Salisbury Free Public Library

Start with the Arts

2009-06-18T20:34:00.000-07:00

This evening kids from three local daycares came to share their art with their parents, each other, and us. Thanks to Rosemary Moser and Start with the Arts for putting on this great event!

Sabra Reads a Ted Scheu Poem

2009-06-14T06:02:00.000-07:00

2009-06-11T11:16:00.000-07:00

Dear Kids and Parents of Salisbury,

Happy Summer! Time for relaxing, playing outside, camping, swimming, fishing, sleeping late, and reading. Yes!!! Reading!!! Reading during the summer is the best way to help kids to maintain reading skills they learned during the school year. It's also a wonderful way to pass a rainy day inside or a sunny day on the grass.

The Salisbury Free Public Library in the Old Town Hall on Maple St. is open all summer long. On Tuesdays we have special time just for kids from 2:30-4:00, but you and your kids are welcome any time!

The Summer Reading Program at our library has a goal of getting each and every kid in Salisbury to read two books over the summer. Please bring your child in any time from now until the end of summer to sign up and get a reading log. A great time to register is on June 16 at 2:30 when we're having a book swap at the library! Bring in one or two books that your kids have read and want to trade for other books. While you're there, enjoy a treat and sign up for summer reading, and for a library card if you don't already have one. All summer readers will be invited to our End Of Summer party on August 25 at 2:30 and will receive a small prize for participation. Also, for each book you read, your name will go into a raffle for some bigger prizes from local businesses, so read a lot and give yourself more chances to win!

Summer Reading Kickoff: Book Swap

Tuesday, June 16

2:30

Bring a book to trade with other kids at the book swap in the yard!

Our goal is to have every kid in Salisbury read a lot of books over the summer! Come in, sign up and get your reading log started by swapping a book with another kid or checking one out of the library. We'll have brownies and lemonade, too!

Start with the Arts Preschool Art Show

Thursday, June 18

5:30-6:30 PM

See the art of preschoolers in Salisbury and see how 'Start with the Arts' helps get kids started in artistic endeavors at local in-home daycares.

Movie and Popcorn

Tuesday, June 30

2:30-4:00

Come watch a new release kids movie and eat popcorn with us in the library living room! All ages welcome, 6 and under with parent, please.

End of Summer Party

Tuesday, August 25

2:30-3:30

Come enjoy a treat and get your summer reading prizes and find out the results of the raffle!

Kid's time at the library!

Every Tuesday, All Summer

2:30-4:00

Come On In!

2009-06-06T13:58:00.000-07:00

Closed May 23 For Memorial Day

2009-05-19T11:55:00.000-07:00

The library will be closed on Saturday, May 23 for Memorial Day.

Gardening Workshop

2009-03-26T11:08:00.000-07:00

MARCH 26 at 7 PM at the library

Made for the Shade

Mary Cliver presents a talk on the best plants for landscaping in shady spots.

Please join us!

NEW PHONE NUMBER!

2009-03-03T11:49:00.000-08:00

The library has a new phone number!

It is 458-0747.

Please update your phone books!

2009-01-29T15:26:00.000-08:00

An ordinary day at the Salisbury Library!

2009-01-14T12:28:00.000-08:00

January Events At the Library

2008-12-18T18:07:00.000-08:00

As part of the Vermont Reads program, we are reading A Restless Spirit, a biography of Robert Frost, and featuring poetry in our January programs.
Please join us for a celebration of poets and poetry all month long!
Call Jennifer at 388-4014 for more information.

Jan 8
Ted Scheu Children's Poetry Workshop 3:30-4:45

Jan 15
Book Discussion for A Restless Spirit by Natalie Bober 2:30-3:30

Jan 23
Mid-Winter Poetry Reading 7:00-8:30

All the world's a stage...

2008-12-18T18:03:00.000-08:00

Here are Madison, Zoe, and George performing to please themselves upstairs in the library. The recently acquired and newly restored theater curtain looks great!

Ted Scheu the Poetry Guy! January 8th, 3:30-4:45

2008-12-16T10:52:00.000-08:00

Salisbury Library Warms Up Winter with Children’s Poet Ted Scheu

In conjunction with the Vermont Reads program, and in celebration of the remarkable legacy of Robert Frost, the Salisbury Library is pleased to present children’s poet, Ted Scheu (That Poetry Guy) on Thursday, January 8th 2009, from 3:30 to 4:45 PM, for an afternoon writing workshop. Children in 3^rd-6^th grade are invited. Younger and older children who love to write are also welcome!!!! Fasten your seatbelts, and get ready for an afternoon of smiles and fine writing with a top children’s poet.

Ted will share some of his own fun and funny poems and then he’ll lead a fun writing workshop where each child will write a poem that is reminiscent of one of Robert Frost’s.

Scheu lives in Middlebury. He is a former teacher who now travels all over the world as a visiting author conducting poetry writing workshops in schools for grades K-6. His poems have been published worldwide, most recently in two new collections called, “I Froze My Mother and Other Seriously Funny Family Poems,” and “I Tickled My Teachers,” Cold Tree Publishing, TN (2008) and in many popular anthologies in the US including, ”I Invited a Dragon to Dinner” by Philomel, NY (2002), and “If Kids Ruled the School”, “Rolling in the Aisles,” and “Miles of Smiles,” by Meadowbrook Press, MN (2004), and in the UK in six anthologies published by Macmillan, Scholastic, and Hodder Children’s Books. He also has a self-published CD of his poems called, “Warning, Don’t Eat More Than Three!” His work may also be found at his web site at www.poetryguy.com. Some of Scheu’s books will be available for sale and signing on the day of the workshop.

