Welcome to a New Decade!
 The library staff and I want to thank you all for another wonderful year at the library. Andrea and I have been reviewing photos of all the memories we have made in just three short years of working together. We have come a long way since we took this photo of our first Mad Scientist adventure, and Millipore Sigma is helping us reach new heights in STEAM programming for all ages in 2020, with a grant of $20,000!!! (Watch for an announcement of the presentation of the big check with our partners at Millipore.)
The year is off to a great start!
Please feel free to contact me any time at jperrin@townofjaffrey.com.
Kind regards, Julie M. Perrin, Library Director - a.k.a. Ms. Julie
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THANK YOU!
This holiday season, we asked for craft supplies to keep Ms. Linda and Ms. Andrea stocked for a new year of Make & Take Crafts and Storytime activities. Thank you for your generosity. Our storage bins are full!
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Mahjong & Storytimes return next week!
Mahjong: Mondays at 1:00 PM
Join us in a non-competitive, friendly atmosphere where you can learn to play Mahjong or practice/perfect your game. Mahjong enthusiasts of all levels welcome.
Pajama Storytime: Tuesdays at 6:30 PM
Put on your PJs, grab your favorite stuffie, and wind down the day with some favorite bedtime stories.
Morning Storytime: Wednesdays at 10:30 AM
Children of any age are welcome to join us for an hour of stories and movement. Wrap up each program with a cool project or sensory play and social time.
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Hibernate with a Good Book: Winter Learning begins Saturday, January 25th
 Kick off this year's Winter Learning Program with a special Silly Stuffie Sleepover. Bring your favorite (or second favorite) stuffie for stories at 10:30 AM, then drop them off for a FULL WEEKEND of fun. Our new weekend timeslot is specially chosen to help working families participate, as well as to give more time for our stuffies to have fun at the library. We'll post pictures throughout the weekend, and you'll get a photobook of memories to take home when you pick them up on Monday.
If your stuffie would like to participate but can't make it for storytime you can still drop them off anytime before the library closes at 2:00 PM.
Watch for Winter Learning activities (including a new SEWING program and Lab fun), soon to be posted on our Event Calendar!
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Upcoming Book Club Meetings
As the Page Turns: Monday, January 13 at 2:00 PM Our monthly book discussion group for adults. Each month, the group is led by a different member. The group will be sharing their personal book choices for 2020 and picking up their February book, Boston Girl by Anita Diamant.
My First Book Club: Friday, January 10 at 4:00 PM PreK (Age 4) - Grade 1. Read the month’s title at home and then join Ms. Eileen for a child-sized discussion and activity. January's book is The Hat by Jan Brett.
 Mad Scientist Book Club & STEAM Reads meet together on Friday, January 31 at 4:00 PM for a special guest! Grade 2 - 8. We have a detective theme this month with Meg Mackintosh and the Mystery at the Soccer Match and Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Soccer Scheme, in preparation for our favorite police sergeant, Craig Tucker to teach us some real police forensics!
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Hooked: Narratives of Addiction, Recovery, and Redemption
Saturday, January 11, 2020 at 1 pm
 In the midst of New Hampshire’s opioid crisis, we are far from the time when addiction was an unfamiliar and even taboo subject. Narratives of addiction and recovery have become their own genre, with familiar shapes and forms that reflect deep cultural ideas about morality, free will, and social responsibility. The popularity of such narratives has created opportunities for empathy and understanding; they have also fostered particular beliefs about how addiction and recovery work. This talk will explore some of the most common stories about addiction, providing tools for understanding on a narrative and structural level. From this foundation, we will explore whether the familiarity of some stories might create barriers to recognizing different experiences of addiction or approaches to recovery, and think about where we might find more diverse accounts to inform our understanding of and response to addiction.
Presented by Katherine Gaudet, Associate Director of the University Honors Program at the University of New Hampshire, where she is also a member of the Humanities faculty. She has published on topics including suicide, bankruptcy, and education in early America. In 2015 she received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to develop a course called “What Is a Criminal?” which has become a core offering in the Honors Program as well as the topic of the public Sidore Lecture Series for 2019-2020.
This event is brought to you thanks to a grant from New Hampshire Humanities, and co-sponsored with Reality Check. It is free and open to the public.
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Film Screening: Shadows Fall North
Thursday, January 16 at 6:30 pm
 The Jaffrey Public Library is pleased to be partnering with the Jaffrey-Rindge MLK Committee to present a documentary about recovering African-American history in New Hampshire.
From the film's press release: How does New Hampshire, a state with the motto “Live Free or Die,” confront and understand its participation in slavery, segregation, and the neglect of African-American history? What happens to our identity as residents of this state and as New Englanders when we begin to acknowledge all of our past? Shadows Fall North, a film produced by the University of New Hampshire’s Center for the Humanities in collaboration with Atlantic Media Productions of Portsmouth, will address those questions and more.
The film highlights the stories of individuals who have been rendered nearly invisible—from men, women, and children laid to rest at the African Burying Ground in Portsmouth to the novelist Harriet Wilson to the twenty slaves who petitioned the state legislature for their freedom in 1779, and many more—as well as the women who brought this history to light, historians and activists Valerie Cunningham and JerriAnne Boggis.
This program is free and open to the public, and is co-sponsored by the Jaffrey-Rindge MLK Committee and the Jaffrey Public Library. Can't make this date? Our friends at the Ingalls Memorial Library in Rindge will also be showing the film on Tuesday, January 21 at 6 pm.
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We had a busy year! Here is a quick review of your library in 2019.
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Budget presentation
Tuesday, January 14 at 6 pm
Curious about the budget process? Did you know that you can have a voice by attending department meetings with the Budget Committee? If approved by the Budget Committee and Town Meeting, we would like to add later hours on Tuesdays and Thursdays and more daytime hours during summer break. Learn more on January 14 in the Collaborative Learning Space on the Ground Floor of the library. (We are happy to be hosting this year.)
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Wintry weather
 For both staff and public safety, the library may need to close occasonally for inclement weather. In the event we decide to close, we will post on wmur.com, Facebook, and the library's website. When in doubt, please call the library before venturing out. Safety first! We are always happy to extend due dates when the weather is frightful!
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