T he I nside P age Volume 12, Issue 4 Winter

Ho-Ho-Holiday Open House Announcements

Saturday, December 10  Our eBook and eAudiobook service, eMediaLibrary, has been Stop in for a bit of holiday cheer and celebrate the season upgraded. Please note one at our 9th annual Holiday Open House. Take this important change: you will now be opportunity to reacquaint yourself with everything the required to enter your password library has to offer during this free event for the entire each time you log in. Your library family. Meet Mrs. Claus and Santa, learn how to make card number will be remembered. festive appetizers, make crafts, enjoy live music performances and win door prizes! Cookies, mulled cider  If you are homebound, we deliver! and other refreshments will be provided by the Winfield Please call (630) 653-7599, and a Library Friends. staff member will deliver your library materials. 10:00-11:00 a.m. Storytime with Mrs. Claus and Santa (Meeting Room A&B)  Get library news delivered to your Listen to holiday stories read by Mrs. Claus, and enjoy a very special email with NextReads. Go to visit from Santa Claus! Free tickets are available November 26. www.winfield.lib.il.us and click 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. the NextReads button to sign up for Music of the Season (Adult Services) our eNewsletter. Holiday concert featuring violinist John Tangren.

1:00-4:00 p.m. Holiday Crafting (Youth Services) Make a variety of holiday crafts and transform a recycled holiday card into a gift box.  Thank you to everyone who donated to the Friends’ Book Sale 1:30-3:00 p.m. this past fall! Donations will be Holiday Music Ensemble (Adult Services) accepted beginning February 6 for A string quartet from West Chicago High School performs from 1:30-2:15 and the Spring Book Sale. a brass quintet from West Chicago High School performs from 2:30-3:00.

3:00-4:00 p.m.  Look for new magazines in 2017: Holiday Cooking Demonstration (Meeting Room A&B)  Clean Eating Cooking demonstration by Marie Kisiel. Samples and recipe booklets available.  Family Circle  SciFi  Woman’s Day Introducing the RBdigital App Access Digital Magazines & eAudiobooks with One App  Grow your business with the new Consumers & Lifestyles section of Starting December 5, the new RBdigital app will combine our ReferenceUSA. This database is OneClickdigital eAudiobook app with our Zinio for Libraries perfect for conducting market digital magazine app, so access to eAudiobooks and digital research by geographic area or magazines will all be available in one place. The RBdigital app will lifestyle category. Go to feature improved navigation and native search. If you already use www.winfield.lib.il.us, click the OneClickdigital app or the Zinio for Libraries app, you will be Research, then choose notified directly through the app when it’s time to upgrade to the ReferenceUSA on the list of new RBdigital. In December, please visit www.winfield.lib.il.us, resources. Log in with your where we will post updates as they become available. Winfield Library card number. Youth and Family Events

Crafters’ Circle Drop-in Holiday Crafting Sat., Dec. 3, 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Monday, December 19, 9:30 a.m. Storytime Jan. 9 - Feb. 2 Sat., Jan. 7, 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Visit the youth department for a fun Sat., Feb. 4, 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. holiday craft or two. If you enjoy knitting or crocheting, or Toddler Time would like to learn the basics, this group Chicago Wolves “Read to Succeed” Mondays, 9:30 a.m. is for you. Ages 8 and up welcome. January 3-31 Lively stories, songs, rhymes, music, Children in preschool movement, activities and crafts. Ages All Ages Chess Club through sixth grade are 18 months-3 years with a caregiver. Saturday, December 3, 2:00-4:00 p.m. invited to enroll and set a Registration required. Saturday, January 7, 2:00-4:00 p.m. reading goal. Turn in a