Don’t miss this chance to write, share, listen, and laugh—all at the same time!

Call Jennifer Stefani at 388-4014 (home) or at 352-4198 (library) to register your child for this event! We need to know how many people are coming so please leave a message with your child’s name and your phone number when you call.

Great books at the library!

2008-12-04T11:23:00.000-08:00

In the past few months, the library has received wonderful donations from the Lincoln Library and also from the Jeudevine Library in Hardwick.

The Lincoln Library 'adopted' us and gave us a lot of books they had received as donations but already had copies on the shelves.

The Jeudevine Library must have looked on our wishlist on this page. One gloomy gray day last week I went across the street to check the mail, and there was a book-shaped package waiting for me. I thought 'that's odd,' since I hadn't ordered any books through Inter-library loan lately.

I opened the package, and there was a brand new copy of 'The Story of Edgar Sawtelle' which I'd been wanting for the library! Wow! The weather stayed gray, but it was like the sun came out inside the library.

Thank you!!!!!!

The Story of Edgar Sawtelle is on our shelves now, ready to be read!!!

Happy Halloween!

2008-11-04T07:19:00.000-08:00

Halloween Pizza!

2008-10-30T12:04:00.000-07:00

Halloween Pizza

October 31 from 5 PM-6 PM

Come to the Library for pizza before trick-or-treating in the Village!

New Books At The Library

2008-10-21T12:45:00.000-07:00

I've just returned from maternity leave and I'm bringing new books in every time I come!

Right now the newest Juvenile and Young Adult titles are:
Twilight, Eclipse, New Moon, and Breaking Dawn by Stephanie Meyer
My 100 Adventures by Polly Horvath
Dingo by Charles DeLint
Falling by Doug Wilhelm
The Revealers by Doug Wilhelm
Tales from Moominvalley and Finn Family Moomintroll by Tove Jannson
Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney

Coming Soon:

Olivia Kidney by Ellen Potter
Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg
The Music of Dolphins by Karen Hesse
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norman Juster

Please come and visit us when you have a chance! Starting in November, the kid's program will again be on Tuesdays from 2:30-4:00. Kids can come right over after school on the bus.

May 28, 7 PM Film Screening

2008-05-08T12:23:00.000-07:00

On May 28 at 7:00 PM, the library book group will host a film screening of 'The End of Suburbia,' a film about oil depletion and how life will change as we use up our fossil fuels.

Watch the trailer below, and go to the filmmaker's website for more information about the film.

Go to the Addison County Relocalization Network's Local Energy page to see some local responses to this problem.

May 31 from 9-12: Plant Swap, Book and Bake Sale

2008-05-08T11:33:00.000-07:00

On Saturday, May 31 from 9-12, the library hosts a plant swap plus a book and bake sale.

Bring plant cuttings and seedlings to swap, browse our book sale, treat yourself to a cookie, and sign up for a library card while you're here!

April 21, 7 PM--Introduction to Bee Keeping

2008-04-01T08:07:00.000-07:00

On April 21 at 7:00, Steven Parise, the state Apiary Inspector, will come to the library to speak on Getting Started in Bee Keeping.

This will be a general informational talk with time for questions and answers for those who are interested in getting started in apiculture. It should be a good opportunity for networking and asking questions for those who have already begun keeping hives as well.

Cluck N' Read! Book Group Information For April

2008-04-01T08:00:00.000-07:00

For April, we decided to keep with our locavore reading, including any of the 3 we started with:

Deep Economy by Bill McKibben
Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan
Animal Vegetable Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver

The library now has copies of all three of these books.

If you have read these, the other suggestions were Michael Pollan's Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World, or Second Nature: A Gardener's Education, or his latest, In Defense of Food, which is his follow-up to Omnivore's Dilemma. Full Moon Feast: Food and Hunger Connection, by Jessica Prentice was another suggestion. Or read anything else you want to read and come share with us at our next meeting, on April 30th at the library.

Raising Chickens--Monday, March 24 at 7 PM

2008-03-20T19:22:00.000-07:00

On Monday, March 24 at 7 PM, the Library hosted an Eat Local event on raising chickens.
Experienced local folks shared their knowledge and answered questions on how to successfully set yourself up with a flock of chickens.

New Kid's Blog

2008-03-11T13:20:00.000-07:00

Check out our new Kid's Blog, where we'll post news about our kids programs and where the kids at the library can post artwork, poems, and lists of their favorite books!

Computer Networking Workshop, March 14, 6:30

2008-03-11T11:01:00.001-07:00

Now that Verizon is offering high speed internet to many parts of Salisbury, people who work at home can really work at home! Wouldn't it be nice to be able to work in any room of your home?

On Friday, March 14 at 6:30 PM, Tim Bradley of Computer Security Inc. will come to the library to speak and answer questions about wireless home networking and computer security.

Please come to learn more about your wireless networking options and to ask questions about home network security.

Computer Help at the Library

2008-01-21T19:16:00.000-08:00

Beginning on February 2, computer help will be available on the first Saturday of each month at the library from 9-12.

Please call 352-4198 to check for availability, then bring in your questions about email, word processing, Internet options, and other basic computer operations. I will be happy to help you solve problems or find someone who can!

Monday Evenings--new hours!

2007-11-27T11:12:00.000-08:00

Beginning December 3rd, the library will be open from 6-8 pm on Monday evenings.

Many thanks to Kathryn Schloff, Ken Tichacek, Kateri Carmola, and Higbee for volunteering to be here on alternating Mondays!