Bangor Public Library Newsletter

What's Going on at Your Library!
Spring 2011

 

 

Holidays and Library Closings

 

The Library will be CLOSED on the following days:

 

Monday, April 18 Patriot's Day

 

Wednesday, May 11 Staff Training Day

 

Monday, May 30 Memorial Day

 

Monday, July 4 Independence Day

 

Monday, September 5 Labor Day

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Free Passes to the Maine State Museum

 

Maine State Museum

 

The Bangor Public Library is part of a new program, created by the Friends of the Maine State Museum, that gives a Bangor Public Library member a free pass to the Maine State Museum each day, that admits four people free of charge.

Beginning April 1st, we will give away a daily pass that can be reserved up to one week in advance of the day of the Maine State Museum visit. The pass is for families or individuals, not for scouts, camps, or other groups. BPL members may use the pass once per month. For additional information or to sign up contact us 947-8336.

 

 

Annual Friends of the Library Booksale Saturday, May 7

 

Now is the time to bring your gently used books to the Bangor Public Library for the Friends of the Library's Annual Book Sale.  The Book Sale isn't until May 7, but if you are spring-cleaning and need to recycle some good reading material, the Library is happy to take the donations for the Friends.  As always, the Friends do NOT need textbooks, Readers Digest Condensed books, old encyclopedias, old magazines or anything that has mold or mildew.  The Friends will take fiction or non-fiction on any subject.  If there is a particularly good read you are donating, why not slip a short review in a book for someone to discover?  Books may be taken to the Library Monday through Thursday from 9 to 8 and Friday and Saturday from 9 to 5.  If you need help getting the books to the Library, please call to arrange for a pick up, or, if you have questions, please call the Library at 947-8336.

 

 

Donated Books

 
Belvedere Endowment
 
The cleaner plate club

The diabetes seafood cookbook

Modern top-down knitting
William and Kate
 
My father at 100
The life you want
Lighten up
Mindful eating
Virtually you
The new nobility
Partners of the heart
Autobiography of Mark Twain
Wishing for a snow day
The Norton anthology of Latino literature
Take charge of Parkinson's disease
Ah-choo!
Magnetic north
The history of Nicaragua
Settlement
365 thank yous
All things shining
Battle hymn of the tiger mother
Henry's demons
Open city
The matchmaker of Kenmare
Know and unknown
Everyday icon
Get rid of boat odors!
The winter of our disconnect
I will teach you to be rich
Missing without a trace
The hidden reality
The 10 best-ever depression management techniques
Appetite for reduction
Gluten-free girl and chef
The magic of facial exercise
The classical tradition
Examined lives
Off the record
Wingshooters
Red river
I hotel

Leaving Jack

Raven's bride

The second son

Under the sun

Aunt Dimity and the family tree

The other life

Instruments of darkness

The spirituality of fasting

Peace from broken pieces

Stations west

Tiger hills

You don't love this man

Leonardo da Vinci

 

Russel & Barbara Bodwell

Math puzzles and brainteasers, grades 6-8

Women and minorities in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics

Painless junior: math

The manga guide to physics

The fantastical engineer

Making magnificent machines

Seven wonders of architecture

The design of future things

The musical engineer

Why don't jumbo jets flap their wings

Skateboarding

Mathematics 101

Engineering

Janice VanCleave's engineering for every kid

Simple machines

Ice hockey

Force, motion & simple machines

Ace your math and measuring science project

Great jobs for engineering majors

Car science

Robot building for beginners

Genetic Engineering

The unofficial LEGO builder's guide

Baseball

Atomic structure

Inventions

Cell phones

Seven wonders of engineering

Building the Three Gorges Dam

Robot explorers

Cool stuff exploded

Kinetic contraptions

The manga guide to electricity

 

 

Braidy Endowment

Moses Mendelssohn
The Torah: portion by portion

The Ten Commandments

The wisdom books

When they come for us we'll be gone

The Hadassah everyday cookbook

 

Carlisle Fund
The new whole foods encyclopedia

The network is your customer

The great white bear

Tool smarts

Logo design love

 

Chase Family Fund

Family dinner

Knack rock climbing

College Board scholarship handbook

The new cool

Chicken soup for the soul: what I learned from the cat

The Ultimate scholarship book

Mindful eating 101

The Star Wars craft book

 

Daniel R Nickeron Foundation
The autism book

ADHD & me

The autism mom's survival guide (for dads too!)

