The library is open in summer season (Monday, Tuesday, Thursday 10 a.m. to six p.m.; Wednesday 10 a.m. to eight p.m. and Friday 10 a.m. to three p.m.) till August. The library is closed Saturday by means of Saturday, September eleventh. Our hours of operation will probably be prolonged after Labor Day, so keep tuned for particulars!
Return of library supplies
Please place the returned gadgets on the purchasing cart offered within the library foyer or drop them off within the ebook drop space close to the flagpole. We now not quarantine gadgets, however we are going to waive late charges till September 1st. Our new charge schedule for delays will probably be introduced on the finish of August.
Museum and attraction cross program
As extra venues opened, we’ve got resumed our widespread museum and attraction cross program. Please discuss with the museum cross hyperlink on the library web site for particulars. Most of the venues have particular directions on easy methods to use library playing cards as a result of COVID restrictions. Please learn them rigorously earlier than making your reservations. We would wish to thank the Buddies of the Library for coordinating the Museum and Attraction Passes program and the next sponsors who’ve helped the Buddies meet the price of offering these passes to the group: American Historic Cash and Collectibles, Butler & Sons Tree Service , Inc, Charles River Financial institution, Devlin’s Tavern, Elevate Counseling, Mass Armament, Mass Renewables, Owen Monetary Companies, and the Bellingham Enterprise Affiliation.
Summer time studying & kids’s packages
Summer time Studying ends this month, nevertheless it’s not too late to affix our LLAMAzing Summer time. And we aren’t LION. It had been insufferable ready for it to come back right here. However DOGGONE-it, it is virtually over.
For particulars on all of our summer season occasions, in addition to data on how your summer season studying can win prizes, please go to www.bellinghamlibrary.org/youngsters. All YouTube movies may be seen at youtube.com/abcswithmrsteve.
- Digital STEAM time on YouTube – Mondays at 3:30 p.m.
- Who would win? – Tuesday, August 3, 4:30 p.m. on YouTube
- Tales of Your Tails – Pet video submission begins August ninth
- Child Time – Tuesdays at 9 a.m. outdoors (location to be decided) or zoom in if the climate would not cooperate (NOTE: no assembly on August tenth)
- quarter-hour of enjoyable on Fb – Tuesdays at 10 a.m. (no assembly on August 10)
- Tails & Tales Storytime – Tuesdays at 12:30 pm; Wednesdays, 6:30 p.m. and Thursdays at 9:30 a.m. on Zoom (no conferences from August tenth to twelfth)
- Veterinary examination of stuffed animals – Tuesday, August 17, 3:30 p.m. Meet the Elephant & Piggy!
- Picnic Tales – Wednesdays at 12:30 pm on City Frequent, climate allowing (NOTE: No meet on August eleventh)
- Gluttonous Readers – Wednesdays, August 4th and 18th, at 4:30 p.m., within the library
- Boredom Busters – Thursdays at 7:30 a.m. on YouTube
- Krafty Children – Thursdays at 2 p.m.
- Mom and Daughter E-book Membership — Thursday, August 19 at 6:30 pm (for grades 5-7). Electronic mail Diane Nelson at [email protected] for particulars.
- Tails & Tales Story Time Replay – Fridays at 9 a.m. on YouTube
August packages:
• E-book Dialogue Group – Monday, August 2 at 6:30 pm, on Zoom). Blake Crouch’s Darkish Matter is mentioned. To take part, please contact Reference Librarian Cecily Christensen who will chair the dialogue at 508-966-1660 or [email protected].
• Grownup writing group – Monday, August ninth at 6:30 pm within the township. Writers, readers, listeners are invited to affix us. Native writers Amy Bartelloni and Marjorie Turner Hollman welcome the general public for a night of studying and listening. Hear what native writers are engaged on. Works of fiction or non-fiction are welcome. The studying restrict is 9 minutes per reader, with a quick alternative for constructive, private feedback solely. For extra data, contact Marjorie Turner Hollman at [email protected]• Assembly of buddies of the library – Tuesday, August tenth at 7pm on Zoom. E-mail [email protected] for the zoom hyperlink.
