Chill Out at Our Library-Winter Reading Program

Starting on December 1st, we began our winter reading program. Its open to adults and kids and its a competition between the two to see who can read more books! All you have to do is stop in to the library and sign up and go home and read! Whatever group wins, the Friends of the Library will purchase an item for the library that each group votes on. The adult who reads the most books wins a chocolate lovers basket! Kids reading 18 books get a snow plushed toy and then every book over that get entered into a drawing to win a play and freeze ice cream maker! Winter Reading ends on Monday Febraury 23 at 8pm. Check out all the details at: www.midyork.org/morrisville/winterreading.html.

Summer Reading is over! :-(

Hard to believe the summer is over! We had a record number of children sign up for Summer Reading this year! We had 88 kids sign up and 70 of those graduated! Last year we had 40 graduate and 54 sign up! Wow! Together, the participants this year read 1448 hours! WOW!

We are very proud of these kids and look forward to seeing them next year!

Summer Reading Program!!!!

Our Summer Reading Program is "Catch the Reading Bug!" It will run from July 7 through August 15 with graduation August 20.

The summer reading program is open to all kids ages 1-17. Spend the summer with us learning about bugs, eat some bugs, make buggy crafts, go on a bug scavenger hunt and lots more!

Be sure to stop in anytime the week of July 7 and sign your child up for the program. Then through the course of the next six weeks your child needs to read at least 8 hours. If completing this requirement, your child will be invited to attend our graduation ceremony complete with prizes and ice cream sundaes!

Check out our website for all the great programs we will have this summer: http://www.midyork.org/morrisville/srpprograms.html Hope to see you this summer!!!!

Kwahadi Dancers

The Kwahadi Dancers are coming to perform on Sunday July 27 at 2pm. We are hosting this event at Madison Hall in Morrisville NY. Check out their website at www.kwahadi.com. It sounds like a wonderful cultural event so bring the entire family!

An Update!

First of all if you have been in to the library you have noticed some staff changes. Michelle is still the Manager, Jody works days M, W-F and Joe works nights as programmer M,W,F and Tu during the day. Eric is a more frequent face at the library working M,Tu,W,F afternoons. But, we sadly had to see Bette go as our evening person. She decided to retire for health reasons and she is sorely missed by us all. In her place, we welcome Robi. Robi will work M,W,F evenings and Sa.

Besides the staff changes, patrons will notice construction again this summer. Due to the Library Manager securing two grants, the stained glass in the front foyer will be restored to its 1850 state, the Local History Room will be renovated and she hopes to reopen later this summer. Michelle is looking for volunteers to come sort out and reorganize the room when they are done upstairs. If interested, please see her.

Also, the exterior of the building will be painted and the downstairs windows will be restored and be in working order by the end of summer. Again, we ask you to bear with us during this process.

Some Exciting News

Our Library is now the Library Photo of the Month on the NYLA website (www.nyla.org)!!!! For the entire month of January you will see our picture on the home page of that site! Way to go Morrisville!