Upcoming Events at the Library

Both events on Monday, July 7th at 7pm!

Getting Set Up with a Computer

Topics will include:

  • Before you buy
  • Preparing to buy - making decisions
  • Hooking it up and turning it on
  • Where to from here?

For a a more detailed list of the topics, download this PDF: Class #1 - Getting Set Up with a Computer

Teen Movie Night

Come for our first event for this summer’s Teen Summer Reading Program. We’ll be watching the classic “Napoleon Dynamite.” Anyone who wears a “Vote for Pedro” shirts gets some candy!

Computer Class Interest Form

Thanks to volunteers Carolyn, Mark and Sandra we received some great feedback for our upcoming computer classes. You too can give us your input by filling out this Computer Class Interest Form [pdf] and bringing it in to the library. You can also email the library to let us know what type of computer classes you’d like to attend at the library.

 

 

Catch the Reading Bug!

The 2008 NPPL Summer Reading Program has started! For more information and to sign up, see the page: Kid’s Summer Reading Program

Happy reading!

New Books! New Movies!

Come in and check out our new books and movies for the month of May.  Keep your eyes open, too, because we have heaps more coming!  A few titles you’ll see featured:

Books!
No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July
The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
Manifold Space by Stephen Baxter
The Final Warning James Patterson
The Thing About Life Is That One Day You’ll Be Dead by David Shields
A Man Without Country by Kurt Vonnegut
Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Winterdance by Gary Paulsen
Certain Girls by Jennifer Weiner
More Natural “Cures” Revealed by Kevin Trudeau
Armageddon’s Children by Terry Brooks
Rainbow’s End by Vernor Vinge

Movies!
Jane Austen Bookclub
Firefly
Atonement
American Gangster
Lost: Season Three
Juno
No Country For Old Men
Grumpy Old Men/Grumpier Old Men

 

New Start Time for Storytime

Join us for Wednesday mornings for storytime, now starting at 10:30am. Next week features puppy books. Storytime is held in the Children’s section of the library.

Pictures from the One Book Kickoff Party

The library was comfortably full on Saturday evening thanks to the efforts of the library Friends, volunteers and staff. Many people signed up to read The Shadow of the Wind and you still can too. Just pop on in to the library. Here’s a link to some photos of the event: One Book One Community Kickoff Party. Visit nplibrary.org/onebook for more details.

One Book One Community Kickoff Party

The NPPL and Friends of the NPPL are pleased to announce One Book One Community for the months of January and February.

The town of North Plains will be reading The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon. There will be events related to the book around the town of North Plains in February. For a full list of events, pick up a flyer in the library or look at our webpage dedicated to the program: One Book One Community.

Come this Saturday to pick up your copy of the book for free!

Saturday, January 12 at 6:00 pm

Come to the library for Spanish food, drink and music. Free copies of this year’s selection, The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon will be distributed.

Click-A-Story

The NPPL is happy to announce our new online storytime program: Click-A-Story. You and your children can listen to stories and look at the accompanying pictures on our website. Here’s an example:

“The Fox and the Grapes” from Aesop’s Fables

You can find more at http://www.nplibrary.org/clickastory. You can also come pick up a CD of the stories at the front desk of the library.

Happy listening!

Holiday Storytimes

Every Wednesday - 10:15-10:45am

Come get your picture taken with Volunteer Michelle Stansell and her helper, Mr. Snowy!

During December Storytimes the kids will have a chance to make holiday cards with these Polaroid snapshots of themselves and their Storytime readers. Storytime is every Wednesday morning, from 10:15-10:45, in the Children’s section of the library.

you may have heard about our new books section

Now you can see it:
new books

And here are some new DVDs:
new DVDs

You can see more pictures of the library at our flickr account