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Library to add new horseback delivery service! In an effort to expand services, the library is excited to announce our new horseback delivery service. Enjoy the luxury of home delivery and the joy of seeing a librarian riding up to your home on horseback, bringing you your favorite library items. When the horses are not working, they can be visited at the library and offered an apple. The library is proud to build on a long history of horseback book deliveries. Learn more about the history here. Happy April Fool's Day! |
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Library Giving Day is April 1st (no foolin')! Support the library by donating to the annual Library Giving Day. This year the Friends of the Library are raising funds for new and furniture for the Pink House. Click here to donate. |
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Join our library and others for the national Big Read! For the first time, the library is participating in the National Endowment for the Arts Big Read, by reading and sharing copies of My Antonia by Willa Cather. This month, listen to a dramatic reading from this classic novel. Come and watch the documentary Willa Cather: Breaking the Mold, which features Ken Burns on Thursday, April 10th at 5:30pm in the Carnegie Reading Room. Pick up a copy of the novel to read and then join the Book Lovers’ Café conversation next month on May 1st at 2:00pm at the library. Learn more about the Big Read by clicking on the image of My Antonia.
In partnership with the National Willa Cather Center and the National Endowment for Arts agency.
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Tech Help is back at the Port Townsend Library! Every Thursday in the Carnegie Reading Room Two appointment times are available; 10:15am to 11:00am, and 11:00am to 11:45am. If you cannot make an appointment, please come by during walk-in hours from 1:00pm to 4:00pm. What we can help with... Personal devices (smartphones, laptops, ipads, etc.) Library desktop computers General questions pertaining to navigating the Internet, email, and social media accounts. The basics on making a job resume. We cannot help with... Filing taxes online Filling out online paperwork that contains patron's sensitive information (SSN, private passwords, etc.) Re-programming computers or hand-held electronic devices / fixing hardware issues. Virus or malware removal. To schedule an appointment please call the Associate Librarian Paige at 360-344-3051 or email at pdillard@cityofpt.us If you have general questions about this service, please call the library at 360-385-3181. |
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Relationships of a Bird Friendly Landscape with Ron Sikes Tuesday, April 15th, 3:00-4:00pm Carnegie Reading Room Join Ron Sikes for a talk on creating landscapes to promote native plants and birds in home landscapes, businesses, and government buildings. The talk with slides will run about an hour and features native plants and birds seen in our area. The theme is the relationship between insects, native plants, and birds. We will discuss the critical importance of native plants to native insects and songbirds and show a sampling of native pollinators, caterpillars, native plants, and the most common songbirds visiting our landscapes. Ron is a volunteer with our local chapter, formerly Admiralty Audubon, but now named Rainshadow Bird Alliance. |
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Poems for the Time Being: A Reading and Conversation Thursday, April 24th, 5:30pm Carnegie Reading Room Come join Conner Bouchard-Roberts (Port Townsend’s Poet Laureate) and other acclaimed local poets for an evening of poetry and conversation about the passage of this thing called time. Poetry readers: Linden Kempthorne, Lisbeth White, Nicole Persun, and Peter Quinn. With Musical accompaniment by Ambient Junco |
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Silent Book Club Tuesday, April 29th, 2:00-5:30pm Carnegie Reading Room Read a book of your choice in silent camaraderie with the option for an open discussion toward the end. Hot water and tea provided. Please bring your own covered mug. Last Tuesday of the month in the Carnegie Room. |
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Book Lover's Cafe Thursday, April 3rd, 2:00pm Charles Pink House Everyone is welcome to join this library sponsored book group, made possible through the Friends of the Library. April's discussion will be on the book titled The Swimmers by Julie Otsuka. The books for the rest of the year are as follows... May 1 My Antonia by Willa Cather June 5 No Two Persons by Erica Bauermeister July 3 Crying in H Mart : a memoir by Michelle Zauner August 7 How to be an antiracist by Ibram X Kendi September 4 The seed keeper by Diane Wilson October 2 For the love of cities by Peter Kageyama November 6 Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree December 4 Holiday party and book exchange (no assigned book) |
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Storytime Connections Every Tuesday, 4:00pm-5:00pm The Children's Room Looking for a storytime that engages your child who has graduated from toddler storytime? Come and join us for our weekly Storytime Connections program! This storytime is meant for children ages 3 - 5 who are ready for the next step up from our Tuesday morning toddler storytimes. |
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LEGO Club Monday, April 14th, 4:00pm-5:00pm The Children's Room
Join other LEGO enthusiasts to build from your imagination and work with friends to construct simple or elaborate LEGO creations. Every session will feature a new LEGO design challenge.
Recommended for ages 7-12. Kids under 7 are welcome to attend with their grown-up. |
Sing-a-LingThursday, April 17th,10:30am The Children's Room Sing-a-Ling gets toddlers, preschoolers, families and the greater community into our bodies and singing together. Part story time, part sing-along and fully loaded with laughs, the select songs and rhyming stories in this show combine finger play, movement, picture books, uplifting acoustic music and an engaging, highly-interactive banter between audience and presenter. In this early literacy-infused program children (and their grownups) will create original rhymes and lyrics to traditional American folk songs, raise their voices to play with the alphabet’s many amusing sounds, and sing along to the words of favorite children’s books. |
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Read to Rover
Thursday, April 17th, 3:30pm The Children's Room Dogs are wonderful listeners! Kids ages 5-12 are invited to bring their favorite book or choose one from our library, then build reading skills and confidence by reading aloud to a certified therapy dog. Thank you Olympic Mountain Pet Pals for your support for animals and childhood literacy! |
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Weekly Storytime Schedule January 6th - May 6th Join us for weekly Storytimes at the Port Townsend Public Library! - Baby Storytime: Mondays,10:30am (Pink House)
- Toddler Storytime: Tuesdays, 10:30am (Children's Room)
- Storytime Connections: Tuesdays, 4pm (Children's Room)
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The library is open seven days a week! |
Monday-Friday 10:00 am - 6:00 pm Saturday 10:00 am - 5:00 pm Sunday 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm The Library will be CLOSED on Wednesday, April 23rd for an all-day staff training. |
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Points of View The Points of View database provided by EBSCO is a learning and research database that provides multiple perspectives on controversial topics. If you are someone interested in debate, or expanding your own point of view on a particular subject, this database may provide beneficial and insightful information for your needs, interests, and life-long learning. Visit all the library's databases here. |
Henry Thoreau: A Life of the Mind By Robert D. Richardson, Jr. This was a happy discovery in the library stacks. It isn't new, it was first published in 1986, but it is a treasure. In precisely 100 beautifully written and detailed chapters, Richardson traces Thoreau's life, inward and outward. Robert D. Richardson was a gifted scholar and writer who thoroughly knew his subject, and the natural, social, creative and intellectual world of 19th century America is brought to life in this elegant biography. If you love literature, and life before plastic, this a great book to read. Siri Birman -Substitute Library Assistant |
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Port Townsend Public Library1220 Lawrence Street,Port Townsend, Washington 98368360-385-3181
www.ptpubliclibrary.org
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