Beaumont Public Library System
May 2019 Volume 13, Issue 05
1 Table of Contents
ACTIVITIES FOR ALL AGES—AGES BIRTH—ADULT 4
ACTIVITIES FOR CHILDREN—AGES BIRTH—5 4, 5, 12
ACTIVITIES FOR CHILDREN—AGES 6—12 12 ACTIVITIES FOR TEENS—AGES 13—18 13 ACTIVITIES FOR ADULTS—AGES 18 + 13, 14 THE BOOKISH MOMS BEHIND BOOK RIOT 17
MAURINE GRAY LITERACY CENTER 3 TYRRELL HISTORICAL LIBRARY 15
UPCOMING HOLIDAYS 3
CONTACT YOUR LOCAL BRANCH LIBRARY 20
Flyer Index
Summer Reading Club 1 OverDrive 3, 20 Teen Reading Program 6 Adult & Teen Summer Reading Program Guide- 7 lines Lego Mania 8 ♫ Music Mondays ♫ 9 Scented Bookmarks 10 Military Appreciation Month 11
Project Gold 16 Adult Summer Reading Program 19
Library Commission Members Mercy Cook appointed by Gethrel Williams-Wright Larue Smith, Ward IV (at-large) Linda Cooper, Ward V Dora Nisby, President, Ward I Marty Craig, appointed by the Mayor Ben Woodhead, Ward II Belinda Taylor, Ward III
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Upcoming Holidays Memorial Day: Saturday, May 25—Closed Monday, May 27—Closed Independence Day: Thursday, July 4—Closed
3 ACTIVITIES FOR ALL AGES STORY TIME Ages birth—adult R.C. Miller Memorial Library Wednesday, May 1 MOVIE MATINEE Read * Play * Grow Ages 6 months to 3 years Theodore Johns Branch Library Join us for a story, songs, and an activity with your child. Johns Movie Matinee 11:30am Saturday, May 18 3:00pm Theodore Johns Branch Library Wednesday, May1 ACTIVITIES FOR CHILDREN Afternoon Story Time Ages birth—5 Cinco de Mayo Stories and a craft MUSIC 4:30pm Elmo Willard Branch Library Elmo Willard Branch Library Monday, May 6 Thursday, May 2 ♫ Musical Mondays ♫ Pre-School Story Time Ages 2—5 Butterflies Get with the beat as we sing, dance, and play 10:30am musical instruments R.C. Miller Memorial Library 10:30am Friday, May 3 Elmo Willard Branch Library Preschool Pals Story Time Monday, May 13 Family ♫ Musical Mondays ♫ It’s story time! Ages 2—5 10:30am Get with the beat as we sing, dance, and play Beaumont Public Library musical instruments Monday, May 6 10:30am Pre-School Story Time Elmo Willard Branch Library Family Monday, May 20 It’s all about Family this week! ♫ Musical Mondays ♫ 10:30am Ages 2—5 Theodore Johns Branch Library Get with the beat as we sing, dance, and play Wednesday, May 8 musical instruments Pre-school Play Date 10:30am An hour of fun with toys, music, a story, and a craft. 10:30am
4 R.C. Miller Memorial Library Wednesday, May 15 Wednesday, May 8 Read * Play * Grow Read * Play * Grow Ages 6 months to 3 years Ages 6 months to 3 years Join us for a story, songs, and an activity with your Join us for a story, songs, and an activity with child. your child. 11:30am 11:30am Elmo Willard Branch Library Theodore Johns Branch Library Thursday, May 16 Wednesday, May 8 Pre-School Story Time Afternoon Story Time Bathtime Mother’s Day 10:30am Stories and a craft R.C. Miller Memorial Library 4:30pm Friday, May 17 Elmo Willard Branch Library Preschool Pals Story Time Thursday, May 9 Superheroes Pre-School Story Time Calling all little superheroes this week for story time! Love My Mom! 10:30am 10:30am Beaumont Public Library R.C. Miller Memorial Library Monday, May 20 Friday, May 10 Pre-School Story Time Preschool Pals Story Time Summer Welcome Ms. Hannah—It’s Story Time! Cool off with stories and songs. 10:30am 10:30am Beaumont Public Library Theodore Johns Branch Library Monday, May 13 Wednesday, May 22 Pre-School Story Time Pre-school Play Date Superhero An hour of fun with toys, music, a story, and a craft. Fly into Story Time this week! 10:30am 10:30am R.C. Miller Memorial Library Theodore Johns Branch Library Wednesday, May 22 Wednesday, May 15 Read * Play * Grow Pre-school Play Date Ages 6 months to 3 years An hour of fun with toys, music, a story, and a Join us for a story, songs, and an activity with your craft. child. 10:30am 11:30am Theodore Johns Branch Library Theodore Johns Branch Library Wednesday, May 15 Wednesday, May 22 Afternoon Story Time Afternoon Story Time Pizza Day Musical Instrument Day Stories & a craft Stories & a craft 4:30pm 4:30pm
