Friends of Montclair Library

  • Good press

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    Thanks to 510 Families contributor Juanita Villa for the shout-out to the library in her Parents’ Guide to Montclair this week: The Montclair Library is a fantastic place for kids. They have a nice play area in the back with toys that you can take your tots to go play,…

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  • This week at Montclair Library

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    Thursday, November 8th, 2012 Toddler Storytime – 10:20am Baby Bounce – 11:30am Saturday, November 10th, 2012 Medicine Warriors Dance Troupe – 2:00pm The Medicine Warriors Dance Troupe will help us celebrate Native American History Month with dances and drums. We might even get to join in the dancing!

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  • Vote!

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    It’s Election Day! (Just in case you haven’t heard that, oh, 4 million times already.) If all the hoopla has your young reader curious about the process, here are some books about voting and elections from the Montclair Library: Elizabeth Leads the Way: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Right to…

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  • Games Day

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    Saturday, November 3rd is the American Library Association’s (ALA) 5th annual International Games Day. Did you know the Montclair library has board games in the children’s room you can borrow to play while in the library? Or get more abstract and read a book about a board game, like Chris…

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  • Local girl makes good

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    Oakland’s first Youth Poet Laureate, selected in September in a competition sponsored by the Oakland Public Library and Youth Speaks, is Montclair native Stephanie Yun. Stephanie is a graduate of Montclair Elementary, Montera Middle School and Skyline High School, and currently attends UC Berkeley. Way to go, Stephanie! Last week’s…

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  • New old photo

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    As part of her ongoing project to collect information about the history of Montclair and the Montclair branch, Branch Manager Lynne Cutler found a great old photo of the library when it opened in 1930, looking like a country cottage in a grassy field. A copy of the photo is…

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  • Get writing!

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    It’s National Novel Writing Month, aka NaNoWriMo! In what organizers describe as “a fun, seat-of-your-pants approach to novel writing,” participants attempt to write a 50,000-word (approximately 175-page) novel between November 1 and November 30. If you’ve always wanted to try writing a novel instead of just reading them, here’s your…

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  • New feature on OPL website

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    There is a new feature available to patrons on the Oakland Public Library website: You can now choose to retain your “reading history,” which means the site will remember everything you check out. This is an “opt-in” feature, which means that in order to use it, you need to log…

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  • This week at Montclair library

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    This week, come to the library for back-to-back storytimes on Thursday, October 25th. Toddler Storytime at 10:20am Baby Bounce at 11:30am

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  • Ahoy!

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    Today is the 161st anniversary of the publication of Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick, or, The White Whale. While the book debuted to mixed or even negative reviews, today it’s considered a classic, and you can find several versions of it in the Montclair library’s Classics section, or as an e-book. Or…

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Established in 2008, the Friends of Montclair Library support the Montclair branch of the Oakland Public Library through fundraising, volunteering, advocacy and other services.

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