Take Your Child to the Library Day
The Bakerville Library will join 80+ other Connecticut libraries to celebrate Take Your Child to the Library Day on Saturday, February 4th from 10–11 am.
We will recognize the day with a special book exchange program and free canvas bookbags for your child to decorate, as well as kicking off our Winter Reading Program.
Come and swap out your old books for others you haven't read, check out additional library books or videos, and sign up for the Winter Reading Program at the same time.
Children of all ages are welcome, but registration is required as bags and space are limited. For more information, contact the Bakerville Library at (860) 482-8806 or bakerville.library@snet.net.
Join us!
Traveling on a Budget
Join us Friday, February 10 at 7:30 pm for a presentation on budget travelling.
Jeanne LaBlanc, who has written travel stories for newspapers around the world and has a travel blog, will share information on some of the best web sites for planning your trip on a budget.
Come mingle with your neighbors, enjoy a glass of wine and learn about planning your next trip.
Space is limited so reserve a seat by contacting the Bakerville Library at (860) 482-8806 or bakerville.library@snet.net.
All events are free to the public but donations are always welcome and appreciated.
Local Generosity
The library board would like to take this end-of-the-year opportunity to thank the local businesses who have helped support our programs:
Tonio’s Pizza donated pizza for our Winter Reading Program pizza party.
Gresczyk Farms donated pumpkins for our annual Pumpkin Painting and Storytelling Program.
Radwick’s Coffee and Sandwich donated coffee for our carol sing and bonfire.
Without them, our programs would be seriously curtailed.
Thanks also for the generous donation of time from Dave Krimmel and
Dr. Philip O’Reilly, who presented interesting and timely programs for our patrons.
Morning Book Group
Our next meeting will be Thursday, January 19, at 9:30 am at the library. We will discuss Waiting by Ha Jin (originally scheduled for November).
The meeting after that will be Thursday, February 16, also at 9:30 am at the library. We will discuss Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear.
Don’t forget that when event pictures leave the home page of the website, usually they go to the Events page. (Link above, left.)
The Great Courses
Bakerville Library is pleased to announce a gift of over 40 DVDs by The Great Courses.
"Designed to meet the powerful demand for lifelong learning, The Great Courses is an intellectually engaging series of video and audio courses led by the world's best professors and experts in diverse fields such as philosophy, history, literature, science, and the arts."
Our Library's list of Great Courses DVDs includes titles in history, literature, music and science. Please stop in and borrow the titles you find interesting
Online Updates!
1. Our blog, Bakerville Reads, has received an infusion of new life, thanks to Elaine Carmelich. Please add it to your favorites, check it out regularly, and post a comment every now and then.
2. We have had to re-create our Facebook page, so that anyone can see it, even without a Facebook account. Whether you’ve Liked us before or not, please click on the link below and Like us.
We hope these improvements will help you keep in touch with what’s happening at the Bakerville Library.
Bakerville Library is now a
state-recognized historic building.
Making History
On May 5, 2010, the Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism’s Historic Preservation Council voted to list the Bakerville Library on the State Register of Historic Places. Elaine Carmelich was instrumental in helping this to happen, researching documents in the library and conferring with Neal Yates, whose book Where Walk the Souls of Heroes, a history of Bakerville and his house here, includes the history of the library.
This means that not only does the state now recognize what we’ve known all along, but also that we are now eligible to apply for state historic preservation grants previously unavailable to us. The library board is interested in applying for grants to help stabilize the building’s foundation.
As you may have read in Kari Banach’s Waterbury Republican-American article (May 19, 2010; a copy is kept in the library if you missed it), “Buildings on the state register are examples of specific architectural periods, longtime local landmarks, or are sites of significant historical events, state records show.”
The Bakerville Library, established in 1949, was built as a Baptist church in 1824, and then known as the Academy and Bakerville School from 1832 to 1941. From 1941 to 1949 it was the Bakerville Community Association. It was in 1949, as we all know, that Barbara Yedlin famously started the library with her son’s storied little red wagon.
If you have received our fundraising brochure in the mail (“Bakerville Library: An Historic Treasure”) and haven’t yet sent in your donation, please consider doing so. Or if you’ve misplaced the brochure, you may click here to download it and send the form, with a check made out to “Bakerville Library Annual Fund.” to the library at 6 Maple Hollow Road, New Hartford CT 06057. You can help ensure that the history of the Bakerville Library continues.
Speaking of History...
The Bakerville Library is part of the Bakerville Methodist Church’s history. Click here for the Register Citizen article.
Search our entire 14,000-volume
collection from home
Click on the Library Collection button, left, or read through the directions here first.
Please note: Because of continuing technical difficulties, you can no longer reserve a copy of a book online. (You can still search our collection and see whether a book is in or out at the moment.) If you would like to reserve a book, please call the library at 860-482-8806, or e-mail us here.
The software and the server for this effort were partly funded by grants from New Hartford Community Connections, Inc. (publisher of the New Hartford Telephone Directory). We appreciate its members’ generosity. |