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5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Thursday, May 23 Friday, May 24 Pre-School Story Time Preschool Pals Story Time Rainy Day Space 10:30am Houston, we do NOT have a problem this week at story time. R.C. Miller Memorial Library 10:30am Friday, May 24 Preschool Pals Story Time BOOK CLUB Summer Before we have fun in the sun, let’s have fun at ACTIVITIES FOR CHILDREN the library! Ages 6—12 10:30am Beaumont Public Library HOME SCHOOL BOOK CLUB Monday, May 27 Memorial Day—Library Closed. Theodore Johns Branch Library Friday, May 10 Theodore Johns Branch Library Ages 8—11 Wednesday, May 29 Book and Movie Pre-school Play Date Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo An hour of fun with toys, music, a story, and a Read the book then join us as we enjoy the movie with craft. popcorn and have a discussion to compare book and 10:30am movie. 2:00pm—4:00pm R.C. Miller Memorial Library Wednesday, May 29 MOVIE MATINEE Read * Play * Grow Ages 6 months to 3 years Theodore Johns Branch Library Join us for a story, songs, and an activity with Johns Movie Matinee your child. Saturday, April 20 11:30am 3pm Beaumont Public Library THANKS TO THE MILITARY Monday, April 29 Pre-School Story Time Beaumont Public Library Jungle May 1—May 31 It’s all about jungle animals this week. Stop by the Main Library to write or decorate a card 10:30am for a member of the military. Cards will be delivered to the Vet Center in Beaumont. Theodore Johns Branch Library Wednesday, May 29 TWEEN 2 TEEN Afternoon Story Time R.C. Miller Memorial Library Scavenger Hunt LEGO MANIA Stories & a craft Saturday, May 4 4:30pm Ages 6—12 We supply the Legos & YOU supply the Elmo Willard Branch Library imagination! Spend a morning creating Lego master- Thursday, May 30 pieces with friends. Pre-School Story Time Boats 10:00am—11:30am 10:30am SCENTED BOOKMARKS ARE BACK! R.C. Miller Memorial Library R.C. Miller Memorial Library
BEAUMONT PUBLIC LIBR ARY SYSTEM 12 Grades K—8 ACTIVITIES FOR ADULTS Check out 5 titles and receive a FREE bookmarker. COLLECT THEM ALL WHILE Ages 18+ SUPPLIES LAST! ART/EXHIBITS BOOK CLUB ADULTS COLOR CREATION HOME SCHOOL BOOK CLUB iCOLOR FOR ADULTS ACTIVITIES FOR TEENS R.C. Miller Memorial Library Ages 13—18 Wednesdays, 11am—11:30am Enjoy the therapeutic benefits of coloring! Open to adults & children. Miller Conference Room Theodore Johns Branch Library Instructor: Jaebin L. White, B.F.A.—Art & Art Wednesday, May 8 History Teens 12 and up Book and Movie AUTHORS/BOOK CLUBS Jumanji by Chris Van Allsburg Read the book then join us as we enjoy the movie BOOK CLUB with popcorn and have a discussion to compare Lakeview Center—Best Year’s Center book and movie. We will be watching the 1995 Next meeting: Thursday, May 9 version of the film. 2:00pm—3:00pm 2:00pm—4:00pm Book: In Pieces by Sally Field Please note: day, time, and location change MOVIE MATINEE BOOK BUNCH Theodore Johns Branch Library R. C. Miller Memorial Library Johns Movie Matinee Wednesday, May 15 Saturday, May 18 2:00pm—3:30pm 3:00pm Next book: The Lincoln Myth by Steve Berry TWEEN 2 TEEN Facilitator: Rosie Postelnek R.C. Miller Memorial Library COMPUTER CLASSES LEGO MANIA Saturday, May 4 E-BOOK TRAINING Ages 6—12 R.C. Miller Memorial Library We supply the Legos & YOU supply the Need assistance with accessing imagination! Spend a morning creating Lego E-Books/E-Audiobooks? masterpieces with friends. Registration is required 10:00am—11:30am Contact us to schedule an appointment (409-866-9487) ext. 3250 COMPUTER BASICS Beaumont Public Library Wednesday, May 1 Registration Required—CONTACT THE CIRCULATION DESK. 2:00pm
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Beaumont Public Library 13 Wednesday, May 8 STITCH & SHARE (Quilting Club) Registration Required—CONTACT THE R.C. Miller Memorial Library CIRCULATION DESK. Wednesdays 2:00pm 5:30pm—6:30pm Meet with others who share your interest and love of BASIC EMAIL quilting! Beaumont Public Library Instructor: Noel McCord Wednesday, May 15 Registration Required—CONTACT THE LANGUAGES CIRCULATION DESK. 2:00pm FRENCH I—BEGINNERS R.C. Miller Memorial Library BASIC WORD Thursdays Beaumont Public Library 1:30pm—2:30pm Wednesday, May 22 Instructor: Cathy Nacol Registration Required—CONTACT THE CIRCULATION DESK. HEBREW—BEGINNERS 2:00pm R.C. Miller Memorial Library Tuesdays BASIC EXCEL 5:30pm—6:30pm Beaumont Public Library Instructor: Arlene Pippin Wednesday, May 29 Registration Required—CONTACT THE HEBREW—INTERMEDIATE CIRCULATION DESK. R.C. Miller Memorial Library 2:00pm Tuesdays 6:30pm—7:30pm HEALTH Instructor: Arlene Pippin STRESS MANAGEMENT LITERACY CLASSES Elmo Willard Branch Library Tuesday May 7 ADVANCED ESL CLASSES For Mental Health Awareness Month, Baylor Col- R.C. Miller Memorial Library lege of Medicine and the American Red Cross have Mondays partnered to offer an educational presentation on 6:00pm—7:30pm stress management, signs of distress, and coping ***Registration is required. Contact the Literacy strategies and practices. Trained therapists will Center @ 409-835-7924 to register. present information to better understand stressors WRITERS and adjustment problems like sadness, worry, and mood changes, as well as present on evidence- TEXAS GULF COAST WRITERS based practices designed to treat and alleviate Saturday, May 18 symptoms of distress. 10:00am—11:30pm 12:00pm—1:00pm and 6:30pm—7:30pm Facilitator: Merrilyn Williams
