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Spring Book Sale

The Friends of the Pember Library will host a spring paperback book sale Saturday, April 25 from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM in the main room of the Pember Library. All paperback books will be $.25. Paperbacks for adults and children will be available. Donate your gently used paperbacks to the library. Now is the time to clean out your paperback shelves so you will have room for all the books you will find at our sale! Donations are accepted …

Thursday Tall Tales

We will have an early evening Thursday Tall Tales program as well as our new Fireside Story Time on Saturdays. The scouts from Girl Scout Troop 3218 will be the hosts for four Story Times in April and May. Jo-ann will be reading for the other Thursday Tall Tales programs. Look forward to stories using a flannel board and puppets. We also have one program planned which will be a sing-a-long. It isn’t necessary to register for the programs. For …

Friends of the Library meeting

The next meeting of the Friends will take place in the main room of the library. We will discuss the spring paperback book sale that will be held Saturday, April 25 from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM in the main room of the library. We will also be making plans for our huge summer book sale which will be held at the Granville Central School Junior-Senior High School cafeteria. Plans are currently to have the sale on July 10-11 with …

Hello, Spring

Linda will provide stories, crafts and more during the Saturday morning program to welcome spring. It’s about time!

Fireside Story Time

Join us on Saturday mornings for Fireside Story Time. Pat O, MaryLou O, and Robyn L will each host one of the story times in March. Anyone else who would like to volunteer some time to read to the children, please give a call to the library and we will work you in to our schedule. Stories will be read near the fireplace in the main room with plenty of room for children and their caregivers to sit on the …

Senior Computer Classes

If you are 50 or older and would like to learn how to use a computer or improve the skills you have, now is the time to join us for a couple of lessons – no pressure, relaxed atmosphere, and hopefully, some enjoyment. Each three-hour class will be divided between Monday & Friday from 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM. The two-part beginner class, intended for those who have never used a computer, will be held on Monday, March 30 and …

Pember Presents: Women on Screen

The Pember Library will present a lecture by Rob Edelman on “From Rosie the Riveter to Harriet the Happy Homemaker: Women on Screen During and After World War II”. Free and open to the general public, the event begins at 6:30 PM on March 19 at the Pember Library in Granville. This event is made possible through Speakers in the Humanities, a program of the New York Council for the Humanities. Rob Edelman is a Lecturer in film history at …

Story Time

Story time this week will feature Pets. Children will have a chance to draw their favorite pet to be entered into our contest to win a long-arm monkey or bobcat. Adults can try to match Pember people with their pets to win a copy of the book “Dewey” by Vicki Myron.

Pember Presents: FUNance

Fun and Finance Collide at the Pember Library The kids yell and point as Brad Zupp attempts to keep eight plates spinning on top of poles. Running from plate to plate, he illustrates, in a way kids can easily understand, the financial concept of needs versus wants. “Kids love learning about how to be smart with money,” Zupp says. A former clown with Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus and former financial planner, he devised a 45 minute program …

Pember Presents

The Pember Library, in cooperation with the US Census Bureau, is pleased to announce that a public information presentation on the 2010 US Census will be held Thursday evening, February 5, at 6:30 PM . In addition to a general explanation of how the US Census is organized, information will be available on when and how to apply for census jobs. Various informational brochures will be available, as well as copies of a practice test for Census jobs. If you …

Story Time

Story time will be about opposites. Children of all ages and their parents or caregivers are welcome to join us.