As the Bergen County Cooperative Library System (BCCLS) celebrates its 30th Anniversary, we’d like you to invite you to join in the celebration by becoming Library Champions.
Library Champions are patrons who love their libraries and want to be in the know about issues that may affect them. Library Champions’ email addresses will be entered into a distribution list. When important library issues arise BCCLS will email the Library Champions. The Champions can then take appropriate action such as phone calls, emails to legislators or simply talking up the library.
All you have to do is go to http://www.bccls.org/champions and enter your name and home town and either an email address, and then click on the "Join the Champions" button.
Libraries are facing a myriad of challenges and budgets are tenuous at best. We need people to act as our advocates and stand up for the libraries that have come under increased pressure because of the economic crisis, security concerns in the wake of 9/11, Internet access issues and more. Now more than ever, those who believe most strongly in the importance of our libraries are needed to be advocates for us.
Our goal for the 30th Anniversary is 30 Champions for each BCCLS library.
Wood-Ridge-Memorial Library Announces New Programs and Collections
The Library is replacing a large number of its old videotapes (VHS) with new DVD editions of the same titles to maintain the excellent collection that is available to anyone with a valid library card. All items in the Library are free: books, videotapes, DVDs, audiobooks, music CDs, and computer databases. Come check out what’s new at the Library.
New Weekly Events Calendar for Summer
Wood-Ridge Memorial Library will be starting their new summer weekly programming schedule on July 1st, which will include the 2009 Summer Reading Program, and a new Summer Storytime Series program.
The Library’s Summer Storytime Series will be held on Wednesday evenings at 7pm for children 5-10yrs. old. Each week features stories on a summer theme and a coloring craft as well as an ongoing group project. The summer series covers nine themes in children’s literature as follows: July 1st-Cats, July 8th -Dogs, July 15th -Oceans and Beaches, July 22nd Food, July 29th -Pirates and Ninjas, Aug. 5th -Lost and Found, Aug. 12th Doctors and Nurses, Aug. 19th Friends, Aug. 26th Libraries. Please register for the Summer Storytime Series by June 26st by contacting Christina Park at
christina.park@bccls.org.
Playtime for Young Children ages 6mo.-4yrs will continue weekly sessions on Tuesdays and Fridays. Both sessions are currently full, but interested parents can contact Christina Park at
christina.park@bccls.org to be notified when a spot becomes available.
The Summer Reading Program begins Saturday, June 27th, with two kickoff parties, and continues through Saturday, August 22nd. On Saturday, June 27th, the Library will have their kickoff party for children 5-10 years old at 12pm, where children can register for the program and enter the Read-a-thon Contest. Then, at 1:30pm, the summer reading program for children 3-5 years old will begin with a party featuring a special storytime and a fun project along with program registration. For more information about the Summer Reading Program or the Read-a-thon Contest, contact Christina Park at
christina.park@bccls.org.
This is the new weekly programming schedule for July 1st-August 29th:
Tuesday:
Playtime for Young Children: 11:00am 12:15pm
Summer Reading Program Hours: 1:30pm-5:30pm
Wednesday:
Summer Storytime Series: 7-8pm.
Summer Reading Program Hours: 2pm-5:30pm
Thursday:
Summer Reading Program Scoring: 1:30 pm-5:30pm
Friday:
Playtime for Young Children: 11:00am 12:15pm
Summer Reading Program Hours: 1:30 pm-4:30pm
Saturday:
Summer Reading Program Hours: 10:30-12:30pm, and 1:30-2:30pm
Book Discussion Group
We will be taking a break over the summer to read an engaging book that is popular, so we will not be meeting in July and August.
The book to be discussed on Tuesday, September 15, 2009 is Ken Follett’s World Without End (2007). (continue)
SAVE THE DATES: Two BCCLS Events Coming Up BCCLS, the Bergen County Cooperative Library System and the Paramus Public Library invite you to a celebration of books and writers.
Join us rain or shine on
Sunday, June 14th
1pm - 5pm
(oldies concert with The Retros to follow)
@ Paramus Public Library
116 East Century Road
Paramus, NJ 07652
Meet the authors!
Panel discussions, readings, poetry slam, crafts & storytelling
Book sales and signings
Fiction and Non-Fiction, Adult, Children's
and Young Adult Authors, Illustrators and Poets.
More than 70 authors participating!
SELECTED SHORTS is crossing the Hudson for its fourth return Engagement to BCCLS!
BCCLS is thrilled to be partnering with the
Millburn Public Library once again
to host Selected Shorts.
Wednesday June 24
7:30pm
Millburn Public Library
This year's program, Food Fictions, will feature stories by Roald Dahl, Dorothy Parker, and T.C. Boyle read by Michael Tucker, Jill Eikenberry, and Isaiah Sheffer. What a lineup!
**Sign-up online at www.bccls.org or call Arlene at 201-489-1904**
Selected Shorts is an award-winning program featuring readings of classic and new short fiction, recorded live at New York's Symphony Space. One of the most popular series on the airwaves, this unique show is hosted by Isaiah Sheffer and produced for radio by Symphony Space and NYC radio. Click here to view flier.
