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Newsletter Volume 21 Issue 10
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Ontario Public Library Week: October 20-26th
Visit the library during Ontario Public Library Week and enter our draw to win a zippered library tote bag!
Library Festive Fundraiser
Sunday, November 3rd, 10 AM - 3 PM - Oakwood Community Centre, Victoria Harbour This seasonal craft show is planned and hosted by the Marjorie Young Volunteer Association (MYVA) and library staff in support of Tay Township Public Library. Join us for a warm drink, check some names off your shopping list, or treat yourself!
Our special guest Mrs. Claus will be on the stage at 11 am for storytime and photo opportunities. We will have the prize draws and a book sale. Vendors include: face painting, optical, local authors, paintings, pottery, ornaments, crochet toys, handsewn and quilted items, jewelry, clothing, balloons, hair accessories, keychains, home decor, sublimation items and more. We still have a few tables left for vendors!
If interested, the registration fee is $30 plus a donation to the prize table, all proceeds go to the MYVA group to support Library programs and special collections. For more information on becoming a vendor and to register please pop into a branch to pick up a copy of the registration form or send us an email! |
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Support your Library today by buying a book bag for $3.
Thank you for helping enhance our collections and programs! |
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It's time to start saving your seeds for our Seed Library!
Thank you to everyone who has participated in the seed library, don't forget to donate your seeds this year! You can also view a display of various seed pods in each branch this month, how many do you recognize? It's not too late to get planting, we have several varieties that need to be planted in the fall! Get up to 10 types of seeds with over 100 varieties to choose from, including many native seeds.
Visit a branch to browse our seed catalogue and pick out what to grow this season.
For more information on how to borrow seeds please visit our website. |
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Storytime for Babies and Tots
Port McNicoll -Tuesdays at 11:00 AM Victoria Harbour - Wednesdays at 11:00 AM Waubaushene - Thursdays at 11:00 AM
Join us as we read books, sing songs, learn, & have fun! No registration required, for ages 0-6. |
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Pajama Storytime
Wednesdays at 4:30 PM Victoria Harbour Join us in branch, in your PJs, as we read and talk about our favourite picture books! Geared to ages 5 and up!
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OPP Patrol Car Tour and Trick-Or-Treat Safety
Wednesday, October 23rd at 4:30 PM Victoria Harbour (replaces Pajama Storytime this date)
The Ontario Provincial Police are coming for a visit to give us some Trick-or-Treating safety tips and show us a Police car! Please contact us to register.
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Game Nights 5:30-7:00 PM
Tuesdays - Port McNicoll Thursdays - Waubaushene
Join us for Game Night with video games and board games. Great for kids of all ages, drop-in. |
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Parks Canada - Bats in the Library!
Thursday, October 24th 5:30 PM Waubaushene Branch (replaces Game Night this date)
Register for a spot to learn all about why bats need our help with Parks Canada! |
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HALLOWEEN 5:30-7:00 PM
Waubaushene Branch Join us in your costume for a special game night Halloween Party! |
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Family Craft Party - Happy Halloween!
Victoria Harbour - Sat., Oct. 19th at 1:00 PM Port McNicoll - Sat., Sept. 28th at 1:00 PM
Join us for a monthly family craft party! This month we are celebrating Halloween! We are making a flying bat, a sticky spider and a ghost in a window. Oooooooo! For kids aged 4-10. Please contact us to register. |
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Seed Saving Workshop
Saturday, October 5th at 1:00 PM Waubaushene Branch Seed Saving Workshop with the Waubaushene Community Garden. Learn the what, when, why and how of seed collecting, and meet with other local gardeners. Beginners and experts welcome! |
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Seniors Event - Aging in Place and Social Isolation, hosted by Seniors Advisory Committee
Tuesday, October 22nd 10:00 AM - 2:30 PM Oakwood Community Centre (290 Park Street in Victoria Harbour).
The Library will be in attendance to answer questions about materials and services we provide for seniors. There will be guest speakers, fitness demonstrations and a free lunch. For more information visit here. RSVP by contacting clerk@tay.ca or by calling 705-534-7248 x257 Transportation to and from the event can be arranged free of charge for those in need.