Self-help skills for people with autism

Autistics' guide to dating

Supportive parenting

Circles of friends

Brothers and sisters

Growing up proud

The Gale encyclopedia of genetic disorders

Hidden talent

Understanding nonverbal learning disabilities

Autism and pervasive developmental disorders sourcebook

Caring for myself

Be different

How to talk to an autistic kid

 

Doris M. Lichtentein

Around my French table

Claude Monet, 1840-1926

 

EMMC

A patient's guide to heart rhythm problems
Doctor Chopra saya

Our shadow garden

The 90 minute baby sleep program
The no-cry sleep solution for toddlers and preschoolers

Myths about suicide

Mayo Clinic book of alternative medicine

Managing pain before it manages you

Smoking

Be a survivor

Reader's Digest guide to eye care

Pregnancy

15 minute diabetic meals

The Mediterranean diabetes cookbook

Baby

Outdoor parents, outdoor kids

The stress-eating cure

Women's Qigong for health and longevity

There is a cure for diabetes
AIDS: taking a long-term view

Healing spices

Child abuse sourcebook

Beautiful heart, beautiful spirit

The Womanly art of breastfeeding

All about teeth

 

Eaton Wendell

The option trader handbook

Frommer's Maine coast

 

Fleetbank

Vegan on the cheap

Creative community organizing

Our last best chance

The Union quilters

Learning to swim

The retreat

The calligrapher's daughter

Emily and Einstein

 

Gersham
The view from lazy point

The quiet world

Marshalling justice

Deep future

America aflame
The haves and the have-nots

The new Jim Crow

The tell-tale brain
River of darkness
The landmark Arrian
The Battle of Britain
Wild Bill Donovan
Great soul
Physics of the future
Pox
A covert affair
Dancing in the glory of monsters 

 

Higgins-Knox
Reader's advisory for children and 'tweens

Roots and blues

The Cambridge companion to children's literature

Shipwrecks, monsters, and mysteries of the Great Lakes

When the snow comes

You read to me, I'll read to you

My farm friends

 

Jane Saxl

Always looking up

Fire on the horizon

 

Mable McDade

Louisa May Alcott

Fragrant orchids

How to write a sentence

And I shall have some peace there

 

Macinnes

My reading life

I beat the odds

And furthermore

Wait for me!

Between expectations

Reading Jackie

Campy

High financier

One hundred names for love

 

Merrill Bank

iPad for seniors for dummies

Investing online for dummies

Off the grid

Heat wave

An exclusive love

Radio Shangri-La

Dreamer's dictionary

Dream dictionary

Complete idiot's guide to interpreting your dreams

I is an other

Swamplandia

Revolution

Tough without a gun

Jerusalem, Jerusalem

The Black history of the White House

Cowboy, mountainmen and grizzly bears

Lyrics alley

A dark and stormy night

Complete stories of Philip K. Dick

False money

Rizzo's son

Satori

 

Miller Sanford and Joanne

Cold sassy tree

The red badge of courage

Louis Lamour's western tales

Cry of the wild

Cry the beloved country

The Aeneid

The Dharma Bums

The Truelove

The wine-dark sea

Port Mortuary

A game of thrones

Unbroken

Freedom

Mystery

The troubled man

 

Leonard and Renee Minsky

Runemarks

Breaking dawn

Magic tree house collection. Books 9-16

Eragon

Alchemy and Meggy Swann

Harriet the spy

The true meaning of smekday

The polar express

Two brothers

The adventures of Huck Finn

The Indian in the cupboard

Because of Winn Dixie

The Redwall collection

War of the Worlds

Battle lines

On the earth as it is in heaven

Shrek

The Spiderwick chronicles

How to train your dragon

Bedtime with Elmo

Cat

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

 

