Holiday Sing-A-Long

Thanksgiving Holiday

The Library will close at 2PM on Wednesday Nov. 23rd and be closed Thursday Nov. 24th for the Thanksgiving Holiday.

The Library will reopen at 9AM on Saturday Nov. 26th.

eBooks and eReaders

Library Open - November 1

We now have computer access to the Internet and the Minuteman Library Network.

library open oct 31

no computer access

Sparky's Puppets

Halloween Harvest

Meet a friendly witch, a pesky goblin, and a mischievous spider in this fast-paced, funny, and interactive show.

Wednesday October 26, 2011

3:30 - 4:15 PM

Ages 3-10

No registration required

Library Meeting Room

Library Closed Today Aug. 29th

The library is closed today Aug 29th due to a power outage.

Gwendolyn, the Graceful Pig

Join author David Rottenberg as he reads from his book
Gwendolyn, the Graceful Pig
David will be joined by ballet dancers who will provide a mini-dance lesson
August 27th at 11 AM
Ages 3 - 8 No Registration required.

Tanglewood Marionettes

Our end of summer reading program will be the Tanglewood Marionettes.
They will be performing "Fairy Circus"

Monday August 15th at 1PM

The Summer Reading Program is sponsored by the Friends of the Franklin Public Library, the Massachusetts Library System, the Boston Bruins, and the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners.

This program is partially funded by a grant from the Franklin Cultural Council.

Jamie Barrett

Jamie Barret will make a return appearance on Wednesday August 10th at 1PM.
This family music show does not require registration.

Summer Reading Logs

Don't forget that the Summer Reading Logs are due at the library by Saturday August 6th. 

Drumlin Farms and their Travelling Animals

Drumlin Farms and their Travelling Animals
Wednesday July 27
Two shows 1PM and 2PM
Registration required for this school aged 5+ program.
Please register for either one of the two shows.
Call 508.520.4940 x1 to register.

Around the World with Magic

Steve Rudolph will perform his Around the World with Magic on Wednesday July 13, 2011 at 1PM.

This show is recommended for ages 3 and up and registration is required.

Call 508.520.4940 x1 to register.

Children's Room Closing

The Children's Room will be closed beginning Saturday June 4th and will reopen on Monday June 27th.

Story times will resume on Monday June 13th.

Library Closing

The Library will be closed from June 6 - 11, 2011 for renovations.

Thank you for your Patience!

One Book One Community

New Children's Items April 2011

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New Items April 2011

Browse a list of new books, dvds, music, games and audiobooks recently added to the collection.  Click the title link to check availability in the Minuteman Library Catalog.

**New Items**

Teen Advisory Board Meeting

New Children's Items March 2011

Click here for New Children's Items March 2011

New Items for March 2011

Browse a list of new books, dvds, music, games and audiobooks recently added to the collection.  Click the title link to check availability in the Minuteman Library Catalog.

**New Items**

April Programs-Children's Room

Would you like to earn a free book?  We have two reading programs running in the Children's Room.  To celebrate National Library Week  (April 11-April 16)  there is a reading log to complete either with titles and authors or timed reading.  We also have a Bingo sheet to color in with stories from other countries as the children's program for "One Book, One Community".

Wally will be making a return visit to the Franklin Public Library on Wednesday, April 20, 2011 at 10 a.m.  After Storytime  Wally will be available for pictures and will be handing out bookmarks.  Bring your cameras!

 Tuesday afternoon, April 19, 2011 at 1pm there will be an assortment of board games available in the Meeting Room, no registration is required. A  Drop-In Earth Day Craft Program from 10:30 am- 11:30 am on Thursday, April 21, 2011 rounds out our April Vacation plans.

One Book One Community 2011

“If you leave Opi, you’ll die with strangers,” Irma Vitale’s mother always warned. But Irma is too poor and too plain to marry and can’t find honest work in her tiny mountain village in Southern Italy. Barely twenty, she must leave home bearing only native wit and astonishing skill with a needle. Risking rough passage across the Atlantic, a single woman in a strange land, Irma seeks a new life sewing dresses for gentlewomen. Swept up in the crowded streets of nineteenth-century America, Irma finds workshop servitude and miserable wages, but also seeds of friendship in the raw immigrant quarters. When her determination leads at last to Chicago, Irma blossoms under the hand of an austere Alsatian dressmaker, sewing fabrics and patterns more beautiful than she’d ever imagined. Then this tenuous peace is shattered. From the rubble, confronting human cruelty and kindness, suffering and hope, a new Irma emerges, nurturing a talent she’d never imagined and an unlikely family, patched together by the common threads that unite us all.

When we were Strangers by Pamela Schoenewaldt is the selection for our 2011 One Book, One Community program.  Copies are now available for checkout.  For more information about the author and the novel, please visit Pamela Schoenewaldt's blog: http://pamelaschoenewaldt.com/.  Program schedule coming soon!

New Items for February 2011

Browse a list of new books, dvds, music, games and audiobooks recently added to the collection.  Click the title link to check availability in the Minuteman Library Catalog.

** New Items**

Adventures on the Web: Pinch it! - Financial & Money Saving Sites

So if your life is anything like mine, another year has passed and  money is still not falling from the trees.  Finances are as tight as an Elvis jumpsuit. Fortunately, there as some very helpful websites, blogs, and forums on the web to help you save money, get out of debt, and improve your credit scores.  Here are some that I've found to be helpful.  Oh, and if you DO witness money falling from the trees, you might want to see somebody about that.

Tiphero

Wisebread

Man vs. Debt

Get Rich Slowly

The Simple Dollar

PT Money

Retailmenot - Coupons!!!

The Credit Boards - forum for people wanting to improve credit scores

Credit Info Center  - loads of credit related information

BK Forum - very helpful and informative bankruptcy forum

eReaders and eBooks - New Date and Time

You're Invited!

Valentines for Veterans

New Story Time

We Welcome the Children of our Community to the

NEW Afternoon Story Time

January 19 at 1:00

Library Meeting Room

 Along with a Curriculum Swap for Parents of 

Home Schooled Children