Library news

The Peace Corps

Adam Maines will present a pro­gram on his time in the Peace Corps on Thurs­day, Jan. 26, at 6 p.m., in the meet­ing room of the Clyde Pub­lic Library. Adam spent 27 months in the Peace Corps, teach­ing math and phys­i­cal sci­ences at the high school level in Malawi in South East Africa. One of the poor­est coun­tries of the world in Africa, Malawi is among the world’s least devel­oped coun­tries, with an agri­cul­ture based econ­omy where 85% of the pop­u­la­tion live in rural areas. He also taught com­puter pro­gram­ming in Tonga, Poly­ne­sia. Adam, son of Don and Vickie Maines, is a 1999 grad­u­ate of Clyde High School and 2005 grad­u­ate of Bowl­ing Green State Uni­ver­sity. There is no reg­is­tra­tion required for this free program.

Tablet Class

The library has twelve tablet com­put­ers, pur­chased through a grant from the Rus­sell and Mar­guerite Stephen­son foun­da­tion, and we are start­ing to hold classes in using them. The first class is Thurs­day, Jan. 26, at 1 p.m. Please reg­is­ter in advance for the class by call­ing the library; you will need to sign the Tablet Pol­icy Agree­ment before tak­ing the class and you will need your library card.

Lap­top Classes

Do you have a lap­top (note­book) com­puter? Are you con­nected wire­lessly to the Inter­net? We are inves­ti­gat­ing hold­ing reg­u­larly sched­uled classes for peo­ple who can bring their own lap­tops to the class. If you are inter­ested, please call the library or email Jill at jmccullough@clyde.lib.oh.us — please tell us when would be a good time — both day of the week and time of the day — for you to attend. Be sure to men­tion any spe­cial areas you would like to cover.

Story Time

Win­ter dressed bears were prowl­ing the children’s room at the Clyde Pub­lic Library. Preschool­ers assem­bled a brown bear com­plete with a win­ter hat.

The books shared were: The Three Snow Bears by Jan Brett. The Goldilocks story takes a twist when an endear­ing snow bear fam­ily and a curi­ous Inuit girl meet in the Arctic.

Sleep, Big Bear, Sleep by Mau­reen Wright. As win­ter comes and Big Bear pre­pares to hiber­nate he keeps think­ing he hears Old Man Win­ter giv­ing him exhaust­ing orders that pre­vent him from sleeping.

Copy Me, Copy­cub by Richard Evans. Through the sea­sons a mother bear and her cub play an impor­tant game of fol­low the leader and when win­ter sud­denly arrives mother bear must keep her cub mov­ing to reach a cave where they can hiber­nate until spring.

Our music lead­ers were Rae­gan Black­burn and Kolton Gar­ner. The Clyde Pub­lic Library offers Story Time every week in two ses­sions from Sep­tem­ber through May. Story Time ses­sions are on Tues­day evenings from 6 to 6:30 p.m. and Wednes­day morn­ings from 11 to 11:30 a.m. Chil­dren must be two and a half to five years old, preschool­ers two and a half to three and a half years old must be accom­pa­nied by an adult.

Chill out and join us for Wake Up Ground­hog! on Tues­day, Jan. 31 or Wednes­day, Feb. 1.

Book Bunch

The Clyde Pub­lic Library offers Book Bunch every Tues­day evening from 6:30 to 7:15 p.m. Book Bunch is for grade school age chil­dren from kinder­garten through fourth grade. Join us for power point sto­ries and crafts related to the book read. Join us for snow bet­ter time to read on Tues­day, Feb. 7 for the pro­gram Snow Surprise.

High Fly­ers

The kids read­ing club will meet on Thurs­day, Feb. 16 to dis­cuss the book Sammy Keyes and the Night of the Skulls by Wen­delin Van Draa­nen. Zom­bies rule the night as Sammy and her friends take a detour through a grave­yard on Hal­loween night and find them­selves in the mid­dle of a mys­tery. Sammy must find out how three miss­ing peo­ple, two human skulls, and one ghoul­ish embalmer add up before she winds up six feet under herself.

Cre­ate a zom­bie and enjoy an ulti­mate Hal­loween Peanut But­ter Brownie bar. Books are avail­able to pick-up at the cir­cu­la­tion desk.

Come and join us for some creepy fun!! Call 419–547-7174 if you have any ques­tions about this event.

Posted by Michael Carter on Jan 25 2012. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS Feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.