New Releases

New to our shelves this week!

BCD Sau - The unloved

DVD Thr - Three amigos

DVD Zoo - Zootopia

E Fun - Dear dragon: a pen pal tale

E Wel - Hand in hand

F Car - The Life She Wants

F Ide - IQ

F Mac - The Perfect Girl

F Pat - Missing: a private novel

F Phi - The cottage

F Spa - Two by Two

jF Pau - Fishbone's song

jF Red - The Secret sea monster

pb ER jF Wes - Rise of the earth dragon

pb j 741.5 - Garfield Chickens Out

YA Wes - Swarm

New Releases

New to our shelves this week!

DVD Stu  - Stuart Little 3
DVD TV - Gid Gidget
E Nol - Hey, that's my monster
E Wel - Fiona's little lie
ER jF Bra - Violet Mackerel's remarkable recovery
F Car - The Swarm
F Cob - Home
F Cri - The secret ingredient of wishes
F Deo - Grace: a novel
F Sto - Nothing short of dying
jF Ber - Book Scavenger
jF Bla - The bronze key
pb ER jF Par - The mystery at the coral reef
pb F Fri - Letters to Juliet
YA Das - The fever code

Book Love

Albert Einstein is a Wise Man

We're up and running!

While there may be some hiccups left in the system, we are so happy to be back open and serving the community again.  It feels so wonderful to be up and running!

Already Brainstorming for SRP 2017

Sure, it's fall and we just finished this year's summer reading program just two months ago, but we are already planning an brainstorming for next year's program.  This past summer's SRP was amazing and we are so pleased with the changes we've made to freshen things up.  We are planning some additional changes based on the feedback we received following the conclusion of this year's SRP.  We cannot wait for next year's program!

No Story Time This Saturday

We will not be having story time this Saturday, due to unforeseen circumstances.  Be sure to check back for our next story time!

Virus

Announcement: Our library has been struck by a virus, wiping our catalogue. We will be close until Monday, October 31st in order to rebuild so we can best serve you again. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

Join Us for Story Time!

We will again be holding a story time for kids of all ages this Saturday, October 29th.  Join us for some great stories and fun!

Tech Tuesday: Goodreads App

 Ever find yourself wondering what to read next?  Ever forget if you've read a specific title already?  Then Goodreads is a great app for you!  Available in GooglePlay or the App Store.

What the app offers:

* Keep track of what you’ve read, what you’re currently reading, and what you want to read in the future by adding books to your Goodreads shelves.
* Search our catalog of more than 8 million books.
* Read friend reviews and community reviews of any book.
* View your profile and browse your shelves! Next time you are deciding what to read, your to-read list will be handy.
* Find book recommendations from friends and other readers.
                                         - Source Goodreads.com

Book Club

A reminder, book club will be meeting on October 18th at 2:00.  We look forward to seeing you there!

New Releases

 Check out what's new on our shelves this week:

B Vargas    Vargas, Elizabeth, Between breaths: a memoir of panic and addiction

DVD Cor    Coraline

DVD Whe    Where angels go, trouble follows

E Bir    Bird, Benjamin, Don't give this book a bowl of milk

E Kel    Willems, Mo, We are growing

ER jF Cro    Cronin, Doreen, Into the wild

F Dan    Daniels, Robert, Once Shadows Fall

F Jan    Jance, Judith A., Downfall: a Brady novel of suspense

F Phi    Philips, Susan Elizabeth, First Star I See Tonight

F Ste    Steel, Danielle, Rushing waters

jF BCD Wil    Wilder, Laura Ingalls, Little house on the prairie

jF Had    Haddix, Margaret Peterson, Children of exile

jF Pil    Pilkey, Dav, Dog Man

jF Red    Redbank, Tennant, Haunted boardwalk

pb F Kir    Kirkpatrick, Jane, This road we traveled

pb F Rei    Reilly, Meg Little We Are Unprepared

pb jF Pei    Peirce, Lincoln. Big Nate: revenge of the cream puffs

Fall Coloring Contest

Print out the page here: http://wellman.lib.ia.us/Event/Fall2016ColoringContest

Halloween is Coming!

