Ballston Reader
What's Happening at the Town of Ballston Community Library
Friday, June 29th, 2018
Summer Reading!
Sign In Page
https://toblibrary.beanstack.org/users/sign_in
Sign up for Summer Reading Youth Programs started June 18th, and
logging minutes starts today, June 22nd!
Click the link below if you have no registered for Summer Reading yet!
Week 2
Come to the Library and hear a short presentation about an educational kid-related topic, and then have some time to chat with other adults while your kids play. For ages 6 months-2 years. Siblings welcome. July's speaker will be from The Wonder Room!
How Do Babies/ Toddlers Learn Through Play
Do you wonder how to support your baby’s development? Play is how your baby learns. Join us for this workshop and get some questions answered, and lots of ideas for supporting your child’s natural curiosity about the world.
*Registration Requested - Monday, July 2nd - 10:00am - 12:00pm
Essential Oils 101
Adult Program
*Registration - Monday, July 2nd - 7:00pm
Baby Bookworms is starting another session! - *Registration
Tuesdays or Fridays at 9:30am
Music Medley will continue through the summer! Drop-in.
Tuesdays at 10:30am
Family Movie Night - Drop-in.
Frozen Sing-a-Long
Tuesday, July 3rd at 1:30pm
The Library will be CLOSED on Wednesday, July 4th!
Read to Leela - Drop-in
Thursday, June 28th at 10:00am
Frozen Rock Troll Party
Thursday, July 5th - 10:30am
*Registration - (Join the Waiting List)
Storytime in the Park at Jenkins Park - Drop-in (Weather dependent)
Thursday, July 5th at 4:00pm
Sound Mind and Body Book Club
Thursday, July 5th - 7:00pm
Family Story Time - Drop-in
Friday, July 6th at 10:30am
The Library offers summer programs and events for all ages. Program Registration for weeks 1—3 (June 22-July 14) began June 18, registration for weeks 4-6 (July 16—August 3) will begin on July 9. Sign up can be done online through the Library’s website or by calling the Library at 518-399-8174.
All are free and open to the public but due to age or space restrictions some will require registration. All participants must enroll in the Summer Reading Program but may attend as many programs as they wish. Please call if you cannot attend a program you registered for. If you are a no call/no show for a registration program you will not be able to register for upcoming summer programs.
Life Size Game Night
Play life-size versions of some of your favorite games. Including Trouble, Jenga, Circular Reasoning, Tsuro and Kerplunk. *Registration required, for students entering grades 6-12 Please bring a snack to share.
Yoga with Judy Rightmyer
Two different sessions will be offered!
Wednesday, July 11th & July 18th @ 7:00PM
AND/OR
Monday, August 6th, 13th, & 20th @ 7:00PM
Drop-In Technology/ Computer Help
Sarah from Rensselaer County Cornell Cooperative Extension will help you with all of your technology questions! Bring your own device, or use ours.
Drop in, no registration.
Wednesday, July 9th from 1:00 - 3:00pm
Mom's Meet Up @ the Library
July's meeting will include a presentation from The Wonder Room about Learning through Play!
Monday Mornings -
July 2nd @ 10:00am
August 6th @ 10:00am
Check Out These Books!
The Secrets Between Us by Thrity Umrigar
"Thrity Umrigar’s eighth novel follows the main character of her bestselling The Space Between Us (2006), the servant Bhima, over the course of a year. The life of Parvati, a minor character in that earlier novel, becomes intricately entwined with Bhima’s in this sequel.
Parvati has the sadder background of the two: Sold into prostitution as a young girl by her desperately poor father, she spent two decades in a brothel before one of her regulars asks her to marry him. She trades one horrific life for another, as she is regularly abused by him and is left penniless when he dies. Now Parvati exists by selling six cauliflowers a day from her spot at an outdoor market; she sleeps under the stairwell outside her nephew’s apartment and eats leftovers from a nearby restaurant." - Excerpt from Book Page Book Review article
All We Ever Wanted by Emily Giffin
"Nina Browning’s days are filled with the typical activities of Nashville’s wealthiest residents: “Meetings and parties and beauty appointments and workouts and tennis games and lunches, and, yes, even some very worthwhile charity work.” She has lavish homes and designer clothes, and her husband, Kirk, is a tech titan—albeit one with a fondness for bourbon and long business trips.
The Brownings have it all, and the best part is that their only child, Finch, has just been accepted to Princeton (sure, a check to the university endowment may have greased the wheels). But their elite world comes crashing down when Finch is accused of texting his buddies a partially nude photo of a passed-out girl at a party, along with a racist comment. Finch is at the mercy of his private school’s disciplinary committee, and his Ivy League future is in jeopardy." - Excerpt from Book Page Book Review article
What Truth Sounds like by Michael Eric Dyson
"A social and political analyst reflects on racial tensions in contemporary America.
In 1963, Robert Kennedy asked James Baldwin to organize a small, private gathering of prominent African-Americans in order to hear their views on combating segregation and discrimination. Dyson (Sociology/Georgetown Univ.; Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America, 2017, etc.) uses that meeting as a jumping-off point for an incisive look at the roles of politicians, artists, intellectuals, and activists in confronting racial injustice and effecting change." - Excerpt from Kirkus Review article
Board of Trustees Monthly Board Meeting
Wednesday, July 25th at 7:00pm
Community Display Spaces
Calling all artists & collectors!
Town of Ballston Community Library
Email: web.toblibrary@gmail.com
Website: toblibrary.sals.edu
Location: 2 Lawmar Lane, Burnt Hills, NY, United States
Phone: 5183998174
Facebook: facebook.com/toblibrary