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enovation work continues on the Tyrrell (http://archivesspace.beaumonttexas. gov). R Historical Library following the damage uring the time of the library’s sustained by Hurricane Harvey. The third phase of D temporary closure a limited amount of repair work is ongoing. The replastering and the research can be performed for a fee in the history painting of damaged areas in the library has finally collections that remain accessible to staff at the been completed. Currently, two spiral staircases are library. A prepayment of $10.00 is required for being repaired with new wood replacing rotten staff to search these collections for patrons. The wood. Thereafter, other rotten wood will be collections available to staff include microfilmed replaced throughout the remainder of the building. Beaumont newspapers, genealogy books, and Then the final phase of renovation will involve archival collections that are housed in the annex new carpeting being laid for the original library building of the library. Staff can devote up to one building. It is at that particular juncture that a hour of research time once the necessary $10.00 grand reopening of the library is planned. fee has been received and processed by the ll the necessary repair work on the library. Methods of payment include the A original library building is expected to take following: personal check, or money order. several more months to finish. A hoped for Patrons wishing staff to conduct research on their reopening date of the library is sometime either in behalf for a $10.00 fee should contact the library late summer or autumn. The at the following telephone number (409)833-2759, reopening will depend entirely on the pace of ext. -3302. completing necessary repairs to the building. Once nyone who may be interested in donating a definite date is known, then a library reopening A historic materials to the library can still do announcement will be widely publicized for all the so. Donations of historic materials can be dropped public to know about. off either at the Main Library building located at n the interim of the closure staff at the library 801 Pearl Street, or by calling for a scheduled I remains constantly busy with numerous digital appointment time at the following telephone and descriptive projects related to its archival number of (409)833-2759, ext. -3302 or -3307. collection holdings. As digital and descriptive The Tyrrell Historical Library always welcomes work is finished it is added to the library’s digital donations that document the unique and important portal site rich history of Beaumont and its surrounding (http://tyrrellhistoricallibrary.contentdm.oclc.org/c community. dm/) where the public can have direct access to it mportant updates on the continued progress of through the internet. In the past month this site has I renovation work at the library and a projected continued to grow both in quantity and size. The reopening date will be posted regularly on its site consists of 88 digital collections with 70,000 FaceBook page (https://www.facebook. com/ fully described items found on it. New content is Tyrrell-Historical-Library-236313203155911/) continually being added, so patrons are encouraged and the Beaumont Public Library FaceBook page to visit this site frequently to learn what new infor- (https://www.facebook.com/Beaumont-Public- mation may be available to them. Library-System-147841162768/). Patrons are ikewise, prepared finding aids that fully encouraged to consult these two social media pag- L describe the contents of processed archival es to obtain the latest information about ongoing collections of the library can be accessed directly developments related to the status of the historical via the internet. The library currently has 57 library. finding aids related to its archival collections available for patrons to search. These finding aids can be reached by going to the following website
