http://blogs.overdrive.com/featured-post-library-blog/2014/02/10/big-library-read-cooks-up-something-new/ Big Library Read, OverDrive’s “global book club,” is back once again for libraries to lend millions of users around the world the same eBook simultaneously for free! The program that in 2013 brought us Michael Malone’s Four Corners of the Sky and Jane O’Connor’s Nancy Clancy, Super Sleuth is now bringing the secrets of the kitchen to your eReaders, tablets and computers. Food Network and Cooking Channel star Aida Mollenkamp has provided her culinary guide Keys to the Kitchen …
More snow! We’re staying closed today. It’ll give folks a chance to clean up. Stay safe. We’ll be open tomorrow, 10-3. Fines will be waived if items are overdue because of the storm.
The Pember Library will be closed today, February 13, 2014, because of the winter storm. Stay safe and warm.
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. This is a regular meeting and open to the public.
February First Friday Features Robotics Team First Friday at The Pember in Granville will feature Granville High School’s VEX Robotics team. Students will unleash their robots and have them travel an official obstacle course laid out on the floor of the Pember. Meanwhile, Jennifer Dashef ’s sixth-grade class will be showing off the art they have created on cabinet doors – abstract montage faces “meant to inspire acceptance, tolerance, individuality and creativity.” Steven Havel will provide music. Nearby …
The Pember Library and Museum Board of Trustees will be holding a board meeting on Sunday Feb 2, 2014 at 1pm in the Pember Library 33 West Main St Granville, NY 12832 The Board would welcome your attendance.
On January 25th at 10:30 the Pember Library welcomed a new volunteer. Lilly is a certified therapy dog with Therapy Dogs International. Lilly will be visiting the library monthly to provide a companionable audience for children to read with. Children of all ages and reading levels are encouraged to come down and pick out their favorite book to read to her. Lilly has recently been working with an adult population, but she loves kids! We are excited to start working …
The next selection for the Pember Book Club is Emily Dickinson, her letter to the world by Polly Longsworth KIRKUS REVIEW says: Emily Dickinson is a personality with a special attraction for adolescents. Her poems require little experience to scan, and once read retain their fascination by the elusive inscrutability of the message coupled with the simplicity of the images. Her own life enhances this interest. She was a woman who never seems to have grown old, and the mystery …
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