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continue to navigate these unprecedented times. While Current Hours: we maintained a virtual presence for kids and adults Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday 10am - 5pm throughout the summer with our online summer reading Thursday 10 am - 7 pm program and Facebook videos, we will continue to provide virtual library programming for our patrons through December 2020. A list of our programming events can be found on our website at www.fennvilledl.michlibrary.org
Currently we are in Phase 3 or our reopening plan and the Library continues to be open to the public with extra precautions. We are open on a limited schedule to allow for enhanced cleaning, social distancing accommodations 2) and limited computer usage. The Library will move to YOUTH phase 4 when it is safe for our staff and community. 3) Stages are contingent upon CDC guidelines and local TEEN and state orders. 4) WHAT’S NEW Thank you for turning to your Library in this time of uncertainty and expanded need for safety and connection. 5) FENNVILLE FRIENDS We are here for you and we will continue to adapt our FDL BOOK CLUB services, resources and methods to connect you to life- CORNER to the PAST long learning. 6) NEWS and TIDBITS BOARD of TRUSTEES
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1 OCTOBER 2020 | FENNVILLE DISTRICT LIBRARY NEWSLETTER FOLLOW US ON FACEBOOK FOR VIRTUAL PROGRAMING! All virtual programing is presented by a Youth Services Staff Member and can be viewed on the Fennville District Library Facebook page.
CELEBRATE STAR WARS READS THIS OCTOBER! ABi’S Click the link above to explore a galaxy far, far away! Look for Star Wars PICKS related crafts and science experiments on our Facebook page all through the month of October. Use our online card catalog to search for and place holds on Star Wars books, graphic novels and movies! Spoooooky!
PICTURE BOOK The library is offering grab and go kits. TheTake and Make Creepy Carrots! kit, intended for school-age children, contains supplies and by Aaron Reynolds simple instructions for a new craft each week. The weekly Alpha-Buddies kit, intended for children ages 3 to 5, contains various activities centered on the alphabet. Both of these kits can be picked up on the main level or youth services circulation desks.
MIDDLE GRADE The Jumbies by Tracey Baptise
YOUNG ADULT The Bone Witch by Rin Chupeco
2 OCTOBER 2020 | FENNVILLE DISTRICT LIBRARY NEWSLETTER Put this on your October list!
No world is like the other. Within this masterful collection, each setting is more strange and wonderful than the last, brimming with new technologies and beings. And yet, for all the advances in these futuristic lands, the people still must confront deeply human problems. FOLLOW US ON FACEBOOK FOR VIRTUAL In these six stories, Veronica Roth reaches TEEN PROGRAMING! into the unknown and draws forth something startlingly familiar and profoundly beautiful. EVERY WEDNESDAY
With tales of LAUREN REVIEWS friendship and revenge, plus two new BOOKS AND GIVES A stories from the Carve the Mark universe, this collection has something for new and MEDIA SUGGESTION old fans alike. Each story begins with a BASED ON THE hope for a better end, but always end with a better understanding of the beginning. WEEKLY THEME. 10/7 Photographer Appreciation Month 10/14 National Dessert Day 10/21 National Reptile NATIONAL Awareness Day 10/28 Halloween
Teen Resources pizza month! Michigan residents or Did you need another reason to indulge in the Michigan library or halloween school access only. Visit all satisfying slice of perfection? Well, now you our website for more have one! October is National Pizza Month! Sneak Peak resource links. Call us @ Whether you prefer deep dish Chicago-Style 269-561-5050 for access or thin crust creations take some time to load concerns or questions. up the toppings and celebrate. Share your pizza pic (homemade or storemade) using #NationalPizzaMonth spreading your love Putting Makeup of pizza keeping it the on Dead People most posted food of all by Jen Violi time. Check out The The Haunted Pizza Bible by Tony by Danielle Vega Gemignani to find out more about the world’s Amphigorey Also most well-known and beloved foods! by Edward Gorey #nationalpizzamonth 3 OCTOBER 2020 | FENNVILLE DISTRICT LIBRARY NEWSLETTER Retired detective Cal Hooper moves to a remote village LAUREN’S in rural Ireland. His plans are to fix up the dilapidated BOOK SHELF cottage he’s bought, to walk the mountains, to put his old police instincts to bed forever.
Then a local boy appeals to him for help. His brother is missing, and no one in the village, least of all the police,
READS seems to care. And once again, Cal feels that restless itch.
