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Tay Township Public Library
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Newsletter Volume 22 Issue 1
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Happy New Year!
We had so much fun at our Noon Year's Eve parties. Thank you to everyone who supported the library in 2024, we are looking forward to and planning lots of fun events for 2025! |
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A reminder: all regular programming is paused from December 24th to January 4th.
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Overdue items?
In the new year our overdue fine policy will begin again. Don’t worry there will be a grace period while we all get used to it again. Ask library staff for more details in January. |
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Exciting news!
We will have new public computers soon! All three branches have two new computers for public use. We know many people have been waiting patiently for faster machines and they have arrived! |
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Wi-Fi Update!
We have new Wi-Fi access in all three branches. You no longer need to log in with your library card. Just choose the Library Network then use the password Tay-pub-wifi when you are in range of any Library Branch. |
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Inter-Library Loan Update!
Library staff have been working hard to learn new software that Ontario Library Service has implemented for Inter-Library Loans. This change went live on November 12th. The Canada Post Strike affects this service as well. When the strike is over there will a period of catch up and requests will take a little longer than usual to process, please have patience as we work out the kinks and continue learning. |
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Support your Library today by buying a book bag for $3.
Thank you for helping enhance our collections and programs! |
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Did you save seeds for the Seed Library!
Thank you to everyone who has participated in the seed library, don't forget to donate your seeds this year!
Visit a branch to browse our seed catalogue and pick out what to grow next season.
For more information on how to borrow seeds please visit our website. |
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Storytime for Babies and Tots
This program is on hold, returning March 2025. Join us as we read books, sing songs, learn, & have fun! No registration required, for ages 0-6. The last storytime of the year will be Thursday, December 12th. |
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Pajama Storytime
Wednesdays at 4:30 PM Victoria Harbour
Join us in branch, in your PJs, as we read and talk about our favourite picture books! Geared to ages 5 and up! This program begins again January 8th, but will be on hold for the month of February. |
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Game Nights 5:30-7:00 PM
Tuesdays - Port McNicoll Thursdays - Waubaushene
Join us for Game Night with video games and board games. Great for kids of all ages, drop-in. |
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Family Craft Party - Snowy Owls
Waubaushene Branch - Sat., Jan. 25th at 1 PM
Join us for a monthly family craft party! This month is all about owls and we are making snowy owls out of pinecones. For kids aged 4-10. Please email or call us to register. |
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Learn to Play Chess Club
Tuesdays at 12:30 PM Victoria Harbour Branch Never played, but always wanted to? Not played in a long time and need a refresher? Learn to play chess in a group setting. Come join us for a game! |
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Sit and Stitch
Wednesdays at 3:00 PM
Victoria Harbour Branch
A casual, drop-in atmosphere. Bring what you are working on and maybe get help from new friends. Knit, crochet, embroidery, mending, if you can bring it and want to share it, stop by and do one more row together. You could also swap yarn and patterns! |
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Mahjong for Beginners
On hold until further notice. Victoria Harbour Branch
Mahjong is a tile-based game that was developed in the 19th century in China and has spread throughout the world since the early 20th century. We are playing the American version of the game. It is played with four players and a set of 152 tiles based on Chinese characters and symbols. |
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All three branches have a cart full of donated and discarded books and movies you can purchase from, by donation to the Library.
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Drop in Kids Colouring
Victoria Harbour
Drop in anytime to visit the table that has crayons and colouring pages where children of all ages can colour and relax.
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Borrow a PassClick here to visit our website for more information, or click the images to place your holds! |
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The Wye Marsh Wildlife Centre has provided the Tay Township Public Library with Family Day Passes! This gives you FREE entrance to the Marsh for up to 2 adults and 2 children.
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Visit any Ontario Park for FREE by borrowing an Ontario Parks Vehicle Permit from the Library! Permits allow park entry to any provincial park for one vehicle (excluding busses) and its passengers for the whole day (not for overnight use).
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The Huronia Museum has provided the Tay Township Public Library with 3 Museum Passes! This gives you FREE entrance to the Museum for up to 2 adults and 2 children.
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Apps to read on the go!