Be sure to stop by our display and check out some spooky books to get you ready for Halloween!

Tech Tuesday: National Cyber Security Awareness Month

Did you know that October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM)?  This national campaign is jointly sponsored by The National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) among others.  Cyber Security Awareness focuses on education.  It educates the public, businesses, government, and schools on how to secure their computers and our national infrastructure. 

Visit: www.dhs.gov/national-cyber-security-awareness-month for tips and resources to help protect your own piece of cyber space. 

"We live in a world that is more connected than ever before. The Internet touches almost all aspects of everyone’s daily life, whether we realize it or not. National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM) is designed to engage and educate public and private sector partners through events and initiatives to raise awareness about cybersecurity, provide them with tools and resources needed to stay safe online, and increase the resiliency of the Nation in the event of a cyber incident." - DHS Cyber Security Awareness Month

Here are some additional resources for NCSAM:
Stay Safe Online: www.staysafeonline.org
U.S. Homeland Security: www.dhs.gov
Iowa's Cyber Security Awareness: www.secureonline.iowa.gov

Librarians vs. 5th Graders

It's on!  Starting today and lasting through the whole month of October, we librarians have challenged the 5th graders to see who can read more.  While we may be greatly outnumbered, our mere four librarians against whole classes of 5th graders, we are absolutely up to the challenge!

Tech Tuesday: Funbrain

Funbrain is an online learning resource for children.  Children from Kindergarten to 8th grade can play games while learning math, reading, and logic skills.  In addition to games, Fun Brain offers books parents and children can read together and a variety of other education-based activities.  Check is out for yourself: http://www.funbrain.com/.

Banned Books Week

 
"The Banned Books Week Coalition is a national alliance of diverse organizations joined by a commitment to increase awareness of the annual celebration of the freedom to read. The Coalition seeks to engage various communities and inspire participation in Banned Books Week through education, advocacy, and the creation of programming about the problem of book censorship. The 2016 celebration will be held September 25-October 1.

Banned Books Week was launched in 1982 in response to a sudden surge in the number of challenges to books in schools, bookstores and libraries. More than 11,300 books have been challenged since 1982 according to the American Library Association."  (Image and Text Source: http://www.bannedbooksweek.org)

Did you know our library contains a large number of the top 100 banned/challenged books?  Including:

Harry Potter (series) by J. K. Rowling
Alice series, by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
And Tango Makes Three, by Justin Richardson/Peter Parnell
Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou
Scary Stories (series), by Alvin Schwartz
His Dark Materials (series), by Philip Pullman
Captain Underpants (series), by Dav Pilkey
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain
The Color Purple, by Alice Walker
Catcher in the Rye, by J. D. Salinger
To Kill a Mocking Bird, by Harper Lee
The Giver, by Lois Lowry
Beloved, by Toni Morrison
Bridge to Terabithia, by Katherine Paterson
What My Mother Doesn't Know, by Sonya Sones
Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
Whale Talk, by Chris Crutcher
 Blubber, by Judy Blume
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, by Ken Kesey
The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini
Olive's Ocean, by Kevin Henkes
Draw Me A Star, by Eric Carle
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, by Mildred Taylor
Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury
Junie B. Jones (series), by Lois Lowry
The Lovely Bones, by Alice Sebold
Anastasia (series), by Lois Lowry
Detour for Emmy, by Marilyn Reynolds
Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes, by Chris Crutcher
Cut, by Patricia McCormick
Tiger Eyes, by Judy Blume
Friday Night Lights, by H. G. Bissenger
A Wrinkle in Time, by Madeline L'Engle
Julie of the Wolves, by Jean Craighead George
Are You There, God?  It's Me, Margaret, by Judy Blume

 Stop by and check out some to celebrate Banned Books Week.

Thomas Nye: Author Visit

It was a great turn out for Thomas Nye's author visit to our library!  We greatly enjoyed hearing him speak about his books, his writing process, and reading one of his favorite passages.  Following his talk, he answered questions from the crowd.