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Learn to Play Chess Club
*New date and time* Tuesdays at 12:30 PM Victoria Harbour Branch
Never played, but always wanted to? Not played in a long time and need a refresher? Learn to play chess in a group setting. Come join us for a game! |
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Sit and Stitch
Wednesdays at 3:00 PM
Victoria Harbour Branch A casual, drop-in atmosphere. Bring what you are working on and maybe get help from new friends. Knit, crochet, embroidery, mending, if you can bring it and want to share it, stop by and do one more row together. You could also swap yarn and patterns! |
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Mahjong for Beginners
Thursdays at 3 PM
Victoria Harbour Branch
Mahjong is a tile-based game that was developed in the 19th century in China and has spread throughout the world since the early 20th century. We are playing the American version of the game. It is played with four players and a set of 152 tiles based on Chinese characters and symbols. |
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Save the date for November: Visit with Fern Taillefer
Saturday, November 9th at 2 PM Victoria Harbour Branch Meet Mr. Taillefer as he discusses his work in Close Protection (Body Guard work) in the Canadian Forces. Adult program, please register to save your spot. |
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All three branches have a cart full of donated and discarded books and movies you can purchase from, by donation to the Library.
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Drop in Kids Colouring
Victoria Harbour
Drop in anytime to visit the table that has crayons and colouring pages where children of all ages can colour and relax. |
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Borrow a PassClick here to visit our website for more information, or click the images to place your holds! |
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The Simcoe County Museum pass provides entrance to the museum for up to 7 people! Visit the museum for a wide variety of events, exhibits and programs for all ages throughout the year!
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The Wye Marsh Wildlife Centre has provided the Tay Township Public Library with Family Day Passes! This gives you FREE entrance to the Marsh for up to 2 adults and 2 children.
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Visit any Ontario Park for FREE by borrowing an Ontario Parks Vehicle Permit from the Library! Permits allow park entry to any provincial park for one vehicle (excluding busses) and its passengers for the whole day (not for overnight use).
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The Huronia Museum has provided the Tay Township Public Library with 3 Museum Passes! This gives you FREE entrance to the Museum for up to 2 adults and 2 children.
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Apps to read on the go!
Click on the App icons to learn more about cloudLibrary for borrowing Ebooks and AudioBooks, and PressReader to view your favourite newspapers and magazines, all on your own device! |
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ComicsPlus
Enjoy unlimited access to thousands of digital comics, mangas and graphic novels for free with your Tay Township Library card! No holds, wait lists or limits!
To access Comics Plus:
1. Visit login.librarypass.com, or download and install the LibraryPass app for iOS or Android.
2. Search for Simcoe Digital Library Service, and enter your library card number. 3. Read all the comics! |
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Download the Simcoe County Libraries app and log in with your library card to access your account and place holds today.
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Reciprocal Borrowing |
If you are currently a member in good standing at your Library, you are entitled to a free Library membership at any of these Libraries!
Clearview Public Library
Essa Public Library
Penetanguishene Public Library
Ramara Public Library
Severn Public Library
Springwater Public Library
Wasaga Beach Public Library
Midland Public Library
Click here for more information |
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Library Board Information |
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Library Board Members:
Heather Walker (Chair)
Janet McFadden (Vice Chair)
Laura Adams
Gerard LaChapelle (Council Representative)
Sandy Talbot (Council Representative) |
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Email Domain Change
We have switched email domains, please make sure you update your library contacts, so we don’t get lost in your junk folders. All our names are the same, you just need to change the end to @taylibrary.ca
For all your library needs please email library@taylibrary.ca |
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New Titles for your holds!
Click the images to display in our catalogue to place a hold. |
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Real Ones
Katherena Vermette
Lyn and her sister June are NDNs -- real ones. Lyn is still suffering after a break-up, but has her pottery artwork and her bubbly kid, Willow, to keep her mind, heart, and hands busy. Happily married June, a Métis Studies professor, yearns to uproot from Vancouver and move. With her husband Sigh and their faithful pup, June decides to buy a house in the last place on earth she'd imagine she'd end up: back home in Winnipeg. Close to Lyn, her dad, little sister Yoyo, Grandma Genie -- close to family. But then into Lyn and June's busy lives a bomb drops. Their estranged and very white mother Renée is called out as a ‘pretendian.’ Under the name (get this) Raven Bearclaw, Renée had recently begun to top the charts in the Canadian painting scene for having a wholly new take on the Woodlands tradition, winning awards and recognition for her fraudulent work. The news is quickly picked up by the media and sparks an enraged online backlash. As the sisters are pulled into the painful tangle of lies their mother has told and the hurt she has caused, searing memories from their unresolved childhood trauma, which still manages to spill into their well-curated adult worlds, come rippling to the surface. Real ones offers us a heartbreaking and ultimately hopeful story that runs parallel with the long-fought, hard-won battles of Métis people to regain ownership of their identity and the right to say who is and isn't Métis.
