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HOURS OPEN beginning August 2nd Monday 3:00 – 7:00 PM Tuesday 3:00 – 7:00 PM Wednesday 10:00 – 1:00 PM Thursday 3:00 – 7:00 PM Friday 3:00 – 7:00 PM Saturday 10:00 – 1:00 PM Sunday CLOSED 2-Aug-2010
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Job Opening – Library Assistant
The Grafton Community Library will be hiring a part-time Library Assistant, to work 7 hours per week on Fridays 3:00 – 7:00 pm and Saturdays 10:00 am-1:00 pm.
The position requires a capable multi-tasker who can handle the fast pace of the circulation desk during weekend hours. Responsibilities include checking in books and media items, assisting patrons with requests, and registration of new borrowers. The position requires computer and keyboarding skills, the ability to assist patrons who are using library computers, and use of the Internet to find information.
Additional capabilities include the ability to work well with people, show sensitivity to the needs of children, and demonstrate a commitment to excellent customer service.
Interested individuals should contact Library Director Carolyn Durnin at 279-0580 during library hours (M,Tu,Th 3-8 pm, W 10-2 pm, Sa 10-1 pm), or
Stop in at the library and see the tank of newly hatched tadpoles, on loan to us courtesy of the Dyken Pond Environmental Education Center. These little creatures will slowly grow legs and lose their tail, on the way to becoming Wood Frogs. O
nce they are mature, they will be returned to the wild at Dyken Pond.
This tie-in with nature is an opportunity to promote the theme of our upcoming Summer Reading Program, Make a Splash…Read!
Mark your calendars and get ready to attend the Riverway Storytelling Festival, April 19-25!
The Grafton Community Library will be sponsoring a free performance at Grafton Elementary School on Monday, April 19th at 6:30 PM.
Hold the Mayo! Songs & Stories About the Stuff We Eat features storyteller Mary Murphy and the musical duo “Tales & Tunes”.
*Click here* to see the complete list of upcoming events.
Please join us on
Sunday, Jan. 10 at 4:00 PM
for a Book Release Party for
Am I Really Thirteen? written by
Grafton resident Kelsey O’Dell,
a ninth grader at the Berlin Junior Senior High School.
The Holiday Raffle Basket was won by Grafton resident Jo-Ann Crandall, pictured here wearing a huge smile as she picked up her prize. Board member Leanna Sweet drew the winning ticket on December 21st, with Board member Sandy von Schilgen and Director Carolyn Durnin looking on.
The Library will raffle a holiday gift basket to benefit the Library. The winning ticket will be drawn on Saturday, December 19, at the Library. Tickets prices are one dollar each or six tickets for five dollars.
Give the basket as a gift, keep it as a treat for yourself or use the goodies as individual gifts. The basket is brimming with a variety of books to please everyone on your gift list, including titles by popular authors Mary Higgins Clark, James Patterson, Nora Roberts and Barbara Kingsolver. Bestseller The Jane Austen Book Club is included as well as Flags of Our Fathers. For the animal lover, the tales of Dewey the library cat, and of Marley the rambunctious Labrador retriever are included. There is also a garden mystery and more.
To accompany your reading, brew a cup of the Green Mountain coffee, mug included, or indulge in some chocolates. Additional items in the basket include hand-rolled beeswax candles, a music CD, movie DVD, book sox, a Burt’s Bees essentials kit, mini gingerbread kit and party napkins.
Stop in at the Library at 2455 NY Route 2 to take a peek in the basket and purchase your raffle tickets during regular hours.
The Songs and Rhymes program
with Mary Pierson
will be held on
Thursday, November 12th at 4:00 PM.
The library is now a hotspot for wireless Internet! Bring your laptop computer and instantly connect to our broadband line.
YOU CAN VISIT THE CLARK MUSEUM IN WILLIAMSTOWN, MA. **FOR FREE **
BY RESERVING THE LIBRARY’S ONE-DAY-LOAN MUSEUM PASS!
The pass is good for free admission for two adults; children are always free.
Access the library’s online catalog to request books and other materials from UHLS member libraries, and have them delivered to your local library, ready for pickup in two or three days.
It’s never too early
to learn about books!