Gardiner Public Library

Summer Reads

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Summer reading allows us to escape the dreariness of winter while allowing us to enjoy the sun and imagine ourselves in another setting.  Some new items at the Gardiner Public Library that folks may enjoy this summer are: Still life with bread crumbs by Anna Quindlen.  Broken by city life, an aging woman moves to a small cabin the middle of nowhere where she finds peace, inspiration, and the unexpected love of a husky roofer 30 years her junior. Cell by Robin Cook.  This medical thriller is about the smartphone’s new role in medicine – and will both please and …

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What’s going on in the library?

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We have a couple of programs coming up!   Monday, May 12th Maine Attorney General Janet Mills will be here at the invitations of Representative Gay Grant.  Ms. Mills will speak at a Consumer Protection Forum.  Visit us and learn more about protecting yourself, your identity and your assets.   Tuesday, May 20th, we will have An Evening With Herman Melville.  David Peloquin, folk musician and independent scholar specializing in maritime songs and chanties of the American sailor, will explore the mystical side of Herman Melville.  Join us for this entertaining evening of music and discussion. Did you know we …

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Being Part Of The Downtown “Businesses”

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I often laugh when people tell me that I have the best job in the world…I get to read books all day!  One thing that I do agree on is that I DO have one of the best jobs in the world because I run one of the busiest enterprises in Gardiner, the public library.  By being part of the downtown “businesses”, the library does a great job of bringing people to town. Just a few numbers so that you can see why the library is one of the anchor businesses for our downtown: ·        Total number of folks who …

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Passenger Pigeons in the Library!

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  On a windy Thursday afternoon, April 24th, the library held an origami workshop on Passenger Pigeons. Isabelle Files led the program where attendees came and folded 62 Passenger Pigeons for the www.foldtheflock.orgproject. We will enter our number of pigeons with the website. Attendees were ages 4 and up and all seemed to have a great time.   We had a short history given to us about the year 2014 marking the centennial anniversary of the extinction of the Passenger Pigeon and questions were asked about other extinct animals in our world.   The very lively group did more folding …

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Reading Round-Up 2014

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This past Thursday, several staff members of the Gardiner Public Library attended the 25thReading Round-Up Conference in Augusta.  This wonderful event highlights books that have been published in the past year as well as bringing together librarians from all over the state to share new ideas, and exchange information from their respective libraries. One of the highlights is the announcement of the winners of the Lupine Award.  This award “honors a living author or illustrator who is a resident of Maine, or who has created a work whose focus is Maine, as shown through the work’s characterization, plot, or setting.” …

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Books I just couldn’t put down….

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We have all had them in our hands.  We have all had trouble putting them down.  They are books that get us so wrapped up in them that we just can’t put them downuntil we finish!  Here are a few that had me in their hooks.  What books did the same to you? And then there were none by Agatha Christie 10 strangers invited to an isolated island and then stranded there.  One killer slowly eliminating them one by one.  I got so wild by the fifth murder that I couldn’t stand it anymore and flipped to the end.  I …

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