The Wayland Library has sponsored an ESOL Program for 19 years that has trained over 200 tutors. We have a waiting list of learners who need help, but currently lack a corresponding number of volunteers willing to tutor them a couple of hours a week. Training classes for new tutors have been scheduled at the library on five Wednesday evenings starting October 19, 6-9 p.m. and continue on the following evenings: October 26, November 2, 9 and 16. No teaching experience or foreign language ability is required in order to be a tutor. We will train you, painlessly, even enjoyably, to offer this service to someone who really needs help. You will work one-on-one with adults who desire to improve their abilities in spoken and written English. For more information, please call Ginny Steel at 508-358-7517.                                

 

Tuesday morning storytime for ages 0-5 have started up again at 10:30 a.m. Storytime introduces young children to books and reading with engaging stories, songs and activities.  Our interactive storytimes encourage learning, socialization and fun. Registration is not required. We ask that parents and care givers participate in the storytime activities with their child or children. For more information, contact the Youth Services Department at 508-358-2308.

 

Model Home by Eric Puchner is the first selection of this year’s evening book group. Booklist called it an “exceptionally well plotted, caustically funny, and bracingly compassionate novel of family lunacy and love.” Our first meeting will be Monday, October 17, at 7:00 p.m. Copies are available through the library. For information about our evening group, contact Andy Moore at 508-358-2311.

 

On Tuesday, October 25, from 7-9 p.m., two top college admissions professionals, Susan Simon and Michael Kalafatas, now of Admissions Advantage in Weston Center, will lead an information session on how to write a winning college essay. Both are Wayland residents. They are the authors of the recently released and acclaimed book, My Dog’s Name is Einstein and Other College Essays Written from the Hearts of Boys and Girls. Collectively, the two authors have more than 50 years of experience in selective college admissions.

 

The UFund Start U Reading Series is bringing Clifford the Big Red Dog to the Wayland Library on Tuesday, October 11, at 10:30 a.m.  Children will participate in a story time, acting out books with their favorite big red dog. Parents are invited to bring their cameras for photos of their children with Clifford. The UFund Start U Reading Series was created seven years ago to emphasize reading as a fun and recreational activity, using literacy and laughter as the main components. Instructors help children act out books to develop their imaginations by actually participating in the story the book tells. 

 

 

For kids ages 12-18 interested in working with all the libraries in town, including the public library and those at the middle school and high school. Tell us what kinds of things you want your libraries to have…what kinds of activities you would like to come to…what you think the libraries should look like. We want to hear from you!  Some activity ideas include cooking, movies, art projects, and ukulele workshops. We’ll meet monthly from October to May.  Come to the first meeting to find out more on Tuesday, October 18, from 2:30–3:30 p.m. at the Wayland Middle School library. We’ll have refreshments and books to give away.

 

Our second Great Presenters program on Tuesday, November 1, at 7:30 p.m., will discuss investigations underway about why so many people in our area, particularly in Wellesley, Weston, and Newton, are being diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. Program presenters include Ann Marie Kreft, M.Ed., the mother of a child diagnosed with type 1 diabetes while living in Weston and co-producer of a documentary film, “Sugar Babies: The Epidemic of Diabetes in America's Youth”; Lori Laffel, M.D., M.P.H., Chief of the Pediatric, Adolescent and Young Adult Section at Joslin Clinic, Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, and an investigator in the Section on Genetics and Epidemiology at Joslin Diabetes Center; and Suzanne Condon, M.S.M., Associate Commissioner and Director of the Bureau of Environmental Health at the Massachusetts Department of Public Health.

 

The Friends of the Library will hold their semiannual book and bake sale on the first weekend of November: Saturday, November 5, from 10-4 and Sunday, November 6, from noon to 4. The sale will be held in the Town Building Large Hearing Room. Book donations will be accepted until Wednesday, November 3.   Baked contributions welcome any time during the sale. There will be a preview for members of the Friends of the Wayland Library on Friday evening, November 4, from 6-8 p.m. The Friends book sales support the library’s museum pass program as well as many other popular library programs.