Pardon our dust!

As recent visitors will have noted, the library is using this quieter time in August to make some important facility improvements.  We appreciate your accommodation as we re-carpet most of the first floor, stairways, mezzanine, and meeting room.   The carpet crew is doing much of the work on Sundays when the library is closed, however, we will have to temporarily close some areas, one at a time. The YA/Media Room will be closed on August 20th and the Reference Room the following day in order to move the furniture and materials to carpet those areas. The Hammond Meeting Room was not reserved for use on August 27, so it will be closed for carpeting that day.

After almost 20 years, it is also time to replace the burgundy wall coverings and a new color has been selected to go with the new carpet.  Removal of the old fabric has already taken place during closed hours and the new green fabric will be installed on closed Sundays, August 12 and 19.

Thank you for helping us expedite this work which should be completed by Labor Day.  We are excited about the library’s fresh new look and hope that you will be, too. 

Teen Movie Night: The Hunger Games

Get together with your friends at the library on Monday, August 20th at 6:00pm for a free showing of The Hunger Games! We'll provide the space and the popcorn and Katniss will provide the thrills! This program is for 6th - 12th graders only. The film is rated PG-13 and is 142 minutes long.

From Page to Stage Kickoff

This year’s From Page to Stage event will begin with a kickoff program and reception at 7:00 p.m. on Thursday, August 23, on the second floor of the Woman’s Library Club. This fall, five North Shore public libraries will present a series of programs related to the Writers’ Theatre production of Shakespeare’s Hamlet.  Always a highlight among the From Page to Stage programs, this year’s kick-off will feature members of the Writers’ Theatre production.  Coffee, dessert and more good conversation will follow the presentation.

Kids Pizza Party

Our Children's Summer Reading Club is wrapping up and we're ready to party! Everyone who participated in the Reading Is So Delicious! summer reading club is invited to a pizza party on Saturday, August 4th at 12:00 noon to celebrate the end of another successful summer of reading. Join us at the library's backyard for pizza and fun!

The Making of Downton Abbey: Setting the Scene

The soap opera began hundreds of years before Edith wrote her letter to the Turkish ambassador! Yet the aristocratic way of life that had evolved at places like Downton Abbey was nearly over by the time we first meet the Crawleys in 1912. Join Landscape Historian Barbara Geiger on Thursday, August 2nd at 7:00pm for a slide lecture about the English landscape designers, land ownership patterns, and inheritance laws that produced great estates like Downton, and why radical changes were inevitable. Ms. Geiger specializes in 19th and early 20th century places and teaches architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology.