FANCY NANCY AUTHOR SIGNING!

Chili Public Library Welcomes Fancy Nancy author, Jane O’Connor

Tuesday, December 22, 2009 at 4:30 p.m.
Chili Town Hall Meeting Room

If you are a big fan of the popular Fancy Nancy picture book series, then you don't want to miss an afternoon with author Jane O'Connor. Ms. O'Connor will be joining us to discuss her books and how she came to create one of children’s literature’s most memorable characters, Fancy Nancy.

So come dressed in your finest Fancy Nancy outfits and learn all about what it’s like to be the author of such a fun and unique character.

No registration required. All ages welcome. Room capacity is 250.

Bring in your own personal copy of a Fancy Nancy title to be signed by Ms. O’Connor. However, due to time constraints we will try to accommodate everyone. Ms. O’Connor will only be signing her name to books
and will not personalize.

Thanksgiving Program

Junior Friends Miranda McGrath and Hannah Tierney help out with the crafts at the library's Thanksgiving program while Children's Librarian Ms. Lindsey reads to the crowd. Come visit and see the many materials we have on and about Thanksgiving.

Simply Stories

The topic of yesterday's Simply Stories Storytime was 'Pets'. Having two pets of my own I decided to join the fun and read a story to the children from 'Dog and Bear: Two's Company' by Laura Vaccar Seeger. The kids were great and followed along in the telling of the story.

The Reptile Guys

The Reptile Guys came to the CPL on November 11th and brought with them a 12ft. albino Burmese python for all to hold!!! It was a packed house at the Library and many reptiles slithered around!!!

Community Center - Halloween Party

In addition to our library having a Halloween event, our staff read to children at the Halloween Party at the community center.

Halloween Party

Saturday's Halloween party at the library was a special day with kids dressed up as their favorite superhero, cartoon character, firetruck, or flower. The junior friends were a great help assisting our staff throughout the program. To see more photos click here.

Friends of the CPL Raffle

The Friends of the Chili Public Library are raffling off this beautiful baby quilt. Raffle tickets may be purchased at the check-out desk until Thursday, December 10. $1 per raffle ticket/6 for $5. Proceeds from the raffle will help support programs and services at the public library.

National Friends Week

The Monroe County Legislature recognized the week of October 18-25, 2009 as Friends of the Library Week. I would like to thank the Friends of the Chili Public Library for their support of the library. To become a friend of the Chili Public Library, visit the following web link http://www.libraryweb.org/chili/friends.htm. Below is a list of some of the things the library has been able to do because of our Friends support.

Purchase Evanced Online Program Calendar
Purchase 250 tote bags for patrons to check out
Purchase Nintendo Wii Gaming Console
Purchase Playaway Audio Books
Monthly Aquarium Maintenance
Support for Monthly Book Discussion Groups
Support for Adult Summer Reading Program
Support for Customized Wood Shelves in New Book Area
Support for Teen Summer Reading Program
Support for Children's Room extras (CD/cassette player and academic software, etc.)
Support for Children's Summer Reading Program
Support for Books to Babies
Purchase of a Bright Board
Support for all Age Level Programs
Purchase Community Information Table
Purchase New Book Carts
Purchase New Shelving in Children's Room

Meet the Library Board President—Jim Myers

Jim Myers has served on the Chili Public Library Board of Trustees since 2007 and has been the President of the Board since January 2009.
Jim has a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from RIT and is the Director of Finance at St. John’s Home.
He was first interested in volunteering for the Board of Trustees because,” I believed I could help the library grow, using the skill sets that I have developed and currently use in my job. I would like to help the library expand in an orderly manner as the population of Chili increases.”
Jim and his wife Roxanne live in Chili and have raised two daughters, Dana and Erin, and have five grandchildren.

Dolls In The Making

At the American Girl Program last week, Mrs. Mary Ann Marasco made the dolls you see in the picture. You could have heard a pin drop when she talked about the dolls she made and the story that goes with them.

Gates-Chili Healthy Family Fest

Last Saturday, the library greeted families at the Gates-Chili Healthy Family Festival. This year it was held at the Fieldhouse at the Gates-Chili High School. It was a wonderful opportunity to share our story with regular and soon to be new users. Here is Children's Librarian Jenn Lindsey and Deb Amesbury ready to welcome the many families that attended the festival.

