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New App For Magic Wall
For those of you using MagicWall to download ebooks, a new and improved app called axisReader has been released. The app will let you find and read books all in one app so you don't have to go to the website anymore. The app can be downloaded from the app zone on the Magic Wall website. You can use this app instead of Bluefire.
Summer Reading Program Schedule
The programs start on June 3rd and will end on July 26th. There will not be any sessions the week of July 4th.
Monday (Preschool)
11:10-11:50, 1:00-1:40
Tuesday (Preschool)
10:20-11:00, 11:10-11:50, 1:00-2:00
Wednesday (K,1,2)
9:30-10:30, 10:45-11:45, 1:00-2:00
Thursday (3,4,5)
10:45-11:45, 1:00-2:00
Friday
9:30-10:10 (Preschool)
10:30-11:30 (K,1,2)
1:00-2:00 (2,3,4,5)
Summer Reading Program
Children will explore all things underground this summer as Watertown Regional Library presents "Dig Into Reading" during the Summer reading program. Activities may include programs on dinosaurs or construction vehicles, animals that live underground or Ancient Egypt, caves rocks and more.
The 2013 Summer Reading Program is open to young people, preschool (3 or older) through 5th grade with prize drawings, story hours, and more. Registration for "Dig Into Reading" begins May 24th.
Library Board Agenda
AGENDA
WATERTOWN REGIONAL LIBRARY BOARD OF TRUSTEES
REGULAR MEETING
160 6th Street NE
May 7, 2013, 5:00 p.m.
Marge Tauber South Dakota Room
1. Roll call
2. Approval of minutes from the April 8, 2013 regular meeting.
3. Presentation of financial reports for April
4. Approval of expenditures for April
5. Correspondence
6. Report of the Library Director
7. Committee reports
a) Approval of Capital Improvements Plan and Personnel requests for the 2014 budget
8. Old business
a) Plaque for the side of the donated cabinets
i) Examples of plaques and the layout
b) Consideration of quotes for snow blowing equipment
9. New business
a) Should the Policy for Out-of-County Cards be revised to allow the purchase of cards for more than a year at a time?
10. Executive session pursuant to SDCL 1-25-2 (personnel and contracts)
11. Open
12. Adjournment
Next meeting: May 7, 2013
Library Will Close at 6:00 PM
Due to the potential for poor driving conditions this evening, Tuesday, April 9, 2013 the library will close at 6:00 PM.
eBook Class
Tuesday, March 9th at 11:00 AM. Learn to use the two ebook collections the library has and setup your device to use them.
Summer Reading Schedule
Programs will run weekly June 3rd until July 26th. There will not be any programming July 1st through July 5th.
MONDAY (Pre) 11:05 - 12:00 1:00-2:00
TUESDAY (Pre)
10:20 - 10:55
11:05 - 11:45
1:00 - 1:40
WEDNESDAY (K, 1-2)
9:30 - 10:30
10:45 - 11:45
1:00 - 2:00
THURSDAY (Pre, K)
10:45 - 11:45
1:00 - 2:00
FRIDAY (Pre, K)
9:30 - 10:15
10:30 - 11:15
1:00 - 2:15 (Grades 2-5)
Friends Book Sale
The Friends used book sale will be April 19-22, 2013 at the Watertown Mall next to Dunham's Sports. Please donate your gently used books, movies and music at the Watertown Mall, beginning Monday, April 15th. Take items inside the Mall to the drop off area next to Dunham's. Please do not bring items to the Library.
Library Board Agenda
AGENDA
WATERTOWN REGIONAL LIBRARY BOARD OF TRUSTEES
REGULAR MEETING
160 6th Street NE
April 8, 2013, 4:30 p.m.
Marge Tauber South Dakota Room
1. Roll call
2. Executive session pursuant to SDCL 1-25-2
3. Approval of minutes from the March 5, 2013 regular meeting.
4. Presentation of financial reports for March
5. Approval of expenditures for March
6. Correspondence
7. Report of the Library Director
a) A technician from Minneapolis was here March 28th working on the furnace
b) Examples of meeting room use that staff members are having problems deciding to allow or not allow.
c) New website update
8. Committee reports
9. Old business
a) Plaque for the side of the donated cabinets
i) Text for the plaque: 1967 – 1991 Cabinets donated in memory of former City Librarian Marge Tauber by The Friends of the Watertown Regional Library, and her family and friends.
ii) After this amount of time is it still appropriate to have a “dedication”?
10. New business
a) Appointment of Budget Committee
b) Plumbing repair
c) Fines Fund Issue
11. Open
12. Adjournment
Next meeting: May 7, 2013
Digital Scrapbooking
April 4, 2013; 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Use technology to beautify, enhance, record, celebrate, and tell the stories of your life. Register at the circulation desk.
Frames
Sunday, March 24th at 2pm explore how we experience reality. Presented by Lawrence Diggs. The program is free and open to all.
Health Information Online Class
Thursday, March 21 at 6:30PM learn to find consumer health information online, including drug side effects, conventional and alternative medical treatments of diseases, weight loss, nutrition.