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Online Resources for Job Seekers: Friday, February 3 at 11 am
At this workshop, Library Director Mary Cronin will cover recommended job posting websites, online job search strategies and other resources for job seekers. Discussion will include a tour of Career Cruising, an online resource that is available to members of the Madison Library and several other area libraries. Career Cruising walks each user through a personal inventory of work experience, skills and interests. Using the results, it then identifies steps to take towards career goals, including places to find training. Also included are industry-specific templates for cover letters and resumes, interviews, and other resources. Users can create an online portfolio in Career Cruising of personalized career information. Printed handouts with instructions for using Career Cruising, plus a list of websites covered at the workshop and recommended books for job seekers will be available at the workshop. Training for using the library’s computers for job searches is available by appointment.
Make an Impression at Job Interviews: Friday, February 10 at 11 am
At this workshop, local businessman Scott Birth, who has experience as a hiring manager, will cover the nuts and bolts of job interviews. Learn tips and strategies for making a good presentation to a prospective employer, remembering that most interviews start with the first contact from a prospective employer. A take-home sheet with tips for preparing for an interview, the interview itself, and post-interview follow-up will be available at the workshop.
To register for either or both of the job seekers workshops, please contact the Madison Library at 367-8545. There is no charge for the workshops, which will be held in the Chick Room at the Madison Library.
This evening is our book group’s first meeting for 2012. We’ll be discussing Roland Merullo’s Breakfast with Buddha. If you’re curious about how book groups work, please join us, even if you haven’t read the book. Some good things to know about our book group:
- You don’t have to like the book. Some of our best discussions are about books we have issues with.
- You don’t have to finish the book, though it helps. As long as you don’t mind having the ending given away, come anyway! Sometimes hearing other people’s thoughts gives you the incentive to finish.
- Listeners are welcome, everyone participates at their own comfort level.
- We serve refreshments.
 Tonight we’ll hand out copies of our February book: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a fascinating nonfiction account of medical research and a family that unknowingly helped millions of people. Author Rebecca Skloot describes it in this video: http://youtu.be/1vow1ePzuqo. Pick up a copy and plan to join us on February 28.
The Friends of Madison Library (FOML) are seeking a new President and Treasurer. The FOML support your library by raising funds that are used to supplement and enhance library programs. They do this by planning and hosting special events and lectures, by providing a portion of the library’s book budget, and by helping to fund new equipment and furnishings for the library. The annual book sale, held on the first Saturday in August, is organized by the Friends. The FOML are a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization.
The Friends’ executive board meets several times a year, and holds its annual meeting in the spring. The President schedules meetings, develops agendas and leads all meetings. The Treasurer handles FOML finances and reports to the Board and to FOML members at the annual meeting.
If you’re interested in learning more about the FOML executive board positions, please contact Kim Force, Nominating person for the FOML. Call or email the library for Kim’s contact information.
Wintertime Play Group: Friday mornings at 9 am
Starting this Friday, we’ll be opening the children’s room at 9 am (an hour before library opens) for a Wintertime Play Group for babies, toddlers, parents, and caregivers. Use the children’s room entrance on the left side of the building. If school’s cancelled because of bad weather, so is Play Group. Stop in after dropping off older siblings at school. Story time will start at 10 am on most of the Fridays.
Film Fanatics’ Free Movies: Wednesdays at 1 pm starting January 18.
The Madison Library has purchased a site license to show films! We’re starting off with a series of Oscar winners. Join assistant librarian Leonora to watch and talk about movies and speculate about this year’s Oscar nominees and winners. Bring your own snack or bag lunch. Our license doesn’t allow us to list movie titles on our website, but look for posters around town and at the library, or call us to find out which movie’s playing.
We’re firming up plans for more wintertime events, look for our winter newsletter with all the details soon.
As we wind up our year, we have a few bits of news about your library services.
- Tumblebooks (ebooks for kids) now has iPad compatible ebook picture books.
- For 2012, the library will have a site license to show movies. Look for a schedule of film showings in the new year.
- On December 30, we’ll be purging our database of borrowing history. If you would like a list of what you’ve borrowed over the past three years, please let us know before the 30th and we’ll email or print one for you.
- We’ve updated our Technology Plan for 2012-2013.
Holiday hours: Closed December 24 and 25, January 1. Open December 31 from 9 to 1 (regular Saturday hours)
Share some songs, poems, and a story! A great way to wind down on a busy day.
Song: As I Walked Out One Holiday
Poems: Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost; Furry Bear by A. A. Milne; [little tree] by E. E. Cummings
Story: Olive the Other Reindeer by J. Otto Seibold
Parents, need a thought-collecting break? Bring the kids in to spend some time in the library’s children’s room. There are toys, puppets, and 122 new books from the Children’s Literacy Foundation to look at. Plus we’ve got our holiday books and movies on display so they’re easy to find.
SALE! 50 cents each
VHS videocassettes & audio books on cassette
December 17 – December 31
(or until they’re gone, whichever comes first)
Used and ex-library items, mostly movies and audiobooks for adults.
Sale will be held in the Chick Room on the lower level of the library, and will be open during library hours when the room is not in use for a meeting.
Due to budget constraints, we won’t be able to renew all of the library’s magazine subscriptions in 2012.
We’re looking for sponsors for the following magazines:
- Architectural Digest
- Organic Gardening
- Parents
- Prevention
- SmartMoney
- Vegetarian Times
- Yankee
If you can sponsor a subscription, please let Mary Cronin know.
We already have sponsors for these magazines:
- Bookmarks
- Foreign Affairs
- New York Review of Books
- New Yorker
- PC World
- The Week
Thank you!
Got fines? Bring your overdue materials back, and we’ll waive your fines in exchange for a donation to the Tri-County CAP’s Fuel Assistance Program. The money collected will be sent at the end of the month and will be designated to benefit Madison residents.
Here’s a feel-good chance to bring back those overdue items, clear some fines from your record and help your neighbors out this winter.
Want to help but have no fines or overdues? The Tri-County CAP accepts donations for its Fuel Assistance program, send them to:
Attn: Kathleen McCosh
Tri-County CAP
PO Box 367
Berlin, NH 03570
Just in:
- Judy Moody and the NOT Bummer Summer: based on the popular children’s book series by Megan McDonald
- Rio: animated buddy roadtrip flick
- Water for Elephants: based on the novel by Sara Gruen
- Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2
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