Fun summer reading activities, the continuing saga…
The tweens and teens have their own programs to participate in and look forward to as part of TR2 (Teens Read, Too!) summer reading program. Upcoming on Saturday, July 25, is a breakfast and library scavenger hunt that requires online registration. If you have hungry teens (middle or high school age) pass the word that the teen librarian will serve them breakfast at 10:30am. Following breakfast is a library scavenger hunt that will be in teams. This hunt was teen tested at the library lock-in and thus, preapproved to be a good time. Prizes can be won, and raffle tickets will go in the jar for all registered attendees. Food and frivolity all on a Saturday morning!
Likewise, there’s more fun for teens on Wednesday, July 29, from 6-8pm. Once again, register ahead and note that ‘teen’ includes middle school. We’ll be playing some party games that require a crowd. Sample selections include – Pictionary, Apples to Apples, Balderdash, etc. We’ll decide what to play by consensus. Don’t forget that your friends need to register, too. HURRY, you don’t want the teen librarian here all alone, do you?
For the younger set, the circus is coming to town on Monday, July 27th, from 4-5pm. You’ll be creating a zoo by making your own 3-D zoo animal. Choices include elephants, giraffes, lions, rhinoceroses, or zebras. We’re a zoo, come be part of us and our creative antics.
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Kimball Library News 7/7/09
Kimball Library is proud to feature local artists’ work in the meeting room and throughout the library. This summer we are pleased to present the work of Brigette Guy, Atkinson resident. Please read below Guy’s own words regarding her work, and do make a point of stopping in to see her creations.
Brigette Guy, Artist Statement: “I’ve always tried to find myself within the context of art history. With the creation of this body of work, I feel that I have finally done so. I chose to use silverpoint, which was a technique of the Old Masters, but bring it to modernity. I used the time it took to create this series of portraits to look back at where I’ve come from and see who I’ve become. For this reason, the portraits I’ve drawn of my relatives have also helped me define myself within my own family history.
Silverpoint is a medium that demands patience and focus. A great deal of preparatory work is necessary before drawing. The surface on which I work needs to be primed and sanded multiple times in order to obtain a smooth surface. Then, the values are slowly built up with a sharpened rod of silver until a subtle tonal range is reached and the drawing is done. The finished product is light and delicate, but will deepen and darken with time as the silver oxidizes.
These characteristics only make silverpoint more akin to the dynamic of a family. Much like the efforts of a silverpoint artist, families oftentimes require a lot of work from its members, which is something that remains unseen to outsiders. When it comes to the oxidization process, each drawing, like a member of a family, will change just as people age. Nonetheless, the body of work and the family as a whole maintain their integrity.”
More summer reading fun ~wacky lawn croquet! Make room in your calendar for a fun outdoor game for kids on Monday, July 20th, from 4-5:15pm. We’ll be playing and giggling on the grass behind the Historical Society. Bring a sense of humor and some mallets, please, if you have them. And don’t forget to check the online calendar as there are daily activities to choose from!
TR2 Update: Over 80 teens have registered and now tickets for items read are coming in. Some prize winners have already been drawn! The Tr2 participants have 150 tickets in the jar as of July 7. Will they make the goal of 500 by August 7th? Just in case, the teen librarian made a hair appointment for August 13th, compliments of Janet Porter, Online Hair Salon.
Brigette Guy, Artist Statement: “I’ve always tried to find myself within the context of art history. With the creation of this body of work, I feel that I have finally done so. I chose to use silverpoint, which was a technique of the Old Masters, but bring it to modernity. I used the time it took to create this series of portraits to look back at where I’ve come from and see who I’ve become. For this reason, the portraits I’ve drawn of my relatives have also helped me define myself within my own family history.
Silverpoint is a medium that demands patience and focus. A great deal of preparatory work is necessary before drawing. The surface on which I work needs to be primed and sanded multiple times in order to obtain a smooth surface. Then, the values are slowly built up with a sharpened rod of silver until a subtle tonal range is reached and the drawing is done. The finished product is light and delicate, but will deepen and darken with time as the silver oxidizes.
These characteristics only make silverpoint more akin to the dynamic of a family. Much like the efforts of a silverpoint artist, families oftentimes require a lot of work from its members, which is something that remains unseen to outsiders. When it comes to the oxidization process, each drawing, like a member of a family, will change just as people age. Nonetheless, the body of work and the family as a whole maintain their integrity.”
More summer reading fun ~wacky lawn croquet! Make room in your calendar for a fun outdoor game for kids on Monday, July 20th, from 4-5:15pm. We’ll be playing and giggling on the grass behind the Historical Society. Bring a sense of humor and some mallets, please, if you have them. And don’t forget to check the online calendar as there are daily activities to choose from!
