date (ex., how-to’s, biographies, history, etc.)
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Paperbacks in good condition (clean, bright
pages, sturdy spines only)
WE DO NOT ACCEPT
textbooks, magazines, Reader’s Digest Condensed Books, “book club edition”
books, encyclopedia sets of any kind, musty books, yellowed books or books
in poor condition because these items can’t be put in our collection nor
do they sell at our book sales and we do not have the resources to pass
them on or recycle them.
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