Category: Richmond Public Library

Sign up and Seed Spitting Contest 3:00…

It’s almost time for summer reading to begin. Below is a schedule for the programs for this summer.

“Dream Big Read” is the program for the children birth to 5th grade.

Wednesday, June 6 @3:00 Sign-up & Seed Spitting Contest
Wednesday, June 13 @ 3:00 Father’s Day Gifts
Wednesday, June 20 @ 3:00 Decorating Masks
Wednesday, June 27 @ 3:00 Painting Ceramic Monsters & Animals
Wednesday, July 11 @ 3:00 Decorating Mini Cupcake and Cake Pops
Wednesday, July 18 @ 3:00 Butterfly Finger Puppets
Wednesday, July 25 @ 3:00 Painting Sun Catchers
Wednesday, August 1 @ 3:00 End of Summer Reading party

Children will receive a prize for reading 5, 10, 15 and 20 books. Those who read at least 20 books will receive a persona
l pan pizza certificate from Pizza Hut. Prizes will be handed out at the end of Summer Reading Party. Prizes will be given for the most read books.

2012 Teen Summer Reading
6th – 12 Grade reading program
Wednesday, June 6th- Summer Reading Signup @ 3:00
Thursday, June 14th – Dream Catchers @ 2:00
Thursday, June 28th – Henna Tattoos @ 2:00
Thursday July 5th – Candle Making @ 2:00
Thursday, July 19th- Fortune Telling @ 2:00

August 1st End of Summer Reading Party @ 3:00

This year the teens and adults will be given point:
How it will work:

1 point for each book you read.
2 points for a card, if you pull a card and do what it says.
1 point for attending craft days for your group.

For every 5 points you will get to put you name in the prize drawing jar.

BETWEEN THE COVERS
2012 Adult Summer Reading Program

Wednesday, June 6th- Summer Reading Sign-up
Friday, June 8th- Painting Gourds @ 1:00
Monday, June 11- Bi-Folkal Kit
Friday, June 22nd – Edible Books @ 1:00
Friday, July 6th- Beading with Eleanor @ 1:00
Friday, June 20th – Make you own Hidden Picture @ 1:00

 

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Northeast Kansas Library System [NEKLS] is the system that the Richmond Public Library belongs to. For the past few years NEKLS has been having “Bus Tours’, in which librarians, and library board members load up on a bus and tour different libraries. This year Richmond was on the tour.

    

On Thursday, May 3 around 1:30 a big green bus pulled into town loaded with library people. There were around 20 people on the tour this year. The librarians at Richmond hope to be able  attend the tour next year.…

What have the library staff and library board members been up to lately?

First off the library has updated the exciting bathroom. The walls and floor have been redone, shelves and a curtain have been added. The bathroom no longer looks like a cave. Yes we are very excited about it.

Both the director and one other staff member attended the State Library KLA Conference in Wichita in April, they returned and the director took the new knowledge to the library board.

      

On Tuesday, April 17 the library held it’s annual “Open House’. Everyone who came was showed the new bathroom and the new windows. We had a great turnout for the open house this year, there were 50 people in and out for the event.

         

 

Thursday, April 19 was the Annual Spring Assembly for our library system. this event was held at the Holiday Inn, Holidome in Lawrence. two board members and the library director attended this event.

 

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What did we do for Easter this year?

We had our annual Easter party for the Story Time kids on Friday, April 6th. We had this as a joint party with the local Modern Woodman kids, they bring the pizza. The Easter Bunny showed up and we had a Easter Egg hunt in the back yard. This year there was a total of 22 kids for the party.

         

Later in the afternoon the library held an Easter Craft day, the kids made a bunny craft.

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