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April 3-9, 2022 is National Library Week, a time to highlight the essential role libraries, librarians, and library workers play in transforming lives and strengthening communities. The theme for this year’s National Library Week is “Connect with Your Library,” which promotes the idea that libraries are places to get connected to technology by using broadband, computers, and other resources. Most importantly, libraries also connect communities to each other.
 
This week, the Buena Park Library District encourages all community members to visit the library in person or online. Libraries across the country are making a difference in people’s lives by providing valuable programs and services to enrich their communities. Buena Park Library District is supporting our community with services such as HelpNow, an online homework help resource; online learning platforms for adults, including Coursera and LinkedIn Learning; mobile hotspots to access the internet away from the library; and Launchpad early learning tablets to encourage learning at a young age.
 
Additionally, the Buena Park Library District supports in person community connections for library patrons of all ages. Children can enjoy Story Time followed by educational play on Wednesdays and Saturdays at 10:00AM beginning in April. The Library will also be hosting an in-person DIY bath bomb craft program for adults on Monday, April 4th at 6:00pm. The Buena Park Library District also provides weekly take home craft kits for children, monthly take home craft kits for teens and adults, monthly book clubs for adults, and monthly Teen Advisory Board meetings where teens can earn volunteer service hours by assisting with library programs and providing input on library services.
 
This National Library Week, the public can show their appreciation and support for libraries by visiting their library in person or online, and by following them on social media and using the hashtag #NationalLibraryWeek.
 
First sponsored in 1958, National Library Week is a national observance sponsored by the American Library Association and libraries of all types across the country each April.
 
One way to connect to Buena Park Library is through our website. If you haven't checked it out, then test your knowledge by completing an online scavenger hunt! Your entry will put you in the drawing for a prize! 
 
Our online scavenger hunt will be open to responses during National Library Week, April 3-9, 2022.
Click here to participate!
 
 
Please visit our Children's Desk or call 714-826-4100 ext. 126
if you have any questions or need assistance with registering for Children's Programming.
 
Make a Book Char-EGG-ter
Friday, April 1st - Saturday, April 16th
Children's Room
Kids ages 0-12, pick up a foam egg in the Children’s Room (while supplies last) and then decorate it with anything you’d like to make it look like a character from a book! Turn in your char-EGG-ter to the Children’s Room by 5:00PM on Saturday, April 16th.
 
Library staff will vote on their favorite char-egg-ter, and the winner will win an egg filled with little goodies. The winner will be contacted during the week of April 18.
BARK Therapy Dogs
Tuesday, April 12th at 6:30PM - 7:30PM
Children's Room 
Kids, come read to our dog pals, Syrah, a Labrador/Golden Retriever mix, and Lucca, a Golden Retriever, in the children's fiction area.  
 
Sign ups are not required and readers will be able to spend time with Syrah and Lucca on a first come, first served basis.  
 
All participants 2 years of age and older will be required to wear a mask while reading to Syrah and Lucca.
Science Saturday
Saturday, April 23rd at 11:00AM
Outside behind library
Kids in 2nd-6th grades, come learn all about fossils and see real ones up close!
 
No registration is required, but seating will be limited.
Biblioburro Storytime & Craft
Monday, April 25th at 6:30PM
Donna Bagley Community Room
Kids, join us as we, in honor of El Día de los Niños (Children's Day), read Biblioburro, the true story of Luis Soriano and his trusty donkeys Alfa and Beto. Luis, Alfa, and Beto travel to remote villages in Colombia to bring books to kids! After we learn about Luis, we will make mini donkey piñatas that you can take home.
 
The library thanks the California State Library and the Southern California Library Cooperative for making this program possible through LSTA funding.
Songs & Stories LIVE! 
Tuesdays at 11:00AM via Zoom
Join us for a LIVE virtual storytime via Zoom every Tuesday at 11:00AM. We will meet friends, sing songs, and read stories together.  
 
Pre-registration is required. Click here to register.  
Little Friends Storytime
Wednesdays, 10:00AM - 11:00AM
Donna Bagley Community Room
Kids, join us for stories, songs, and play indoors in the library's community room.
 
No registration is required. 
Family Storytime
Saturdays, 10:00AM-11:00AM
Donna Bagley Community Room
Kids and caregivers, join us every Saturday in the Donna Bagley Community Room for stories, songs, and play.
 
No registration is required.
Songs & Stories with Miss Ruth
These pre-recorded videos will feature songs and books. Read and sing along with Miss Ruth and friends! A new video will be posted every Friday at 11:00AM on our Facebook and Instagram accounts.  
 
 
Teen Advisory Board (TAB)
Tuesday, April 5th at 6:00PM-7:00PM 
Guild Book Store
High school students, join our Teen Advisory Board! You will have the opportunity to earn community service hours and discuss programs and activities you want to see at the library! 
 
Meetings will be held on the first Tuesday of every month from 6:00PM-7:00PM. 
 
Please complete a volunteer application and turn it in to the Children's Department. 
Reading Rebels Teen Book Club
Tuesday, April 19th at 6:00PM-7:00PM 
Guild Book Store & Zoom
This month we will be discussing Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys.
 
Frantically racing to freedom with thousands of other refugees as Russian forces close in on their homes in East Prussia, Joana, Emilia and Florian meet aboard the doomed Wilhelm Gustloff and are forced to trust each other in order to survive.
 
If you can’t make it in person, please click here to join us via Zoom. You will be a sent a link for the meeting.
 
Please contact Pam at ppedro@buenaparklibrary.org or 714-826-4100 ext. 171 if you have any questions.
 
Ages 14 - 18

Adult DIY Club
Monday, April 4th at 6:00PM
Donna Bagley Community Room
Our in-person Adult DIY program is back! Join us on Monday, April 4th at 6:00PM to make some Spring Lavender Egg Bath Bombs. They are the perfect craft for pampering yourself or to give as a gift!  
 
This DIY can be messy! Please wear attire you don’t mind getting dirty.
 
This program is designed for adults ages 18+.
No registration is required. Seating is limited and on a first-come, first-serve basis. 
 
*Allergy disclaimer: recipe includes baking soda, corn starch, citric acid, coconut oil, lavender essential oil, and dried lavender buds
 
If you have any questions, please visit or call the Reference Desk at 714-826-4100 ext. 125
Afternoon Adult Book Club
Thursday, April 28th at 3:00PM
Second Floor Board Room & Zoom
Join us this month for a discussion on The Music of Bees by Eileen Garvin.
 
Three lonely strangers in a rural Oregon town, each working through grief and life's curveballs, are brought together by happenstance on a local honeybee farm where they find surprising friendship, healing--and maybe even a second chance--just when they least expect it.
 
If you will be joining us in-person, no need to register. Just show up! Meeting will be in the Board Room on the second floor. Ages 18+
 
Click here to register for the Afternoon Group via Zoom.
Evening Adult Book Club
Thursday, April 28th at 6:00PM
Second Floor Board Room & Zoom
Join us this month for a discussion on The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich. 
 
Based on events from the life of Erdrich's grandfather, The Night Watchman is about tribal chairman Thomas Wazhashk's efforts to fight against the push for Indian termination in 1953, which would have ignored prior U.S.-Native American treaties and resulted in the dispossession of Native American lands.
 
If you will be joining us in person, no need to register. Just show up! Meeting will be in the Board Room on the second floor. Ages 18+
 
Click here to register for the Evening Group via Zoom.
Buena Park Library District
7150 La Palma Ave
Buena Park, California 90620
714-826-4100

www.buenaparklibrary.org/