Matthews Public Library

It’s #WomensCheckupDay! Ladies, are you due, or past due, for your annual checkup? Schedule it today and make your health a priority! #paforward #HealthLiteracy #NationalWomensHealthWeek

Miss Ronice is back with a new virtual Smart Start Storytime! https://youtu.be/DLmtm0YVVCY

Catch up on Downton Tabby, I mean, Abbey seasons 1 - 6 and the 2019 film before its sequel drops later this year! All six seasons plus the 2019 film are available to borrow or request through the library.

Asa Packer (1805-1879), an American businessman and Pennsylvania politician, pioneered railroad construction and served twice as president of the Lehigh Valley Railroad. Learn more about Asa Packer in this documentary produced by the Susquehanna Valley Center for Public Policy for Pennsylvania Cable Network (PCN)'s Rediscovering Pennsylvania History Makers series. #NationalTrainDay #pennsylvaniahistory

Just a reminder: TOMORROW Saturday, May 8 is Dime Day all day at the Spring Rummage Sale, AND there's also a special Spring Children's Story Hour with storyteller Miss Cheryl at 10:30 AM tomorrow at Fredericksburg Community Center!

Kits still available: DIY Chia Pet, Penguin Art, Snowman Windsock, Streamers, Confetti Popper, and DIY Magazine Strip Art. Stop in and pick up a kit or two to keep the kids busythey come highly recommended by our littlest library patrons! #PAForward ##financialliteracy

Here's the latest "Library Letter"!

TODAY Tuesday, January 19 is the LAST day to submit entries for our first ever Smartphone Photography Contest! Submissions period closes tonight at 11:59 PM. Stay tuned to this Facebook page and our website for the photo gallery and links to online voting. Full contest guidelines https://matthews.lclibs.org/smartphone-photography-contest/

As a student at Morehouse College in 1947 Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote these words: "Intelligence plus character that is the goal of true education" in an op-ed called "The Purpose Of Education" for The Maroon Tiger, the student newspaper.

The library will be closed on Thursday and Friday, December 24 & 25 for the holiday! However, our eLibrary lclibs.overdrive.com will be available to browse or borrow eBooks. The library after hours book return will be available to receive library material returns. The library will re-open at 9 AM on Saturday, December 26.

BOOKS What. A. Year. For months we’ve been separated from one another, masked-up during quick shopping trips, seeing each other on screens, apart in our disrupted days. Pandemic life has given me a new appreciation for the way that reading lets me travel and be with others, if only in spirit, and my top three book picks for 2020 reflect that.... https://unfortunatereviewsblog.wordpress.com//miss-lisas-/

NPR Books presents The Book Concierge! Visitors can use this app to mix and match filters to find book recommendations culled from 2,500 book reviews from NPR critics and staff. You can also explore previous years!

Go to https://youtu.be/h8129phbDCI for the latest installment of virtual Smart Start Storytime for babies and toddlers with Miss Ronice!

Starting TODAY Tuesday, December 8, our Season's Readings gameboards are available! Pick one up at the library or download it from our website and get started reading today! https://matthews.lclibs.org/seasons-readings/

Our One Stop Holiday Shop is back and better than ever this year! Stocked with tons of 2020 titles + a selection of inspirational and children's titles, there's a lot to choose from. This is a great option for those on a limited budgetgift your nearest and dearest or yourself!and support the library. These titles are located in the display case by the circulaltion desk at the library and will be available for sale through December. You can also shop our Chicken Little Bookshop located in our entryway all year round. All proceeds benefit the library.

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We're so excited to share this announcement with you: Smart Start Storytime is back (virtually) with a new storyteller! Please help us in welcoming Miss Ronice. Check out Miss Ronice's first virtual Smart Start Storytime at the link below!

Find your next great read at our eLibrary lclibs.overdrive.com

Finn Murphy’s The Long Haul: A Trucker’s Tales of Life on the Road is part memoir, part sitting around telling work stories, part intimate look at the nuts and bolts of a professional mover’s daily lifeand it’s all interesting. Murphy was a teenage gas jockey in Connecticut when he first got the bug about moving other people’s belongings for a living. [ 425 more words ] https://unfortunatereviewsblog.wordpress.com//the-long-ha/

The first Holiday Crafternoon kicks off this Saturday, November 7! Children ages 4-16 are invited to stop in anytime between 1 PM and 3 PM to make and take a holiday themed craft. Each Saturday different crafts are featured, so be sure to stop back in later in the month. #PAForward

Readopoly gameboards for children (ages 12 and under) and Tic-Tac-Toe gameboards (for teens and adults) will be available for download from https://matthews.lclibs.org/seasons-readings/ and pick up from the library starting Tuesday, December 8!

Today is election day! Get out and vote! Let your voice be heard! Want to learn more about the candidates who are running for election? Head over to https://www.votespa.com/ for voter info, such as polling place locations and ballot details or go to https://www.vote411.org/ or https://ballotpedia.org/ for ballot information.

David Pogue’s iPhone: The Missing Manual (2019; 13th ed.) describes itself as [t]he book that should have been in the box, and it’s the perfect description of this helpful, content-packed, and easy-to-follow guide for iPhones running iOS13. At 673 pages, TMM is everything you ever wanted to know about the iPhone, and everything that you didn’t know that you didn’t know. [ 275 more words ] https://unfortunatereviewsblog.wordpress.com//iphone-the-/

Join Dexter and Miss Sheila to find out how you can make your very own green, green grass craft! A limited number of Grass 2 Go kits are available for sale ($2/kit) at the library on a first come first serve basis. Featured picturebooks available to borrow at the library: In The Tall, Tall Grass by Denise Fleming Grassland by April Pulley Sayre... Grasslands by Casey Horton See more

Big Library Read begins today! Visit our eLibrary lclibs.overdrive.com to borrow the featured title ‘Reverie’ by Ryan La Sala with no waitlists or holds. "This outstanding debut novel will light readers' imaginations on fire...Imaginative, bold, and full of queer representation, this is a must-purchase for YA collections."School Library Journal Don't forget to use #biglibraryread on social media for a chance to win Libby swag!

What's your score? We scored 16we're a bonafide bookworm!

The World Savings Day has been established almost one century ago to celebrate people who save every day. When you save a bit, big things follow! #WorldSavingsDay2020 #savebig2020 #PAForward #FinancialLiteracy