BIG LIBRARY EVENT DAY - FROM QUILTS TO COMPUTERS

Community Quilt Project

All Day
 
Main Library * All ages * Drop in
In history, quilts were often used as a way to tell a story and communicate. Beginning Monday, 2/2, drop in to the main branch and decorate your own quilt square throughout February. Craft your creation and we will add it to others to build our community quilt which we will display in the Children’s Room!

Preschool Storytime

11:00 am – 11:30 am

Main Library * Ages 2 1/2 – 5* Valid Maplewood Library card required
No registration required * All children must be accompanied by an adult

Hilton Black History Month Trivia

3:00 pm – 5:00 pm

 * Main Library: Tuesdays in February 3:00-5:00 pm
* Hilton Branch: Thursdays in February 3:00-5:00 pm
Each week there will be a new question about the Selma to Montgomery Voting Rights March in 1965 and its participants. Answer the question correctly and win a prize!

Hilton Open Computer Lab/Maker Space

4:00 pm – 6:00 pm

Maplewood Library’s MakerSpace at Hilton Branch is open! Drop in EVERY THURSDAY from 4:00pm – 6:00pm. Patrons can use Rhino 3D software to build a model, print an object on our 3D printer or use our new color printer.  Printing times may vary, depending on file size and demand. Please contact 3Dprinter@maplewoodlibrary.org for more information about printing your objects. And get more info on Lab procedures and policies at http://www.maplewoodlibrary.org/3d-printer-policy/.

Thursday Night Book Club

7:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Main Library – This month’s selection is Family Life by Akhil Sharma, one of the NY Times Book Review’s 10 Best Books of 2014

“This book, deeply unnerving and gorgeously tender at its core, charts the young life of Ajay Mishra as he struggles to grow within a family shattered by loss and disoriented by a recent move from India to America. Family Life is equally the story of Ajay’s parents, whose response to grief renders them unable to find the space in which to cherish and raise him… is devastating as it reveals how love becomes warped and jagged and even seemingly vanishes in the midst of huge grief. But it also gives us beautiful, heart-stopping scenes where love in the Mishra family finds air and ease.”   — New York Times Book Review

Facilitated by Library Director Sarah Lester.  Copies of the book are available through the BCCLS system.  The title for March is The Book of Illusions by Paul Auster.