The Richmond Public Library had a few things going on in the month of Februrary.

February is the month of Valentines day so in honor of this the library had a Valentine’s Day craft day. On Monday Feb. 12th kids were invited to come and make Valentines and tissue paper flowers.

The kids were told these Valentines were not for them, they had to give them away to someone. Their parents, grandparentes, teachers or friends.

On Wendesday, February 14th the teens were invited to come and make Chocolate to give away. This seems to be very popular with the kids.

Of coure they were allowed to eat some of the Chocolate.

Tuesday, Feburary 20th the adult ladies in town were invited to watch the “The Joys and Syrprises of Telling your Life story” video, provided by the Northeast Kansas Library System.

After the video the ladies enjoyed telling their own stories and showing some pictures to each other.

On top of all the librarians and some board memebers also attended a few workshops this month.

A Technology workshop in Lawrence on Tuesday,February 6th. A Interlibrary Loan workshop on Thursday, February 8th in Topeka. And the annual Summer Reading workshop in Feburary 21st in Topeka.

It’s been a very busy month at the library!…

The Richmond Public Library is changing it hours. In order to stay within the 2007 library budget the board has decided to close some hours. The plan is to close these hours starting January 1st and will remain in effect until May 7th.

In April the board will reevaluate the budget to see if the hours can be added back in. This decision will be made at the April board meeting. But for now the new hours will be as follows.

Monday 4:00-7:00

Tuesday Closed

Wednesday 10:00 -6:00

Thursday 10:00 6:00

Friday 4:00- 6:00

Saturday & Sunday Closed…

Kansas Reads to Preschoolers week is November 12th -18th. This is the second year for this event, it is held the same week as National Children’s book week and National Education Week.

This year the book chosen by the commitee was Bunny Cakes by Rosemary Wells, it’s a Max and Ruby book. Max & Ruby want to make a cake for grandma’s birthday. They have very different idea’s as to what the cake should be.

To celebrate this week the library had a special story teller for story hour. Nadine Poss from Poss Real Estate here in Richmond, she consented to come and read the story to the kids. Nadine also made a donation to the library which was used to purchase a copy of the book for each of the story hour kids.

After the story the kids made bunny chalkboards out of CD’s and felt. After the craft they decorated cupcakes with pink icing and candy hearts and gummy worms. The kids and Nadine really enjoyed themselves.

Many thanks to Nadine Poss for her generosity and for reading to the kids.

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It’s the month of October at the Richmond Public Library and what are we up to?

In October there is always a Halloween Craft Day. This year it was on Monday, October 23rd @ 5:00. The kids got to make Bottle Cap Spiders [very cute], Glow-in-the-Dark ghosts [yes they really glow] and Bat Mobiles, the kind you hang, not the kind you drive. The kids really like making crafts in our small town, so we try to make them at least every major holiday.

On Wednesday, October 25, 206 the Story hour kids went Trick-or-Treating. Every year the Richmond Public Library story hour kids trick-or-treat  the businesses on Central street. Central is Richmonds main street. The kids go from business to business and trick-or-treat. I am not sure who has more fun, the kids or the business people.

In October there is also a Haunted House in Richmond. Not at the library, but the libraries two librarians can be found there. There is also a city counsil member, and ex library board memeber and most year Richmond’s city clerk [She got married Sept. 30th so will not be helping this year]. This year the Haunted House people have decided to give a donation to the library.

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Do you have a Kansas Library Card?? They are FREE you know? You can get one from you local library. These card will allow patrons to access certain statewide databases from home or your local library.

The Kansas Library Card is a free service of the Kansas Library Network Board, the Kansas State Library, and the University of Kansas Medical Center.

To reiceve a Kansas Library Card you need to be a resident of the State of Kansas. That’s all. Your librarian will give you a personal identification number on your card and the date of your birth. Cardholders can login at www.kslc.org to access licensed reference and reserarch databases from thier computer at home, school, work, or other location.

Some of the databases available are Firstsearch- Full-image articles from over 4,000 electronic journals and articles from 9,000 full-text journals are linked to databases throughout the service.SIRS Discoverer -Reference database for young researchers which helps students in grades 1-9 develop their research, writing, language and computer skills.
Heritage Quest – A genealogy database including entire U.S. Federal Census 1790-1930 and much more. Custom Newspapers – A full text database of over 160 U.S. newspapers and English language foreign papers. Worldbook – Including every article in the 22 volume print edition and much more.

Now they have added Free Online Tutoring! www.HomeworkKansas.org is open everyday from 4 PM -11 PM. Tutoring in Math, Science, English and Social Studies for grades 4-12 & College intro. Use your Kansas Library Card to login. What more can you ask for Free online tutoring. Live Homework help.
So if you do not have a card go to your local library and request one, it’s that easy, just ask. The you can login from any computer that has internet access with your pin number and date of birth.…