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Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books
Kristen Miller When Lula Dean, trying to rid public libraries of ‘pornographic’ books, starts her own lending library in front of her home, Lindsay, the daughter of Lula's arch nemesis, sneaks in nightly, secretly filling it with banned books wrapped in ‘wholesome’ dust jackets, changing the lives of those who borrow them in unexpected ways. |
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The Outlier
Elizabeth Eaves
Cate Winter, at 34, is a wildly successful neuroscientist and entrepreneur who has invented a cure for Alzheimer's that will improve the lives of millions. On the verge of selling her biotech company for an obscene sum, she is also about to become very rich. But Cate has a secret that keeps her deeply uneasy about everything she is and does. She grew up at the Cleckley Institute, a treatment facility for the rehabilitation of psychopathic children. And, as far as she knows, she is the institute's only success. All of her peers have become thwarted, maladjusted, or even criminal adults. Then Cate discovers the existence of another ex-patient and outlier who might prove that her success isn't a fluke. He has not only stayed out of jail, but he's made a mark in business and science. Though his identity is confidential, she breaks the rules and drops everything to track him down. And when she finds him, living under an assumed name in Baja California, she is immediately obsessed. Like her, he is driven and brilliant, an innovator willing to do what it takes to perfect a new energy technology that will stop global warming. Here, at last, is her mirror, her ultimate collaborator, the possible answer to the enigma of her nature. But in the wake of a mysterious death, Cate can't avoid suspecting him. If he is involved, do his ends justify his means? Ruthless herself, she's about to find out whether there are any moral lines she won't cross
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The Night House
Jo Nesbo
In the wake of his parents' tragic deaths in a house fire, fourteen-year-old Richard has been sent to live with his aunt and uncle in the remote, insular town of Ballantyne, where he quickly earns a reputation as an outcast. When a classmate named Tom goes missing, everyone suspects that the angry new boy is responsible for his disappearance. And no one believes Richard when he says the telephone booth out by the edge of the woods sucked Tom into the receiver like something out of a horror movie. No one, that is, except Karen, a beguiling fellow outsider who encourages Richard to pursue clues the police refuse to investigate. He eventually traces the number that Tom prank-called from the phone booth to an abandoned house in the Black Mirror Wood. There he catches a glimpse of a terrifying face in the window. And then the voices begin to whisper in his ear: You know who I am. She's going to burn. The one you love is going to burn. There's not a thing you can do about it. When another classmate disappears, Richard must find a way to prove his innocence-and preserve his sanity-as he grapples with the dark magic that is possessing Ballantyne and threatening to destroy him. Then again, Richard may not be the most reliable narrator of his own story...
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Warrior King
Wilbur Smith
South Africa, 1820. When Ann Waite discovers a battered longboat washed ashore in Algoa Bay, she is stunned to find two survivors -- a badly scarred sailor and a little boy. As the man walks away into the morning mist alone, refusing to take the child Harry with him, Ann is left with no choice but to raise the boy as her own. After two years of disaster and hardship in the African interior, desperation drives Ann and Harry back into the path of the mysterious shipwrecked man. Ralph Courtney has recently escaped from Robben Island and is determined to seek his fortune in Nativity Bay, the hidden harbour that his father told him about when he was a boy. But it isn't long before Ralph, Ann and their fellow settlers learn that Nativity Bay now lies on the borders of a mighty kingdom, where the warrior king Shaka rules. With no means of making their way back to Algoa Bay, Ralph is forced into a bargain with the Zulu king which will lead him to confront the past that he has been running from for his entire life.