• Buddies of the Library E-book Gross sales — Buddies of the Library will maintain a particular summer season ebook sale in coordination with Bellingham Days, town carnival and occasions scheduled for August 19-21. E-book gross sales dates / instances: Thursday and Friday, August 19 and 20, 3 p.m. – 7 p.m., and Saturday, August 21, 9 a.m. – 12 p.m.
We aren’t accepting extra donations for the sale as we’re nonetheless processing the stock of books we acquired for the spring 2020 sale (which was canceled as a result of pandemic).
Are available September!
Programming after college
The library plans to renew our regular after-school program after Labor Day. Program particulars and registration dates for grades 4 to six for the ASK program will probably be revealed on the library web site by mid-August. Though the library closes at 3:00 p.m. on Fridays all through the varsity yr, our Friday afternoon program continues till 5:00 p.m. within the widespread room with a weekly movie. Extra particulars will observe.
Monday, September 20, 2021, 6:30 p.m. to eight:30 p.m. – Stephano: The True Story of Shakespeare’s Shipwreck (our first in-person grownup occasion in over 18 months). Go to the library to see the 90-minute screening of the movie, adopted by a question-and-answer session with the filmmaker.
The movie tells the story of the one Mayflower passenger who was beforehand in North America. A decade earlier, Stephen Hopkins had been on a ship in Jamestown that perished in Bermuda and impressed Shakespeare’s ultimate play, The Tempest. Hit and Run Historical past, shot on location, traces Hopkins’ life everywhere in the Atlantic.
Two-time Emmy-nominated producer Andrew Giles Buckley and his movie crew observe within the footsteps of Stephen Hopkins, a shipwrecked man touring to Virginia who not solely discovered his manner onto the decks of the Mayflower a decade later, however was immortalized on stage as a drunk Stephano in Shakespeare’s play The Tempest.
Registration is fascinating, however not essential.
This program is supported by a grant from the Bellingham Cultural Council, an area company supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state company.
The Bellingham Public Library subscribes to on-line assets on quite a lot of subjects, and most may be explored with out leaving your house. Customers have free entry to those assets with their Bellingham library card. Merely go to the Bellingham Library web site at www.bellinghamlibrary.org and click on the On-line Sources tab to view all of our on-line choices.
The library’s foremost useful resource this month is A to Z World Journey. Anybody with an energetic Bellingham library card can entry this useful resource remotely or within the library. A to Z World Journey contains 4 separate databases: A to Z World Meals, A to Z World Tradition, A to Z World Journey and International Street Warrior.
A to Z World Meals accommodates conventional recipes for 174 nations around the globe in all course classes: starters, soups, salads, breads, foremost dishes, facet dishes, desserts, snacks and drinks. It additionally covers the meals tradition for 174 nations around the globe in six classes: Nationwide Delicacies, Regional Delicacies, Each day Meals, Eat Etiquette, Particular Event Eating, and Meals Trivia.
A to Z World Tradition supplies data on world historical past, cultures, languages, meals, religions and far more. It accommodates 174 Nation Tradition Guides, every protecting greater than 60 subjects. This database is especially properly fitted to college students doing nation analysis initiatives and shows, in addition to anybody touring to a different nation.
A to Z World Journey is for vacationers and data seekers alike. It is a complete journey useful resource with data on points of interest, security, transportation, meals and recipes, tradition, language, and extra. It accommodates 202 World Metropolis Journey Guides, every protecting 67 subjects, plus a further 57 journey assets.
International Street Warrior is a complete country-specific useful resource for studying about tradition, customs, historical past and language around the globe. It consists of 174 nation guides with 119 subjects every. It gives broad and complete protection of hard-to-find nation data on tradition, enterprise, journey, and native life. College students and academics can use International Street Warrior to analysis questions of worldwide and intercultural research, worldwide economics, social sciences, girls’s research, linguistics and learning overseas. International Street Warrior’s wealthy enterprise tradition content material is useful for corporations in facilitating worldwide enterprise transactions.
All 4 databases from A to Z are mobile-friendly and mechanically adapt to the display screen measurement of any desktop, laptop computer, pill or smartphone. Whether or not you are making an attempt out recipes from different nations, touring, researching nations for scientific experiences, or studying about native tradition for enterprise, these databases may be invaluable assets – and better of all, they’re free to entry along with your Bellingham library Map!