TR2 Update: Over 80 teens have registered and now tickets for items read are coming in. Some prize winners have already been drawn! The Tr2 participants have 150 tickets in the jar as of July 7. Will they make the goal of 500 by August 7th? Just in case, the teen librarian made a hair appointment for August 13th, compliments of Janet Porter, Online Hair Salon.
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Kimball Library News 6/30/09
Imagine a large horn calling and reminding ALL KIDS, TEENS & TWEENS to register, read, and participate in all our exciting activities. Visit our website (www.kimballlibrary.com) to see details and if registration is required. Listed below are just a few things you can try.
‘Summer Reading’ entertainment that's sure to keep the entire family off their seats will ‘magically’ be appearing on Thursday, July 9th, from 6:30-7:30pm! Make plans to see Peter Boie, Magician for Non-Believers! He started learning magic at age eleven from a magic book he checked out of his local library. That interest turned into a career as a professional magician that has taken him around the country. From kids to teens, parents and grandparents, everyone will enjoy Peter's show. There's lots of magic and comedy, and audience members actually become a part of the show. Be sure to save this date! It's a winner!
For the middle and high school crowd on Fridays, this is your time to use the large meeting room and big screen to play Wii with your friends. (Or make some while you're here.) Registration is required as we won't set up the equipment if we're not sure you plan to come. Mark this on your calendar in advance and get your friends to play, too. They do not have to be Atkinson residents, but they need to register just like you online. If you register in advance and play for the entire time, you can add your name to our weekly raffle drawing for teen summer reading prizes if you are enrolled in TR2. Try any Friday in July from 10:30am until noon, and don’t forget to pre-register on our online calendar.
TR2 Update: Over 50 teens have registered and now tickets for items read are starting to come in. The Tr2 participants need 500 tickets in the jar by August 4 to make the teen librarian highlight or stripe her hair purple. Can they do it?
‘Summer Reading’ entertainment that's sure to keep the entire family off their seats will ‘magically’ be appearing on Thursday, July 9th, from 6:30-7:30pm! Make plans to see Peter Boie, Magician for Non-Believers! He started learning magic at age eleven from a magic book he checked out of his local library. That interest turned into a career as a professional magician that has taken him around the country. From kids to teens, parents and grandparents, everyone will enjoy Peter's show. There's lots of magic and comedy, and audience members actually become a part of the show. Be sure to save this date! It's a winner!
For the middle and high school crowd on Fridays, this is your time to use the large meeting room and big screen to play Wii with your friends. (Or make some while you're here.) Registration is required as we won't set up the equipment if we're not sure you plan to come. Mark this on your calendar in advance and get your friends to play, too. They do not have to be Atkinson residents, but they need to register just like you online. If you register in advance and play for the entire time, you can add your name to our weekly raffle drawing for teen summer reading prizes if you are enrolled in TR2. Try any Friday in July from 10:30am until noon, and don’t forget to pre-register on our online calendar.
TR2 Update: Over 50 teens have registered and now tickets for items read are starting to come in. The Tr2 participants need 500 tickets in the jar by August 4 to make the teen librarian highlight or stripe her hair purple. Can they do it?
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Kimball Library News 6/23/09
Try July! Make it your month to take part in one of our book discussions. Books are available for the asking, and new participants are always welcome. Read a hook from the publisher for each book and see…
(TWEENS-GRADES 6-8 from 6:30-7:30pm) WEDNESDAY, JULY 1~ “Yellow Star” by Jennifer Roy. “From 1939, when Syvia is four and a half years old, to 1945 when she has just turned ten, a Jewish girl and her family struggle to survive in Poland's Lodz ghetto during the Nazi occupation.”
(YOUNG ADULT-GRADES 9-12 from 6:30-7:30pm) WEDNESDAY, JULY 8~ “Beastly” by Alex Flinn. “I am a monster. You think I'm talking fairy tales? No way. The place is New York City. The time is now. It's no deformity, no disease. And I'll stay this way forever—ruined—unless I can break the spell. Yes, the spell, the one the witch in my English class cast on me. Why did she turn me into a beast who hides by day and prowls by night? I'll tell you. I'll tell you how I used to be Kyle Kingsbury, the guy you wished you were, with money, perfect looks, and the perfect life. And then, I'll tell you how I became perfectly . . . beastly.”
(EVENING-ADULTS from 6-7pm) TUESDAY, JULY 21~ “Before You Know Kindness” by Chris Bohjalian. “On a balmy July night in New Hampshire a shot rings out in a garden, and a man falls to the ground, terribly wounded. The wounded man is Spencer McCullough, the shot that hit him was fired–accidentally?–by his adolescent daughter Charlotte. With this shattering moment of violence, Chris Bohjalian launches the best kind of literate page-turner: suspenseful, wryly funny, and humane.”