Norman Minsky

Legal guide for the visual artist

Crisis in employment

The winning investor's guide to making money in any market

Getting Financial aid

Overconnected 

Master switch

The social network business plan

Native American son

Buy-in

Toyota Corolla automotive repair manual

Barron's ACT

The hedge fund book

The travel book

tPA for stroke

The resilient gardener

Pirates of Barbary

Galileo

Galileo: watcher of the skies

The essential guide to getting your book published

The price of everything

The facebook marketing book

American colossus

Nissan Sentra & 220sx automotive repair manual

Chilton's Ford Explorer & Mercury Mountaineer 2202-2010 repair manual

Zapped

Hero

Manual to online public records

IQ and psychometric tests

A kingdom strange

Gimp 2.6 for photographers

Chilton's Jeep Cherokee repair manual

No surrender

Bootleggers, lobstermen & lumberjacks

Between war and peace

The hemlock cup

Chilton's Jeep Wrangler 1987-2008

Tories

The next decade

FBI careers

A trader's first book on commodities

Find a job through social networking

Make job loss work for you

Military-to-civilian career transition guide

Fortunate sons

33 Men

A chance to make history

Directory of professional resume writers

The Berlin-Baghdad express

A Jungian circumambulation of Art & Therapy

Memory books and other graphic-cuing systems

Scorecasting

The secrets of happiness

America's top-rated smaller cities

Spark

Inside Wikileaks

Common sense on mutual finds

The cellphone

Growing a farmer

Job search handbook for people with disabilities

The information

Finding the answers to legal questions

Significant gestures

Australians

Triumph of the city

Never say die

Dodge Caravan, Chrysler Voyager and Town & Country automotive repair manual

The bee eater

Early retirement extreme

My father's fortune

Internet angel

FDR's funeral train

You don't know me

How the end begins

Wikileaks and the age of transparency

Staying afloat in a sea of forgetfulness

 

Nicholas Brountas

Liberty's exiles

Recovering a lost river

Crafting the personal essay

The complete book of Mustang

Architectural drawing course

The happy remodelers

The most human human

Alone together

Then everything changed

Moneymakers

The mesh

Curation nation

Aerotropolis

Your creative brain

The company we keep

Organize simplicity

Enchantment

The social animal

The Civil War

Rawhide down

The heart and the fist

Shadows bright as glass

The long road home

Tell me what you see

My Korean deli

You are what you speak

 

Penobscot County Genealogical Society

Vital records of Milbridge, Maine

Vital records of Searsmont, Maine

Vital records of Wells, Maine: 1619-1950

Genealogical writing in the 21st century

A to zax

New Englanders in the 1600s

Scottish clan and family names

The descendants of Henry Sewall (1576-1656)

A bibliography for Vermont genealogy

Manuscripts at the New England Historical Geanealogical Society

The Surnames of Ireland

 

 

Patsey & David Beckett 

The Queen of France

Stuck on Earth

Death cloud 

 

People's United Bank

Money girl's smart moves to grow rich

The road out of debt

Reclaim your nest egg

Wall Street Journal guide to the new rules of personal finance

The total money makeover

smart is the new rich

Your complete retirement planning road map

The real cost of living

Earn it, learn it

Debt is slavery

Generation earn

Your money or your life

Your money: the missing manual

The triumph of value investing

Roth financail intelligence

The 100 best stocks you can buy, 2011

Getting started in hedge funds

Credit repair

Perfect credit

Your money ratios

The startup game

Standard & Poor's 500 guide

Tax deductions for professionals

Accounting handbook

How to write a business plan

Talent mangement handbook

The small business start-up kit

Long-term care

The thank you economy

Start day trading now

 

Raymond & Margaret Cicirelli 

A string of hearts

Babyberry pie

Mouse and Mole

Snow Dog's journey

Quick, slow, mango!

The carnival of the animals

 

Richardson

The discovery of Jeanne Baret

Historical atlas of the North American railroad

Lastingness

Dog days, raven nights

Made for you and me

Native trailblazer

The dressmaker of Khair Khana

India calling

To a mountain in Tibet

Old Maine woman

 

Sara Cox

Young Freddie

The star maker

Zero

Anna Hibiscus

Lucy on the ball

Taxing case of the cows

Miss Lina's ballerinas

Good Garden

Viola Desmond won't be budged!

Growing up in a new world, 1607 to 1775

Canadian railroad technology

The quiet book

 

Stillwater Reality

Dog walks man

The organized & inspiring scrapbooker

Moby-duck

The new drawing on the right side of the brain

The artist's way

 

Norma Strout

New England knits

The handbook of natural plant dyes

The vegetable gardener's container bible

Slow cooker revolution

Edible

The Blue Chair jam book

A kintter's home companion

600 watercolor mixes

 

Walmart

The Shining

Can you get hooked on lip balm?

The wise man's fear

The brothers of Baker Street

 

Paul Warren

Atlantic

 

Warren Strout

When the world calls

Frommer's Edinburgh & Glasgow

Jet age

Best garden design

Running dry

Michelin Green Guide New England

The Old Farmer's Almanac garden fresh cookbook

My father's daughter

 

William Griffith

In from the cold

Shipwreck

Easy money

Recycling

 

Richard Withee

Planet Arctic

Learning Android

30 days to social media success

Craft wisdom & know-how

 

The Wood Family

The secret river

Fairly fairy tales

There was an old lady who swallowed some leaves!