Click on the App icons to learn more about cloudLibrary for borrowing eBooks and AudioBooks, and PressReader to view your favourite newspapers and magazines, all on your own device! |
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ComicsPlus
Enjoy unlimited access to thousands of digital comics, mangas and graphic novels for free with your Tay Township Library card! No holds, wait lists or limits!
To access Comics Plus:
1. Visit login.librarypass.com, or download and install the LibraryPass app for iOS or Android.
2. Search for Simcoe Digital Library Service, and enter your library card number. 3. Read all the comics! |
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Download the Simcoe County Libraries app and log in with your library card to access your account and place holds today.
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Reciprocal Borrowing |
If you are currently a member in good standing at your Library, you are entitled to a free Library membership at any of these Libraries!
Clearview Public Library
Essa Public Library
Penetanguishene Public Library
Ramara Public Library
Severn Public Library
Springwater Public Library
Midland Public Library
Click here for more information |
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Library Board Information |
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Library Board Members:
Heather Walker (Chair)
Janet McFadden (Vice Chair)
Laura Adams
Gerard LaChapelle
(Council Representative)
Sandy Talbot (Council Representative) |
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Email Domain Change
We have switched email domains, please make sure you update your library contacts, so we don’t get lost in your junk folders. All our names are the same, you just need to change the end to @taylibrary.ca
For all your library needs please email library@taylibrary.ca |
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New Titles for your holds!
Click the images to display in our catalogue to place a hold. |
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Inheritance
Nora Roberts
Graphic designer Sonya MacTavish is stunned to learn that her late father had a twin he never knew about and that her newly discovered uncle Collin Poole has left her almost everything he owned, including a majestic Victorian house on the Maine coast, which the will stipulates she must live in it for at least three years. Her engagement recently broken, she sets off to find out why the boys were separated at birth and why it was all kept secret until a genealogy website brought it to light. Trey, the young lawyer who greets her at the sprawling clifftop manor, notes Sonya's unease and acknowledges that yes, the place is haunted but just a little. Sure enough, Sonya finds objects moved and music playing out of nowhere. She sees a painting by her father inexplicably hanging in her deceased uncle's office, and a portrait of a woman named Astrid, whom the lawyer refers to as ‘the first lost bride’. It's becoming clear that Sonya has inherited far more than a house. She has inherited a centuries-old curse, and a puzzle to be solved if there is any hope of breaking it.
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Seven Girls Gone
Allison Brennan
For three years, women have been disappearing and eventually turning up dead in the small bayou town of St. Augustine, Louisiana. Police detective Beau Hebert is the only one who seems to care, but with every witness quickly silenced and a corrupt police department set on keeping the cases unsolved, Beau's investigation stalls at every turn. With nobody else to trust, Beau calls in a favor from his friend on the FBI's Mobile Response Team. While LAPD detective Kara Quinn works undercover to dig into the women's murders and team leader Matt Costa officially investigates the in-custody death of a witness, Beau might finally have a chance at solving the case. But in a town where everyone knows everyone, talking gets you killed and secrets stay buried, it's going to take the entire team working around the clock to unravel the truth. Especially when they discover that the deep-seated corruption and the deadly drug-trafficking ring at the center of it all extends far beyond the small-town borders.
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Bellevue
Robin Cook
Twenty-three-year-old Michael "Mitt" Fuller starts his surgical residency with great anticipation at the nearly three-hundred-year-old, iconic Bellevue Hospital, following in the footsteps of four previous, celebrated Fuller generations. The pressure is on for this newly minted doctor, and to his advantage he's always had a secret sixth sense, a sensitivity to the nonphysical. But quickly one patient after another assigned to his care begin to die from mysterious causes. As he tries to juggle these inexplicable deaths with the demands of being a first-year resident, things rapidly spiral out of control. Visions begin to plague Mitt--visions of a little girl in a bloodstained dress, bloodcurdling screams in the distance, and worse. As bodies mount and Mitt's stress level rises, he finds himself drawn to the monumental, abandoned Bellevue Psychopathic Hospital building, which to his astonishment has somehow defied the wrecking-ball and still stands a few doors north of the modern Bellevue Hospital high-rise. Forcing an unauthorized entry into this storied but foreboding structure, Mitt discovers he's more closely tied to the sins of the past than he ever thought possible.