(MORNING-ADULTS from 10:15-11:30am) WEDNESDAY, JULY 22~ “In Sunlight, in a Beautiful Garden” by Kathleen Kambor “This is a story of a bittersweet romance set against the backdrop of the Johnstown, Pennsylvania, flood — a tragedy that cost some 2,200 lives when the South Fork Dam burst on Memorial Day weekend, 1889. The dam was the site of a gentlemen's club that attracted some of the wealthiest industrialists of the day — Henry Clay Frick, Andrew Mellon, and Andrew Carnegie — and served as a summertime idyll for the families of the rich. In Sunlight, in a Beautiful Garden imagines the lives that were lived, lost, and irreparably changed by a tragedy that could have been averted.”
(PIZZA & PAGES-GRADES 3-5 from 4-5pm) TUESDAY, JULY 28~ “The Boys Start the War” by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor. “Just when the Hatford brothers were expecting three boys to move into the house across the river, where their best friends, the Bensons, used to live, the Malloys arrive instead. Wally and his brothers decide to make Caroline and her sisters so miserable that they'll want to go back to Ohio, but they haven't counted on the ingenuity of the girls.”
Calling and reminding ALL KIDS, TEENS & TWEENS to register, read, and participate in all our exciting activities. Visit our website and see. http://www.kimballlibrary.com/
(TWEENS-GRADES 6-8 from 6:30-7:30pm) WEDNESDAY, JULY 1~ “Yellow Star” by Jennifer Roy. “From 1939, when Syvia is four and a half years old, to 1945 when she has just turned ten, a Jewish girl and her family struggle to survive in Poland's Lodz ghetto during the Nazi occupation.”
(YOUNG ADULT-GRADES 9-12 from 6:30-7:30pm) WEDNESDAY, JULY 8~ “Beastly” by Alex Flinn. “I am a monster. You think I'm talking fairy tales? No way. The place is New York City. The time is now. It's no deformity, no disease. And I'll stay this way forever—ruined—unless I can break the spell. Yes, the spell, the one the witch in my English class cast on me. Why did she turn me into a beast who hides by day and prowls by night? I'll tell you. I'll tell you how I used to be Kyle Kingsbury, the guy you wished you were, with money, perfect looks, and the perfect life. And then, I'll tell you how I became perfectly . . . beastly.”
(EVENING-ADULTS from 6-7pm) TUESDAY, JULY 21~ “Before You Know Kindness” by Chris Bohjalian. “On a balmy July night in New Hampshire a shot rings out in a garden, and a man falls to the ground, terribly wounded. The wounded man is Spencer McCullough, the shot that hit him was fired–accidentally?–by his adolescent daughter Charlotte. With this shattering moment of violence, Chris Bohjalian launches the best kind of literate page-turner: suspenseful, wryly funny, and humane.”
(MORNING-ADULTS from 10:15-11:30am) WEDNESDAY, JULY 22~ “In Sunlight, in a Beautiful Garden” by Kathleen Kambor “This is a story of a bittersweet romance set against the backdrop of the Johnstown, Pennsylvania, flood — a tragedy that cost some 2,200 lives when the South Fork Dam burst on Memorial Day weekend, 1889. The dam was the site of a gentlemen's club that attracted some of the wealthiest industrialists of the day — Henry Clay Frick, Andrew Mellon, and Andrew Carnegie — and served as a summertime idyll for the families of the rich. In Sunlight, in a Beautiful Garden imagines the lives that were lived, lost, and irreparably changed by a tragedy that could have been averted.”
(PIZZA & PAGES-GRADES 3-5 from 4-5pm) TUESDAY, JULY 28~ “The Boys Start the War” by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor. “Just when the Hatford brothers were expecting three boys to move into the house across the river, where their best friends, the Bensons, used to live, the Malloys arrive instead. Wally and his brothers decide to make Caroline and her sisters so miserable that they'll want to go back to Ohio, but they haven't counted on the ingenuity of the girls.”
Calling and reminding ALL KIDS, TEENS & TWEENS to register, read, and participate in all our exciting activities. Visit our website and see. http://www.kimballlibrary.com/
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Kimball Library News 6/13/09
As part of our summer reading program, Kimball Library will be offering three dimensional art classes with recycling as inspiration. Children entering 4th and 5th grade can join hands on this art adventure. Masks, 3-D portraits, and maybe some baked clay will be part of the adventure. Jewelry will be part of the creations! Classes are Wednesday afternoons from 4:30 to 5:30pm with one exception. Dates are July 1st, July 10th, (Friday of this week only), July 15th, July 22nd, July 29th, and August 5th. Because “recycling” is the inspiration, a supply list will be available on the website and at the library. Registration is required at the library or on www.kimballibrary.com for one or several classes!
