Learning Resources – Stories, language, coding
Cultural Institutions – Zoos, Parks, Museums
Books and Storytelling – list from Waseca-LeSeur Library
Crafting – list from Waseca-LeSeur Library
Music – list from Waseca-LeSeur Library
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Check Out Our New Library App! Acorn Catalog
Check out our new library app!
Acorn Catalog
Search “Acorn Catalog” in your App Store to access your library account! Check your due dates, place holds, see library hours and your digital library card! Stop in or call the library for more information; you’ll need your library ID number and password to get started.
2026 Readers Dozen Challenge – Two Options
2026 Reading Challenge!
This year we have two different reading challenges! Pages Through the Ages or Keywords!
Keywords
OR
Pages Through the Ages
Read a book from the decade of the month and enter to win a prize! Each month, we will also show a film inspired by a popular pick from that decade.
January – 1910s
February – 1920s
March – 1930s
April – 1940s
May – 1950s
June – 1960s
July – 1970s
August – 1980s
September – 1990s
October – 2000s
November – 2010s
December – 2020s (so far!)
We will have some of the decades most popular books available each month by the front desk. Check our out website for even more book pick ideas!
*Audio books count! *Extra Credit! Borrow a book through a JCCL online resource (Hoopla or Palace Project) and have your name entered in that month’s drawing twice!
The Lunch Bunch – New Kids Program!
No Lunch Bunch 2/17/2026
Children’s Programs for May
Drop-in Weekly Children’s Programs
The Lunch Bunch – Tuesdays @ 11:30AM, ages 2-5 Bring your lunch and enjoy an easy going craft/book/or open play!
Music in Motion for Toddlers –Wednesdays @ 10AM, ages 2-5 Move & sing with us!
Story Time & Craft – Thursdays @ 10AM, ages 2-6 A little bit of story, science, craft and play.
Check our all of our children’s programs on our main page happenings!
Page Turners Book Club: Thursday, May 14th @ 6:00PM
Page Turners Fiction Book Club
Fiction Book Club – Meets the 2nd Thursday of the Month @ 6:00PM
Thursday, May 14th @ 6:00PM
Our Fiction Book Club!
Join us for a discussion of “The Wedding People” by Alison Espach. Stop by to pick up your copy!
Interested in joining Friends of the Library? Meeting at 7:00PM!
GARDEN CLUB PLANT SALE – SATURDAY, MAY 16TH @ 9:00AM – 12:00PM
GARDEN CLUB PLANT SALE
SATURDAY, MAY 16TH @ 9:00AM – 12:00PM
It’s the annual plant sale for the Garden Club! Stop by 5 Tyler Drive to pick up a beautiful addition to your garden or a great belated gift for Mom! Want to donate a plant? Just be sure they are potted and labeled and you can drop it off at the library the 12th, 13th, or 14th.
Pages Through the Ages – May Flick Pick – Saturday May 16th @ 10:00AM
May Flick Pick – Charlotte’s Web
Saturday, May 16th @ 10:00AM
Join us for the 2006 film “Charlotte’s Web” based on E.B. White’s famous 1952 novel. Attendees get an extra entry for our monthly reading challenge raffle! Bring a pillow or comfy chair. The film runs for 1hour 33minutes.
All Things Culinary – Thursday, May 21st @ 6:00PM
All Things Culinary Club
3rd Thursday of the Month @ 6:00 PM
THURSDAY, MAY 21ST @ 6:00PM
Reese Witherspoon’s “Whiskey in a Teacup” is on the menu for Culinary Club this month! Grab a copy and make a bright springtime dish to share!
No Shelf Control Book Club : Thursday, May 21st @ 5:00PM (UPDATED DATE)
NO SHELF CONTROL BOOK CLUB
THURSDAY, MAY 21ST @ 5:00PM (UPDATED DATE!) Meeting the third Thursday just this month due to scheduling conflicts.
JCCL WiFi Pavilion
The CT State Library and Gov. Ned Lamont created the Everyone Learns Library Grant that was offered to 61 CT libraries and JCCL was one of the lucky to be chosen.
Library staff noticed how many people were sitting in their cars last summer using the WIFI and wanted to create a comfortable space for everyone to use the high-speed internet we had installed.
Other Grant improvements inside the library have been completed. Stop in and check them out!
Visitors can enjoy a reading a book, working on the internet or just enjoy the beautiful gardens this year at the Janet Carlson Calvert Library. A picnic table and completed flooring due this June.
calvertlibrary.org -or- call us at 860-642-6207 for more information