Fall Hours Survey

Please help us plan for next fall’s hours by filling out our survey.  It’s just 10 questions and should take only a few minutes to complete.  Thanks!

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COOKING WITH KATIE

Join Katie for a hands-on cooking class on Wednesday, July 22nd, from 2:00pm to 3:30pm where students will makes fun finger foods, including deviled eggs, pizza wontons, and parmesan pita triangles. And if you’re thirsty, you’ll be making yogurt fruit shakes, too. Program is for 9-14 year olds, and is limited to 15 participants. Call 781-596-8867 to register, beginning on Monday, July 13th.

Swampscott Library Closed Friday July 3rd

The Swampscott Public Library will be closed Friday, July 3rd in observance of the 4th of July Independence Day holiday.

FAMILY NIGHT

You are invited to our annual summer Family Night on Tuesday, July 7th at 6:00pm. This year’s program is “A Pirate’s Life”. Hear some pirate stories, sing sea shanties and join in a pirate parade! Bring a picnic supper and enjoy the show!

SWAMPSCOTT CALLING! LOCAL TEEN BAND CONCERT

SWAMPSCOTT CALLING!!
On Saturday, July 11th, there will be a concert of local teen bands from 3:00pm to 9:00pm. The teen concert, Swampscott Calling!, will be held at Fisherman’s Beach near the Fish House. Be sure and come to hear your favorite local bands. Line up includes Red Rock, Anything Goes, and The Ones on the Left, and many other bands. The concert will be followed by a bonfire on the beach, weather permitting.

CAREGIVERS PROGRAM

On Tuesday, July 14th at 12:00pm, the Swampscott Public Library will present Jerry Schwartz from ALLCARE of Lynn to discuss the role of the caregiver. His talk is entitled “Caring for the Caregiver.” He discusses the amazing work of caring for a loved one. He will lead a discussion for people who are caring for a loved one and who understand what it feels like to be tired, frustrated and sad at times.

AUTHOR JUDITH NIES, FORMER SWAMPSCOTT RESIDENT

The Chorover Author Series of the Swampscott Public Library will present Judith Nies, on Tuesday evening, July 21st at 7:00pm. Ms. Nies is the author of The Girl I Left Behind. Ms. Nies, a former resident of Swampscott, graduated from Swampscott High School. Her first published work was in the Swampscott High School Literary Magazine. A memoir of the sixties, The Girl I Left Behind describes the societal changes of that time. Nies recalls her part in exposing the institutional sexism on Capital Hill with the orchestration of the removal of the separate “Ladies Gallery” on the House floor. She is the author of several books including Nine Women: portraits from the American Radical Tradition. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, the Boston Globe, the Christian Science Monitor, Ms. and the Harvard Review. Free tickets for this event will be available beginning July 6th.

RECYCLING PROGRAM: A WIN/WIN FOR YOU & FOR THE LIBRARY

The Swampscott Public Library will begin collecting used inkjet, laser printer cartridges and cell phones. Each year more than 350 million inkjet and laser cartridges are thrown away. In addition, 35 million cell phones are discarded. The library will collects these items and send them to the Funding Factory, an organization that provides equipment to nonprofit organizations in exchange for recycled materials. For each donation, Swampscott will receive points that can be traded in for printers, monitors, and other technology.

Donating these materials will help keep the earth clean and earn equipment and supplies for the Library. Look for the recycling box in the lobby. Thank you for supporting this green project.

NEW ONLINE RESOURCES: the library comes to you

To help make sure that Swampscott residents have information available at the tip of their fingers we have added some new online resources and renewed our subscriptions to others.

For anyone who needs business information check out ReferenceUSA. It’s the number 1 source of information on businesses and people for researchers, students and job seekers.

People interested in genealogy will want to check out both HeritageQuest and Ancestry.com. Both have images of census records from 1790 to 1930 plus a variety of other primary sources for genealogists. HeritageQuest can be viewed from any internet computer while Ancestry.com can only be viewed from computers within the library.

For the do-it-yourselfers we have subscribed to Chilton’s, a site filled with repair information for automobiles and light trucks.

In addition to these new resources, we have many other online sources such as encyclopedias, local and national newspapers, downloadable audiobooks, and more. Access to some of these sites is limited to only Swampscott residents but other databases are provided by the Board of Library Commissioners and the Northeast Massachusetts Regional Library System and they are open to any resident of northeast Massachusetts.

To see our entire list of online subscriptions go to the page of this website called ‘Catalog and other Resources’ button on the left side of the screen. Please note that you will be asked to enter your library card number when logging in to any of these resources.

Gift in Honor of Pam Heller, Stanley School Teacher

The Friends of the Swampscott Public Library received a donation recently in the name of Pam Heller, a kindergarten teacher at Stanley Elementary School. The class wrote:
We thank you Mrs. Heller for inspiring our love of reading. Our gift in your name will be put to use in the Children’s Room of the Swampscott Public Library in your honor.
With Love,
Your kindergarten students at the Stanley Elementary School