E-Reader Help at the Senior Center

Hot Reads starts January 2nd!

Shop at Just Foods in January!

The Friends and Foundation of the Library will be the January 2016 recipient of ROUND UP. Any time you shop at Just Food and round up your purchase the extra funds will be donated to the Friends of the Library!

Just Food's We give back

We give back to our Community in a variety of ways at Just Food! We are proud to partner every month with a local non-profit for our Community Round-Up at the register campaign! We also partner with local schools and provide educational programming and access to healthy treats.

Just Food Co-op 516 Water St South Northfield, MN 55057

Phone: 507-650-0106 Email: info@justfood.coop

Welcome 2016! The library will be closed Friday, January 1st

Our website and catalog are always available!
www.northfieldmn.info

We will be open Saturday, January 2nd from 9 am to 5 pm.

The library will be closed all day Thursday, Dec.24 and Friday, Dec. 25.

Happy Holiday from your friends at the Library!

We will be open on Saturday, Dec. 26th from 9 to 5.

We need you!

Click here for an application.

WINTER WALK is December 10th! We will have the MODEL TRAINS at the Archer House 3-8 pm.

This event is made possible by the support of the Friends & Foundation of the Northfield Public Library and is free.  Please go down by the Tavern and enter under the awning.

Need help with homework? Do you need to brush up on algebra? Help is a click away!

Library staff members have been working hard on gathering great resources to help you with homework.  For kids in grades 1-12 plus homeschoolers.  ALL FREE.  
CLICK here or on the graphic above to check it out.

Get this cool LIBRARY app for your mobile device!

Here is the link!

YES! We will be hosting the Model Trains for Winter Walk- At the ARCHER HOUSE

Join the Friends & Foundation of the Library's WINTER WALK MODEL TRAIN SHOW!
Thursday, December 10th from 3 to 8 pm at the ARCHER HOUSE RIVER INN!

Due to the library's renovation project we will be moving the model train displays to the Lower Level Conference Room in the Archer House.  Enter on ground level in the back of the hotel, go down past the Tavern and enter under the awning.

Sponsored by the Friends & Foundation of the Library. THANK YOU FRIENDS!

Can you guess what part of the library this is?

Let's see if anyone recognizes this area?
If you're smart you will click on this link!

Buzz!!

Library Reference Staff is Out & About

Staff members Debby, Joan and  Jamie will be taking turns visiting the Northfield Senior Center Tuesday mornings from 10-11.  They will answer library questions, demonstrate how to use the catalog, request books and help you with eReaders. Please bring your Nook, iPad etc.

These visits will continue through November.

A cool new app for library users!

Library users across the region are now able to access books using the BookMyne application. BookMyne offers all the capabilities of your local library account, but on-the-go. Created by SirsiDynix, the application provides mobile access to in-demand library information, library materials, and services. BookMyne allows library customers to search the catalog, place holds, view their accounts, view digital bookshelves, and download electronic resources through their iOS or Android devices no matter where they are. Technology Support Librarian Tyler Irvin says adding BookMyne expands SELCO’s ongoing mission of supporting and connecting libraries across the region. “Providing patrons mobile access to their library accounts means that regional library users will be able to stay connected to their libraries and access services at their convenience,” Irvin said. “We at SELCO are pleased that we can offer this technology to provide better services to library patrons across the region.”

The BookMyne app can be downloaded from the Apple App Store or Android Market for free.

Did you see the library entry in the DJJD Parade?

While Booker, the book bus broke down the volunteers didn't!
Here are the new TAB Co-Presidents Nate Urke and Jasper Egge carrying the banner.
Many staff members, Library Pages and  Friends of the Library walked in the
 parade waving at crowds.

LIBRARY RENOVATION GROUNDBREAKING SET! And you're invited!

Mark your calendars for a celebration!  

Tuesday, September 15 at 4 pm.  

The process begins at the library 210 Washington Street.

New uses for library furniture.

See if you can find these pieces around town?  A great reuse of materials.

Meet Will he's a READER OF THE WEEK!

Camden did it!

Camden read 1,000 books before kindergarten!

Planting seeds for Kindergarten is the Northfield program that encourages all families and caregivers to read 1,000 books with their young children before they enter kindergarten.

Studies have shown that families who start reading aloud to their children at birth help to strengthen their language skills and build their vocabulary – two important tools for beginning to learn to read.

You will be rewarded for every 100 books you read. 

Siblings and friends can also be rewarded for reading to younger kids, come by any location and pick up a "Super Reader" record sheet.

Information & reading records are available at the Northfield Public Library, ECFE and Longfellow school. 

This program is made possible by the Northfield Rotary, Northfield Healthy Community Initiative, Early Childhood Initiative Coalition, Northfield Public Schools, Northfield Promise, Friends & Foundation of the Library and Northfield Public Library.

Learn to use the Northfield Public Library Catalog

Learn how to use the Northfield Public Library catalog  including requesting and renewing books, creating book lists and paying  fines at the Northfield Senior Center on  Wed. Sept. 23  11:00 AM-12:00 PM – Room 102-Computer Lab.   The class is free but registration is required.   Call the Senior Center to register at 664-3700. Deadline is Sept. 17.  Questions?  Call the Northfield Library at 507-645-6606.

16TH ANNUAL CELEBRATION OF MINNESOTA CHILDREN’S AUTHORS AND ILLUSTRATORS

 The Anderson Center, along with the Red Wing Public Library and Mackin Educational Resources, will once again host the Annual Celebration of Minnesota Children’s Authors and Illustrators on September 19 from 12:00 – 5:00 pm.

