Emma S. Clark Memorial Library

👀 We're looking for "like new" Kids and Teen book donations for our Little Free Library at West Meadow Beach:

📘 Picture Books
📙 Beginner Readers
📗 Chapter Books
📕 Teen Books
📘 Graphic Novels

Both fiction and nonfiction are appreciated. Please, no books with a technological aspect. Bring donations for the Little Free Library to our Lower Level Service Desk.

📅 Save these dates! Drop-in events & activities for children this summer:

✂️ Crafternoon - Thurs, June 25 (school half day), 12:00 - 2:00pm
📚 Summer Reading Kick-Off Event - Mon, June 29, 5:30 – 7:00 p.m.
🗽 Star-Spangled Celebration - Wed, July 1, 10:30 a.m. – 12 noon
🦆 Meet the Farm Animals - Tues, July 7, 10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
🎈 The History of Balloons - Fri, July 17, 6:00 – 7:00 p.m.
🎩 Magic of Amore - Friday, July 31, 6:00 – 6:45 p.m.
🖍️ Crafternoon - Tues, August 25, 2:00 – 4:00 p.m.

🔗 For more info, visit emmaclark.org/dropin

This Father’s Day, discover stories that honor dads, mentors, and father figures across generations.

Find Kanopy, one of our free streaming services, at emmaclark.org/downloads

💵 Middle and High Schoolers can learn how to be financially responsible... something that will be useful for their whole life!

Sign up for one or all three classes:

💲 Being Financially Confident - Sat, July 11, 11am
💲 Smart Spending, Saving, & Budgeting Decisions - Thurs, July 16, 7pm
💲 Foundations for Financial Success - Tues, July 21, 7pm

Classes are for those going into Grades 6 - 12. Parents/guardians are welcome to attend with their registered Teen/Tween. Register at emmaclark.org/programs

🖍✂✏️ Next Thursday, June 25 the kids have a 1/2 day of school... bring them to our Children's Library for "Crafternoon"! Kids can create a work of art out of recycled materials.

Stop by anytime between 12:00 - 2:00pm. For ages 3 – 11 years old with parent/caregiver. No registration required. Bring friends!

Our building will be closed tomorrow - Friday, June 19 - in observance of Juneteenth.

Juneteeth marks the day when federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas in 1865 to ensure that all enslaved people be freed. The troops’ arrival came 2.5 years after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation. Juneteenth honors the end to slavery in the United States.

Even when our building is closed, you can always access our online resources, download eBooks, stream movies, register for programs, & more through emmaclark.org. 😊

🚜 Reminder: We have a limited supply of discount coupons for Harbes Farm Season Memberships. Please see the image for details!

Note: Harbes Farm has discontinued their circulating Library Pass. This was a decision made by the farm, not the libraries.

Far out! Join us at The Long Island Museum for a tour of their "Long Island in the '70s" exhibit and book discussion of Bones of a Saint by Grant Farley.

Our museum guide will interweave aspects of Bones of a Saint with the social, political, and demographic shifts that fueled cultural and artistic innovation on Long Island, even as new questions and vulnerabilities emerged. A book discussion will immediately follow the tour.

Snacks will be provided. Parents are welcome to stick around for the tour, or explore the museum on their own, with free entry provided by the museum!

Friday, July 10, 5:00 - 6:30 p.m. at The Long Island Museum in Stony Brook. Open to those going into Grades 6 - 12 in the fall. Register at emmaclark.org/programs

Photo courtesy of The Long Island Museum.

🧵🐝 Kids will learn how to hand-sew their own adorable bee plushie in this class with the Long Island Youth Development Art Club.

Saturday, June 27, 2:00 - 3:30pm. For those in Grades 4 & 5. Register at emmaclark.org/programs

📰 ➡️ 💻 Phase 1 of the Three Village Herald digitization project is now complete! 🎉

Thanks to this historic preservation project, spearheaded by Librarian Jeff Walden, anyone can now view the Three Village Herald newspapers from 1954–1982 on the New York State Historic Newspapers site.

We are so grateful to the Times Beacon Record newspapers for granting us permission to digitize the newspaper - preserving our history and making it more accessible to all! We truly appreciate the wonderful article and feature in this past week's Village Times Herald newspaper.

Special thank you to the Long Island Library Resources Council for the digitization grant to partially fund this project and to the Northern New York Library Network for scanning and uploading all of the microfilm.