Teacher Alert!!

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Any full-time teacher or supporting staff in RSU # 11 and Litchfield schools may check out up to twenty-five books for classroom use for a four week period. You may email ([email protected]) or call (582-6894) to have staff pre-select books to be ready for pick-up at your convenience. A short contract form is available at the library for this service to teachers. Class room visits may also be scheduled for any time except Tuesday mornings.  (Story-hour) Teachers are encouraged to use this opportunity to supplement their school libraries for Common Core requirements. We welcome your suggestions to foster cooperation and …

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Fall Movies!

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September may mean back to school but it also means it’s time for town and country fairs!  The air is crisp, the harvest is wrapping up, and everyone heads to the fair to relax with their friends and neighbors. Here are a few movies that celebrate those good times in one way or another: Babe (1995)  Totally charming fable has intelligent piglet Babe being raised by matriarch sheepdog Fly, and learning the art of sheep herding along with his new canine brothers. Starring James Cromwell. Charlotte‘s Web (2006)  Faithful to E.B. White’s timeless 1952 children’s novel about a young girl …

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Meet The Authors!

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Have you had an opportunity to come to any of our local author series?  It is a great way to learn about the process of writing and to discuss the new books being written by very talented authors.  You have only 2 more events to attend before the series ends. On Tuesday, September 16th at 6PM the staff of the Gardiner Public Library is pleased to host New England author, Chip Bishop, author of Quentin and Flora-A Roosevelt and a Vanderbilt in Love during the Great War.  Copies of the book will be for sale and the author will be …

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What Are We Reading?

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In 1983 I started reading a series of books which became known as a group from the title of the first book, “Tales of the City”.  The series follows a disparate group who rent rooms from the mysterious, yet motherly, Anna Madrigal, at 28 Barbary Lane in San Francisco.  The first book was published in 1978; the last book was just published this year.  There have been a lot of social changes in America since 1978, and the lives of these characters reflect those changes throughout the decades.  As I was reading this series, there were only 6 novels in …

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Gardiner Public Library Alphabet!

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A is for Alphabet B is for Books   C is for Community   D is for Dreaming   E is for Enjoyment   F is for Friendship   G is for Gardiner   H is for Happy   I is for Ideas   J is for Juxtaposition   K is for Kennebec   L is for Laughter   M is for Meeting   N is for Neighbors   O is for Oppurtunities   P is for People   Q is for Quiet (?)   R is for Reading   S is for Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious   T is for Thinking   …

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