The library will be closed over Labor Day weekend: Saturday, September 1-Monday, September 3. Our regular weekend hours (Saturday 10-5 and Sunday 2-5) will resume after Labor Day weekend.
SUMMER READING WRAP-UP. Our Summer Reading Program Dream Big—READ! for children in preschool through grade 6 was a great success. 185 children participated and together they read more than 909 books! Congrats! The Friends of the Wayland Free Public Library will contribute $100 to Bat Conservation International in honor of all the children’s great summer reading. This summer nineteen Wayland teens participated in OWN THE NIGHT, our online summer reading program for teens. Together they read 310 books! Congratulations!
FALL STORY & MOTHER GOOSE TIMES. Children’s Librarian Pam McCuen will be leading StoryVine, a story/craft hour for preschoolers ages 2.5 to 5 years most Tuesday mornings at 10:30 a.m. She will also lead Mother Goose Time, an interactive program filled with songs, rhymes, stories, and movement for babies and toddlers on most Thursday mornings at 10:30 a.m. Registration is not required for these programs.
NEW FALL PROGRAMS FOR CHILDREN. Starting in the fall we will have a Lego Club for children ages 6 and up. This program will meet once a month on Wednesday afternoons and is an opportunity for children to use their imaginations to make fabulous creations out of Legos! Note: we are now accepting donations of Legos (the small blocks, not the big blocks). We will also be starting a once-a-month parent/child book discussion for children in fourth and fifth grade, with a parent. This program will meet one Monday night a month. Also, in honor of “Wayland READS Poetry,” coming up later this year, we will be offering poetry workshops for children ages eight and up, one Wednesday evening a month.
FALL AUTHOR VISITS. Keep your eyes peeled for more information on upcoming author visits at the library this fall. Historical suspense writer William Martin (author of Back Bay and many others) will be here on Tuesday, October 23, at 7 p.m. to talk about his latest book, The Lincoln Letter.
Investigative reporter for 7News in Boston and award-winning mystery author Hank Phillippi Ryan will be here on the evening of Tuesday, November 27, to talk about her new book, The Other Woman.
Wayland's own Juliette Fay will be at the library to talk about her latest book, The Shortest Way Home, on Sunday afternoon, December 2. And children’s author and Wayland resident Nancy Poydar will be here on October 2 and 3 to talk to both preschoolers and children in the early elementary grades about her new book, Bus Driver.
Changing & Challenging Landscape of College Admissions. On Tuesday evening at 7 p.m. on September 18, educational consultant Carol Kinlan will present a program for families that addresses the newer, more complicated realities of choosing a college in these difficult economic times. She will talk about finding the best college match for your student, including pre-professional and technical training programs. She will shed some light on how to evaluate both the current admissions process and the colleges best suited for your student. She will also discuss how the quantitative vs. qualitative factors of a student's application are viewed by college admissions. Kinlan is an educational consultant from Howland, Spence & McMillan, one of the oldest and most respected educational consulting firms in the country. She works with students and parents to find the best school fit.
PSYCHIATRIC MEDICATIONS: THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UNKNOWN. We are delighted to sponsor the second year in the series “Navigating the Path to Independence,” a series of programs for people with disabilities and their families. On September 24 at 7 p.m., Daniel Rosenn, M.D., will speak on medication issues. Over the past several decades, there has been an extremely large upsurge in the discovery, marketing, and prescription of psychotropic medications. Dr. Rosenn will discuss issues and about usefulness, safety, profits, research, etc. Rosenn is the former head of child psychiatry at Boston’s Beth Israel Hospital and former Associate Director of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at McLean Hospital. He is currently Medical Director of North American Family Institute, a multi-state, non-profit corporation which provides mental health services to individuals of all ages. Rosenn is a founding member of the Asperger’s Association of New England. He was awarded the Mass Psychiatric Society’s 2007 Outstanding Psychiatrist of the Year
RIKLEEN TO TALK ON “MILLENNIALS”. October 2 at 7:30 p.m. marks the start of this year’s Great Presenters Series. Our first speaker will be Lauren Stiller Rikleen who will talk on “Strengthening Interfenerational Relationships.” As adolescence and young adults, Millennials have significantly different work and communication styles from Baby Boomers and Gen Xers, with profound implications for the workplace and for their own future children. This interactive program will describe how the Millennials will likely change the way we work and play. Rikleen is president of the Rikleen Institute for Strategic Leadership and Executive-in-Residence at the Boston College Center for Work & Family in the Carroll School of Management. She is the author of Ending the Gauntlet: Removing Barriers to Women’s Success in the Law and is working on a book on the Millennials, which focuses on strengthening inter-generational teams. Lauren is a long time Wayland resident. Both of her children are Wayland High School grads.
NEEDLEWORK/HANDWORK GROUP. This fall our Needlework/Handwork group, facilitated by Ann Moses, will meet on the first Wednesday of each month from 10–11:30 a.m. in the Raytheon Room. It’s a group for people to work on needlework and handwork projects together. Any adult who quilts, embroiders, knits, or does any type of hand work is welcome. The point of the group is to share ideas and resources, as well as chat and socialize. If anyone has questions concerning a type of needlework, we can usually head them in the right direction. This would be a good time to start a new project or get back to one that’s been sitting in your closet for years! For more information, contact Ann Moses annmoses@verizon.net or 508-358-7113. Dates for this year are: Sept. 5, Oct. 3, Nov. 7, Dec. 5, Jan. 2, Feb. 6, Mar. 6, Apr. 3, May 1, and June 5.
Personal Cloud Computing E-vening. What is “cloud computing”? How does it affect you personally? As we discuss the rise of “personal cloud computing,” we’ll explore how online resources you probably already use are part of the cloud. We’ll also show you how to use the library’s Chromebook notebook computers—available soon for library use—to share, browse and get work done in “the cloud.” Wednesday, August 29, 7- 9 p.m. in the library’s Raytheon Room.
