Clapp Memorial Library

Friends of the Library WINE TASTING
2017-02-04 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Clapp Memorial Library, 19 South Main Street, Belchertown, MA, 01007, United States
Adults 21 and over are invited to join us for the fourth annual free Wine Tasting to celebrate Love Your Library month. Live music, tasty treats, and a free raffle, all sponsored by the Friends of the Library. Come join the fun!

Cookbook Club
2017-02-06 19:00 - 20:30
Registration is required for this program. Please contact the Library for more information.
The Cookbook Club meets approximately every 6 weeks. All members prepare a recipe from the same cookbook and share the results at a meeting, along with discussion about the cookbook. It’s fun and delicious!

Closed
2017-02-09
The library is closed today. Fines will not be assessed on items due today. Stay safe!

Teen Book Club
2017-02-09 18:30 - 19:30
Pick up a copy of Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld at the Library. Then come talk about it. For grades 8-12.

TAB Night
2017-02-14 18:30 - 19:30
Teens grades 7-12 are invited to join the Teen Advisory Board for this monthly meeting and evening of fun.

Evergreen Database Maintence
2017-02-20 06:00 - 17:00
Evergreen database maintence is planned for Monday, February 20th (President’s Day). Evergreen will be down while we upgrade Postgres and the operating system on the database servers. This process will start early in the morning and we expect to be back online by mid-afternoon. All Evergreen services will unavailable while we upgrade the database. This includes the client, OPAC (our on-line card catalog), and authentication via SIP (OverDrive, Commonwealth Catalog, etc.) During this time, we will be unable to place holds, renew items, or download e-Books/e-Audios.

Story time with MacDuffie’s Teen Authors
2017-02-22 09:00 - 10:30
Meet students from the 11th grade at The MacDuffie School, a day and international college preparatory school in Granby, as they read illustrated children’s books they wrote. Each book is inspired by a historical figure/writer they studied in class, designed for ages 4-9, and about modern-day issues.
From 9:00 am to 9:30 am: Cocoa, The Panda, written by Checie Li, Kaylen Mahdi and Celine Wang. Inspired by the American naturalist and poet Henry David Thoreau. The story talks about the panda as an endangered species in Asia.
From 9:30-10:00 am: You and I, We, written by Jade Hong and Amy Hwang. Inspired by Frederick Douglass, the former slave who became an abolitionist, journalist, and civil rights activist. The story is about bullying; how children can learn to recognize it and be allies against it.
From 10:00am to 10:30m: Parity, written by Aniis Anderson and Jane Lyu. Inspired by Harriet Jacobs, the former slave who escaped bondage and wrote her own autobiography about her struggle for freedom and citizenship. The story is about gender inequality and how girls can empower themselves to be respected and treated fairly.
Registration suggested. Please use side entrance and come downstairs to the Children’s Activities Room.

Lego Day
2017-02-23 10:00 - 11:30
Children ages 6 and up are invited to spend the morning creating with Lego. We will be doing our zip line challenge! We provide the bricks, you provide the imagination. Registration is required.
All Lego pieces will stay at the Library but you can take a picture of your creation.

Hot Diggity Dog: Hot Stories for a Cold Winters Night!
2017-02-23 18:30 - 20:15
Come by at 6:30 pm to visit with Frosty the Snowman and check out some cool books! At 7:00 pm, sit back, put your feet up, take off your coat and join Storyteller Rona Leventhal for a journey around the world and back with her back pocket full of multi-cultural stories! Rona Leventhal is one person, but many voices! Through her, skies talk, turtle sing and magic happens! She’ll have you dancing, swaying in your seats, making funny noises, singing and laughing as she shares stories from the silly to the serious, from the mysterious to the monstrous! So pull up a chair, kick back, have a listen…… and join her for a journey in your mind’s eye! No registration is required for this free family event. Unplug for the night and enjoy time together. Please check our webpage or Facebook if the weather is questionable.
This program is funded by the Friends of Clapp Memorial Library.

3-D & Robotics Makerspace Event
2017-02-26 15:00 - 17:00
Children ages 10 to 17 are invited to check out some cool new technology at the Clapp Memorial Library! Registration is required. See, learn and use some of the coolest new tech out there, such as a 3D Printer, 3D Design software, 3D Scanning, 3Doodler, Ozobots, Little Bits Electronics and Sphero. Participants will learn how to create 3D objects and print them out. Everyone gets a 3D print but there will not be time to print them all during the workshop so you can return to the library at a later date to pick yours up. There will also be Virtual Reality demonstrations. Participants can bring their own laptops or use the ones provided. Ages 10 to 17 ~ Registration is required.
This program is supported in part by a grant from the   Belchertown Cultural Council, a local agency supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.

Teen Trivia and Movie Night
2017-03-03 07:00 - 22:00
More trivia fun happens from 7 pm to 8 pm. Watch Marvel’s “Doctor Strange” at 8. Sign up for either event or both. For grades 7-12.

