HOLIDAY OPEN HOUSE. On Sunday, December 9, the Friends of the Library will provide refreshments in the library as part of the town center holiday celebrations. Children ages 4 and up are invited to drop in tomake holiday crafts with Children's Librarian Elise Katz from 2:30-4:30 p.m. that afternoon in the library's Raytheon Room.
HOLIDAY HOURS. The library will close at noon on December 24 and will be closed on December 25. We will close at 3 p.m. on December 31 and will be closed on January 1.
GINGERBREAD HOUSE. On Wednesday, December 19, at 3 p.m. kids ages 5 and up are invited to the Raytheon Room to decorate a gingerbread house and gingerbread men. Call 508-358-2308 to register
EMPLOYMENT WORKSHOPS WITH GARY GEKOW
Our last two employment workshops with Gary Gekow have been scheduled. There will be a workshop on “Interviewing” on December 11 and one on “Salary and Benefits Negotiation” on December 18. Both workshops are in the library’s Raytheon Room.
CHILDREN’S POETRY WORKSHOPS
Our next monthly poetry workshops for children ages eight and up will be on Wednesday, December 12, from 7-8 p.m. Children will listen to, read, and write poetry. Led by Children’s Librarian Pam McCuen.
ARTS/WAYLAND WINTER EXHIBIT
Members of Arts/Wayland will hold their annual Winter Exhibit in December and January in the Raytheon Room. Images in various media, including photography, will be displayed. There will be an artist reception, open to the public, on the afternoon of December 16.
FOYER EXHIBIT
Suzanne McMahon discovered her love of photography in high school where she learned to develop her own black & white and color prints. After attending Tufts University and Boston College, she began taking her hobby more seriously. Suzanne is now a part-time freelance photographer and shoots concert photos for the music website Twangville.com. She also enjoys taking photos on Martha’s Vineyard and Cape Cod. She has won a Boston Globe photo contest and been published in Washingtonian Magazine and the Takoma Park Gazette in Maryland. By day, Suzanne is a social worker/school adjustment counselor.
NEEDLEWORK/HANDWORK GROUP
Our Needlework/Handwork group meets on the first Wednesday of each month from 10-11:30a.m. in the Raytheon Room. It’s a group for people to work on needlework and handwork projects together. For more information, contact Ann Moses at annmoses@verizon.net or 508- 358-7113. Dates for the rest of this year are: Jan. 2, Feb. 6, Mar. 6, Apr. 3, May 1, and June 5.
PERSONAL CLOUD COMPUTING
Wayland librarian Matt Amory will give a program on Wednesday, December 19, from 7-9 p.m. talking about personal computing “in the cloud.” Matt will also introduce the library’s new Chromebooks, which can be checked out by the public for use in the library building.
BOOK GROUP
Our Noontime Book Group will meet on Friday, December 14, at noon and will be discussing The Road by Cormac McCarthy. The noontime group is facilitated by Sandy Raymond. New members are welcome at these groups, and the book lists can be found in the “Readers’s Corner” section of our website. For more information, call the library at 508-358-2311.
PARENT/CHILD BOOK GROUP
Our new parent-child library book group will have its third meeting on Monday, December 17, 2012, (7-8 p.m.). It’s a group for children in 4th and 5th grade, with a parent, discusses a different book each month. Each month, the group decides together what next month's book will be. The book we’ll be talking about this month is Popular Clone by M.E. Castle. Led by Children's Librarian Pam McCuen. For more information, call Pam at 508-358-2308.
