Category: Programs

Crochet & Knitters’ Club

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Every WEDNESDAY at 1:00pm – Crochet & Knitters’ Club –Bring your projects or problems for help or ideas.  Beginners always welcome!  Need a project?  We’re preparing for our annual “Smittens Fur Mittens”  Christmas donation. Try your “hand” at mittens or a scarf!

 

Readers Dozen Challenge – YA and Adults

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Readers Dozen Challenge! All Year Long!

Take part in our Readers Dozen Challenge! Each month presents a different reading challenge for you to explore and every month you complete enters you in a monthly drawing! Complete all 12 challenges and you will receive a participation prize and placed in a drawing for a $25 Amazon gift card! Stop in to the library for the tracker bookmark or download it HERE.

January: Read a book you bought or were gifted, but haven’t read yet

February: Read a book about food

March: Read a book about sports/hobby

April: Read a book with a cover you hate

May: Read a true crime book

June: Read a book with a beach cover

July: Read a book with a name in the title (Person, Place or Thing)

August: Read a book set at sea

September: Read a best seller from 5-10 years ago

October: Read a ghost story

November: Read a book with a one-word title

December: Read a book made into a movie, then watch the movie

*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!

Readers Dozen Challenge – Kids

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Kids Readers Dozen Challenge! All Year Long

Take part in our Readers Dozen Challenge! Each month presents a different reading challenge for you to explore!

1: Complete the month’s reading challenge! 2: Draw a picture of your book, a character, or scene from the story! 3: Bring it to the JCC or school library to be displayed!

Complete all 12 challenges and you will receive a participation prize and placed in a drawing for a $25 Amazon gift card! Stop in to the library for the tracker bookmark or download it HERE.

January: Read a book you bought or were gifted, but haven’t read yet

February: Read a book that won an award

March: Read a book about dinosaurs, fiction or non-fiction

April: Read a book with a cover you hate

May: Read a book about a live animal

June: Read a book about the beach or ocean

July: Read a book with a name in the title (Person, Place or Thing)

August: Read a book about a hobby, craft or food. (Extra credit bring in a sample!)

September: Read a graphic novel

October: Read a ghost story

November: Read a book with a one-word title

December: Read a book made into a movie, then watch the movie

*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!

Mothers Day Events! Saturday, May 13th

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Mother’s Day Events

Saturday, May 13th

Garden Club Plant Sale – 9:00AM – 1:00 PM Your mom deserves a plant! Pick one up at our Garden Club’s annual Mothers Day Plant Sale

Mother’s Day Craft – 10:00AM – 12:00 PM Stop by the library to make paper flowers for your mom! An adorable, easy craft for all ages – nothing says “I love you!” like homemade!

New JCCL WiFi Pavilion

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pavilion and butterfly bench photo

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.

new wifi pavilion

calvertlibrary.org -or- call us at 860-642-6207 for more information