Program on May 27 will offer tips to parents
What does your infant, toddler, or preschooler see in their favorite books? How can parents choose books that hold that sort of appeal? What makes a book a sure winner with very young children?
Marianne Stanton, Children’s Librarian at Melrose Public Library will present her popular program “How to Raise a Reader” on Wednesday, May 27 at 7:30 p.m. in the Lecture Hall. Learn how books nurture a child’s language development so that you can pair your baby, toddler, or preschooler with appropriate and stimulating books.
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Each year more than 350 million inkjet and laser cartridges are thrown away. In addition, 35 million cell phones are discarded. Beebe Library offers a place where you can dispose of used printer cartridges and old cell phones. The library collects these materials and then sends them to the Funding Factory, an organization that provides equipment to nonprofit organizations in exchange for recycled materials. For each donation, Beebe Library will receive points that can be traded in for printers, monitors, and other technology.

Donating these materials will help keep the earth clean while earning equipment and supplies for Beebe Library. Look for the recycling box at the Circulation Desk in the library. Beebe Library thanks you for supporting this green project.

Beebe Library has added some of the newest DVD releases to its feature film collection. The following are just a few of the latest additions.

In Bride Wars, starring Kate Hudson and Anne Hathaway, lifelong best friends Liv and Emma find themselves engaged at the same time and go to a wedding coordinator to set up the perfect wedding. A clerical error puts them both down for nuptials on the same day at the same time. One of them will have to switch the date. More than the bouquet goes flying when these desperate brides-to-be fight it out for matrimonial supremacy.
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Join the library for a walk down memory lane when Richard Hughes will present the “Golden Age of Silent Films” on Tuesday, May 5 at 7:00pm in the Lecture Hall. Silent movie master pianist Richard Hughes will take us back in time when films were black and white and there were no sound tracks. Mr. Hughes will open the program with ragtime and novelty piano pieces of the 1920’s era to put the audience in the mood. Then he’ll discuss the silent movie era and play some examples of “Mood Music” that were used to accompany these entertaining silent movies. A short silent cartoon and silent comedy film will then be presented with Mr. Hughes accompanying the films with original piano pieces. No registration is required and the program is sponsored by the Friends of the Beebe Library.

Library catalogs have changed a lot since the 19th century days when they were actually published as bound books, or even more recently as drawers of heavily thumbed file cards. NOBLE’s online catalog, with more than three million items from 28 libraries, offers fast, convenient access to readers and researchers via the Internet, and allows people to manage their own library accounts as well. This month, NOBLE has added even more useful content to the catalog with the addition of LibraryThing.
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Adams, Carrie.
The stepmother. [Smart Funny Women]
Bea was once the apple of her husband’s eye– but now he’s picked a more succulent fruit. Tessa is younger, fitter, prettier… but does that make her
wicked?
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For Supper Sleuths Meeting on May 12, 2009

Originally called “Fiduciary Fandangos” until we had our real one in 2008.

* indicates that the book is not available in Wakefield, but is available through interlibrary loan in NOBLE.

John Boland
Easy money* 1991
Rich man’s blood 1993
Death in Jerusalem*1994
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