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February 4, 2013

Evans Branch Yarn Club – March Project

The Pauline Evans Branch Yarn Club will be collecting handmade blankets to donate to the at Rochester General Hospital.  “The Child Life Program at Rochester General Hospital seeks to make the hospital experience a positive one for our pediatric patients.” (from Child Life Program website) Guidelines for Blankets: Suggested size of approximately 3 x 4 […]

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February 4, 2013

Learn to Search the Internet Like a Pro

Would you like to learn the power-searching techniques librarians know?  Make Google sit up and beg?  Extract information from the invisible web where Google doesn’t go?  Attend this workshop, get more reliable search results, and move to the top of the Internet food chain.  Join us Monday, February 25, 2013 from 7:00 p.m. – 8:00 […]

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February 1, 2013

New Teen Books – Week of Jan 28th

, Kim Harrington New student Jade uncovers a murder mystery when she moves into a house haunted by the ghost of a beautiful, mean girl who ruled Jade’s high school. New Avengers, Volume 3, Brian Michael Bendis Norman Osborn escapes to create a force drawn from a variety of evil sources, including new Dark Avengers, […]

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January 29, 2013

Classic Book Discussion – January & February Selection

Come on in to either branch  and pick up a copy of  Bleak House by Charles Dickens and join us on Thursday, January 31 at 3:00 p.m. to discuss the first half of this classic.  We will be discussing the second half on Thursday, February 28,  also at 3:00 p.m.

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January 29, 2013

Alzheimer’s Series at Evans Branch

The Rochester & Finger Lakes Chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association’s Neighbor Next Door program will be presenting an Alzheimer’s Series at the Pauline Evans branch, 45  Cooper Road on the first Tuesday of each month starting at 7:00 p.m. February 5    –    Meaningful Activities March 5          –     Legal/Financial Issues April 2          […]

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January 28, 2013

2013 ALA Youth Media Award Winners

Today is one of the most exciting days of the year for children’s & teen librarians and anyone else who loves literature for young people! At the Midwinter conference in Seattle, ALA (American Library Association) announced the top books for children and teens, including the winners of the Newbery, Caldecott, and Printz medals. Newbery winner […]

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January 24, 2013

New Adult Books for January 2013

Here are some of the new titles we’ve ordered: FICTION Arsenic and Old Puzzles Parnell Hall When two deaths are tied to elderberry wine poisonings, the Puzzle Lady investigates suspicions that a killer is imitating the famous Cary Grant movie Arsenic and Old Lace and finds a host of illogical clues in a case that […]

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January 22, 2013

New Large Print Titles–January 2013

The titles below are available on the New Large Print shelves at the Irondequoit Public Library. Visit us to check them out!

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January 14, 2013

First Public Meeting About New Library Proposal

The first public meeting with information about the proposed new library is this Thursday, January 17 at 7 PM at Bishop Kearney High School Auditorium.  There will be a brief presentation about the new library and then the Library Board will take questions.   Park behind the school and enter at the “events entrance”. If […]

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January 7, 2013

Winter 2013 Storytime Rhymes and Songs – Evans Branch

Practicing storytime rhymes and songs at home is a good way to build a foundation for literacy.  Here are the rhymes and songs we are using at the Evans Branch for the Winter 2013 session: Blissful Babies      

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