2011 Summer Reading Program

Are you ready to read? Starting on July 8th, it’s time again for the Meyersdale Public Library summer reading program. The program runs through August 12th and is completely free. All ages are welcome to participate! Here’s the scoop:

Adult program
Each book you read entitles you to a raffle ticket for the weekly drawing. The more books you read, the more entries you get! A total of five prizes can be won. No registration is necessary- just stop by the circulation desk to pick up your entry forms.

Teen program
For every 100 pages read you get a raffle ticket for the weekly drawing. The more pages you read the more entries you get! Read 800 pages or more by the end of the program and you will win entry to the Murder Mystery game on Friday, August 12th at 7pm (includes snacks and prizes). Please register at the circulation desk and pick up your reading log.

Children program
Join us every Friday morning from 10am-noon for crafts, activities, and prizes. A lunch and piñata party will take place on the last Friday of the program. Please register at the circulation desk before June 30th.

National Library Week

April 11-16th marks the 2011 National Library Week. To celebrate we are having games, programs, and lots of prizes! Here are some of the week's happenings:

Week long events:

• Bring in all your overdue books and your fines will be waived!!


• A jelly bean guessing game. You have all week to try to guess how many jelly beans are in the jar before you submit your guess. The winner gets to keep the jelly beans and the jar.


• A bookmark design contest. Pick up the entry form at the circulation desk to design your own bookmark. Turn in by 5pm on Saturday the 16th so the staff can vote on their favorite. Prizes for the age groups are:

Ages 3-5- Crayola Ultimate Art Supplies

Ages 6-9- Doodle Backpack

Ages 10-13- Aggravation board game

Ages 14-18- $10 Wal-Mart gift card and a free pick from the library book sale

Ages 19 and up- $10 Wal-Mart gift card and a free pick from the library book sale

Daily Activities

Monday, April 11th:

• Start of the Jelly Bean Guessing game


• Start of the Design a Bookmark contest


• A display of the staff’s favorite books for patrons to view and check out

Tuesday, April 12th:

• A Library Mystery. Pick up the clues and instructions at the circulation desk and turn the answer the same day to be entered into a raffle to win a gift certificate for Albright's. The winner will be announced on Wednesday, April 13th.

Wednesday, April 13th:

• 6-7:30 PM: The Somerset County Early Learning Advisory Group will be hosting a children’s program to promote the Week of the Young Child as part of the Pennsylvania One Book, Every Young Child initiative. Stop by to hear a story and participate in some FREE activities and games and to win some prizes.

Thurday, April 14th:

• A Library Scavenger Hunt. Pick up the instructions at the circulation desk and turn it in the same day to be entered into a raffle to win a gift certificate for Albrights. The winner will be announced on Friday, April 15th.

Friday, April 15th:

• 10 AM: Easter Preschool Story Hour

Saturday, April 16th:

• 2-4 PM: Wii Sports event: Library Director vs. Meyersdale. Two Cadbury Assortment Eggs will be raffled off to those who participate.

And of course a big thank you goes out to Albright’s for their generous gift certificate donations.

Hope to see you there!

First Day

Hi,

My name is Amy Hanley, and today is my first day as the new director of the Meyersdale Public Library. I just wanted to briefly say hello. I am looking forward to working here and getting to know everyone in the community. Please stop by for a visit! I look forward to meeting you.

Sincerely,

Amy

Death by Chocolate!!!

Help Support the library by

bidding on delectable chocolate delights at the Auction at Amity Church on Feb. 11 at 7 p.m.

or by buying

goodies at the bake sale being held at the library Feb. 11 & 12.

Show your neighbors your hidden passion for chocolate by entering a creation of your own to be judged and sold for auction!

Categories

Cakes and Pies

Cookies and Bars

Candy

Chocolate Structures

* Contest Entries may be taken to the Amity UCC on

February 11th from 10-5

* Items for bake sale only may be taken to the library on

February 11th from 10-5. Bake sale will be Friday and Saturday at the library.

Goodbye and Thanks!

This Saturday I will be moving to Louisville, KY to start work as a medical librarian for the University Hospital at the University of Louisville. It is with mixed feelings that I leave my position as director at the Meyersdale Public Library. I am looking forward to working in the medical discipline but I have loved my time here in Meyersdale.

I could not have asked for a better staff, board, or community to work with. It has been a pleasure! Thank you to all who have supported the library in any way. Please continue to do so in the future. A new director will be taking over the first part of March. Amy Hanley is a talented, engaging, and experienced librarian. She and her young family will bring new energy to the community. Please welcome with open arms. Make her feel as valued as you made me feel.

All my best to everyone. Please know that the library staff and board are capable and willing to help you with your information needs during

Friends of the Library February Selection

The Friends of the Library will be discussing the book South of Broad by Pat Conroy on February 18th at the Meyersdale Public Library.

Publisher's Weekly has the following to say about Conroy's latest novel:

"Charleston, S.C., gossip columnist Leopold Bloom King narrates a paean to his hometown and friends in Conroy's first novel in 14 years. In the late '60s and after his brother commits suicide, then 18-year-old Leo befriends a cross-section of the city's inhabitants: scions of Charleston aristocracy; Appalachian orphans; a black football coach's son; and an astonishingly beautiful pair of twins, Sheba and Trevor Poe, who are evading their psychotic father. The story alternates between 1969, the glorious year Leo's coterie stormed Charleston's social, sexual and racial barricades, and 1989, when Sheba, now a movie star, enlists them to find her missing gay brother in AIDS-ravaged San Francisco. Too often the not-so-witty repartee and the narrator's awed voice (he is very fond of superlatives) overwhelm the stories surrounding the group's love affairs and their struggles to protect one another from dangerous pasts. Some characters are tragically lost to the riptides of love and obsession, while others emerge from the frothy waters of sentimentality and nostalgia as exhausted as most readers are likely to be. Fans of Conroy's florid prose and earnest melodramas are in for a treat."

Library Closed Today-Jan. 12 2011