ADULT SERVICES
- Explore Cookbooks on Libby. Are you missing the library’s great selection of cookbooks? Daily recipes getting boring when you can’t dine out? Fear not! The library’s Libby ebook app offers a fantastic variety of digital cookbooks available to you at the push of a key (or tap of a touch screen) under its “Cooking & Food” category.
- ESOL Goes Online. If you want to improve your English, or know someone who does, you can meet with a tutor online or by phone until it’s no longer necessary to be socially distant. At waylandlibrary.org, click on Services, then Programs & Classes, then ESOL. You’ll find a link for Learners that will bring you to an application you can download and email. After you’ve applied, someone will phone you when a tutor is available.
- Avoid Coronavirus Scams. Unfortunately, there are people out there who will use even a pandemic to prey on the unwary. The Federal Trade Commission has a page of good tips and hints to help you keep from being conned. Just go to www.consumer.ftc.gov and click on the big headline.
- April Special: Digital Harry Potter. For this month only, the ebook of the first title in the series—Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone—is always available, in a multitude of languages. That means no holds, no waiting. Same for the e-audiobook, performed by the legendary Jim Dale. Just go to the library’s Overdrive digital catalog (also accessible through the free Libby app) and look for the link.
- Book Cover Challenge. Using whatever you have around the house for costume and props, recreate your favorite book cover, theme or character. Submit your photos as a comment on our Facebook page or email them to us at cmichael@minlib.net and we’ll share them. Take a look at our blog at waylandlibrary.org to see how some intrepid staff members have risen to the challenge.
YOUTH SERVICES MOVES ONLINE
- Weekly Facebook Live Storytimes. Join Ms. Carly for a Facebook Live storytime on the Wayland Public Library’s facebook page. Children and their caregivers will listen to stories, sing songs, and perform fun rhymes and movements. Tuesdays, April 21 and 29 at 10:30 a.m.
- Weekly Sing-alongs posted on Facebook. Check out our Facebook page or Youtube channel for prerecorded sing-alongs created by Ms. Carly, Ms. Laura, Ms. Janet, Ms. Pam and others on our Youth Services team. Check out our Facebook page on Fridays, April 17, April 24, and May 1 to see the new posts. (Or anytime to see what has already been posted.)
- Weekly Craft programs posted on Facebook. Children’s Librarian Elise Katz will demonstrate easy crafts you can do at home with your children. These short videos will be posted on the Wayland Facebook page on Wednesdays, April 22 and 29.
- Parent/Child 6th grade Book Club Moves to Zoom. We will be discussing Allies by Alan Gratz at the April 15 meeting, and will also decide then the book for the April 29 meeting. Allies is available on Hoopla. This book club is for 6th graders with a parent. If you would like to join our online meeting, contact pmccuen@minlib.net to join the Zoom Group. Wednesdays, April 15 and April 29, at 7 p.m.
- Daily Blog Post for Activity of the Day: A Little Something. Check out the Wayland Library webpage every weekday for daily activities to do with your children during this extended at home time. You will find the blog on the scrolling feed on the front page of the Wayland Library webpage. Feel free to read past posts as well…there are many ideas up there for you.
- Youth Online Resource Highlight of the Week: Bookflix. Are you looking for picturebooks and easy readers for your child? Check out Bookflix! This resource provides many award-winning picture books, paired with easy reader nonfiction titles. The picture books can be viewed as videos, with the words highlighted below as they are spoken aloud. Bookflix can be found on the Welcome Page of the Wayland Library’s Children’s webpage (and also on the Wayland Library’s Online Resources Page (look under Youth Resources). Bookflix is free to Wayland Library cardholders.