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MARGARET KINGSBURY05-13-18 reading was a special time for us to snuggle and share an First and foremost, thanks to all the bookish moms out experience. Sometimes, I read to Adam and Emily there! The ones who let us read under the blankets after separately, but usually we read together. Their Dad and I bedtime, that read Goodnight Moon over and over and took turns reading the bedtime story, but as Emily got over again until it made you literally sick, that bought us older, she sometimes chose to read to Adam. Because there the banned books we couldn’t read in school, who read were not so many children’s book when I was little, I aloud our childhood favorites even once we could read on enjoyed discovering the rich variety of books that were our own. available for children as well as some of the classics, Of course bookish moms help create avid readers, and we like The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe, that I had here at Book Riot are no different. Many of us had never read. But, we didn’t only stick to children’s books. I bookish moms, and many of us are now bookish moms, remember reading poems like Hiawatha to Emily when she passing on our love of reading. For this Mother’s Day — was about three, and she loved the music of the language. and also my first Mother’s Day as a mom — I asked my Emily and Adam watched the Zefferelli movie, Romeo and fellow Rioters to share their stories and images of reading Juliet, and seemed mesmerized. That night, Emily, who to their children and/or being read to as a child. was about five, asked if I would read some of Romeo and I’d love to hear your stories of bookish moms (or being a Juliet to her. I thought she would want the famous balcony bookish mom)! scene, but she wanted Mercutio’s dying soliloquy. From the I still remember my mom reading to me before bedtime, time they were little, reading with my kids was a time of particularly from my glow-in-the- family closeness, enjoyment, and relaxation.‖ dark copy of Good Night Richard Emily Martin Rabbit (which I still own). So of I simply love reading to my son, who is course, as soon as my daughter was now four years old. I tell him often that my born, I read to her as often as she favorite time of day is snuggling and could stand it. This first photo is reading with him. This is my favorite one of many from her first year. picture of us reading together. I love his The second photo is from last year, when she was just 2 bright eyes that seem to take in all of the and already beginning to comprehend how she could use words and illustrations! her books to fuck with me. Owl Babies is about three Katherine Willoughby owlets who wake up in the middle of the night to discover A librarian snapped this polaroid of my mom reading to my their mother is gone. They spend the rest of the book siblings and me (I’m the one on her lap). I wishing for her return. I won’t spoil the ending for you, credit my mom with making me the reader but I will say that, for the longest time, whenever I came I am today. Not only did she teach me home late from one of my extracurricular activities, I how to read, but she homeschooled all of would find Emily waiting up for me in bed, wailing as us kids with a reading-based curriculum soon as I walked in the front door, ―Mommy! Can we (Charlotte Mason, anyone?). Read-aloud read Owl Babies‖? ::shakes head:: Total master of the time and D.I.R.T. (Daily Independent guilt trip. Reading Time) were essential components of our school Steph Auteri day. Even when I was in high school, my mom still read I asked my mom what it was like reading to me and my aloud to my little sister and me over lunch. I’ll always be brother when we were little, grateful for her turning me into a Potterhead from a young and this is what she said: ―As age, too. While some of my homeschool friends weren’t an educator, I know how im- allowed to read Harry Potter, my mom read us the first few portant it is for parents to read books as bedtime stories. to their children. So, I read to Emily Polson my kids from the time they Reading as a mum: I never get as much were babies. Sometimes I was time to read as I want, so sometimes I so tired from working in a demanding career and taking steal time (see photo). I read to Tilly care of a family, that I would fall asleep and keep almost every day, largely because it’s an ―reading.‖ Actually, I would be spouting nonsense, and easy way to keep her entertained. the kids would let me know! But, most of the time, Favourite Books: Where is the Green Sheep, The World Shines for You,