School Supply Donation

Chili Public Library dropped off nine boxes of new school supplies donated by staff and patrons to School #19 on Seward Street on September 30. Pictured from left are: Librarian Jeanne Austin, Parent Liaison Lauretta Works, Substitute Administrator Prudence Wilson, and Chili Public Library Director Jeff Baker.

Chili Fall Family Fun Day at Davis Park

The Library took part in the Chili Fall Family Fun Day at Davis Park last Saturday. There were plenty of families that came to listen to stories from Deb and Jenn who brought scores of books from the Children's Area.
Here Tyla and Evan Jackson enjoy a story from a very large book.
Other children come join the fun.

Link to H1N1 Updates

The new "flu season" officially started on September 1, 2009. In light of the many questions out there regarding the 2009-2010 flu season the library has placed a link on our homepage from the New York State Department of Health. The Department provides weekly updates of flu activity and other information related to H1N1.

Author's Name Matches Book

Last Saturday at the reference desk a patron asked for the book "Leave a Candle Burning". When I looked up the title, the author's name seemed perfect for it..."Lori Wick".

September is Library Card Sign-Up Month

September is Library Card Sign-up Month and according to a nationwide Harris Poll taken in August 2008 Americans love their libraries. The results of the survey are below.

• Two thirds (68%) of Americans currently own a library card.
• Almost all Americans (92%) say they view their local library as an important education resource.
• Seven in ten agreed their local library is:

*a pillar of the community (72%),
*a community center (71%)
*a family destination (70%)
*and a cultural center (69%)

• Overall, people are satisfied with their public library.

*(59%) are extremely or very satisfied with their public library
*an additional one in five (22%) are somewhat satisfied

• Among those that have a library card, the satisfaction is even higher

*over two-thirds (68%) say they are extremely or very satisfied
*an additional one in five (22%) are somewhat satisfied with their public library

• Even those who do not have a library card express satisfaction with their libraries

*two in five (40%) are extremely or very satisfied
*21% percent are somewhat satisfied.

Grandparents Day

Mikayla and Alexandra Horne with grandparents at our special Grandparents Day program.

Kaya Comes To Visit

Jessica, our library clerk, made the American Girl Series come alive when she visited children as Kaya, a Nez Percé Indian from the 1760's. The library has the books about Kaya and the other fictional historical characters from the series.

CPL's Teen Blog

If you haven't had a chance yet to look at the Chili Public Library's Teen Blog I recommend you do so. The blog written by our Teen Librarian includes many interesting observations and information geared toward the teen population. Visit the site too to see what materials and programs we have available for our teen residents. http://cplteens.wordpress.com/

New Speakers in the Ireland Room

The Stereo Shop has recently put two new speakers in the Ireland Room and the sound coming from them is just great. The speakers were paid via the Chili Public Library Memorial Fund.

Interesting Shaped Library Buildings

Here in Chili we have a very nice looking library building. There are some interesting shaped library buildings you may come across, such as Seattle Public Library; UCSD Geisel Library in San Diego, California; Kansas City Public Library; and the National Library in Minsk, Belarus.

A Local Author's Book at CPL

This week’s Gates-Chili Post has an article about local resident Helen Frey who co-authored “God’s Shining Jewels” with her husband Marvin Frey. Mr. Frey who wrote hundreds of inspirational songs, among them “Kum Ba Yah”. If you would like to read her book, the library owns the title, call number 269.2092 F893g.

To read the article, click on the following link: 5 things you should know ... about one of the most-sung songs - Canandaigua, NY - MPNnow

Bubble Gum Blowing Contest

Check out this video from the Gates-Chili Post who recently visited our library for a recent visit to the 1950s program "Rock Around the Clock. Visit www.MPNnow.com and read about the fab music, dancing, bubble gum blowing, limbo competitions, and cool refreshments that took place.

BOOKSALE THIS FRIDAY

Friends Jeanne Austin (left) and Ursula Costanzo help get the Friends of the Chili Public Library book sale ready. The sale is scheduled for Friday, August 28 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The Friends only preview is Thursday, August 27 from 5 to 8 p.m. Join at the door for $5.

Children Love Their Summer Time Reading!

To help celebrate all the good reading children took part in during the Summer Reading program, 200 kids attended the annual Truck Show at the library. There they saw up close construction equipment from the Town of Chili as well as a two fire trucks, a dump truck, and some antique farm tractors. Here Jenn Lindsey and her son Matthew try out some equipment.

Our children’s Summer Reading program was particularly successful this year. 706 children took part, more than any other year. They read 240,065 minutes of reading!

