A very brief explanation of photosynthesis

A very very brief moment in the life of a plant
as enacted by Starlyn.

Proper Gentlemen's Newspaper Club

What is the Proper Gentlemen's Newspaper Club? Who are they? 

They pull their chairs up close to the circulation desk.
Newspapers cover their faces. But polite? Certainly.
They're not in the way; they never speak.
They don't check out books or movies.
We hope they'll introduce themselves one day.

Clown- librarian; librarian-clown. A librarian's misadventure.

  

 Part 2 in our series of short movies about libraries and librarians. Plot: a librarian appears on the late night talk show, "Talkin' 'Bout Books With Policeman Bob."

Cake report

If you had been wondering what happened with the cake and electronic and experimental music event, we did document the cake. Here you go: the image is of a dentist with a dental tool in his hand. The patient has his mouth open, and the caption reads "Cake: the dentist's friend." For good measure, we had the cake decorators add "I love the library."

The music was a total hit with us and our neighbors, and we hope to do a whole bunch of outdoor music next spring. Thanks to the awesome musician friends who did it for the library!

See you soon! And don't forget the math part from the other post: math homework help is up and running.

A short library drama

We hope you enjoy this short yet extremely moving human library movie. Plot: a chance meeting on a street corner leads to library drama.

Cake! and Pizza! Chess club! Music! Math!

Cake! Cale alone is very exciting for us, but when you add in pizza, chess club, and 3 music performances in one go, the excitement may be too much and the ship may sink. This Thursday! at 5:30, come one, come all!

So how is math homework going? Everyone forgot almost everything about math over the summer, but it's all coming back to us. Washington Park Library is the math homework capitol of Rhode Island, so come on in with your math. Even our security guard, Julio, is fond of math. Our goal is for everyone to do their math homework every day. We may have to hold a math contest by the end of the year. Plus, we've added a lot of math books that you can check out of the library and take home. If you don't have a textbook, and just have a worksheet, you definitely should think about checking out a math book that has some examples and an explanation of the kind of math problem you're working on.

It's hard to know which is better: math? cake? pizza? Math will help you more in the long run, but pizza definitely tastes much, much, better.

What's up this fall?

Welcome back to school, and back to the library to all our neighborhood students who've been away. What's up this fall? Homework help every day after school, both in English and Spanish. And our regulars know we are all about helping with math, writing, science fair, and all kinds of school projects and papers.

We have some completely great after-school activities coming up too- our ongoing learn-to-draw-and-write Comics class, for one- here's a couple of comics kids did.
The Comics Consortium (that's the group of all the artists who participate) has an anthology coming out, put together by awesome instructors / artists Walker Mettling and Andrew Oesch. This will be both the kids' work and work by other artists inspired by their work.
We're adding Cyberkids, super fun computer classes for upper elementary kids, and maybe a hip hop / creative writing/ poetry class. We definitely will have a photography project too.
Chess club has changed to 5:30pm every Thursday with Sam still coaching. And Fridays are still super excellent movie and game day, with great movies that are kid friendly. If you want to see a particular movie, talk to Lyndsy and Sara.
See you soon!