Swine Flu Information
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The Friends of the Library Need Your Help
IF YOU WANT TO SUPPORT THE LIBRARY, PLEASE CONSIDER HELPING THE FRIENDS SUPPORT THE LIBRARY. WE NEED CREATIVE AND ENERGETIC PEOPLE! PLEASE COME TO THIS MEETING AND FIND OUT WHAT GOOD THINGS THE FRIENDS ARE DOING.
THE FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY SPONSORING THE SALE OF
LIBRARY OF AMERICA
DUPLICATE VOLUMES FOR SALE
BRAND NEW
$20 EACH
(NEARLY A 50% DISCOUNT ON RETAIL PRICE)
THEY MAKE A PERFECT HOLIDAY OR BIRTHDAY GIFT
These books are available at Wood-Ridge Memorial Library in an ongoing basis. Proceeds go to the Friends of the Library.
Please inquire at the Library (201) 438-2455 and see the list of titles here.
New Word Processing Computers
The Library has three new word-processing computers, each fitted with a Wireless card allowing for Internet access. Each has its own printer. These replace the older ones that the Library made available to the public.
This will allow patrons to use the Internet and Microsoft Office (Word and Excel Spreadsheet) simultaneously, something the Library has not been able to offer before.
Friends of Wood-Ridge Memorial Library Selling Library Note Cards
Years ago as a fundraiser the Friends of Wood-Ridge Memorial Library had note cards designed that depicted the historic Library. They were very popular, and there has been a recent surge of interest in the history of the Library building.
The Friends now have for sale newly designed note cards with an updated picture of the Library. The Library is selling these cards on behalf of the Friends at the Front Desk of the Library. Each pack is only $5 with five cards and envelopes to a pack.
Please come and support the Friends in their work that benefits the programs and collections at the Library and impress your family and friends with your good taste in stationery.
Wood-Ridge Memorial Library Offers a Laptop Computer for Use to the Public
Wood-Ridge Memorial Library is pleased to report that it is making available to Library patrons a laptop computer to use in the Library, which is a Wireless Hotspot. The Friends of the Library generously donated the money for the acquisition of the laptop computer, which comes fully equipped with a wireless card and word-processing software.
Patrons may request to use the laptop computer in-house (non-circulating only) by presenting valid ID at the front desk of the Library. Once again the Friends of the Library demonstrate their on-going commitment to and support of the Library and the public, which it serves.
Soft Skull Press At Wood-Ridge Memorial Library
Soft Skull Press is an independent book publisher founded in Brooklyn, N. Y. by controversial figure Sander Hicks in 1992.
Originally serving as a guerilla publishing effort featuring books that represent the future of public intellectual and literary discourse, Soft Skull Press since 2007 has been a subsidiary of Counterpoint LLC, where it continues to publish an array of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry.
In 2001 Richard Nash became the publisher of Soft Skull Press and has since provided stability while continuing the mission of producing and promoting provocative titles in a number of genres.
In June 2007 Wood-Ridge Memorial Library Director John J. Trause met publisher Richard Nash at the book party for David Silverman’s Typo : The Last American Typesetter, published by Soft Skull Press, and the latter donated to Wood-Ridge Memorial Library a number of titles to compliment the few that were already in the Library’s collection.
Featured in the Library’s Display Case of the Friends Reading Room are some of these books. More are available in the Bergen County Cooperative Library System (BCCLS) Catalog.
For further information about Soft Skull Press you may check out these websites: Soft Skull Press’s Official Website : www.softskull.com
The Wood-Ridge Memorial Library provides free wireless Internet access. Simply bring your laptop to connect to the Library's wireless network.
The SSID (Network Name) is: Lynsys All wireless access users should have up-to-date virus protection on their laptop computers or wireless devices.
Wood-Ridge Memorial Library Offers a Laptop Computer for Use to the Public
Wood-Ridge Memorial Library is pleased to report that it is making available to Library patrons a laptop computer to use in the Library, which is a Wireless Hotspot. The Friends of the Library generously donated the money for the acquisition of the laptop computer, which comes fully equipped with a wireless card and word-processing software.
Patrons may request to use the laptop computer in-house (non-circulating only) by presenting valid ID at the front desk of the Library. Once again the Friends of the Library demonstrate their on-going commitment to and support of the Library and the public, which it serves.
New Word Processing Computers
The Library has three new word-processing computers, each fitted with a Wireless card allowing for Internet access. Each has its own printer. These replace the older ones that the Library made available to the public.
This will allow patrons to use the Internet and Microsoft Office (Word and Excel Spreadsheet) simultaneously, something the Library has not been able to offer before.
The Availability of the Aladdin Personal Reader
Wood-Ridge Memorial Library has an Aladdin Personal Reader (magnifying machine) to serve our visually impaired patrons. The Wood-Ridge Lions Club made a donation to the Library of the Aladdin Personal Reader for those members of the public who might need such a device to help them read books, important personal documents, or anything else that they would have trouble reading.
The Lions also donated a wheeled table on which the Aladdin Personal Reader sits. The Reader is installed in the archway of the Old Building at the end of the Reference section for easy access.