Adult Reader's Love Their Summer Reading!

Vangie Morrow, head of the Circulation Department awards Bill Donahue a $50 certificate to the Johnson House paid for by the Friends of the Chili Public Library. His Name was drawn as the grand prize winner of Chili Public Library Adult Summer Reading. This year adult readers read 3,839 books for the summer reading program.. Last year the total books read/entered was 742. Many thanks go to our adult programmer Patty Bruno and the circulation clerks for their enthusiasm and cheerleading.

Summer Reading Programs Continue

Here is recalling the many and varied library programs that have occurred over the past two weeks.

Donated Games

When the teen librarian put a call out to the community for games to be donated to the library, you responded in full. The library received games from 'Jeopardy' to 'Sorry' to 'Life' and will be using for its summer gaming programs for teens.

Pet Talent Show

Cats, dogs, hamsters, ducks, and a bullfrog made up this years pet talent show at CPL. Every pet received an award, from shaggiest tail to best swimmer.

Scrapbooking Fun At CPL

Laura Sutter, Marissa Lippa and teacher Michele Johnstone had fun scrapbooking at the CPL - one of many things being offered at the Library this summer.

CPL Talent Show

Chili has Talent – Two sisters, Hannah and Riley Harper took part in the library's talent program last Tuesday for kids, whereupon they received big applause from those in the audience.

GAMING MADNESS FOR TEENS

GAMING MADNESS at the CPL was a big success for teens this summer!

Kristen Pope takes times to play with Chris Pallace (game designer) at a recent CPL Program.

For Ages 12-18, board games, card games, Wii games, and game games are played, with snacks provided. Gaming Madness is Every Friday until August 14th.

Friend's at the Farmers Market

The Friend's of the Chili Public Library had a booth at the last Chili Farmers Market on Saturday. They were taking new memberships but selling fiction and non-fiction titles of books that had been donated for upcoming booksales. The proceeds of which go to the library. When you are out there for the next two Saturdays be sure to stop by their booth.

Mr Beau

Mr Beau the Clown visited the library yesterday and put on quite a show for the kids as they watched him apply his makeup from start to finish. Each child walked away with a balloon animal as well!

50's Day at the Library

Following the Summer Reading theme - Create @ Your Library, the library had a 50's Day today at the Library, ending with a showing of the movie Grease.

Simply Stories on Thursdays

Kids of all ages are welcome to join us Thursday mornings at 10am for Simply Stories. This is a half hour drop in story time, with stories, songs and fingerplays shared by our children’s staff. Weather permitting the program is held outside. You can see by this photo it is a good way to spend the morning.

Summertime and the reading is easy…

The library’s 2009 Adult Summer Reading started on June 26 and runs until August 14. For every book read during this time, adults may fill out and submit one coupon for weekly prize drawings. There will be a grand prize drawing on Friday, August 14. We are also having a friendly “Great Reading Race” with the East Irondequoit Public Library to see which library has the most books read by adults as evidence by the number of coupons submitted at the end of the summer reading program. The Summer Reading program is sponsored by the Friends of the Chili Public Library.

Kids Can Win a bike in our Summer Reading Contest

Two brand new bikes have been donated courtesy of Five Star Bank in North Chili for the Summer Reading Program. The bikes (a girl's bike and a boy's bike) are now on display in the library. We will be holding a raffle on Friday, August 14th and the two lucky children selected will win the bikes. Tickets from all six weeks submitted by kids during the Summer Reading program will be used towards the bike drawing in August. So if you haven't signed up for Summer Reading or are a bit behind in your book reading, it's time to gear up kids and read!

Chil-E Fest 2009

This year's Chil-E Fest was the best yet. The library had a booth and introduced many people to the library's summer reading program. Many children received a press on library tattoo as well. Later on the library was represented in the Chil-E Fest Parade. Many thanks goes to the staff that manned the booth (Deb, Jenn, Carol, David, Claire, along with Claire's daughter Susan), and those who organized our participation in the parade (Sandy our CPL Friends' Board President and CPL Friend Loretta, our clerk Nancy, and our children's librarian Jenn). Thanks also go to our welcome long time patrons who took part in the parade.

We've Increased Patron Computer Use Time To 120 Per Day

The average time a patron uses the library's computers is 45 minutes per day. What we have been witnessing though are more patrons needing more time to perform job searching related activities, such as, writing resumes, online applications, and accessing the web for employment opportunities. In response to this need the library board at their last meeting approved increasing the patron computer usage from 90 minutes to 120 minutes a day. This will allow patrons to better use the library’s computer equipment while allowing computer availability.

