Don’t miss our Book Fair Luau during regular library hours May 19th-26th. The Book Fair offers specially priced books and educational products, including popular series, award-winning titles, new releases, adult bestsellers, and other great reads from more than 100 publishers.

The Book Fair will feature a special Grandparents day with a special visit from Clifford the Big Red dog and door prizes on Saturday, May 19th from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.  Clifford will also appear at our family night on Tuesday, May 22^nd from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.  The library will be giving away a Clifford the Big Red Dog book set and hardback copies of Moon over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool and The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins.

Stock up for Summer Reading at the Scholastic Book Fair!  Can’t make it? Shop our online book  fair and your purchases will still help us buy books.

The Friends of the Library Book Sale Room is overflowing!  Book will be sold by the bag at $2.00 per grocery bag or $4.00 for a Friends of the Library Bag.  We will start selling on Saturday, May 5th from 10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. and continue for the month of May during regular library hours.  New books will be added during the month as the library continues to receive donations and deaccession more books.  We have new and used books for children, teens, and adults.

May is a great month for buying books! We are hosting our second Scholastic Book Fair May 19th-May 2th during regular library hours.  We will have books for PreK-12th Grade and a few for adults as well.  Grandparents be sure to bring you Grandchildren to meet Clifford the Big Red Dog on May 19th from 10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.   This is a great time to get some book for summer reading and every dollar spent earns us money to buy new books for the library!  If you want to start now consider donating your loose change or $1.00 to our “One for Books” Campaign.  All the money goes to buy new books and Scholastic will match our money for one of their literacy charities.  Donating $1.00 gets your name of our Hawaiian shirt line pictured above.

Boys enjoy craft making at our Thursday storytime.  (Part of our Centennial Year in Photos)  Only two more weeks of storytime until we take our May break.  Then we will be back May 31st during Summer Reading!

 Injoy these beautiful flowers on the library grounds.  The are so pretty we are including more than one photo! (Part of our 100th Year in photos)

The library has a brand new book drop for outside returns at the back parking lot.  Doesn’t it look nice? (Part of our 100th Year in photos)

Since we’re falling behind here are two awesome pictures for the week.  The first one is of the display case filled with information and silver tea service from the GFWC who started the first library in Clay Center as the Ladies Library Club in 1898!  The bottom picture show participants in the “Get Your Geek On @ Clay Center Carnegie Library” Winter Reading Program wearing the t-shirt they won for completing their reading goals.  45 of the 51 children participating met their goal while 18 out of 27 adult met their goal.  Way to go guys!  If you see any of them out in town in their t-shirts be sure and tell them job well done. (Part of our 100th year in photos)

This week’s photo shows crayon quilt squares made by the kids at our “I geek quilting” program.  The kids learned about the history of quilting and about many kinds of quilt blocks.
(Part of our 100th year in photos)

This week’s photo shows new books for the month of February that are being processed for checkout.  Are you as excited as we are?

Week 5′s photo shows children watching as the speaker from Milford Nature Center shows an example of a spider web to our Winter Reading Crowd.

Week 4′s photo comes to us a little late.  This photo shows the dragon computer desk made in 2011 by library director Wendy Mitchell’s father, Jack Mitchell.  The desk was commissioned by the Friends of the Library.  This fun dragon desk holds a childrens’ computer full of educational games.  (This photo was chosen in memory of Wendy’s father who passed away 1/25/2012)