Hadley Luzerne Public Library

Many garden plants are becoming invasive in our waterways and gardens.  Help preserve biodiversity and save our native plants.  Come learn what alternative plants we can use in our Adirondack gardens.  Julie Nathanson of the Warren County Cooperative Extension will share information on this growing threat.  Program is provided by Warren County and the Town of Lake Luzerne.  This program is FREE and held at the library on Tuesday May 6th at 7:00 p.m.

Due to popular demand, the Hadley-Luzerne Public Library is once again selling Great Escape Tickets!!  

Purchase your Great Escape Tickets at the Hadley-Luzerne Public Library! The Great Escape has over 135 thrilling rides, shows, games and attractions.  Our tickets are the best value of the season.  Ticket price is just $19.99 and you can purchase a special C’mon back ticket to revisit the park any day during the 2008 season for just $12.00, plus tax.  Also there is an opportunity to upgrade to a season pass for only $39.99, plus tax. 

Tickets are HERE!!.  Last year we ran out at the end of the promotion.  Make sure you get yours early.  You may call the library at 696-3423 to get yours now.

You can watch a short video of what Rockwell Falls looked like on April 15th.  The water was  so high the falls were flat.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rK-CXFsGKk

This next video is taken on the other side of the bridge that overlooks the waterfalls.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EumVhDXb5N8

Below you can get data on how high the water is and how much water is going past the the gauge station just above the falls.  You can also change locations.

http://waterdata.usgs.gov/ny/nwis/uv/?site_no=01318500

Hi,

I have found a very good online tutorial for the net library audio books.  This will show you with pictures and easy to follow instructions so you can start listening to your choice of over a thousand e-audio books today!!

One way you can listen to these e-audio books is from your computer.

Another way is put them on an MP3 player.  The MP3 player must have windows media player on it for software.  This is very common.  The player is inexpensive and as easy to use as a tape player once you get past the learning curve.  You can take the player with you for walks, runs, hiking, or even in your car.

There are thousands of books to choose from!  You never have to worry about returning them.  You can renew them.   When you are done, delete them off your player.

So watch the tutorial and start listening today!

http://www.oclc.org/netlibrary/demo/

Hi,
I am about to go through another round of purchasing magazines for the library.  Are there any favorites out there that you would like the library to purchase? Keep in mind I try to stay within a budget to offer as many selections as possible to as many people as possible.  So very expensive magazines subscriptions are not usually within our budget unless I can justify them with a significant circulation.  Still all will be at least considered.  What would you like to see?

We have a toddler story time every Wednesday morning at 10:30 a.m.  There are stories and songs for toddlers and their caregivers.  All are welcome, just drop in.

Carole Williams has art on display in the community room this month.  She retired from IBM as an Illustrator Specialist.  Drawing and painting have been a life long hobby.  She now enjoys woodburning, gourd art, oils, and acrylics.  Carole specializes in pet portraits, rendered in colored pencil.  Her artwork is created mostly from photographs she has taken.  She now resides in Hadley.

The next book club meeting is on Tuesday April 8th.  The club will be discussing the book Tailspin by Bernard Conners.  

The book they will be picking up on Tuesday is The Pearl diver by Jeff Talarigo.  A first novel of rare beauty and sensitivity, Jeff Talarigo’s The Pearl Diver follows the harsh fate of a 19-year-old Japanese pearl diver who is diagnosed with leprosy. It is 1948. There are trial medications for her condition, but a weight of prejudice against her. Her name is erased from the family register, and she is rowed to a lifelong exile at the island leprosarium on Nagashima.  They will discuss this book at the May 13th meeting.

Wildlife rehabilitator Karin Badey of Lake Luzerne will be the guest speaker on Tuesday April 22nd.  North Country Wild Care provides education, training of wildlife rehabilitors, as well as educating the public and taking part in wildlife research.  Learn what we should and shouldn’t do when we spot an injured, lost or orphaned animal or bird.

March 11th at 6:30 is the next book club meeting.  They will be discussing the last 2 books and picking up, “Tailspin” by Bernard F. Conners.  In this extraordinary book, best selling author and former FBI agent Conners combines the instincts of a “literary bloodhound” with the gifted talents of a storyteller to present the solution to a murder that took place on July 4, 1954.   Read the rest of this entry »