Reducing waste The Invisible Life of Addie Larue - V. E. Schwab A Walk Around the Block - Spike Carlsen can be as easy Leave the World Behind - Rumaan Alam Framed in Monte Carlo - Ted Maher as reusing plastic A Wild Winter Swan - Gregory Maguire Me and Sister Bobbie - Willie Nelson bags, avoiding A Song for the Dark Times - Ian Rankin Is This Anything? - Jerry Seinfeld plastic bottles and Three Women Disappear - James Patterson Rage - Bob Woodward phasing out paper Shakeup - Stuart Woods Good Mourning - Theresa Caputo towels. If you are ready to start your Truly, Madly, Deeply - Karen Kingsbury Humans - by Brandon Stanton zero waste journey click on the cover “This book is composed of my memories, my mishaps, and place a hold on “An Almost Zero my struggles, my survival and my songs. Unfiltered. Waste Life.” I went deep into my childhood and gave the scared little girl inside of me a big voice. I let the abandoned and ambitious adolescent have her say, and the betrayed and triumphant MiCHELE’S ANTICIPATED MEDIA woman I became tell her When I heard that side.” ~ Mariah the title of Mrs. de Winter was going to be played by Lily James (Downton Abbey DO YOU WANT TO KNOW... & Cinderella) I was completely What’s New! thrilled and a little SIGN UP FOR apprehensive. Even as I read the book “Rebecca” by Daphne du Maurier, Joan Fontaine was the Mrs. de Winter Movie Preview… in my mind. Her soft face, naive smile, and carefree character was pinned perfectly. I’m looking forward to the October 21 Netflix release of the new version to see how it holds up to the gothic Hitchcock classic. If you are interested in making the comparisons yourself, click the covers, place a hold and make your way to Manderley.
Titles subject to change. 4 OCTOBER 2020 | FENNVILLE DISTRICT LIBRARY NEWSLETTER WHO ARE THE FENNVILLE FREINDS? BOOK STORE OPEN DURING REGULAR LIBRARY HOURS The “Fennville Friends” is a group whose mission is to assist at the local library.
The Fennville Friends volunteer our time and talents to promote the library by hosting fundraising events to enhance library services. Together we work with library staff to organize annual book sales, run the Friends Bookstore and
volunteer at events. All proceeds from these sales go to enhance programming HARD at the Fennville District Library. COVER
The Fennville Friends are looking for like-minded people who recognize the .50
value of the library and are interested in serving as advocates for the library. SOFT If you wish to become involved, please give your contact information to a Library COVER Assistant at the library circulation desk or emailing [email protected]. .25 We look forward to welcoming you into this worthy group! MEDIA DVD/CD.50 FENNVILLE AREA HISTORY WA N T E D … The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Barcelona, 1945: A city slowly heals from its war wounds, and Daniel, an CHECK antiquarian book dealer’s son who mourns the loss of his mother, finds solace in a OUT THE mysterious book entitled The Shadow of the Wind, by one Julian Carax. But when he Church Anniversary Booklets GENEALOGY sets out to find the author’s other works, he Society Programs makes a shocking discovery: someone has Local Advertising Items & LOCAL been systematically destroying every copy Photographs of every book Carax has written. In fact, HISTORY Daniel may have the last of Carax’s books in Postcards existence. Soon Daniel’s seemingly innocent Maps TAB ON OUR quest opens a door into one of Barcelona’s Plat Books… Etc. darkest secrets--an epic story of murder, WEBSITE madness, and doomed love. For preservation and research in the local history room at the Fennville ZOOM DISCUSSION MEETING: FOR INFO & Wednesday, October 7 @ 1:30 PM District Library. If you have items you Email questions to: are willing to donate, please contact RESOURCES! [email protected] the library director.
5 OCTOBER 2020 | FENNVILLE DISTRICT LIBRARY NEWSLETTER the SPOT that’s HOT The Fennville District Library has been approved for a CARES Act Grant in the amount of $3,490. Funding for this program has been authorized by the CARES Act (Public Law 116-136) administered through the Institute of Museum and “To provide access Library Services and the Library of Michigan. The Library to varied materials and of Michigan CARES Act grant program is designed to assist services for lifelong public libraries in providing improved access to the internet enrichment” for their community, while maintaining a safe environment for staff and patrons. The Fennville District Library has BOARD OF TRUSTEES purchased eight hotspots for patron use. President Dennis Martin | Fennville The Institute of Museum and Library Services is the primary source of [email protected] federal support for the nation’s libraries and museums. We advance, support, and empower America’s museums, libraries, and related or- ganizations through grantmaking, research, and policy development. Vice President Our vision is a nation where museums and libraries work together to transform the lives of individuals and communities. To learn more, Robert Sherwood | Casco visit www.imls.gov and follow us on Facebook and Twitter. [email protected]
Secretary Marilyn Jessup | Casco HOMESCHOOL marilynjessu [email protected]
Treasurer Kathleen Yankee | Ganges [email protected]
Trustee Lindsey Gould | Ganges [email protected]
Trustee Midge Bernard | Fennville RESOURCES! [email protected] Trustee Donna Matula | Clyde [email protected] Returns are Trustee Marlynn Starring | Clyde FINE [email protected] GED The board meets on the 3rd Thursday of classes FREE each month at 4pm, THURSDAYS 5-7 PM at the Library. The Provided by Zeeland Adult Ed. until Sunday, public is welcome Call 616-494-8803 October 31! to attend.
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