Mixed breed cats

The Princess encyclopedia

Unraveling freedom

Fear itself

Half World

Camo girl

Dark times

The shadows

Grandma drove the snowplow

There was an old lady who swallowed a chick

The prince and the pauper

Game day

 

 

 

1776 Dunlap Broadside visits Bangor Public Library

FOR ONE DAY ONLY!

                              

1776 dunlap broadside

 

The Declaration of Independence is our nation's most cherished symbol of liberty, it is our country's birth certificate. In the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson gave voice to the convictions of the American people with unforgettable phrases and a list of "self-evident truths". But how many of us have had a chance to look at the document up close and read those important words for ourselves, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,"

            On Saturday, May 7 everyone will have a chance to see what the first Americans saw upon waking on July 5, 1776. A copy of the Declaration of Independence, one of only twenty-six of the original Dunlap Broadsides printed the night of July 4, 1776, will be on display in the Stairwell Gallery at the Bangor Public Library from 9 AM until 5 PM. There will be an accompanying video, featuring Morgan Freeman, Reese Witherspoon, Kathy Bates, Michael Douglas, Ed Norton and many other Hollywood stars.

            This particular Dunlap Broadside was found when a flea market shopper bought a framed painting for four dollars, and while inspecting a tear in the lining behind the painting, discovered a folded Dunlap broadside.

It was purchased at auction, in 2001, by Norman Lear, creator of such well known television shows as, All in the Family, The Jeffersons, Maude, Silver Spoons and Who's the Boss. Mr. Lear bought the broadside with the intent to tour the document around the United States so that the country could experience it first hand. Bangor Public Library is proud to have been chosen as Maine's location for displaying the document

 

 


 


Kids Take Note of April Fun!

April Events in the Children's Room
 

Week of the young child 

 

 

Thursday, April 21 at 3:30PM A Puppet Show! in the Story Room

Kevin Michalik has entertained family, friends and church groups with puppets since high school. He now has a daughter at Bangor High, but hasn't lost his love for bringing puppets to life for children while playfully orchestrating jolly interactions between his characters and an audience. His half hour to forty-five minute performance will focus on Earth Day.

 

Friday, April 22 at 11AM, Earth Day Marigolds at the Hammond Street Senior Center

Celebrate Earth Day with Gail Crowley and Charlie Taylor, who last year, created the rooftop garden at the Hammond Street Senior Center. They will guide children in planting marigold seeds in a cup and then give them a peek at the garden on the roof as it comes to life for its second year. Please register at the Children's Desk or call 947-8337

 

Saturday, April 23 at 11AM, Clown Make-up Seminar in the Story Room

Anah Temple Shrine Clowns are sooo much fun. See and hear how they transform from regular guys to, abracadabra! whacky clowns in this informal session. If you are a little bit scared by costumed/disguised people, here is the perfect opportunity to watch the make up and costume go on.

 

 

 

Summer Music Series

 

 If it is summer in Bangor then there is music in the air! Join us Wednesday evenings at 7PM June 21 - August 31 for outdoor concerts. This year we kick off the series with the Bangor Band on Tuesday, June 21st and then Kneisal Hall Wednesday, June 22. Each week we feature a different musical guest and this year's guests are going to be great fun!

                                                  

Some of our guests include:

 

Shades of Blue

 

The Lidral Duo 

 

Sam and Yuri!

 

Mainely Country Band!

 

Jose Ayerve!

 

Jonee Earthquake!

 

and much more!

You can contact the Library for a complete schedule. 

 

 

 

WHAT'S NEW IN THE BANGOR ROOM

AND SPECIAL COLLECTIONS 

 

The 100th Anniversary of the

Bangor Fire

Fire  

 

 

 Friday April 29

 

The Library joins in commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the Great Bangor Fire of 1911.The commemoration will be opened with a program on the eve of the fire centennial, Friday, April 29th. Members of the comemoration committee will host a slide show in the Library's Lecture Hall from 4 - 7 p.m.,  displaying amazing images of the blaze and its aftermath. The Library will also have an exhibit of photos from its collections and few smaller artifacts from Hose 5 museum and the collection of local historian, Bill Cook. The exhibit will located in the rotunda and the also displayed in the cases in the main lobby stairway. The Special Collections department will also be adding a web page on the Great Bangor Fire and the fire department to the Library's main web page found here: Bangor Public Library

 

 

  

 

Take an Art Tour!   
 