Books 'n' Nibbles

Books 'n' Nibbles is a book discussion group for kids in grades 1-3. The group meets every third Thursday at 4-4:45pm. At the last book discussion the kids read Walter the Baker by Eric Carle. Following the book reading was a craft where they illustrated their favorite Eric Carle book. They had their share of pretzels too.

Summer Reading Program For Teens

If you are between the ages of 12-18 you can take part in the Summer Reading Program for teens. For each book read, time you come in the library, or program you go to, you can enter into one of our six weekly drawings for a prize. While your at it we have several July programs specifically for teens. On July 16 is Game Design with Chris Pallace; on July 22 is T-Shirt Designing; and on July 28 is Scrapbooking with Michele. All of these programs can be found on our registration page on the library's website www.chililibrary.org.

Barnes and Noble Bookfair

Last Saturday the library had a Bookfair at the Barnes and Noble in Greece. The library spent the afternoon promoting its great services and had a variety of entertaining programs for children and adults. In short, it was a blast.

The Summer Reading Program Has Begun

Jenn Lindsey, CPL's children's librarian met with the Chestnut Ridge School - getting them ready for the library's summer reading program. Summer Reading for children signups have already begun.

For children ages 2-5, for every 15 minutes read, they may submit a coupon for weekly prize drawings!. Children ages 6-12, for every 30 minutes read, may also submit a coupon for weekly prize drawings. Coupons may be obtained at the library.

Weekly drawings for prizes are done on Friday mornings before the library opens. The first drawing will be Friday, July 10 and the final drawing will be Friday, August 14. Weekly drawings include a variety of prizes with a final drawing including tickets to SeeBreeze, which received a strong response from those in the assembly.

CPL Friends Fundraiser

Support the Friends of the Chili Public Library by purchasing a raffle coupon for a chance to win a set of two tickets to the Harvest Tour of Food and Wine, a September 19-20 event of the Keuka Wine Trail. Two sets of two tickets will be raffled off on Monday, August 3. The raffle coupons are $1 each at the Circulation Desk or six tickets for $5. Those purchasing six tickets will receive a free Keuka Wine Trail glass and a potholder. The Yates County Chamber of Commerce donated the tickets to the Friends.

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Older Teen Winners of the 2nd Annual CPL Teen Photo Contest

Here are the older teen winners of the 2nd Annual CPL Teen Photo Contest.

1st place: Katelyn Tumia, age 17 for her photo “Lincoln Daniel”
2nd place: Katelyn Tumia, age 17 for her photo “K8”

3rd place: Brendan Jaccarino, age 17 for his photo “The

Colosseum”.

There were also five honorable mentions: Christina Salvas, age 18 for her photo “Girls at the Door”, Sarah Talbot, age 17 for her photos “Sunset-mother and child” and “Hammock”, Daniel Shafer , age 17 for his photo “Winterscape”, and Brendan Jaccarino, age 17 for his photo “Cremona”.

The photos will be on display at the library for the month of June.

Younger Teen Winners of the 2nd Annual CPL Teen Photo Contest

Here are the results of the Young Teen category for the 2nd Annual CPL Teen Photo Contest held last Saturday.
First place: Joelle Cole, age 12 for her photo “Hidden Beauty”

Second place: Hannah Karpenko, age 15 for her photo “Discarded Trunk of Memories”

Third place: Juliana Cole, age 13 of for her photo “Daisy Eggs”


There were five honorable mentions: Jonah Martin, age 15 “Perspective” and “Lifesize, Beware!”, Amelia Schneider, age 14 for “Goob”, Miranda McGrath, age 15 for “In the Street”, and Karla Mueller, age 13 for “Grape Hyacinths in full”. The photos will be on display during the month of June.

A Perfect Day For A Story

It was a perfect day outside the Children's Literary Garden where children gathered to hear Miss Jill, Melissa our intern, and Mrs. A. read a story during the library's storytime hour.

Books and Movies And About The Jury System

For the past two days I was involved in the process of jury selection for a case brought forward at the Hall of Justice. Though ultimately I was not selected to be on the jury, I found the process to be an interesting experience. It made me think of the fiction books and movies that have been made that involved juries. I have come up with five off the top of the my head. Can you come up with more. Leave a comment.

To Kill A Mockingbird
12 Angry Men
Judgement at Nuremberg
The Client
A Few Good Men