A big thank you to Thomas Nye for coming to speak at our library!  It was a pleasure having you and hearing all you had to say.

Tech Tuesday: EBSCO

Today we are sharing with you about EBSCO, a research program our library offers.  Through EBSCO, patrons have access to a wide variety of reliable research without having to sort through the wide array of results that often arise through searching online via a search engine.  

To access EBSCO, please visit our webpage: www.wellman.lib.ia.us and select the EBSCO button on the home page.  When prompted, enter username: wellmanr and password: remote.  You can choose to search through the EBSCOhost databases or use Explora to access primary school level information on a large variety of subjects.  There are also Explora teacher resources.

At the bottom of the program list on EBSCO, you will find NoveList.  NoveList is a great tool for book suggestions, finding more books by a specific author, accessing lists of series, and more. 

Our Open House

 WSPL turns 100 this year!  To celebrate we held an open house last Saturday.  It was great fun visiting with patron, board members, past board members, and past directors. 

 

Thank you to everyone who joined us on Saturday.  Thank you all for making our library a success!  Here's to another 100 years!!

Tech Tuesday: Learning Express Library

The Learning Express Library is an excellent resource for exam prep, computer skills education, skill building (reading, writing, and math), and much more.  On their site you can take practice ACT, SAT, GED, and many more.

Check out all of what Learning Express has to offer here!

Read it Before the Movie: The Light Between Oceans

Get ready for the movie!  Be sure to stop by the library and check out "The Light Between Oceans" before the motion picture is released.

Intorducing: Tech Tuesday

We love a good book, seriously there's not much better than a book.  But we also enjoy our smartphones, tablets, and devices, so we thought we'd start a Tech Tuesday blog series to share some great apps with you.

To kick things off, we highly recommend you download the Zinio app (at Google Play or Apple's iTunes).  By creating an account with you library card, you will have access to over 5,000 digital magazines for FREE! 

With such a large variety of magazines, from health to political to kids to lifestyle to travel and more, there really is something for the whole family to enjoy.

Thomas Nye Event

Open House!

Pokémon Go! Event at the Library

Fun at the Skating Rink

 We had a great group come out for our open skate last week! The kids (and grownups!) had a blast skating.

Thank you to everyone who came out to our end of summer skate!

Time to Skate!

Join us this afternoon for our open skate at the Wellman Skating Rink!!  Hope to see you all there!

Open Skate: This Friday!

Join us Friday from 1-3 at the Wellman Skating Rink!

Evaluate Our Summer Reading Program

As we finish our summer reading program, we invite all of our families who participated to please take a moment to fill out a brief survey.  Thank you in advance for your feedback!

Bubbles

Last week, we had so much fun blowing big bubbles at North Park.  The kids had fun blowing bubbles, running around after them, and popping them!

New Releases

Newly released books!  Come in and check them out today.

• Extremely Cute Animals Operating Heavy Machinery by David Gordon
• The Moon's Almost Here by Patricia MacLachlan
• Frankie the Blankie by Jennifer Gordon Sattler
• Ricky Ricotta's Mighty Robot vs. the Unpleasant Penguins from Pluto by Dav Pilkey
• Pete the Cat: Scuba-Cat by James Dean
• Splat the Cat Up in the Air at the Fair by Amy Hsu Lin
• Ducks in a Row by Lori Haskins Houran
• Lilies in Moonlight by Allison Pittman
• New Kid by Tim Green
• Adventure Time 8 by Ryan North
• Star Wars: the Story of Darth Vader by Catherine Saunders
• Katie's Redemption by Patricia Davids
• Beyond Reach by Siobhan Davis
• Limbo by Dima Zales
• Girl in the Blue Coat by Monica Hesse

Painting

Last week, we had a great time painting!  Our assistant director guided everyone through a simple painting (pictured above).  The kids had fun picking their colors and following along...or creating their own visions.  Overall, it was a great time!

Join Us For Our End of Program Picnic!

Big Bubbles

Join us at 1:00 this afternoon for our Summer Reading Program.  We'll be having fun with big bubbles up at North Park.

New Releases

Stop by and check out our newly released books!