The Library will be providing new Art Guides to assist anyone who wishes to take a self-guided tour of the Library's art collection.  But that's not all!  Images of the Library's art collection are being put in digital form, which means soon you will be able to have a close up view of our art online. All this is possible through the work of award-winning Brewer photographer, Joel Holcomb, who has been photographing the Library's art collection (over 180 treasures).  But that's not all!

 

 

 

Take a Virtual Tour!

 

   

 

  You can now visit all of the public areas of the Bangor Public Library via your computer.  This guide to the Library was made possible by Mr. Holcomb, who captured every nook and cranny in our wonderful building.  Take a tour! 

Virtual Tour!

 
 

 Bill Cook will again be working with Cohen and Doughty School students, investigating primary source materials, and scanning images for the the

Maine Memory Network. Their work together last year was so successful that they have decided to do it again!

This year they will be working on the Bangor floods of 1902 and 1976. The students get a brief overview of what special collections are, what primary source documents are and how to properly handle archival and rare materials. Then they get to research using primary sources and write an original narrative history supported by photos that are scanned by the students. You can take a look at last year's work, which included an illustrated history entitled "Bangor: Tidal River City." Subjects include the Bangor Fire of 1911, The Brady Gang, Early Railroads and a view of the area during the Civil War and World War II.:

 www.mainememory.net


 

 

 

 

 

 

LAST, BUT CERTAINLY NOT LEAST, THE LIBRARY'S UNRIVALED COLLECTION OF HISTORIC POSTERS FROM WWI AND WWII IS BEING DIGITALLY COPIED. 

 

 

The project is a collaboration of the Bangor Public Library and the University of Maine's Fogler Library.  Digitilization of the collection is being funded by Eugene and Barbara Daigle, with the Library providing the workspace and cataloguing.  James Daigle Photography of Bangor will be producing about 3000 original images of the collection, with 4 sizes of each poster made available.  Fogler Library will serve as the web host of the digital collection and provide design and archival services.  This project is now half way to completion! The target date for the completion of the digitiization project is Novemeber 11, 2011.

 

 
LOOK FOR SAMPLE COPIES OF THESE NATIONAL TREASURES ON DISPLAY IN THE LOBBY'S LOBBY IN 2011. 

 

 


Donated Books- Given in Memory


Given in Memory of

Thelma Spearen 

The miniature schnauzer

Arroz con leche

Sophie Simon solves them all

Not your typical book about the environment 

Kitchen science experiments

Like the Willow Tree

Babar visits another planet

Be nice to spiders

Dig dig digging

Balancing act
Kindergarten diary

Doctor Squash the doll doctor

Happy 100th day

Snow rabbit, spring rabbit

Ice Harbor mittens

Moose power!

Frozen secrets

Little Bear and the Marco Polo


 

In Memory of
Bud" William Knickerbocker, jr

Answer book

Pre-Columbian architecture in Mesoamerica

Turquoise

American Musical Theatre

Gold diggers

Historic English costumes and how to make them 

Historical dictionary of CanadaThelma Spearen

 

In Memory of

Francis Zelz

Architectural excellence

Kamikaze attacks of World War II

Expanding architecture

 

 

In Memory of

Joan Macchi 

Nora and the Texas terro

Clara Lee and the apple pie dream

Drizzle

Ivy loves to give

Silly baby

Ginger  and the mystery visitor

Bedtime bunnies

Faeries

Sky sailors

The crossing

I dreamed of flying like a bird

Alexander Hamillton

A boy named FDR

 

  

In Memory of 

Betsey Brewster Case

The treasures of the impressionist

 

 

In Memory of

Judson "Bud" Grant Jr. 

New Oxford American dictionary 

 

 

In Memory of

Vera I. Lowell

Wrecked

 

 

In Memory of

Lois Ann Woodman 

The Acting Bible

Handling one another along

 

 

In Memory of

Patricia Moore

A is for the Allagash

 

In Memory of 

Elizabeth Trowbridge

An editor's treasury

 

 

In Memory of

Aline Cobe

Amelia lost

Bedtime for bear

Yoko's show-and-tell

Night flight

 

 

In Memory of

Donald Parsons

With fire and sword

The finest rooms in America

The rise and fall of ancient Egypt

Unconquered people

Early Maine wildlife

 

 

In Memory of

Sadie Nelson Kreilkamp

The King's speech

The crow trap

Hidden depths

Telling tales   

Silent voices

 

 

In Memory of

Carol Nason Everett

Tell me the day backwards

The bear show shared

    

 

In Memory of 

Hessa Schneider

Return to promise
Animal magnetism
A secret gift

 

 

  

 

 

 

E-Books are Here!