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Christmas with the Queen
Hazel Gaynor
December 1952. While the young Queen Elizabeth II finds her feet as the new monarch, she must also find the right words to continue the tradition of her late father's Christmas Day radio broadcast. But even traditions must evolve with the times, and the queen faces a postwar Britain hungry for change. As preparations begin for the royal Christmas at Sandringham House in Norfolk, old friends Jack Devereux and Olive Carter are unexpectedly reunited by the occasion. Olive, a single mother and aspiring reporter at the BBC, leaps at the opportunity to cover the holiday celebration, but even a chance encounter with the queen doesn't go as planned and Olive wonders if she will ever be taken seriously. Jack, a recently widowed chef, reluctantly takes up a new role in the royal kitchens at Sandringham. Lacking in purpose and direction, Jack has abandoned his dream to have his own restaurant, but his talents are soon noticed and while he might not believe in himself, others do, and a chance encounter with an old friend helps to reignite the spark of his passion and ambition. As Jack and Olive's paths continue to cross over the following five Christmases, they grow ever closer. Yet Olive carries the burden of a heavy secret that threatens to destroy everything
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Serviceberry
Robin Wall Kimmerer
As Indigenous scientist and author of Braiding Sweetgrass Robin Wall Kimmerer harvests serviceberries alongside the birds, she considers the ethic of reciprocity that lies at the heart of the gift economy. How, she asks, can we learn from Indigenous wisdom and the plant world to reimagine what we value most? Our economy is rooted in scarcity, competition, and the hoarding of resources, and we have surrendered our values to a system that actively harms what we love. Meanwhile, the serviceberry’s relationship with the natural world is an embodiment of reciprocity, interconnectedness, and gratitude. The tree distributes its wealth—its abundance of sweet, juicy berries—to meet the needs of its natural community. And this distribution ensures its own survival. As Kimmerer explains, “Serviceberries show us another model, one based upon reciprocity, where wealth comes from the quality of your relationships, not from the illusion of self-sufficiency.”
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Paper bullets: Two women Who Risked Their Lives to Defy the Nazis
Jeffrey H. JacksonThe true story of an audacious resistance campaign undertaken by an unlikely pair: two French women -- Lucy Schwob and Suzanne Malherbe -- who drew on their skills as Parisian avant-garde artists to write and distribute wicked insults against Hitler and calls to desert, a PSYOPs tactic known as ‘paper bullets’, designed to demoralize Nazi troops occupying their adopted home of Jersey in the British Channel Islands. |
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Family Fun Night
Cynthia L. Copeland More than ever, family time faces stiff competition from other activities -- video games, iPhone apps, texting, and social media. Family Fun Night: The Third Edition offers the antidote. Tips and advice for establishing weekly family time, as well as hundreds of specific ideas for spending quality time together, with an emphasis on ‘unplugged’ activities. |
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The Squad
Christina Soontornvat[Graphic Novel]
It's eighth grade and Christina and her besties, Megan and Leanne, are once again going through the brutal trials of cheerleading tryouts. This year, Christina feels more confident: She dresses in her own style and has amazing friends, even her first crush. But what if the girls don't all make the squad? Worse than that, Christina learns her parents' marriage is collapsing. Suddenly, her family, her future, and her identity seem in total freefall. Can she keep it together and still make her cheerleading dreams come true? |
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Book of Evolutions :The Official Guide to Pokémon Transformations!
Katherine AndreouA guide to Pokémon transformations, discussing ways Pokémon can evolve and the mysterious items that help them. |
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The Night Before New Year's
Natasha Wing In this version of Clement Moores' classic poem, a brother and sister struggle to stay awake until midnight to ring in the new year. |
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Woman of the Hour [DVD]
A stranger-than-fiction story of an aspiring actor in 1970s Los Angeles and a serial killer in the midst of a years-long murder spree, whose lives intersect when they're cast on an episode of The Dating Game. |
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Beetlejuice Beetlejuice [DVD]
Still haunted by Beetlejuice, Lydia's life gets turned upside down when her daughter discovers a portal to the afterlife. When someone says Beetlejuice's name three times, the mischievous demon soon returns to unleash his very own brand of mayhem. |
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