Program Planners Meeting:
The next Program Planners meeting will be held on Tuesday, April 13th, at 2:00, at Andover's Memorial Hall Library. Our topic: "The Best of Programs and the Worst of Programs." Let's learn from our disasters and share our best ideas for adult and intergenerational programming. Thank you to Norma Gammon for hosting the meeting. Directions to Andover Library are at http://www.mhl.org.
The Program Planners Group is a lively group of creative library staff who design and present library and community programming for adults and intergenerational audiences. The group meets four times a year to share resources and ideas.
New on the Chelmsford Library web site is a page of successful program ideas from the Program Planners Group
http://www.chelmsfordlibrary.org/programs/programs/program_planners_group.html
If you have any questions, selections of your best programs to add to the Program Planners' web page, or if you would like to be added to the e-mail mailing list to receive occasional, and sometimes random, ideas and hints re: library programming, contact Kathy Cryan-Hicks at the Chelmsford Library - kcryanhic@mailserv.mvlc.lib.ma.us.
Lawrence Public Library is sponsoring a series of Math workshops for youth ages 8 to 12 and their parents. Lawrence was one of fifteen libraries across the country which received a grant from ALA for this program. The four-week series began on February 21st and is held at the library. For more information please visit: http://www.ala.org/
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Reading Public Library - Help Needed to Break Guinness Record!
Believe it or not, this coming March marks the 20th anniversary of the Reading Public Library's relocation to the former Highland School building. People still talk about the wonderful reuse and renovation of the building, the low cost of the project, and, of course, the human chain that moved the books from the old Carnegie building to 64 Middlesex Avenue.
A once-in-a-lifetime event will be held to commemorate our 20th anniversary on Middlesex Avenue. On Saturday, March 13th (rain, snow, or shine) we intend to break the Guinness World's Record for the longest "human conveyor belt." We will line the streets of Reading with people all the way from the current library to the old library (now part of Town Hall). A special book will be passed at 11:00 from person to person to remember and celebrate the community spirit that moved the Library 20 years ago. Local news stations and other media outlets will be invited to capture the event. Festivities will be held at the Library afterward.
We hope you are willing and able to participate in getting the Reading Public Library into the Guinness Book that day. Please share this information with your organization, sign up to be a team, or simply come over with your family and friends. The most important thing is to have fun at this community-building event.
The Rowley Public Library celebrated its grand opening on February 14th at its new location on 141 Main Street. Hundreds of townspeople were on hand for the festivities. Among the speakers were Rowley Library Trustee Chair Maura Mastrogiovanni, State Representative Harriett Stanley, State Senator Bruce Tarr, MBLC Commissioner Deborah Bornheimer, and Library Director Julie Bernier. After the dedication ceremony, a video presentation traced the timeline of the building project. There was plenty of delicious food to go around! Congratulations, Rowley!
Kathleen Curran is the Library Media Specialist for NMRLS new member schools: Proctor School, and Steward School, both located in Topsfield.
Paula Brown is the Library Media Specialist for, St. Ann's Home, in Methuen, which joined NRMLS in January.
Jo Hills has retired as the Librarian of the Lowell National Historical Park. Word has it she and her husband have opened a B&B in New Hampshire!