completed reading log on or Preschool Storytime Saturday, February 4, 2:00-4:00 p.m. before January 31 to enter the prize Mondays, 10:30 a.m. Learn to play chess and develop your drawings for Chicago Wolves Exciting picture books, rhymes, skills with local instructor Larry merchandise. songs, movement, activities and Lundstrom. Chess sets will be available. crafts. Ages 3-6. Registration No-Bake Holiday Treats Crafty Kids: Model Magic Pots required. Tuesday, December 6, 4:00-5:00 p.m. Friday, January 13, 3:30 p.m. Baby Time Get in the holiday spirit with easy, no- Children learn how to **Thursdays, 9:30 a.m. bake treats. Grades 1 to 6. Registration pinch and coil pots and Lively stories, songs and active required. explore line, texture, shape rhymes. Baby Time is designed and balance. Grades 1-6. especially for babies from birth to 18 Storytime with Mrs. Claus and Santa Registration required. months and their caregivers. Saturday, December 10, 10:00 a.m. Registration required. Listen to Mrs. Claus Kids’ Vitamix Smoothies read holiday stories Saturday, January 28, 10:00 a.m. Shake It Up Storytime! and enjoy a special This class will teach **Thursdays, 10:30 a.m. visit with Santa. Free children and caregivers Storytime with a focus on music, tickets are available how to make fun and scarves, movement, dancing and lots November 26. delicious smoothies in the of make believe. Ages 18 months-6 Vitamix. Class presented years. Registration required. Book Munchers Book Club by Camay Phinney. Grades 1-6. **The first Baby Time and Shake It Third Thursdays, 4:00 p.m. Registration required. Up Storytime is on Tuesday, Ages 6-7. Books will be available one January 10. month in advance in Youth Services. Water Color Cards Please bring a snack if your child has Thursday, February 2, 4:00 p.m. The Kids Breakfast Book Club food restrictions. Registration required. Transform coffee filters into beautiful First Saturdays, 9:15 a.m. works of art with markers and water. Ages 8-12. Books are available one month Dec. 15 | Stink and the Incredible Grades 1-6. Registration required. in advance. Registration required. Super-Galactic Jawbreaker by Megan McDonald Dec. 3 | Ruby Holler Jan. 19 | Roscoe Riley Rules #2: by Sharon Creech Never Swipe a Bully’s Bear 10001000 BooksBooks Jan. 7 | Harry Potter and the by Katherine Applegate BeforeBefore KindergartenKindergarten Sorcerer’s Stone Feb. 16 | Mercy Watson Thinks Like a by J.K. Rowling It’s not too late to sign up for 1000 Pig Books Before Kindergarten! Win Feb. 4 | The Graduation of Jake Moon by Kate DiCamillo by Linda Sue Park prizes for every 100 books read, and a special prize and certificate at 1000 books. Sign up in Youth Services. Adult Events

Crafters’ Circle Holiday Cooking Demonstration Essentials of Estate Planning Sat., Dec. 3, 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Saturday, December 10, 3:00 p.m. Tuesday, January 31, 7:00 p.m. Sat., Jan. 7, 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. A cooking demonstration from recipes Greg Kurinec of Bentron Financial Sat., Feb. 4, 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. included in “Seasoned Greetings: a Group covers the process, including the If you enjoy knitting or crocheting, or Holiday Sampler for Easy, Elegant need to plan, the most common planning would like to learn the basics, this group Entertaining” by Marie Kisiel. After the techniques, and documents used in the is for you. Ages 8 and up welcome. step-by-step demonstration, samples planning process. Registration will be served. Free copies of her recommended. booklet will also be distributed. Registration recommended. Tribute to Broderick Crawford: Warm Up with a Good Book Author Visit December 5-February 25 Remembering Marshall Field’s at Thursday, February 16, 7:00 p.m. Our Winter Reading Christmas Winfield resident Ralph Schiller wrote Program is the Thursday, December 15, 7:00 p.m. the definitive guide to the films of perfect way to chase Leslie Goddard brings Broderick Crawford. Join us for a the winter chill back holiday memories, program and book signing, just in time away. Stop by either including the Cozy Cloud for the Academy Awards. Registration desk to pick up a Cottage and Uncle recommended. program sheet to Mistletoe, as she talks record nine books read or programs about the beloved store’s Senior Program Series attended (including the Open House) to traditions. Memorabilia Property Fraud be eligible to win an Amazon gift card. is included! Registration recommended. Thursday, January 12, 10:00 a.m. DuPage County Recorder of Deeds Fred Off the Shelf Book Group Mysteries at Lunch Book Group Bucholz talks about the growing First Tuesdays, 7:00 p.m. Third Wednesdays, 12:15 p.m. problem of property fraud. Learn what Books available one month in advance. Books available one month in advance. you can do to prevent this crime, which Dec. 6 | 1225 Christmas Tree Lane Dec. 21 | Sugar Plum Dead can be as simple as someone recording a by Debbie Macomber by Carolyn Hart document that makes it appear that they now own your property. Registration Jan. 3 | The Alchemist Jan. 18 | Murder in the White House recommended. by Paulo Coelho by Margaret Truman

