Pember Library

Starting today! You may enter our building through the front door. You can pick up your pre-orders or ask us to put something on hold. No browsing or internet access yet.

This week the hours will be Tuesday-Friday, 1-4 and Saturday 10:30-noon.

Face coverings are required and there’s one-way traffic.

If you still require curbside, we will be happy to deliver to your vehicle.

ps: we have some tax forms!

The Pember Library will allow limited access to our building beginning July 7.

(through the front door only)

Tuesday through Friday 1-4, Saturday 10:30-noon

We will continue curbside service for those who need it. Books still must be requested ahead of time by phone or email. You may also request through the online catalog but ILL with other libraries in our system has not started yet.

Your returns must be left in the outside drop box.

There will be no late fees for books due during the pandemic.

Library (518 642-2525)

Email pember.library@gmail.com

We are unable to accept donations of used books, videos etc. PLEASE don’t leave them here.

Our newest “Imagine your Story”: activity is this Inspiration Jar. Call the library to reserve one for your family.
The directions say:
Turn the jar a few turns and see what items catch your eye. Or dump it all out on a paper plate and pull a few items from the jar and create a story about them. Use color, shapes, textures, lines, letters, & forms. Tell someone or write your story on paper.
NOT intended for small children. There are many small pieces.

Julie offered to do the writing.
She started. “Well, it’s not really a story, more a memory. That wooden spool reminds me of my Grandma Marie. One Christmas, I think I must have been eight years old, she made me a blue coat. I can just picture it. I don’t remember wearing it but I remember opening the package on Christmas morning.”

Jennie said, “I want to go next! See that shell? My story is about going to the ocean. I can smell the sea air, hear the crashing waves. I walk across the beach on a hot August afternoon. There are other people there, someone sunning themselves, another under an umbrella reading a paperback, somebody else is playing a game on their phone. This is my first ever trip to Maine, to the ocean! I can’t wait to feel the water. Oh, oh, OH. I can’t believe it’s so cold.”

“Alice, what catches your eye?”
“See that dog Christmas ornament? I have so many memories of dogs that lived with us through the years. OK, here’s my story.
“Once upon a time there was a dog named Cassie. It was her first Christmas with the Thurber family. Seven year old Dawn Alice had told Cassie that Santa was coming tonight so Cassie was trying very hard to stay awake. She tried to remember all the holiday things that had happened so far in December. There was the tree lighting in the village park, the festival of wreaths at the library, the tractor parade, and all the school concerts. Cassie had even been included on the family hay ride out at the Fir Sure Christmas Tree Farm. She looked out the window and saw the ‘reindeer food’ Dawn Alice and her brother Timothy had left in the driveway. Cassie fought sleep but eventually it overtook her. She slept a while and awoke part way when she heard some noises (on the roof?) but fell right back to sleep. Cassie could smell bacon cooking, and hear Dawn Alice and Timothy giggling over near the tree. Colorful boxes with shiny ribbon in all shapes and sizes surrounded the tree. And Look! The puppy shaped stocking on the mantle was overflowing with doggie treats and toys.”

Eliza said, “I guess it’s my turn. I keep looking at those scrabble tiles. They remind me of my aunt. She gave me a scrabble game when I was young. She would play against me. I don’t remember if I won or lost just that it’s a really good memory of her. I love to play Words with Friends now. I sure wish she was still around so we could play again!”

A meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Pember Library and Museum will be held on the third Thursday of each month at the Pember. The meeting will be conducted following social distancing guidelines.

The Dahls are working on their summer reading. Our theme this year is “Imagine your Story.”

The first activity kit is story cubes. The directions are in the kit. You just cut out your story cube, fold along the lines and tape or glue each one into a cube. There are people, places, objects, and animal cubes. The combination of pictures will prompt ideas for magical and exciting stories. Younger children can tell the stories aloud and older ones can practice writing out the story. Contact the Pember to reserve a kit for your family.

The SALS network including all services (Polaris, third party authentication for Overdrive, etc) will be unavailable between 9:00 pm and midnight on 6/22/2020 in order to do network maintenance.

Summer Reading? We all know it’s going to be different this year!
The plan we are working on is to have activity kits. Let me know either by a phone call to the library 642-2525 or an email pember.library@gmail.com if you are interested. The 2020 theme is “Imagine Your Story.” These kits are intended for school-age children. The first kit is “story cubes” and will be available beginning June 18. One per family, please.

Don’t forget to join our online summer reading: You can sign up at https://pemberny11.readsquared.com/

and keep track of your reading there. Or print out paper logs https://gralib.sals.edu/summer-reading-3/
to keep track and return to the library in September.

We have put together some grab ‘n go kits of childrens’ books. We currently have ten different themes. They will each check out as four or five items but they are in one bag.

The themes are Dogs, Cats, Dinosaurs, Bugs, Library, Senses, Pete the Cat, Magic School Bus, Trucks, and Birds.