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The entire family can stop by the library on Monday evening, December 21st at 6:00pm and join in the celebration of the shortest day of the year. There will be a showing of the movie The Polar Express, a craft project, hot chocolate and cider and cookies. Admission is free, but tickets are required for this event. Tickets will be available at the Reference Desk beginning Wednesday, December 9th.
Thanksgiving: Library will close at 5:00pm on Wednesday, November 25th and remained closed on Thursday, November 26th.
Christmas: The Library will be open Thursday, December 24th from 10:00am -1:00pm and remain closed, Friday December 25th & Sat., December 26th.
New Year’s: Library will be open Thursday, December 31st from 10:00am-1:00pm and remain closed on Friday, January 1st and Saturday, January 2nd.
We are shifting our membership year from a calendar year to October 1st through September 30th. We ask that you consider renewing your membership as soon as possible. If you did not receive a membership envelope in the mail, please pick one up on your next visit to the library. All memberships created or renewed prior to September 1, 2009 will be honored for the remainder of this calendar year. Anyone who has joined or renewed their membership after September 1, 2009 will have an active membership through September 30, 2010. We greatly appreciate your understanding and support as we make this transition.
Join the Needlers a knitting group at the Swampscott Public Library. This group meets on the second and fourth Wednesday of every month at 10:30a.m. The November meeting will be Wednesday, November 25th. Crocheters are welcome to join our group. We make our own projects or items to be donated to charity. Members can be beginners or experts.
The local history group led by Lou Gallo will meeting on the first Friday of every month. The November meeting will be Friday, November 6th at 10:00am. Anyone interested in the history of the town is welcome to attend.
The Dinner Detectives, the library’s mystery book group, will meet at 6:00pm on Tuesday, November 3rd to discuss Kidnapping and Mysteries. New members are always welcome.
The November book will be Skeletons at the Feast: a novel by Chris Bohjalian. The group will meet on Tuesday, November 17th at 7:00pm.
– NEW GROUP!
The Swampscott Public Library is presenting a series of free movies, followed by a discussion of the film. Everyone is invited to attend and bring along a friend. Refreshments will be served during the presentation. The first meeting will be Monday, November 9th at 1:00pm, and the film will be Secret Life of Bees.
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.
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 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 click on the ‘Catalog and other Resources’ button on the top 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.
The Friends of the Swampscott Public Library have purchased a new museum pass for the library. It is for the Harvard Museum of Natural History. The pass admits 4 people, with a $2.00 charge per person at the door. Under 3 years of age admitted for free.
For more information, see the museum website:
Harvard Museum of Natural History
Free digital audiobooks! OverDrive is a new service that lets you download audiobooks to your PC or transfer to a WMA compatible MP3 player.
If you like listening to audiobooks, take a look at this new library service! You can browse through a collection of audiobooks including fiction and nonfiction for adults, teens and children, check them out with your library card, and download them for two weeks. After you download the audiobook, you can listen to it on your PC, or transfer it to an MP3 player. Some titles can also be burned to a CD.
NOBLE residents just have to:
Download Audiobooks–Browse or search our collection, download the special software you need, check out some books, and enjoy listening!
This service is for residents of the NOBLE community of libraries. If you are a non-resident with a NOBLE card, you can still get access to OverDrive by using the Boston Public Library:
Boston Public Library’s OverDrive collection:
BPL OverDrive
Link to sign up for an e-card online:
(All Massachusetts residents are eligible)
BPL e-cards
Looking for a great book to read? Check out NextReads, our monthly e-mail newsletter service which will send you great book suggestions by email. For details click on the NextReads picture or click on Readers Advisory link on the top left of this page.
With the great interest in our Chorover Author Series, we would like to start an e-mail list to inform interested library customers. Anyone who would like to be automatically informed about upcoming author appearances, please send an e-mail to swa@noblenet.org
We would like to have a representative from all local book groups sign up so that they can forward the e-mail to their members. Thank you for making our author appearances so successful.