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Walk-in Hours Monday – Thursday 10:00am – 12:00pm and 1:00pm – 3:00pm (closed for cleaning and lunch 12-1pm) Wednesday night 4:00-7:00pm (closed from 3-4pm for cleaning and break) Friday 2:00-5:00pm Vulnerable population (and those over 60) hours: Thursday 10:00am – 12:00pm, Thank you for honoring these special hours. Contactless Takeout available Monday - Thursday 9-3pm Wednesday 9-7pm Friday 1-5pm **Saturday 9-1pm** **NEW** ReturnsPlease note that any items returned to us will be quarantined for 72 hours as recommended by the CDC before our staff handle them for checkin. Book Drops are located at the Library and in the Wood School Parking lot on Messenger St.
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Pumpkin Decorating Contest Yes! We can still do our Book Character Pumpkin Decorating Contest to benefit the Food Pantry. Bring in your decorated pumpkin (fake pumpkins are OK!) by Wednesday October 14. Everyone will be able to vote for their favorite pumpkin with a canned good from October 15 - 29. Pumpkins will be ready to go home for Halloween on Friday October 30. Winner will get a gift card to Dunkin. All ages are welcome to make a pumpkin. We are adding Contactless Takeout Hours on Saturdays 9am - 1pm starting September 19. Call 508-695-1784 to pick up your holds or request items from our shelves.
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StorywalksNew stories every other week. So take a walk around the municipal complex and read a story along the way.
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10 Step Storytime at Home
Register on our calendar for the week you wish to participate to ensure there is a bag of materials for you to pick up for our 30 Minute Story Time at Home for ages 3-6. Miss Laura provides you with a 10 step plan for a 30 minute interactive and fun storytime using an online book readily availble to anyone with a Plainville Public Library card. Follow the steps and it's just like Miss Laura is at home with you providing your children with a great story time. Parents get helpful tips to discover what learning objectives are hidden in the lesson plan for Story Time. Register by the Thursday prior to have it ready for you. Please register ONLY if you have children ages 3-6.
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Free from Home
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Tumblebooks for Kids ContinuesTumblebooks has EVERYTHING - graphic novels, ebooks, read-alongs, videos, puzzles and games, language learning and more for kids. This is available from our website as the library has purchased a subscription for the year. So take advantage of these resources for your at home learning and enjoyment! The kids use this resource at the Plainville Elementary Schools, too.
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Did you know? All items are back to the normal loan periods. Also, we will be checking in your items (after 72 hours of quarantine) as if they had come back on the actual day you returned them. So fines are being assessed as of the actual date of return (not the time in quarantine). And thank you for paying your fines as we get to keep that money to be used towards library purchases. Virtual Programs on our Library Calendar The Librarians are gathering information about Virtual Programs from other libraries across Massachusetts to add to our Calendar. Find out about these programs and registration links on the library calendar. These programs are open to all, but many require registration to obtain the online live program links. Highlights include Resume Writing, Getting Started in Homeschooling and national authors in the next couple of weeks. Check back often as we post them when we find out about them.
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The Many Ways to Print ----------------------------------------------------------- Email our Printer from anywhere The Plainville Public Library is thrilled to offer a new service that will benefit our customers. Is your printer broken at home, but you really need to print? Email Printing.Send an email to plainvillelibrary@print.epsonconnect.com with your name in the subject line and attach the file you wish to print. You can pick up your document during regular library hours for 20 cents a page. This is color 8 1/2” x 11” printing, for the following formats: Word, Excel, Powerpoint, PDF, JPG, TIF, GIF, BMP and PNG to a maximum of 20mb. The email printing service works from nearly any email client, including Gmail, Yahoo! Mail, Hotmail, and more. Wireless in the building The "copier" does have wifi, locate what you want to print on your device and select DIRECT-51-HP from the list of available wifi in your settings and then choose print from your device (password is 12345678) All printing to our printers is 20 cents a page for single sided and 35 cents a page for double sided. Bring your flash drive Print directly from your flash drive at our "copier". Just plug it in under the screen and follow the directions on the screen. Or just print from our library computers
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Use Novelist With your SAILS card you have access to Novelist. Type in a titles to find read-alikes search by mood, setting, character traits and more.
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What is everyone else reading? Find out what is being checked out right NOW on Overdrive. Pick up a copy of BOOKPAGE, a monthly magazine of new releases paid for by the Friends of the Plainville Public Library. Ask Susan. or Lisa or Melissa. We can all recommend a great book. Just tell us what you like and we can find something else you will love!
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Discount Passes to book and pick up at library
Capron Park Zoo (returnable) Mass State Parks (returnable) Old Sturbridge Village (returnable) New England Aquarium Ecotarium The Trustees Zoo New England Book online, pick up the pass at the library and show at ticket booth for discount. Aquarium and Ecotarium require advance purchase of discounted tickets - see their website.
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e-vouchers to book and show at ticket booth
Plimoth Plantation Boston Children's Museum USS Constitution (online code) Book online for your date of visit and show the e-voucher on your phone or printed out at the ticket booth for the discounted admission.
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