You now have access to 1,391 eBooks!
(Fiction, Non-fiction, Young Adult and Childrens!)

 

For more information, go to the Bangor Public Library's website  www.bpl.lib.me.us
and click on Download Digital Media Guided Tour

Your access to this new e-book collection is made possible by a collaboration between the Bangor Public Library and  Maine InfoNet.

 

 


MEET THE AUTHOR

janet

 

New York Times

bestselling author, Janet Chapman

Thursday, May 26, 2011 at 6:00 pm in the Story Room

 

Janet has requested that everyone think about questions to ask her, either about her books or her writing.  Her full interview will be posted on our blog afterward.

                              

 

 

We are excited to announce that Janet Chapman has once again agreed to be a guest speaker at the Bangor Public Library.  This author appearance is in collaboration with our Not Your Ordinary Book Group, however you do not need to be a member of our book group to attend this event!

 

  

 

 

 

 

Food Not Fines Week,

May 9 - 14

 

Look under your bed, behind the couch-wherever! You aren't going to find a deal like this very often. Bangor Public Library has declared the week of May 9th - May 14th, Food Not Fines Week.

 

During this week patrons who return their overdue library items will have current and past fines excused in exchange for donations of non-perishable food.

 

Those food donations will be given in turn to various local food pantries. It's a win-win situation; you relieve your conscience of those nagging overdue items, libraries get errant materials back on the shelves, and together we all help our neighbors in need.

 

 food 

   

Many Mainers have been hard hit by the recession. Demand on local food pantries has risen in recent months. The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Economic Research Service (USDA) estimates that 14.8 percent of Maine households, or nearly 195,000 individuals, are food insecure.

 

The number of Mainers that are food insecure has increased significantly in recent years. Maine ranks first in New England in terms of children who are food insecure; 21.1 percent of Maine children under age 18 lack access to sufficient food.

How You Can Help:

 

You can help by returning your overdue books and donating food, all the while relieving your conscience of those overdue library items.

 

No fines at your library? These libraries would eagerly accept food items and welcome back overdue items.

 

No, overdue books? Patrons without overdue books are also encouraged to bring donations of food to participating libraries.

 

This effort is being coordinated by the Maine State Library.

  

 

 

Fish for a Good Book at the Bangor Public Library


Looking for something a little more daring in your reading selections?

Reference librarian, Maggie Frazier has just the thing for those looking to mix it up a little.

 


Here is how it works,

You need to read ten books between June 1st and August 31st. But to find out what to read you need to come to the library and draw a "fish" from the fishbowl at the circulation desk. Each fish represents a genre and whatever you draw, that is what you read.

There are wildcard fish that allow you to read any genre you like, plus a wildcard ticket wins you a prize on the spot! 

This is catch and release fishing so don't forget to drop your fish back in the bowl for the next book angler! 

Sign up and pick up your entry card at either reference desk and get your rod and reel ready. On Spetember 1st ther will be a drawing for $50.00 cash!

 

 

READ SEVEN BY ELEVEN, ELEVEN, ELEVEN

A new adult reading challenge begins June 2011 and ends November 11, 2011!

Reference librarian, Maggie Frazier has a new challege for those looking to broaden their literary horizons, read

  

Seven (any book from the library's 700 section.)

  

and read one of each:

  

E - Environmental

  

L - Love Story

  

E - Essays

  

V - Victorian Novel

  

E - Everything counts

  

N- Novel

  

Maggie will have a display in the Library's main lobby with suggestions, but you are free to choose any book that meets the criteria. Best of all those who Read Seven by Eleven, Eleven, Eleven will be eligible for a chance at a $50.00 prize!

 

 

 

Can you help fill our dollhouse?

  

  

dollhouse

 


The AV room of the Children's Department of the Bangor Public Library features a lovely antique dollhouse that was given by the Kellogg family. The furnishings that came with the house have been handled by lots of little hands and are worse for wear. Sadly, many pieces have just disappeared! We welcome donations of gently used dollhouse size people or furnishings to bring the house to life for the children who enter its imaginary world.

 

 

 

 

 

Children's Summer Reading
This summer the theme is

One World Many Stories

 

As this newsletter reaches you, our children's librarians are putting the finishing touches on this years children's summer reading program. Contact the Children's Department for all the particulars. 947-8336 x111