Four Seasons of the Quabbin
2017-03-22 19:00 - 20:00
Area wildlife photographer, Dale Monette, shares his stories and photographs of the animals of Quabbin as they go about their daily routines throughout the four seasons.
Monette has documented the thousands of hours he has spent on the Quabbin Reservoir watershed. From eagles and loons to otters, bear, moose and more, it’s all been captured on camera.
Since 1975, Monette has lived within two miles of the Quabbin. He retired from the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreations’s Quabbin Visitor Center in 2014, where in the 1980’s he took part in establishing loons and eagles as nesting species there.

Author Talk and Reading: Ed Orzechowski author of "You'll Like it Here"
2017-03-29 19:00 - 20:00
Ed Orzechowski will discuss and read from his new book “You’ll Like it Here: Donald Vitkus– Belchertown Patient #3394”.
Donald Vitkus was given up for adoption at 27 days old. After bouncing between foster homes, he was sent to the Belchertown State School at age 6. Labeled a “moron”, he was not allowed to leave school grounds. At age 17, he moved to a Catholic orphanage in Springfield, eventually joined the army, married and had children. This book is the story of his life. On March 29, Orzechowski will read from the book and will discuss how he came to write it, working closely with Mr. Vitkus.

POSTPONED: BANISH MISFORTUNE HAS BEEN RE-SCHEDULED FOR APRIL 7.
2017-03-31
Please join us for a concert of Irish music on April 7 at 7pm. This Program was originally scheduled for March 31.

Library closing 4pm
2017-03-31 08:00 - 17:00
Please call the Library tomorrow, April 1 to check on open status. No joke!

Teen Write Nights
2017-04-06 16:00 - 18:00
Callin all poets, novelists, daydreamers and storytellers! Join Ruth Ann Sterling Thursday nights in April for Teen Write Nights from 4pm to 6pm. Students in grades 7-12 are welcome. No experience necessary. Please register at the circulation desk or by calling 413-323-0417. Contact rsterling@umass.edu for more information.

Mosaic Unveiling and Reception
2017-04-06 17:30 - 18:30
The talented Belchertown High School students in Lori St. Pierre’s art class have created a group mosaic that will hang in the Clapp Memorial Library, guided by mosaic artist Christine Kenneally. Come see the completed piece, installed in its Library home and meet the student artists. Refreshments will be served.

Friends of Library Book Sale
2017-04-07 10:00 - 20:00
Over 50,000 items! Senior Citizen discount day.

Banish Misfortune
2017-04-07 19:00 - 21:00
Everyone’s favorite Irish band returns! Banish Misfortune is a six-member group that plays traditional music from Ireland with instrumentation including fiddle, concertina, mandolin, accordion, flute, and guitar. Tap your foot to rousing sets of jigs, reels, hornpipes, waltzes, polkas and airs. All members hail from western Massachusetts, some having played together for decades.

Friends of Library Book Sale
2017-04-08 09:00 - 15:00
9:00-3:00. Most items 50% off!

Teen Write Nights
2017-04-13 16:00 - 18:00, 2017-04-20 16:00 - 18:00, 2017-04-27 16:00 - 18:00
Calling all poets, novelists, daydreamers and storytellers! Join Ruth Ann Sterling Thursday nights in April for Teen Write Nights from 4pm to 6pm. Students in grades 7-12 are welcome. No experience necessary. Please register at the circulation desk or by calling 413-323-0417. Contact rsterling@umass.edu for more information.

Songwriting Workshop
2017-06-03 10:00 - 12:00
Still a couple of spots left for teens and tweens ages 12-18 who would like to write and record a song for the Library.
Writer, teacher, and musician Dave Maloof will work with the group to write words and music on the theme “Build a Better World”. The workshop takes place at the Library on Saturday, June 3 from 10am to 12pm. Please call 323-0417 to register. Due to limited space, priority is given to Belchertown residents.

Music for Young Ones with Miss Julie and Pops Hooten
2017-06-07 09:30 - 10:30, 2017-06-14 09:30 - 10:30, 2017-06-21 09:30 - 10:30
This lively music series for infants and children up to age 5 runs Wednesday mornings at 9:30 am from June 7 through July 5. Please call the Library to register.

Movie Night: Beauty and the Beast
2017-06-09 20:00 - 21:30
Screening of the new film starring Emma Watson. Please call the Library to register. Children under age 10 must be accompanied by an adult.

Book Drive--Drive Through Book Drop Off event
2017-06-24 10:00 - 13:00
Got books? Donating books to the Friends of the Library will be super easy on June 24 from 10am to 1pm. Load up your car and drive to the Library where members of the Friends will unload the items. No need to get out of the car! Dvd’s also accepted but no VHS tapes. Drop off takes place in the Town Hall parking lot.

Summer Reading Kick-off--Build a Better World
2017-06-26 09:00 - 13:00
From 9am to 10 am, David Hyde Costello presents “Simple Machines”. He’ll explain the four simple machines and show how he uses them in his puppetry. No registration required. All ages.
10am – 11 am Ages 8-12 can register for “Build Your Own Simple Machine”. David Hyde Costello leads participants as they solve a challenge by making their own simple machine from recycled materials. Call the circulation desk to register.
10am -1pm Activities and crafts on the lawn. For infants through age 12 who are registerd for the Summer Reading Program.
