Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2019 19:09:42 +0000
From: Susan Clayton
Subject: Next Week at Chatham County Libraries
Monday, June 24
10am CCL Toddler Story Time
1pm CCL Kids’ Summer Craft. Children ages 4+ are invited to listen to a story and complete a related craft based on the 2019 Summer Reading Program theme “A Universe of Stories”. Some crafts may be messy, so wear your crafting clothes! Help from a grown-up is encouraged for younger crafters. For more information, contact Youth Services at (919) 545-8085.
Tuesday, June 25
10am CCL Toddler Story Time
11am CCL Preschool Story Time
Wednesday, June 26
10am- Noon CCL Wednesday Movie Matinee. Families with children of all ages are invited to join us each Wednesday from June 12 through August 21 for a space-themed, all ages appropriate family movie. Grab a snack, a pillow, and a friend and join us each week to beat the heat with a cool movie! For titles, contact Youth Services at (919) 545-8085.
3-4:30pm Microsoft PowerPoint, Part 2. In this workshop, we’ll be building on the concepts we learned in the first PowerPoint Basics class. Topics covered in this workshop include: navigating slide views, inserting SmartArt, inserting WordArt, creating hyperlinks, creating charts and tables, using advanced themes, and printing different slide views. We will be using Microsoft PowerPoint 2013.
Prerequisites: Participants should have taken the first Microsoft PowerPoint Basics class or have prior basic experience with PowerPoint. This workshop is FREE and open to the public; however, class size is limited and registration is required. Register: Online
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1wcJklOv44OSAdu5-xVqA6BpZgTHn-34lWEtkOHLP-Yo/viewform>call the Reference desk at 919-545-8086, email: > , or sign up in the library
Thursday, June 27
9am-3pm Genealogy Assistance. Volunteer genealogists are available to assist with family history research, whether your ancestors lived in Chatham County, the 50 states, or overseas. A genealogy volunteer is on site in the library most Thursdays from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm, and other days and times by appointment. Call 919-545-8086 to make an appointment. Sessions take place in the Local History & Genealogy area of Chatham Community Library. Please bring as much written documentation as you have about the topic you are researching, as well as a flash drive for saving documents and/or money for printing.
12:20-1:45pm CCL Computer Lab Closed to the public for a college class.
4pm CCL Kids’ Coding With SCRATCH! Join our monthly drop-in coding club and complete an activity using SCRATCH. Elementary aged students and older are welcome. Grown-ups are welcome too, especially to help out younger coders. Our coding event is held on the 4th Thursday of each month.
6pm Pride Month Film Series. Chatham Community Library concludes the Pride Month Film Series with this 2016 cinematic and intimate profile of 4 transgender women that come out in their senior years. Set in logging towns in the Pacific NW the visceral, observational story explores what it means to leave behind living as a man (IMDB). This film is rated TV-MA. It will be shown at 6pm in the Holmes Meeting Room. This event is free and open to the public.
Friday, June 28
4pm CCL LEGO Club
Saturday, June 29
10am CCL Family Story Time. Families with children of all ages are invited to join us for a 30-minute story time, including books, songs, stretches, rhymes, and dancing! For more information, contact Youth Services at (919) 545-8085
11am CCL Baby Time. Babies and their parents/caregivers will interact with music, rhymes, age-appropriate books and lots of cuddles. Baby Time lasts approximately 20 minutes, with time after for free play and socializing. For babies from birth until walking and their parents/caregivers. For more information, contact Youth Services at (919) 545-8085.
2pm CCL Summer Reading Program Special: Man and the Moon. July 20, 2019, marks the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, a monumental achievement in space exploration. To commemorate this golden anniversary, please join us at Chatham Community Library for “Man and the Moon,” a celebration of the moon and humans’ relationship to it.
Guest speaker Paul K. Byrne, Ph.D, Assistant Professor of Planetary Geology at North Carolina State University, will describe how the moon was formed, and how the Apollo 11 mission contributed to our understanding of the moon.. This program is appropriate for ages 8 to adult. For more information, contact Katy Henderson at (919) 545-8085.
3:30pm Spanish Book Club (Club de la Lectura). Our book club ‘Tertulia Compaginar’ reads titles originally written in Spanish. We do not read translations into Spanish from any language. We read both fiction and non-fiction books. The majority of our members are originally English native speakers, with the added benefit of a few native Spanish speakers from different countries in Latin America. Our sessions are a bi-monthly 1-1/2 hour immersion into both the Spanish language and its cultures. For more information, call the Circulation desk at 919-545-8084.
WREN Library, Siler City
Wednesday, June 26
10:30am Wren Story Time
1pm Wren Kids’ Summer Craft. Children ages 5+ are invited to listen to a story and complete a related craft based on the 2019 Summer Reading Program theme “A Universe of Stories”. Some crafts may be messy, so wear your crafting clothes! Younger children are welcome to attend with help from a grown-up. For more information, contact Youth Services at (919) 545-8085.
4:30pm Wren LEGO Club
Saturday, June 29
2pm Wren SRP Special: Jon Sundell- Twisting and Telling a Universe of Stories. Join storyteller and folk singer Jon Sundell as he “Twists and Tells a Universe of Stories!” Using his guitar, banjo, autoharp, mountain dulcimer and ukulele and providing plenty of opportunity for participation, Jon weaves together a multicultural assortment of stories and songs to hold his audience in rapt attention. To top it off, several of the songs or tales are performed as Jon creates a related balloon figure, and after the show kids get to choose a custom-made figure to take home! You won’t want to miss the fun! This event is best for families with children ages 3+. For more information, call Youth Services at (919) 545-8085.
Goldston Library, Goldston
Thursday, June 27
10am Goldston Story Time. Join us for stories, songs, finger plays and games. Program will be geared toward children ages 2-5 years old, but all ages are welcome. Program lasts approximately 30 minutes.. For more information, contact Goldston Library at (919) 898-4522.
11:00am Goldston SRP Special: Jon Sundell- Twisting and Telling a Universe of Stories. Join storyteller and folk singer Jon Sundell as he “Twists and Tells a Universe of Stories!” Using his guitar, banjo, autoharp, mountain dulcimer and ukulele and providing plenty of opportunity for participation, Jon weaves together a multicultural assortment of stories and songs to hold his audience in rapt attention. To top it off, several of the songs or tales are performed as Jon creates a related balloon figure, and after the show kids get to choose a custom-made figure to take home! You won’t want to miss the fun! This event is best for families with children ages 3+. For more information, call Youth Services at (919) 545-8085.
3:30pm Goldston LEGO Club
Friday, June 28
2:30pm Goldston Family Movie. Join us for a family movie! An astronaut races to escape from an alien planet that bears a striking resemblance to 1950s-era America. This film has a runtime of 1 hour, 37 minutes, and is rated PG for mild sci-fi action and some suggestive humor. For more information, call Goldston Library at (919) 898-4522.
“Love, butter & the company of cats is the recipe for a good life”. Julia Child.
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