Book group!

Even though we cannot meet in person my book group met virtually. We used Zoom this month to discuss our book. It worked really well and we plan on doing it this way next month too.

Arts & Crafts Program: Quilt block

Our program for adults made quilt block trivets today. We had several sewing machines brought in along with ironing boards. My coworker lead the class and taught the basic 9 patch quilt block and one that is a little more advanced. It was fun! Pictured below are the blocks we finished. I can't wait to have mine sitting on my table. It is the perfect size to set my frying pan on.

Arts and Crafts: Ornaments

Our craft project for adults this month was Swedish star ornaments out of old books pages.

Arts & crafts night is a new program for adults.

Cook book group

The theme for November's discussion was: COOKIES!
Instead of choosing one book for us all to pick a recipe from. I let our members choose any cookie recipe they wanted. All were delicious!

Arts & Crafts for adults

We are starting a new program for adults.... Arts and crafts night.

Our first craft was decorating book bags. We did this on canvas bags with fabric markers.

Book Sale

The Friends of the Marshall Public Library put together 2 book sales each year. One in the spring and one in the fall. Items in the sale are donated items that we did not add to our collection and older items that we have weeded from our collection. The money they raise goes right back into the library for new shelves, chairs, ipads, computers, and so much more. We are very grateful for all that the friend do for us at MPL. Most of the books are in the community room but this photo was taken in the lobby. As you can see this year was busy.

Kindness week 2018

Our city celebrated Kind week in September every year. This year for our bulletin board we used famous kindness quotes and emojs. Then every day of the week an activity was added.

Close up of some of the quotes.

More great quotes.

Activity table next to the bulletin board.

Close up of the table.

Coloring pages. (Be kind to yourself).

Draw an act of kindness.

Kindness calendar.

Letters to Heroes.

visiting author

Local author share her experience of publishing her first book. She shared a few passages and then answered a few questions. Followed up by signing books. It was a great evening.  

Reading a section from her book.

Signing books

I asked Helen to pose with William.

Reader's Brunch Summer Reading Program for adults

With the theme Libraries Rock we decorated the tables using books, CDs, and records.

Patrons who read 2,000 pages or more were invited to the readers brunch. We had 35 patrons attend the brunch this year. That is more then double from last year.

Fruit, bagels, and muffins!

Bouquet made by one of our librarians.

We gave time for them to eat and talk. Most conversations I heard were about books!

I gave everyone a sticky note to write down a book they enjoyed this summer. Then we posted them on the white board.

There were some really great suggestions.

Book Journals

We had a summer reading activity to make book journals. We took composition notebooks and covered them with scrap-booking paper using Mod Podge. The notebooks came in a few different sizes. The most popular was the 5X7.

Pictures of some of the journals made at the library program.

Readers' Brunch

For the end of our summer reading program for adults we had a readers' brunch. In order to receive an invitation participants had to read 2,000 pages and checked in 3 times over the summer. In other words they completed the program. We had an enjoyable morning with juice, muffins, bagels, fruit and books! We had door prizes, free books and did the grand prize drawing.

For brunch we had muffins, bagels, fruit and juice.

Tables were decorated with books and MPL pens.

Everyone got to take home a book from the center of the tables.

Door prizes

Grand prize: Eclipse Package (chips & salsa, pizza coupon, soda, cups, t-shirts, and eclipse glasses, and book bag)