April 9, 2025

From the Director 
I have a couple of Outdoor Community Center updates. First, the Kingston Community Library Foundation is pleased to announce the hiring of Alan Cantor Consulting to help us with fundraising for our Outdoor Community Center. Second, the Library will bring its Outdoor Community Center plans before the Town Planning Board on April 15th. We are second to present and the meeting begins at 6:45 at Town Hall. While municipal organizations are not required to go before the Board, we would like to do so to share our landscape architect's designs with the Town and to receive feedback.
 
We are slowly moving forward as we work toward building repairs for the Morse Room. We have submitted construction bids to the adjuster, who will then submit them to the insurance company that contracted him. Once the insurance company approves a funding amount, we will be set to hire a company for repairs. Repairs will not take long once a construction company can fit us in their schedule. Thank you for your patience as we work through the necessary channels. The loss of our meeting room for this many weeks has been an inconvenience to all of us. We are anxious to fix it. (The room remains closed to exercisers, but open for all other activities. We have left exercise activities on the calendar in the hope that they will be back this month. Please check the top of the library website to see the status of exercise programs in red.)
 
Thank you also to the many people who reached out regarding funding of libraries. We are in a holding pattern now regarding ILL and Libby as we wait to see if 2025 Federal funds will be disbursed to the State Library this month. Everything is up and running normally locally. I have been keeping those who subscribe to our library news feed on Facebook apprised of new development and I have been sharing articles on the topic. I will continue to do that. Any major news, I will also share in this newsletter.
 
Finally, have a wonderful National Library week!
 
Have a wonderful week,
Melissa
 
Celebrating National Library week
 

Millions of people visit their libraries every week. What's the draw? Everything. During National Library Week, April 6–12, 2025, take time to discover (or rediscover) what draws people in.
  • Visit your library and bring friends or family along.
  • Encourage a friend to get a library card—it’s a simple act that opens up a world of opportunity.
  • Browse the shelves, join a book club, or attend a story time. Sketch out your next creative project in the kids room, attend an inspiring program, or find expert help with research. Libraries connect us to ideas, information, and each other—and they’re built for everyone.
This year, we’re asking you to show up at your library—and show up for your library. Here are some ways you can help us.
  • Contact your members of Congress by phone or email and ask them to protect federal library funding.
  • Sign up to receive advocacy alerts.
  • Become a Supporter of the American Library Association.
Stand with your community to defend the freedom to read and celebrate what makes libraries essential.
 
 
National Library Week is an annual celebration highlighting the valuable role libraries, librarians, and library workers play in transforming lives and strengthening our communities.
 
In the mid-1950s, research showed that Americans were spending less on books and more on radios, televisions and musical instruments. Concerned that Americans were reading less, the ALA and the American Book Publishers formed a nonprofit citizens organization called the National Book Committee in 1954. The committee's goals were ambitious. They ranged from "encouraging people to read in their increasing leisure time" to "improving incomes and health" and "developing strong and happy family life."
 
In 1957, the committee developed a plan for National Library Week based on the idea that once people were motivated to read, they would support and use libraries. With the cooperation of ALA and with help from the Advertising Council, the first National Library Week was observed in 1958 with the theme "Wake Up and Read!" The 2024 celebration marked the 66th anniversary of the first event.
 
Read more about the history of National Library Week at American Libraries magazine, and check out the list of past National Library Week themes.
 
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CHILDREN'S NEWS & PROGRAMS
Join us the second Wednesday of each month at 10:30 AM for our multigenerational sing along in the children's room.
 
ADULT NEWS & PROGRAMS
Kingston Seed Library

Happy planting season!
 
 
 

Upcoming Matinee Movies
 
               
April 9 - Anger Management (2003) 1h 46m - Comedy
Dave Buznik is a businessman who is wrongly sentenced to an anger management program, where he meets an aggressive instructor.
April 16 - Arthur (1981) 1h 37m - Romantic Comedy
Alcoholic billionaire playboy Arthur Bach must marry a woman he does not love, or he will be cut off from his $750,000,000 fortune. But when Arthur falls in love with a poor waitress, he must decide if he wants to choose love or money.
April 23 - Benchwarmers (2006) 1h 25m - Comedy
A trio of guys try and make up for missed opportunities in childhood by forming a three-player baseball team to compete against standard children's Little League squads.
Older Adults News
 


KCL Teens- New Books!
The rose bargain
by Sasha Peyton Smith

Every English citizen is granted one bargain from their immortal fae queen, and Ivy wants to repair the damage her sister did with her bargain and in doing so, she uncovers dark secrets about their immortal queen's reign. Simultaneous eBook.
Friends News
Book Sale News
 
Our new bag sale beginning Friday, April 11th, includes all oversized and coffee table books. Fill a bag (provided) for only $5. There is a variety of books on sale about art, music, rock 'n' roll, cars, history and more. Some are in like-new condition. We have restocked the "Recent Releases" section. These books have all been published in the last year or 2. They cost a bit more than most of our books (look for the lime green price sticker on the cover) but are still far below regular retail prices. And don't forget our "Free" shelf that has items such as books on cassette, older books, reference books and puzzles missing pieces.
 
Mark your schedule for the next meeting of the Friends of the Kingston Community Library Monday, April 21st at 4 pm at the library. 
 
 
BOOK CLUBS
Director's Monday Book Club (Monday 5/5 at 3:00pm)
The cellist of Sarajevo
by Steven Galloway

While a cellist plays at the site of a mortar attack to commemorate the deaths of twenty-two friends and neighbors, two other men set out in search of bread and water to keep themselves alive, and a woman sniper secretly protects the life of the cellist as her army becomes increasingly threatening.
Nonfiction Book Club (Wednesday 4/16 at 6:00pm)
Cue the sun : the invention of reality TV
by Emily Nussbaum

"From beloved New Yorker TV critic Emily Nussbaum comes a groundbreaking narrative detailing the fights, egos, drama, and future presidents of reality television. Cue the Sun is a rollicking, deeply reported story about how the early reality TV business metastasized into an industry that now dominates entertainment in the United States. Starting in 1948, Nussbaum pulls back the curtain on the cultural meat grinder that created a generation-defining form of entertainment, examining shows from The Real World to Survivor to The Apprentice. Through extensive interviews, Nussbaum follows the reality TV industry from its inception with shows like Candid Camera to its 90s heyday and 00s aftermath. The book dives into some of the industry's most remarkable stories--for instance, the one where a serial killer on the run once appeared on The Dating Game"
Romance Required Book Club (Friday 4/25 at 1:00pm) 
Slightly dangerous
by Mary Balogh

In a first hardcover installment of the popular Regency-era series, romance enters the life of Wulfric Bedwyn, Duke of Bewcastle, the eldest brother and head of the Bedwyn family. By the author of Slightly Scandalous and Slightly Sinful.
Cook Book Club (Monday 4/28 at 12:30pm)
One
by Jamie Oliver

This go-to kitchen companion serves up 120 simple, delicious one-pan recipes with eight ingredients or less that take minimal prep and have maximum convenience. Illustrations.
Mystery Book Club (Tuesday 4/22 at 6pm)
The ice beneath her : a novel
by Camilla Grebe

Investigating a grisly murder in a business tycoon's Stockholm residence, detective Peter Lindgren and psychological profiler Hanne Lagerlind-Sch÷n navigate complications in their own relationship while tracking down the businessman, who may have been having an affair with the victim.
Thursday Night Book Club (Thursdays 4/10 & 4/24 at 6:00pm)
Cannery row
by John Steinbeck

Vividly depicts the colorful, sometimes disreputable, inhabitants of a run-down area in Monterey, California
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