Education
2022 Jefferson County Free Fair
Don’t miss out! The Free Fair is just around the corner, August 18-20. Exhibit and guidelines books are available at the library. Animals and agricultural products will ALWAYS be a huge part of county fairs but this book will show just how many other exhibits can be entered and what the rules are. Come by and pick up a copy as soon as possible in case one (or more) of your areas of expertise is included.
New Books!
Take a look at our updated pregnancy section.
Kids Yoga Continues!
Kids Yoga continues each Tuesday and Thursday, 2 P.M. @ the Ringling Community Center. Remember we do have 10 mats but feel free to bring your own. If you haven’t made it to class yet, no worries even if you only make one session I guarantee you will learn some fun moves. This Kids Yoga session ends on Thursday, July 21st.
Healthy Living Programming made possible by a health literacy grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, administered by the Oklahoma Department of Libraries.
Amazing Alpacas and More from Kate Thomas.
Save Thursday, June 13th, 2PM for Kate Thomas and some of the animals she and her family raise on the homestead. The animals are bigger than we usually see so the program will be back of the Community Center but she will have tents to help with shade. There will be snacks inside the community center after the program.
Unboxing Day Arrived for Our Pilcrow Books!
The Gleason Memorial Library is happy to announce we have received the books from The Pilcrow Foundation Children’s Book Project grant. The grant is a 2-to 1 matching grant with the Pilcrow Foundation and Drs. Bill Strawbridge and Meg Wallhagen of California providing $800.00 and the Friends of the Gleason Memorial Library, as our sponsor, providing $400.00 from their annual “Death by Chocolate” fundraiser. In addition, to the 70 books selected from the Pilcrow grant, we received 23 math and science books, an additional $405.97 donation, from Hal Berenson and Laura Ackerman of Colorado and 6 titles, equaling a $92.74 donation, from the Maurice’s Valises series donated by Mouse Prints Press for a grand total of 99 new books to add to our collection worth $1708.34.
There are picture books, chapter books, young adult books and non-fiction books – something to suit everyone! We were especially happy to be able to select some great titles, both fiction and non-fiction that will support our June 2019 Summer Reading Program Space theme “A Universe of Stories” celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon Landing.
Mummies Among Us!
Des did a great job explaining all about mummies in ancient Egypt to the students in the after school program. Click here to see more pictures in our Facebook video!