News and Upcoming Events
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News and Upcoming Events |
For more upcoming events, see our calendar.
Upcoming Summer
Reading Program
Vermillion Public
Library will be kicking off its Summer Reading Program in June. This program
will be filled with activities and parties for readers of all ages, alongside
the usual reading competitions.
For younger readers there will be activities four times a week, with Special Programs on Mondays, crafts on Tuesdays and movies on Wednesdays and Reading Clubs on Thursdays. This is in addition to our usual story time sessions for toddlers and preschoolers.
Some visitors and events kids can look forward to this summer are the Zooman and Mr. Twister, as well as fun talks on butterflies, beekeeping, and unusual bugs and spiders!
There will also be our reading programs to join for beginning and intermediate readers. There will be one prize a week for readers who complete their 100 minutes a week and bring in their reading log!
YA’s and adults can look forward to special events throughout the summer, such as workshops and a film festival of classic movies in July. There is also the opportunity to join a reading program with incentive prizes for older readers and adults.
For more information on all these programs, visit our Summer Program page by clicking here - or stop at the Library!
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| The library is looking for summer work study staff. Click here for more information! |
"Insight into Opera" class
This summer, internationally renowned vocal artist Scott Piper will be running a series of programs called Camp Opera. Camp Opera offers arts education, artist development and audience enrichment programs for all ages.
The Insight Into Opera class will be taking place at The Vermillion Public Library. This class is intended for the adult (18+) who is interested in learning more about the amazing multi-media art form that is Opera. This class is perfect for the adult who has little or no experience with Opera. Come and hear examples from Carmen, Rigoletto, La Boheme and many, many more.
The class will be held June 5, 12, 19, and 26: Thursday evenings 7:00-9:00PM. $50.00/Program
For more information and to register, visit the Camp Opera website at www.campopera.com
Use Your Word Power
Join us for an afternoon of playing word games on Saturday May 17, from 1-4pm. Adults and children ages 12 and up are invited to attend. Come play your favorite word games or learn new ones. We will have Balderdash, Boggle, Hangman, Password, Scattegories, Scrabble, Upwords, Word Yahtzee, Wordage, and Wordsters. Extra word games and dictionaries are welcome.
Writer of the Month: Louise Erdrich
Louise Erdrich has written twelve novels as well as volumes of poetry, children's books, and a memoir of early motherhood. Her novel Love Medicine won the National Book Critics Circle Award. The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse was a finalist for the National Book Award. She lives in Minnesota with her daughters and is the owner of Birchbark Books, a small independent bookstore.
Erdrich’s latest novel is The Plague of Doves. An unsolved murder of a farm family haunts the small, white, off-reservation town of Pluto, North Dakota. The consequences of this crime and the distortions of truth transform the lives of Ojibwe and shape both communities for the next generation. The descendants of Ojibwe and white intermarry and only the youngest generation, of mixed blood, remains unaware of the role the past continues to play in their lives. Erdrich's narrators unravel the stories of different generations and families in this corner of North Dakota. Bound by love, torn by history, the two communities' collective stories finally come together in a wrenching truth revealed in the novel's end.
VPL has the following Louise Erdrich publications: Love Medicine; The Beet Queen; Tracks; The Crown of Columbus; The Bingo Palace; The Blue Jay’s Dance; Tales of Burning Love; The Antelope Wife; The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse; The Master Butcher’s Singing Club; Four Souls; The Painted Drum; The Game of Silence; and The Plague of Doves.
What's a Library Worth?
Have you ever wondered how you would pay for the services provided for free by your local library? Here’s a website that can give you a good idea: www.maine.gov/msl/services/calculator.htm. All you need to know is how many times you use your library a month and what services you use. The
calculator will show the estimated value of each service, and the total value of your personal use!What would YOU like to see on the new website?
Vermillion Public Library has recently acquired new web creation software and will be giving its website a new look in the next few months.
What we would like to know is what our patrons would like to see on the website! Would you like to see more photos? Some audio clips? Streaming video of library events? A list of brand new books? We may not be able to incorporate everything you would like, but we would love to hear some ideas!
Drop us an email at vpl@sdln.net ! Please put “vpl website suggestions” in the email subject line.
Check out our Proposed Library Expansion Plan by clicking on the link below!
For past news articles, visit the News Archive.