17 and The Gruffalo. Tilly’s reaction to reading: She loves it! even my reading life had now changed. Other changes She’s started turning pages now so board books are the new followed: letting him turn pages, accepting the books favourite. he brought me from my bookshelf, and memorizing Jen Sherman his favorites, like this one. The Very Hungry Like many bookish moms, my mom read to me every night Caterpillar still works a kind of magic on him. There before bed. I can still remember her reading me A Wrinkle in are funky small pages to turn. There are caterpillar Time for the first time. In this first bites, holes just big enough for baby fingers to poke at. picture, she’s reading me a collection The way he happily plunks down in my lap when I of poems. While neither of us can pull out one of his books to read – that right there remember which collection this is, I squeezes my bookish, squishy, soft Mama heart, every do remember filching her poetry single time. books as a teenager. What mom — Dana Staves taught me about reading is that it’s a I’ve always loved books, and my daily activity. I mistakenly thought everyone read everyday love of reading was always until I was in college. It was such a normal activity in my encouraged. My grandparents house, and it’s one of the best gifts she’s given me (her would take me to the bookstore unconditional love being #1, and apparently her taste in after school, and my parents would glasses somewhere in there as well). At first I tried to carry take me to the library. I was never on the tradition of reading to my new little one every night without a book – and to this day, that remains true. My before bed, but I soon realized that pattern was never going son loves books, which makes my heart incredibly to work. Reading is very exciting to Marian — not a restful happy. He likes carrying them around with him, activity at all. So now we read off and on throughout the day. turning their pages, and looking at the pictures. We Sometimes we only get a few pages in at a time, other times, have about eleventy million board and picture books, we manage an entire book. At five months, she loves but I will always be happy to buy him one more. chewing on books, grabbing the people in the pictures, and When my son was an infant, my mom and trying to figure out what I’m doing when I talk and stare at grandmother would come over to help me during the the page (she’ll look from me to the page back to me again. day, and they would often read with him. These What in the world is Mommy doing?!?). But whether it’s memories will always be some of my favorites. during the day or at night, the tradition of normalizing — Jaime Herndon reading carries on. Marian’s going to be surrounded by Happy Mother’s Day, and thanks again to all the books everyday, just like her mommy and granma. bookish moms out there! Keep reading (as if you need Margaret Kingsbury to be told)! This is a picture of me reading with my 5-year-old son. Reprinted with permission from Brightly We’re in my usual reading corner, on the loveseat in our http://Readbrightly.com family room with light from the window. What’s special to me about this picture is that we’re reading a book that my son himself wrote. Or, rather, he drew the pictures and got some help with writing a few words, as he’s not writing himself yet. But there was definitely a story he wanted to tell involving heroes and villains and lots of action. We read through this book multiple times, each reading a little different because we improvised the details. I love how much my son adores stories and reading and how he brings his immense creativity to everything he does. Rebecca Hussey When my son was a newborn, I remember lounging on the couch with him. He slept sprawled in my lap, and I managed, after some very careful reaching and slow moving, to retrieve my book from the cof- fee table. I read, and then turned a page, and he jerked awake at the noise of it, briefly, but long enough to show me that
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Beaumont Public Library Jim Shoemaker, Branch Manager 409-838-6606 801 Pearl Street MAY 2019 Monday—Thursday 9:00am—8:00pm Friday 9:00am—6:00pm Library Administrator, Paul Eddy Newsletter edited by Geri Roberts, Assistant Maurine Gray Literacy Center Library Administrator Barbara Beard, Branch Manager Phone: 409-981-5911 409-835-7924 Fax: 409-212-9383 801 Pearl Street Email: [email protected] Monday—Thursday 9:00am—8:00pm Or Friday 9:00am—5:00pm [email protected] Tyrrell Historical Library Bill Grace, Branch Manager http://beaumontlibrary.org 409-833-2759 695 Pearl Street Closed for Renovations http://tyrrellhistoricallibrary.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ Theodore Johns Branch Library Amy Albrecht, Branch Manager 409-842-5223 4255 Fannett Road Monday—Thursday 9:00am—8:00pm Friday & Saturday 9:00am—6:00pm R.C. Miller Memorial Library Claudia Hairston, Branch Manager 409-866-9487 1605 Dowlen Road Monday—Thursday 9:00am—8:00pm Friday & Saturday 9:00am—6:00pm Elmo Willard Branch Library Geri Roberts, Assistant Library Administrator 409-892-4988 3590 East Lucas Drive Monday—Thursday 9:00am—8:00pm Friday & Saturday 9:00am—6:00pm
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