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February 2024 |
Welcome to our monthly newsletter featuring all that's happening at your library. |
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Family Day at the Library |
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This Family Day bring the whole flock to the library! 6 Middlesex County Library locations will be open special hours on Monday, February 19, and offering a whole lot of family fun! All open branches will be offering a door prize draw and a Family Storytime at 10:30am. The EarlyON team will be offering a drop-in crafting program at four locations. Visit our website for details.
Strathroy Library - Open 9am-2pm
Dorchester Library, Glencoe Library, Komoka Library, Lucan Library and Parkhill Library - Open 10am-2pm
The Delaware and Newbury Libraries will be closed on Family Day: we apologize for any inconvenience. |
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Coming Soon... March Break Programming
Middlesex County Library is your ticket to an amazing March Break! Library branches will be offering programs, games, scavenger hunts and more. Additional details will be available soon: watch for events to be added to our online calendar or contact your local branch.
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Tales & Trails
This winter, our Tales & Trails locations are featuring children’s storybooks about snow and hibernation! For more information on the Tales & Trails project, including information about site locations across the county, please visit our website. |
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Language Learning Made Simple
Available free with your library card, Mango Languages offers 40 online language learning courses for English speakers and 15 English courses for non-English speakers. To learn more about using Mango, download our Getting Started guide. |
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Saying Good-Bye to Encore
Encore, the previous version of our online catalogue, is being decommissioned as of February 29th. We hope that patrons who are still using Encore will find the transition to our new catalogue Vega: Discover easy and simple! Questions? Email us at librarian@middlesex.ca
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Middlesex EarlyON invites you to view our 2023 Year-In-Review, which feature highlights from a variety of programming opportunities our team offered throughout the year.
In 2023, the EarlyON team delivered regular drop-in Play & Learn and Baby Time programs in nine locations across the County. Our Open Spaces program continued to be a popular draw for families looking for an outdoor adventure. Ready Set Learn was back in-person for 2023, supporting a number of families with the transition to kindergarten. New for 2023 was Bounce Back and Thrive, a parent workshop focusing on resiliency and self-regulation and the delivery of Roots of Empathy at River Heights Public School. As well, the team continued to support the delivery of a variety of other special programs.
Thank you to the EarlyON team and families for a fabulous 2023; we are excited for what 2024 will bring! |
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| Staff Picks | |
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| Emilia Hart |
Told over five centuries through three connected women, this riveting novel follows Kate, in 2019, as she seeks refuge in Weyward Cottage; Altha, in 1619, as she uses her powers to maintain her freedom; and Violet, in 1942, as she searches for the truth about her mother's death.
Suggested by Dallas, Mt Brydges Branch Assistant |
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| Ariel Lawhon |
In 1789 Maine, midwife and healer Martha Ballard, who is good at keeping secrets, investigates a shocking murder linked to an alleged rape that has shaken her small town, especially when her diary lands at the center of the scandal, threatening to tear both her family and her community apart.
Suggested by Pam, Mt Brydges Branch Assistant |
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| Amina Luqman-Dawson |
Fleeing Southerland Plantation with his little sister, 12-year-old Homer finds a secret community called Freewater, created by formerly enslaved people, but when he learns of a threat that could destroy this place, he crafts a plan to help his new home.
Suggested by Shauna, Child & Youth Librarian |
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| Robin Wall Kimmerer |
As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowledge together.
Suggested by Cassie, Parkhill Branch Assistant |
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| Shoji Morimoto |
In this off-beat memoir, the author shares his unique perspective on how we look at work, relationships and life, and how we often have trouble talking about the things most important to us, with the people closest to us.
Suggested by Victoria, Library Administration Assistant |
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| Fran Littlewood | Grace Adams, a once-amazing woman who is now 45, stalled, perimenopausal and losing it, leaves her car in the middle of traffic and sets out to win back her estranged teen daughter on her 16th birthday.
Suggested by Laura, Dorchester Branch Assistant |
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