Winter 2010 Edition

The Bookworm

From the Librarian
I would like to personally thank all of our library members for supporting our new library this year. It’s hard to believe we have been here almost a whole year! As you may know state funding to libraries has been reduced. The York County Library System always does a great job at making the most of our funds and will continue to look for ways to better serve you.

One of the things we have done this past year is to concentrate on what we do best so we can focus our resources on these services. Red Land provides quality children’s programs with professional children’s librarians. We will continue to offer these preschool programs during the school year. In the summer, we will offer the Summer Reading Club with programs that focus on our elementary and middle school children to help them maintain their reading skills.  And as always we’ll continue to provide popular fiction and popular culture materials for all ages. We will also continue to provide Wi-Fi and public internet computers for all our members.

With much appreciation,
Mary Beth Long, Librarian

Celebrate with Books
A great idea to celebrate a life, birthday, anniversary, holiday or other special occasion?                            
Red Land Community Library members can still donate items to the library in honor or memory of a loved one.  A list of books, audio books, DVDs, and music CDs is available at the library or on the Library's Wish List on Amazon.com.

Your response to Celebrate with Books has been wonderful we’ve had so many new and wonderful materials donated to the library to celebrate the special people in your lives.  We’d like to publically thank the following people for participating in Celebrate with Books with past quarter.

Friends News
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has……………………… Margaret Mead

While we aren’t so bold as to believe that we are changing the world, we hope that we are helping to improve our little corner of it a little bit.  I’ll admit that I began volunteering at the library 16 years ago for purely selfish reasons – I was a full time dad of a 2 year old and needed to get out of the house for a couple of hours ….and the library was everything that my house was not (peaceful, quiet, and full of other adults!) I continue to volunteer because the library has become like a second home and the other volunteers and staff have become like family.  If you have some extra time to spare, I encourage you to offer some of it to any one of the many service organizations in the area -- food banks, fire companies, library, etc.  Volunteering will do you as much good as it does the organization you are helping.

Douglas Ross
Vice President

A BIG thank you

The Friends would like to thank local artist and library member, Nancy Mendes for her generous donation of an original oil painting. The artwork is for sale and on display at the Art and Soul Gallery in the West Shore Farmer’s Market.

Lobby book sale
We often announce our quarterly book sales in these newsletters, but did you know we have a smaller ongoing book sale?  Through the sales of books in the lobby, we raise about $200 a month, which goes directly to purchasing new books for the library shelves.  We typically have several hundred books for sale, including a selection of fiction, non-fiction, and children’s books.  We also have bags of books for $1 and our popular selection of 10 cent romances.

Book Discussion Group - New Members Welcome
-Do you like to read?
-Want to have others read your favorite books?
-Are you interested in discussing books with others? 

If so, you are welcome to join our Book Discussion Group.  The group meets at the library on the third Tuesday of the month at 7:00 p.m.

Each year in September, members of the group recommend books for discussion and we select the books that we will discuss for the coming year.  A schedule is prepared and volunteers from the group facilitate the discussions.  We do not meet in December and July.

The book discussion will meet on the following Tuesdays:
February 16  Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald
March 16      Those Who Save Us by Jenna Blum                    
April 20       Mao's Last Dancer by Li Cunxin

Upcoming Events
Antique Appraisal Clinic –Wednesday, April 14^th from 6 to 8 pm. 
David Cordier of Cordier Antiques will talk about the background, history, and monetary value of your items.  Look for more details in the near future.

March 6-13
June 5-12
September 11-18
December 4-11

Children and Teens
Registration for storytimes began January 18^th and will remain open until all slots are filled. Programs will begin the week of February 1^st.   

Babies and Books is a program for children from birth to 18 months with a caregiver. It runs on Wednesday’s at 10:30.

Toddler Time is for children 18 months to 3 years and is held on Thursday’s at 10:15 or 11:15.

Preschool Story time is for children ages 3 to 6 years old and is held on Friday’s at 10:30 or 1:00.

Food and Fun on Monday, February 15^th at 2:00. West Shore School District will be closed this day. Watch “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs” on the BIG screen and eat! (For children in grades K to 3).

American Girl Book Club will meet at a NEW time, 4:30, on Tuesday, February 16^th. We will be discussing Julie. Bring your doll along for snacks and a craft. For girls in grades 1 to 5.

 Celebrate winter sports on Thursday, February 18^th.  We will show the movie “Miracle” and eat brownies shaped like hockey pucks. The movie will begin at 5:00. For ages 10 to 18.

Looking ahead to March, we start the month off with a Dr. Seuss Birthday Celebration. Monday, March 1 at 10:30. For preschool age children.

It’s never too early to start reading to your child.

Technology, such as PET scans and MRI’s, have made it possible to visually study the development of the human brain. Scientists have found that the brain of an infant is ninety percent of adult size by age three. This tells us that the first three years of an infant’s life are important.

Here’s where the library comes in. We offer valuable resources for parents and care givers to help develop early reading skills in infants, toddlers and preschoolers.

Parent and grandparents: You can help your child get ready to start school. It’s easy and it’s never too early to start. Science has proven that babies are born ready to learn. You can start now.

1.      Talk to your baby all the time.

2.      Read to your baby. You can start as early as six weeks.

3.      Visit your library and check out books. The library has heavy cardboard books designed for babies. Sign up for storytime. We have storytimes for babies and young children.

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