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Powerless
Lauren Roberts
Only the extraordinary belong in the kingdom of Ilya. The exceptional. The Elites. The Elites have possessed powers for decades, gifted to them by the Plague, while those born Ordinary are just that, banished from the kingdom and shunned from society. No one knows this better than Paedyn Gray, an Ordinary posing as an Elite. When she unsuspectingly saves one of Ilya’s princes, Kai Azer, she’s thrown into the Purging Trials, a brutal competition to showcase her ‘Elite’ powers. If the Trials and the opponents don’t kill her, the prince she’s fighting feelings for will if he discovers what Paedyn really is completely Ordinary. |
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Unreconciled
Jesse Wente
One of Canada's most prominent Indigenous voices uncovers the lies Canada tells itself and the power of narrative to prioritize truth over comfort. Jesse Wente remembers the exact moment he realized that he was a certain kind of Indian. Not Anishinaabe or Ojibwe, but seen as a stereotypical cartoon Indian. He was playing softball as a child when the opposing team began to war-whoop when he was at bat. It was just one of many incidents that formed Wente's understanding of what it means to be a modern Indigenous person in a society still overwhelmingly colonial in its attitudes and institutions. As the child of an American father and an Anishinaabe mother, Wente grew up in Toronto with frequent visits to the Serpent River reserve. By exploring his family's history, including his grandmother's experience in residential school, and citing his own frequent incidents of racial profiling by police who'd stop him on the streets, Wente unpacks the discrepancies between his personal identity and how non-Indigenous people view him. He also describes his discomfort at becoming a designated spokesperson for Indigenous people's concerns, even as he struggles with not feeling Ojibwe enough. In his work as a CBC Radio columnist, film critic and programmer, and as the founding director of the Indigenous Screen Office, Wente has analyzed and given voice to the differences between Hollywood portrayals of Indigenous people and lived culture. Through the lens of art, pop culture commentary, and personal stories, and with disarming humour, he links his love of baseball and movies to such issues as cultural appropriation, Indigenous representation and identity, and Indigenous narrative sovereignty. Indeed, he argues that storytelling in all its forms is one of Indigenous peoples' best weapons in the fight to reclaim their rightful place. Wente explores and exposes the lies that Canada tells itself, unravels the ‘two founding nations’ myth, and insists that the notion of ‘reconciliation’ is not a realistic path forward. There is not a state of peace between First Nations and the state of Canada that can be recovered through reconciliation because no such relationship ever existed. Part memoir and part manifesto, Unreconciled is a stirring call to arms to put truth over the flawed concept of reconciliation, and to build a new, respectful relationship between the nation of Canada and Indigenous peoples.
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Becoming a Matriarch: a Memoir
Helen Knott
When matriarchs begin to disappear, there is a choice to either step into the places they left behind, or to craft a new space. Having lost both her mom and grandma in just over six months, forced to navigate the fine lines between matriarchy, martyrdom, and codependency, Knott realizes she must let go, not just of them, but let go of who she thought she was. Woven into the pages are themes that touch on mourning, staying sober through loss, and generational dreaming. Charted with poetic insights, a sprinkle of sass, humour, and heart, crossing the rivers and mountains of Dane Zaa Territory in Northeastern British Columbia and the cobbled streets of Antigua, Guatemala, this is a journey through pain on the way to becoming. |
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Who is Taylor Swift?
Kristen Anderson Taylor Swift is one of the most popular singers in the world, and a billionaire who writes her own songs and plays several instruments. Find out how she became the star she is today from growing up on a Christmas tree farm in Pennsylvania. |
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The Bad Guys: A Very Bad Holiday
Aaron Blabey When Christmas is unexpectedly cancelled, thwarting their city-wide holiday heist, the Bad Guys must do the unthinkable -- reignite the city's holiday spirit by giving instead of taking. |
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This is Not My Lunchbox
Jennifer DupuisJoin in on a surprising camping trip and discover the favourite meals of your favourite forest creatures, from the wood frog to the moose. Rich art illustrates the beautiful biodiversity found in our forests and expressive, repetitive text helps even the youngest naturalists learn all about herbivores, omnivores, and carnivores. |
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Today is Orange Shirt Day
Phyllis Webstad A first conversation about the importance of Orange Shirt Day -- Every Child Matters and what little ones can expect to see and do on Orange Shirt Day -- The National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. Written by the founder of the Orange Shirt Day movement. |
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FC 24[PS4]
A SPORTS FC™ 24 is a new era for The World's Game: 19,000+ fully licensed players, 700+ teams, and 30+ leagues playing together in the most authentic football experience ever created. Feel closer to the game with three cutting-edge technologies powering unparalleled realism in every match: HyperMotionV®, PlayStyles optimised by Opta, and a revolutionized Frostbite™ Engine. |
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Astro Bot [PS5]
After a group of criminals kidnap the ballerina daughter of a powerful underworld figure, they retreat to an isolated mansion, unaware that they're locked inside with no normal little girl. |
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