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June 2020 Dear Library Community, Vol. 6 I No. 6 Hoping that this latest edition of the Framingham Public Library’s newsletter finds you and your family well. On April 1st we unveiled the first ever all-electronic edition of Look Here First, we followed this with an even more expansive edition in May. The The Libraries are currently positive responses by many Framingham residents to these efforts have been encouraging closed. Please check our and humbling. Thank you all for the many kind words along with your continuing website for information support in these difficult times! about phased-in services. Since the moment the Library closed its doors, staff have been working to keep as many Library services Main Library as possible available to you and your 49 Lexington Street | 508-532-5570 family. We continue to enhance, and Christa McAuliffe in many instances, expand your access Branch Library to the Library’s electronic resources. 746 Water Street | 508-532-5636 These services are available 24/7. Please see the Library’s webpage www. framinghamlibrary.org/find-online did you for more information. The following pages in this newsletter continue to know contain live links to the electronic resources we have developed • For resources about? the for you. Many new services have been added. The Library’s new YouTube Channel being just one example. Coronavirus and appropriate precautions, click here. And we have been busy doing more for our City. Library staff in partnership with • NO late charges. Please keep the Callahan Center, have made over 5,000 “wellness check-in” telephone calls to items at home. Framingham senior citizens. Working with the City’s Department of Public Health we repurposed our book drops to become collection points for • Free WiFi is available in both donated homemade cloth facial coverings. Over 3,000 facial Library parking lots. Please practice safe 6 ft. distancing and coverings have been processed and distributed to residents. use the Library’s wireless access in a And Library staff are now operating the City’s Information Line legal and responsible manner. (508-532-5411) providing answers to hundreds of inquires about City services. We are pleased to do all that we can do, to assist you and our City during this crisis. And as we continue to bring you remote library services we are also working to safely prepare our buildings for staff to return and re-start services. On June 8th we will begin a phased-in approach by starting with curb-side delivery of library materials. Please check the Library’s website to learn more connect with us on: about how this will happen, and happen safely. Thank you. Be safe. We look th forward to being all together again soon. On June 8 we will Sign up for email updates of Library news and events on our homepage! For the Trustees, Staff, Friends of the begin a phased-in Library, and our volunteers, approach by starting Funding for this newsletter is provided by Sincerely, The Friends of the Framingham Library. with curb-side delivery Funding for Library programs and refreshments is provided in part by Mark Contois of library materials. the Friends of the Framingham Library. Library Director Additional refreshments generously provided by Trader Joe’s.
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How Trees Talk to Each Other, Other, Each to Talk Trees How
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Saturday March 14, 2-3pm – Main Library, Costin Room Costin Library, Main – 2-3pm 14, March Saturday
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Month, 6:30-8:30pm – Main Library, Library, Main – 6:30-8:30pm Month, YOUNG ADULTS
motivated and achieve your goals, or simply to get active active get to simply or goals, your achieve and motivated
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in the Boston Marathon. Learn tips on how to get get to how on tips Learn Marathon. Boston the in
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Tuesday March 10, 11:30am- 10, March Tuesday first Boston Marathon and raising funds for the Friends of the the of Friends the for funds raising and Marathon Boston first
Room Room Learn to Crochet: Crochet: to Learn Team Framingham’s Anatoly Prekrasnyy is running his his running is Prekrasnyy Anatoly Framingham’s Team Flowers
Tuesday March 31, 7-8pm – Main Library, Costin Library, Main – 7-8pm 31, March Tuesday
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of Framingham Attorney Jeffrey M. Steinberg, Steinberg, M. Jeffrey Attorney Framingham of
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Based on the true story of a real-life friendship between Fred Rogers Rogers Fred between friendship real-life a of story true the on Based is series The
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er v o c Dis w Gro REa C te! At Home Resources: At home craft podcasts for kids for June Enjoy these online podcasts, and visit our website for Let’s make sidewalk chalk paint! more online resources! Watch the video on our YouTube Channel With nicer weather on our way, what better • Unspookable Spooky stories for kids. • What If World way to spend time outside than to make Stories start with chalk designs and pictures on the ground! • But Why? A Podcast for kids tackling silly “what if” various tough and funny subjects. Supplies: questions which are • Cornstarch crafted into original • Water • Book Power for Kids Book reviews by stories using fun and for kids. • Measuring cups voices, making for • Mixing bowl • Kids Ask Authors Author Grace Lin unrelenting ridiculousness. • Food coloring invites kids to ask the authors of their • Paint brushes • The Past and The Curious Comedic • Muffin tin OR small plastic bowls favorite books a question. actors performing little-known stories Instructions: • Story Pirates from history in a playful manner. There is even a quiz at the end of each 1. Add 1 cup of water to 1 cup of Actors, comedians, cornstarch in a mixing bowl. episode! and improvisers 2. Stir until there are no clumps of who act out cornstarch. original stories 3. Pour the mixture into the cups of muffin created by kids. Kanopy Kids tin or into small plastic containers. Have you tried 4. Add a few drops of your choice of food Kanopy Kids, coloring to each cup and mix until fully blended. our online video 5. Go outside and paint your chalk on the resource for kids? pavement! Enjoy quality educational content like Sesame Street and Arthur, and even CLICK HERE FOR A PREVIEW OF THE benefit from language learning series. Click here to learn more. Watch these on our ECAF VIRTUAL WEEKLY SCHEDULE YouTube Channel! (and please subscribe!) Children’s Book Review The Peacock Detectives by Carly Nugent For ages 8-12. Available as an ebook and audiobook on Hoopla. I recently joined a Facebook group called “View from my window” where people all around the world post a picture of what they see outside their window. Someone posted a view of the pyramids of Giza; imagine waking up to that every day! Someone else posted the most magnificent picture of mountains in Utah; I was astounded. So it’s a fun group and is supposed to help people locked down experience a sense of travel. But when we read the posts, we also see that all around the world people are alike. Many are locked down right now, and teaching their children at home, and missing family and travel and getting outside just like us. This book is like that Facebook group because it is a view of what life is like for Cassie, an eleven going on twelve-year-old girl, who lives in a little town in Australia (population: 2000; compare Framingham population: more than 68,000) surrounded by bush, where venomous tiger snakes live under the school steps, Christmas comes in the middle of summer, and the neighbors own a peacock and a peahen. This all sounds very exotic, but as the story progresses with Cassie and her friend Jonas looking for the peacocks who have escaped, we see that life in Australia is also very like life in America with family struggles and mean girls at school and arguments with friends and the great cycle of life and death. So, for a look at a different way of life that you can relate to quite easily, I recommend
this book. – Lucy . For more information please visit our website: www.framinghamlibrary.org