Be at the Bee! Our very own Quilting Bee will be held here at the Northwest Branch starting Tuesday April 24, 2012 @ 2pm.  The Bee will continue to be held every Tuesday @ 2pm.  You are welcome to bring your projects, share your ideas or come in and learn a new craft.  

The process of quilting uses a needle and thread to join two or more layers of material to make a quilt. This sounds easy enough. I'm in!  

Did you know that walking is the most popular form of physical activity in the United States? 10,000 steps per day – about 5 miles – is a great way to walk your way to fitness. Wednesday, April 4th is National Walking Day. Everybody get up and walk for your health. Walk to our library and check out DVDs and books to help you get started! 

Hey everybody come by Wednesday March 21, 2012 at 4:00 pm to watch Matthew Broderick in one of his best comedies of the 80's. By the way, it is also his birthday that day! So if you're a fan, you have to see this movie. 

Stay fit this New Year with Library books about Fitness, Healthy Recipes and Work Out DVDs.  If this is your New Year's Resolution then get started now by stopping by your local library and checking them out. 

Are you in the Holiday Spirit and want to help children? Come in and donate Toys for Tots.  Please bring any toy that does not promote violence and must be new and unwrapped. Last day to donate is December 15, 2011. There are plenty of other sites where you may drop off toys if you cannot come to our location.  Help out needy children and our Marine Corps.  

Have the library at your fingertips. Get the app that makes it quick and easy to access your local library on the go! Search your library’s catalog, download items, manage your account, and find suggested reading instantly with your Android or iOS device.  BookMyne by SirsiDynix on your Apple device and BookMyne 3.0 by SirsiDynix on your Android device.

Do you have a new reader? Don't know how to use it? Come on in or give us a call! We'll be more than happy to assist you.  We know it all: IPads, Kindles, Nooks, Sony Readers, Androids and the list goes on and on. Look to the near future and we be having Digitalness Learning Sessions for everyone.

Kindle January 7, 2012 @ 3:00 pm

Nook January 14, 2012 @ 3:00 pm

IPad January 28, 2012 @ 3:00 pm

If you haven't read or watched Stephenie Meyer's Vampire/Werewolf Saga, I don't know where you have been.  Team Edward or Team Jacob? Vampires or Werewolves? It has been such a controversial topic!  You have just enough time to get with it. Put them on hold or pick them up at your library. Read the books or watch the movies before the fourth installment of the Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn-Part 1 shows in theaters November 18. 

• 1. Twilight 2. New Moon 3. Eclipse 4. Breaking Dawn

Enter for a chance to win an all expense-paid trip to meet Discovery-Planet Green reality TV stars The Fabulous Beekman Boys in Sharon Springs, NY, take a tour of the Beekman 1802 Farm, and have dinner with Josh and Brent!

Fill out the entry form with your favorite family heirloom recipe and tell us what makes the recipe so special to you, then give it to one of our librarians to be entered for a chance to win a signed copy of The Beekman 1802 Heirloom Cookbook and a grand prize trip, farm tour, and dinner.

Toni Morrison (born Chloe Anthony Wofford on February 18, 1931) is a Nobel Prize and Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, editor, and professor. Her novels are known for their epic themes and vivid dialogue.