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Summer Reading Program for kids on Wednesdays 7 PM

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School is out and Sign up has begun for the NYS Summer Reading Program at the Indian Lake Library. Pick up your reading records for the summer read-a-thon!

Wednesdays
Join the NYS Summer Reading Program at the Indian Lake Library at 7 PM beginning July 11.  We will use the  NYS Summer Reading Program State – Wide theme, “Dream Big”.  Sandy Bureau of Nature on the Move will help us dream and imagine what it’s like to be a bug (July 11) a tiny snail (July 18) a bird (July 25) and a bear (August 1). Kids who report each week on their reading will earn a gift.

The final Summer Reading program will be at 7 PM at Byron Park on August 8 with a performance “Dreaming Dragon” by the Puppet People.

These programs are FREE and open to all!

 

The Penny Readers on Tuesdays at 11

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The Indian Lake Theater and the Indian Lake Library are partnering this summer once again for a book/movie program for kids “During the Dog Days of Summer”. We’ll read a book on Tuesdays at 11am at the library and screen the movie the following week at the Theater at 10 am.  The program is open to all and free. The library programs will last about a half hour. Come join the fun!

The OTTG Penny Readers will be our guest readers.

“101 Dalamation”s- Read it at 11 am Tuesday, July 3 at the library; watch it at 10 am July 10 at the Theater
“The Adventures of Milo and Otis”- Read it at 11 am, Tuesday July 17′ watch it at 10 am July 24 at the Theater
“Lassie Come Home”- Read it at 11 am, Tuesday July 31 at the library; watch it at 10 am August 7 at the Theater
“Balto”, Read it at 11 am Tuesday, August 14; Watch it at 10 am Tuesday, August 21 at the Theater

 

 

Summer hours begin

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Wednesdays open 1-4, 7-9

Summer reading kick off coming soon. Interested in a high school reading group? Other programming? Let’s talk!

Towel Day is almost here

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Will you be celebrating May 25? Bring your towel!    “Towel Day is an annual celebration on the 25th of May, as a tribute to the late author Douglas Adams (1952-2001). On that day, fans around the universe proudly carry a towel in his honor.”

(as Wikipedia says) The original quotation that explained the importance of towels is found in Chapter 3 of Adams’ work The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.

“ A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value. You can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapours; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a miniraft down the slow heavy River Moth; wet it for use in hand-to-hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (such a mind-bogglingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can’t see it, it can’t see you); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.More importantly, a towel has immense psychological value. For some reason, if a strag (strag: non-hitch hiker) discovers that a hitch hiker has his towel with him, he will automatically assume that he is also in possession of a toothbrush, face flannel, soap, tin of biscuits, flask, compass, map, ball of string, gnat spray, wet weather gear, space suit etc., etc. Furthermore, the strag will then happily lend the hitch hiker any of these or a dozen other items that the hitch hiker might accidentally have “lost”. What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is, is clearly a man to be reckoned with.Hence a phrase that has passed into hitchhiking slang, as in “Hey, you sass that hoopy Ford Prefect? There’s a frood who really knows where his towel is.” (Sass: know, be aware of, meet, have sex with; hoopy: really together guy; frood: really amazingly together guy.)[3] ”
— Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

Help Wanted: Friends of the Library

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Want to get involved? Support our library by helping us run the book sale.  We need someone to coordinate the book sale, work with our great volunteers and help us with the storage and sorting of books. Call the library 648-5444 if you are interested.