Marking its 16^th year, the event features a stellar line-up of Minnesota’s finest, award-winning authors and illustrators, including recently retired Minnesota Supreme Court Justice and NFL Hall of Famer Alan Page. In his book, "Alan and His Perfectly Pointy, Impossibly Perpendicular Pinky," Page visits a grammar school class. A boy asks him: "What happened to your finger?" Page's left pinky is disfigured, jutting out at a 90-degree angle. He dislocated it during a game when he was a Minnesota Vikings defensive tackle. "The story is really a metaphor that we really do learn from each other and that even those children who sometimes seem to be doing things out of place -- it's not always a bad thing" says Page. In this heartwarming story by Alan and Kamie Page, with captivating artwork by David Geister, readers of all ages will delight in how one special boy finds something in common with a big man with an even bigger heart.

The day’s events all include book sales by Mackin Educational Resources, book signings and readings by authors, presentations and talks by illustrators, and bookmaking workshops for both children and parents. 

Other features include storytelling sessions with the Wonder Weavers at the top of the Tower View water tower, peach basket basketball with John Coy and the Red Wing YMCA, workshops with the Minnesota Center for the Book Arts, music with Alphabits, and fun-filled family activities with Picture Window Books, Red Wing Arts Association, ArtReach, and many other local and regional organizations.  Also appearing will be the ever-popular balloon-artists Barbara Jazee and David Olson, Minnesota marble champion Tom Fletcher, and stilts with Barebones Puppet Company. 

Lunch, ice cream, and other refreshments will be available. This wonderful, one-of-a-kind event is free of charge and open to the public. 

A special thanks to the local businesses and individuals who so generously help fund this event.  For a complete listing of sponsors, visit our website http://andersoncenter.org/eventAuthorsIllustrators.html

2015 Authors and Illustrators

Aimee Bissonette, Cheryl Blackford, Cathy Camper, Laurie Caple, Rick Chrustowski, John Coy, Joy Dey, David Geister, Bruce Giebink, Molly Beth Griffin, Michael Hall, Beth Hautala, Bill Johnson, Nikki Morgan, Alan Page, Kamie Page, Margi Preus, Jane St. Anthony, Anna Skarie, Catherine Urdahl, Stephanie Watson, Teagan White.

  

September newsletter

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Seed Saving 101: how to start saving your seeds to keep or share.

If you're a gardener and would like to learn how to save your own seeds

- either for yourself, or to exchange with others next year, this program's for you! U of M Horticulture Professor Tom Michaels will lead the class.

Sponsored by the Friends & Foundation of the Library and Just Food Co-op. Free and open to all. Treats provided! 

The Northfield Public Library is planning to start a Seed Lending Library when we re-open next year. Start saving seeds now for 2016.

The class will be in the Just Food's Co-op's community room 516 Water St S, Northfield August 25th at 6 pm.

The Minnesota Opera is coming!

Mystery Book Club News

August at YOUR Library-

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Meet Lucas! He read 1000 books before Kindergarten!

Planting seeds for Kindergarten  is the Northfield program that encourages all families and caregivers to read 1,000 books with their young children before they enter kindergarten.

Studies have shown that families who start reading aloud to their children at birth help to strengthen their language skills and build their vocabulary – two important tools for beginning to learn to read.

You will be rewarded for

every 100 books you read. 

Information & reading records are available at the Northfield Public Library, ECFE and Longfellow school. 

Mark your calendars! Library renovation auction.

Saturday, August 8th

10 am

Inspection starts at 8 am

210 Washington St. Northfield, MN

Beginning this fall, the Library will begin a major renovation.  While many items will remain in the new and improved library, numerous items will not have a place in the renovated space and will be some at auction on August 8th. 

THIS IS YOUR CHANCE TO OWN A PIECE OF LIBRARY HISTORY!

Partial list:\Antique quarter sawn oak library circulation desk from orginal Carnegie Library,

square oak tables, leather chairs, wood and metal office desks, computer desks, upholstered chairs with wooden arms, brass lamps, built in bookshelves, storage cabinets, oak picture book bins, stackable chairs, built in cabinet w/7 drawers, slide projector & screen, children's toys, VHS & DVD players,  TV & radios, Microfiche reader, advertising sandwich boards, filing cabinets round butcher block table, rolling carts, overhead projector,  electric typewriter, antique quarter sawn oak magazine table, framed art prints, counter tops, metal lockers and MORE!

Check out Auctioneer Ed Kuhlman's website 

 Sample items-

Books not included!

Booker news!

Booker is going to Dundas!

Yes! Monday afternoons August 3, 10 and 17! We will be parked at the Trail Head from 1 to 4:30. Come on by and check Booker Out!

Our Monday Central Park stop will be changing to 9:30 to noon in August.

Here is a video of the interim library

July Calendar- we open at City Hall on July 13th.

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Moving to City Hall-uff da!

Moving the current DVD shelves out of the library.

Thanks to kind donations coordinated by the Friends & Foundation of
the Library all the staff and volunteers are well cared for!

The fiction shelves from the kids area have been moved to city hall.

Boxes of supplies, books and other stuff ready to go to city hall, storage or saved for the Auction, Sat. Aug. 8th!

Some of the DVD shelves in place at the interim city hall space.

Let the packing begin!

Empty shelves in the reference office.

Library director's office

Ref area upstairs

Looking towards the non-fic area upstairs 

The romances have left the building!

Pye room

A very busy circulation area even with no patrons!

Claudia packing the children's DVD and new books.

Leesa emptying out the shelves we are taking to City Hall and pulling the books we're taking
to the interim library.

Most of the large print collection has been moved/