• Can I Tell You a Secret by Anna Kang
• Samanthasaurus Rex by B. B. Mandell
• The Cavendon Luck by Barbara Taylor Bradford
• Island of Dragons by Lisa McMann
• Paper Blooms: 25 Extraordinary Flowers to Make for Weddings, Celebrations, & More by Jerffery Rudell
• Peter the Cat and the Bad Banana by James Dean
• Just a Kite by Mercer Mayer
• Amelia Bedelia Chalks One Up by Herman Parish
• Splat the Cat Makes Dad Glad by Alissa Heyman
• Yikes! Bikes by Abby Klein
• A Reluctant Bride by Kathleen Fuller
• Ripple of Secrets by Denise Grover Swank
• An Amish Year: Four Amish Novellas by Beth Wiseman
• Adventure Time 4 by Jake North
• True Calling by Siohan Davis
• Broken Hearts, Fences, and Other Things to Mend by Katie Finn

Friendship Bracelets

 

Last week, despite the stormy weather, we had a great group of kids join us for our friendship bracelet craft.  It was fun teaching the kiddos how to make the bracelets and seeing the patterns they created!

Poké Stop

Did you know that our library is a Poké Stop?  Stop by and stock up on Poké balls, potions, revives, and eggs!  While you're here catch a few wild Pokémon.  They seem to be hiding all over the library!

Strengthening and Stretching

We had so much fun stretching and strengthening our bodies as Jamie Clark led us through a series of exercises.  It was quite the work out and we librarians even joined in!

New Releases

Come into the library and check out one of our newly released books!

• Martha Stewart's Handmade Holiday Crafts:225 Inspired Projects for Year Round Celebrations by Martha Stewart
• Our Great Big Backyard by Laura Bush
• Memoirs of a Parrot by Devin Scallian
• The House of Secrets by Brad Meltzer
• A Beauty Refined by Tracie Peterson
• Coll Stuff for Bath & Beauty: Creative Handmade Projects for Kids by Pam Scheunemann
• Big Nate Flips Out by Lincoln Pierce
• Big Nate Lives It Up by Lincoln Pierce
• The Journal of Best Practices by David Finch
• Paddington Sets Sail by Michael Bond
• Rock Star by Ree Drummond
• Good Night, Sleep Tight by Natalie Engle
• Thirty-Six and a Half Motives by Denise Grover Swank
• Avatar, The Last Airbender: The Search by Gene Luen Yang
• Lady Midnight by Cassandra Clare
• The Last Star by Richard Yancey
• Bedtime Stories (DVD)

Pony Beads

We had so much fun last week making key chains using pony beads.  Again, we had some crafty and creative minds join us.  We loved seeing what they created!  We are certain some backpacks and key chains received some extra adornment following our activity.

Zumba

We all had so much fun dancing along with Sam Bender last Thursday.  The kids all did great following along, even some parents joined in!

A Recipe for Reading Fun

For some extra reading fun this summer, but sure to try out our recipe for a book sandwich!

Pick a Better Snack

 Amy Green joined us last week to present "Pick a Better Snack" for our Summer Reading Program.  She shared a lot of information about how much sugar is in the foods we eat/drink.  The kids were surprised to see how much sugar is in some of their favorite drinks.

Brain Games in the Library

 As part of our Summer Reading Program, we hosted Brain Games at the Library last Tuesday.  The kids had fun building puzzles, constructing with Legos, and playing games.

Remember Your Library Card

Despite being a small piece of plastic, your library card is important.  It allows us to checkout movies, books, and computers to you.  By using your library card we are able to ensure all checkouts are to the correct person and it cuts down on system errors.  Please remember to bring your card when you come in to check out.

During the month of July we are encouraging patrons to bring in their cards.  We will allow you to checkout only one time without a card, after that you will need to bring in your card to checkout.

Lost your card?  We can replace them once at no charge, additional replacements are $2.

Obstacle Course

Yesterday's weather was perfect for our obstacle course at North Park.  We had a great turn out and this kids seemed to have a blast going through the course.  Many went back through a couple times!