Brrrr! It has been one of the coldest, snowiest winters in memory, but the library is warmed with people gathering up their winter reading and attending activities, gatherings, and programs. We have a new high-tech tool you can borrow with your library card that will detect all the places in your home where you have heat loss. The HomeBoost program is a partnership with Central Hudson to make homes more energy efficient. There will be a HomeBoost presentation on March 9 to learn more about the program, and we have HomeBoost kits already available at the library for checkout now.

 

Celebrating black history month we will be reading a book by Phenderson Djèlí Clark as the launch of our new Sci-Fi Novella Book Club. This will be a new monthly club led by Allison on the second Monday of the month. On that note, if you haven’t already read the work of Octavia Butler, I highly recommend it. Butler was an African American sci-fi and speculative fiction novelist who wrote some extremely influential and enduring books including The Parable of the Sower. Her work has changed the way I see the world and helped me to imagine new possibilities.

 

For February holidays, Thursday, February 5 we will make Valentine’s Day cards. Please sign up for one of the sessions.  February 17 starts the lunar new year with the new moon. We are celebrating the lunar new year by making a horse puppet for the year of the horse (the fire horse, in fact).

 

Save the date for a beaded earring making workshop on March 7.