As summer approaches it is good to be reminded that museum passes are available for card-carrying patrons. The one exception is the New England Aquarium who does not offer passes in July and August. On the flip side, we have a NEW pass available for ZOO New England, Franklin Park Zoo ~Stone Zoo in Boston. Our other available passes are as follows: Currier Museum of Art, Museum of Science, Museum of Fine Arts, Peabody Essex Museum, Children’s Museum of NH, SEE Science Center, Seacoast Science Center, and Imagine That. Check our website for detailed information regarding each pass or to reserve your pass online.
Please be aware that due to the holiday weekend, we will be open for limited hours on Friday, July 3 from 10am-3pm, and we’ll be closed on Saturday, July 4th. Stock up early on books and DVDs, and have a safe and Happy 4th of July weekend.
As summer approaches it is good to be reminded that museum passes are available for card-carrying patrons. The one exception is the New England Aquarium who does not offer passes in July and August. On the flip side, we have a NEW pass available for ZOO New England, Franklin Park Zoo ~Stone Zoo in Boston. Our other available passes are as follows: Currier Museum of Art, Museum of Science, Museum of Fine Arts, Peabody Essex Museum, Children’s Museum of NH, SEE Science Center, Seacoast Science Center, and Imagine That. Check our website for detailed information regarding each pass or to reserve your pass online.
Please be aware that due to the holiday weekend, we will be open for limited hours on Friday, July 3 from 10am-3pm, and we’ll be closed on Saturday, July 4th. Stock up early on books and DVDs, and have a safe and Happy 4th of July weekend.
Kimball Library News 6/6/09
It’s closing in on ‘summertime, and the reading is easy!’ Kids entering kindergarten through grade 5 will want to rush down to Kimball Library on Friday, June 26 to register as that is the theme for the children. Just to tickle your fancy, we’ve got an opening program planned for Monday, June 29 from 5-7pm. Come for hot dogs, chips, drinks, and the best watermelon seed spitting contest around! It's sure to be fun!
The teens (youth entering grades 6-12) will be doing their own thing entitled “TR2” (Teens Read Too!) and they have a challenge before them. New this year is if they read an item that is MORE than 200 pages, they may enter 2 coupons for that same book. Remember, over 200 pages equals DOUBLE COUPONS. Also, extra tickets are being offered for teens who register and stay for any teen programs. For those teens who take extra effort to record online as well as turn in tickets, they will be able to win extra prizes. Basically, the more you read and the more you participate, the better your odds of winning prizes.
When each ticket(s) is completed, drop it off at the circulation desk to be eligible for random prize drawings held every day. Prizes may include snacks, books, music CDs, gift cards and more! You need not be present to win. And as to that challenge, if 50 teens register and read enough to get 500 tickets into the jar, the Teen Librarian (Kathy Watson) will highlight or slice her hair PURPLE. Get motivated and encourage your friends to register and read for TR2!
Are you confused as to the popularity of online social networking? Would you like to set up a Facebook account? Are you concerned as to the privacy of Facebook? Do you wonder what your teens are getting into and what others can see? Are you currently a Facebook user who is confused with some of the settings, terminology, and applications? Try FACEBOOK 101.
This informational session will touch on the following: General statistics, basic terminology, details on each tab of Facebook, 10 privacy settings every Facebook user should know and how to use them, how to link Facebook with other applications, answers to questions that current users may have. The presenter for the evening is Kathy Watson, Teen Librarian and Social Networker. Please register online or via website.
The teens (youth entering grades 6-12) will be doing their own thing entitled “TR2” (Teens Read Too!) and they have a challenge before them. New this year is if they read an item that is MORE than 200 pages, they may enter 2 coupons for that same book. Remember, over 200 pages equals DOUBLE COUPONS. Also, extra tickets are being offered for teens who register and stay for any teen programs. For those teens who take extra effort to record online as well as turn in tickets, they will be able to win extra prizes. Basically, the more you read and the more you participate, the better your odds of winning prizes.
When each ticket(s) is completed, drop it off at the circulation desk to be eligible for random prize drawings held every day. Prizes may include snacks, books, music CDs, gift cards and more! You need not be present to win. And as to that challenge, if 50 teens register and read enough to get 500 tickets into the jar, the Teen Librarian (Kathy Watson) will highlight or slice her hair PURPLE. Get motivated and encourage your friends to register and read for TR2!
Are you confused as to the popularity of online social networking? Would you like to set up a Facebook account? Are you concerned as to the privacy of Facebook? Do you wonder what your teens are getting into and what others can see? Are you currently a Facebook user who is confused with some of the settings, terminology, and applications? Try FACEBOOK 101.
This informational session will touch on the following: General statistics, basic terminology, details on each tab of Facebook, 10 privacy settings every Facebook user should know and how to use them, how to link Facebook with other applications, answers to questions that current users may have. The presenter for the evening is Kathy Watson, Teen Librarian and Social Networker. Please register online or via website.
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