Feb. 7 | Museum of Extraordinary Feb. 15 | *This Rough Magic Illinois Talking Books Program Things by Mary Stewart Wednesday, February 22, 10:00 a.m. by Alice Hoffman *Meet at John’s Restaurant Learn about this program that provides alternative formats of books for people who cannot read print due to a physical or visual limitation. Registration recommended.

2017 Historical

Program Series Christmas Movie Screening Music of the Season Presented in partnership with the Wednesday, December 21, 1:30 p.m. Sat., Dec. 10, 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Winfield Historical Society. Join us for a holiday concert in the Join us for a special Adult Services Department featuring showing of the 1945 Chicago’s Mayor Richard J. Daley violin virtuoso John Tangren. comedy classic Tuesday, January 24, 7:00 p.m. Christmas in It’s been forty years Connecticut featuring since Mayor Daley Barbara Stanwyck. The passed away in movie will begin December 1976, but his Holiday Music Ensemble immediately following legacy is still alive. Sat., December 10, 1:30-3:00 p.m. our Mysteries at Lunch Historian Jim Gibbons presents the life A string quartet and a brass quintet from book discussion, and refreshments will of the man referred to as “Hizzoner” - a West Chicago High School perform in be served. Registration recommended. man of vision, courage and dreams for a the Adult Services department. great city. Registration recommended.

Winfield Library Friends

Save the Date Mark your calendar for our spring book sale! March 9 will be our 0S291 Winfield Road fundraising preview sale, and the regular sale will be March 10-11. Winfield, IL 60190 (630) 653-7599 Book Donations www.winfield.lib.il.us The Friends are accepting book donations for the spring sale from February 6 to March 11. We accept Library Hours books in good condition with the exception of Monday-Thursday 9 a.m. - 9 p.m. encyclopedias, magazines, and textbooks. Donations Friday-Saturday 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. Sunday Closed are tax deductible; ask for a receipt at the service desk. Library Closings Upcoming Friends Meetings Saturday, December 24 - Christmas Eve Monday, January 9, 7:00 p.m. Monday, December 26 - Christmas Day Monday, February 13, 7:00 p.m. Saturday, December 31 - New Year’s Eve The Winfield Library Friends’ fundraising and volunteer efforts Monday, January 2 - New Year’s Day directly benefit the library. We welcome new members! Attend an Library Board of Trustees upcoming meeting to see how your talents can help this dedicated Will Mego, President group of library supporters. Carol Tenyak-O'Connor, Secretary Robert W. Brown, Treasurer Malcolm Boyle Amanda Hjerpe Like us on Facebook! Rebecca Johnson Shelley Kenyon Join and vote in our Facebook photo contest in December to win a $20 Target gift card. Upcoming Board Meetings Post a picture reading with a child (your Meetings are open to the public. child, grandchild, niece, Wednesday, December 14, 7:30 p.m. nephew, etc.) and the photo Wednesday, January 11, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, February 8, 7:30 p.m. with the most likes at the end of the month wins! Director: Matthew Suddarth

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