Lansdowne Public Library
Attention all Library Patrons: We Need Your Help!!!!!
Senate Bill 850 Threatens to Cut State Library Funding by Half!
If this bill passes your library experience will be greatly affected:
- Shortened library hours
- Possible cut in internet access
- Elimination of Interlibrary Loan
- Elimination of Online Reference
- Elimination of Online Databases
- Elimination of After School Homework Help
- Fewer Books Available
- Children's Programming Cut by 63%
We need your support - click here for more information and to find out how YOU can help you library!
SUMMER PROGRAMS AT THE LANSDOWNE PUBLIC LIBRARY
Explore your creativity at the Lansdowne Public Library this summer!
Once again we are offering parents a place to bring children, infants through teens, all summer long. Enjoy eight weeks of programming that encourages children to explore what their library has to offer beyond books. Children will be encouraged to build, draw, write, dance, sing, explore and create as they continue learning and reading while school is out. This year's Summer Reading Club themes are Be Creative @ Your Library for children preschool through grade 5 and Express Yourself @ Your Library for children sixth grade through high school.
The Summer Reading Program begins Monday, June 15th however children can register online beginning June 1st. The website to register can be accessed through www.lansdownepubliclibrary.com or http://www.delcolibraries.org/.
We have invited the Segal Puppet Theater to be our opening act, Wednesday, June 17th at 6:30 PM. This program is open to all ages and registration is required to attend.
For more information about the many programs available, please visit our website or call the library at 610-623-0239, ext 5. In addition to the reading club we will be offering wonderful things to do with your children all summer long. Our storytimes are held Tuesdays and Thursdays beginning at 10:30AM and we also offer an evening storyhour Wednesdays beginning at 6:30PM. Other programs we are pleased to offer are storytimes, mystery lunches and afternoon movie matinees. Through a generous grant from the Lansdowne Allied Youth Council and the Lansdowne Recreation Department, we are pleased to offer Friday Morning Live!, weekly live entertainment. For teens and tweens, through a very generous grant by the Lansdowne Friends of the Library, we are thrilled to offer juggling and magic workshops. Our popular teen writers group will continue to meet weekly to discuss their personal works.
Please stop into the library and register for the Summer Reading Club and get a full list of all our summer activities. And remember all library programs are FREE to you and your family although some may require advanced registration.
Here a few events that will end soon.
*Infant Storytime is on Tuesdays beginning at 10:30AM!
Join us for stories, puppets and more!
No registration required
*Summer Reading news!
This year's Summer Reading Programthemeinvites children from preschool through grades 5 to "Be Creative @ Your Library " and middle school through teens to "Express Yourself" @ Your Library".
Registration begins online June 1st.
There are changes to reporting and earning Book Bucks and prizes!
Both registration and reportingfor the Summer Reading Program is online!
Earn Book Bucks for minutes read, not pages read.
Check out and read books, magazines or other library materials.
When you are ready to log your books, SIGN ON TO the Summer Reading Website to enter and log the books and time spent reading. Prizes are ONLY given when you visit the library.
Thewebsitewhere you report willcalculate how many minutes, NOT PAGES, were read.
ABook Buck coupon will be issued to redeem prizes fromour store, The Stage Door
Book Bucks are earned using the following scale:
Minimum minutes read per day to earn one (1) Book Buck
| Preschooler: (formerly Read to Me) | Parents read to child for 15 minutes a day |
| New Readers | parents take turns reading with child for 15 minutes a day |
| Independent Early Readers | 20 minutes/ day |
| Independent Readers | 30 minutes/day |
Not sure what category you belong?
See a staff member and we can work together to find the best program for you!
Book Bucks have no monetary value and are used in our store, The Stage Door
The last day to receive book bucks will be Friday, August 7th.
The Last day to spend your Book Bucks at The Stage Door will be Friday, August 14th
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Friends of the Lansdowne Library's Spring Book Sale - Extended!!
The Spring book sale has been extended with the lowest prices of the year.
Choose from a huge selection of fiction, history, cookbooks, children's books and more!
Hardbacks - 50 Cents
Paperbacks - 3 for 50 Cents
Lansdowne Public Library Bag Full of Books - $5.00 plus you keep the bag!
The Big Read Comes to a Close!
The Lansdowne Public Library held its final event of The Big Read by joining with Lansdowne's Sofa Cinema for the film version of Carson McCullers' The Heart is a Lonely Hunter. Sofa Cinema was gracious enough to choose the film as their May selection and the film was screened at Lansdowne's new Cinema 16:9 theater, was held in conjunction with the Library's ongoing Big Read program. After the film was screened, participants gathered in the theater lobby for lively discussion.
This was the final event in the six week long Big Read program. Other events included book discussions, children's sign language programs, a lecture on the life of Carson McCullers and a lecture on the History of the Deaf Community. These events were funded by a grant from the National Endowments for the Arts. Lansdowne was one of only 208 communities nationwide selected to participate in The Big Read.
Family Place Library
On Wednesday, November 19, 2008, the Lansdowne Public Library was presented with a banner to officially become a Family Place Library. Family Place Libraries™ is a network of children's librarians nationwide who believe that literacy begins at birth and that libraries can help build healthy communities by nourishing healthy families.
Expanding the traditional role of children's services, Family Place builds on the knowledge that good health, early learning, parental involvement and supportive communities play a critical role in young children's growth and development.
Family Place Libraries redesign the library environment to be welcoming and appropriate for children beginning at birth; connect parents with the resources, programs and services offered at the library and other family service agencies; and reach out to non-traditional library users. This creates the network families need to nurture their child's development during the critical first years of life and helps ensure all children enter school ready and able to learn.
The core components of a Family Place Library include collections of books, toys, music and multimedia materials for babies, toddlers, parents and service providers, and a specially designed, welcoming space within the children's area for families with young children. Further the library also holds a five week Parent/Child Workshops that involves toddlers and their parents and caregivers; features local professionals who serve as resources for parents; emphasizes the role of parents as the first teachers of their children; facilitates early intervention; and teaches strategies for healthy child development and early literacy.
This program also promotes coalition-building with community agencies that serve families and young children to connect parents to community resources and develop programs and services tailored to meet local needs and outreach to new and non-traditional library users, especially parents and very young children (beginning at birth).
The next session of the Parent/Child Workshop will take place in Spring 2009. Please call or e-mail for more information.
The Lansdowne Public Library now offers free wi-fi access. Bring your laptop in, enjoy the working air conditioning and log on. A site key is required to access the network. Just ask for it at the front desk.
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