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Newsletter Volume 21 Issue 3
| March Break is sneaking up on us, make sure you register the kids for our Crafting for Critters program held in partnership with the Midland OSPCA. Spots are filling up fast!
Did you know puzzles can help improve your memory and decrease stress levels? Don't worry there is still time to drop off your used puzzles to participate in the Great Tay Puzzle Swap! You have until March 7th to bring them in, then come back the 9th to pick out new ones to keep your mind active.
There is so much more in branch, don't take our word for it, plan to visit your Library today. | |
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ComicsPlus is here!
ComicsPlus is now available on your devices! 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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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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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
Wasaga Beach Public Library
Midland Public Library
Click here for more information |
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Pajama Storytime LIVE! on Facebook and Instagram is now the first Wednesday each month at 6:30 PM
Catch the next live video on March 6th! Join Library staff online as we read our favourite books and sing a song. The video stays up a all month, but don't forget to comment while watching live so we can say Hi! |
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Storytime Activity Kits
Stop into your branch this month starting March 5th, to get a Moose Fairy paper bag puppet craft to take home to go with the online event. |
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Now offered at all three branches!
Storytime for Babies and Tots Port McNicoll -Tuesdays at 11:00 AM Victoria Harbour - Wednesdays at 11:00 AM
Waubaushene - Thursdays at 11:00 AM Join us as we read books, sing songs, learn, & have fun! No registration required, for ages 0-6. |
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Game Nights
Port McNicoll:
Tuesdays 5:30-7:00 PM
Waubaushene:
Thursdays 5:30-7:00 PM
Join us for Game Night with video games and board games. Great for kids of all ages, drop-in. |
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Crafting for Critters
(March Break Program) Port McNicoll Branch: Tues. March 12th 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Victoria Harbour Branch: Wed. March 13th 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Waubaushene Branch:
Thurs. March 14th 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Come learn about the OSPCA and make your own cat or dog toy! Don't have a four-legged furry friend?
Donate your toy to the OSPCA. Registration required. Call us or send an email. |
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Taste the World Season 3
This month's spice is available starting March 30th. Registration is full for this program.
This beloved culinary program is back for round 3! Each month for 6 months we will be featuring a new spice or blend from around the world with recipe cards. Geared for ages 10 and up, one kit per family, sign up for the ones you'd like or try them all. • CAJUN SEASONING • LAVENDER FLOWERS |
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The Great Tay Puzzle Swap!
Saturday March 9th 11:30-3:00 PM Victoria Harbour Branch
Drop off your puzzles at any branch before March 7th and receive a ticket for each puzzle you bring. Please make sure your puzzles are in good condition and have all their pieces. Then bring your tickets to the Victoria Harbour Branch on March 9th to pick out your new puzzles. Call us or send an email for more information. |
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Sit and Stitch
Wednesdays, 3:30 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
Thursdays, 3 PM
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. It is played by four players and a set of 144 tiles based on Chinese characters and symbols. We are also playing the North American version of Mahjong. Please call ahead to make sure we have a spot for you! |
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Learn to Play Chess Club
Fridays, 1:30-3:00 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! Contact us for more information! |
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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 Pass
Click here to visit our website for more information, or click the images to place your holds! |
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The Simcoe County Museum pass provides entrance to the museum for up to 7 people! Visit the museum for a wide variety of events, exhibits and programs for all ages throughout the year!
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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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| Have you downloaded cloudLibrary yet?
We have migrated from Libby/Overdrive to cloudLibrary for eBook and eAudiobook Content. Click here to view the FAQ about the change and info about the app. |
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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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New Titles for your holds!
Click the images to display in our catalogue to place a hold. |
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The Book of Love
Kelly Link
Late one night, Laura, Daniel, and Mo find themselves confused and disembodied, blinking under the fluorescent lights of their high school music room. They are greeted by the man they know as their music teacher, who restores the ghostly teens to their corporeal forms with a flick of his fingers and explains that nearly a year ago they went missing from their hometown, the small seaside community of Lovesend, Massachusetts, and have long been presumed dead. Which they are. Desperate to reclaim their lives, the teenagers agree to the terms of a deal that their teacher proposes. Laura, Daniel, and Mo, and a mysterious fourth soul who crossed back over with them, will compete to remain in the mortal realm. They will be given a series of magical tasks. In the meantime, they may return to their families and friends, but they can tell no one where they have been. In the end, there will be winners and losers. Two will remain. Two will return. But their resurrection has attracted the notice of several supernatural figures, all with their own agendas. As Laura, Daniel, and Mo grapple with love, loss, and heartbreak in the lives they left behind, these mysterious others begin to arrive, engulfing Lovesend in danger and chaos, and it becomes imperative that the teens solve the mystery of their deaths to avert the looming disaster.
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Crosshairs
James PattersonNYC detective Michael Bennett teams up with a former Army Ranger and sniper whose long, unexplained absences from duty causes suspicions during the investigation of a serial killer. |
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No One Can Know
Kate Alice Marshall
Emma hasn't told her husband much about her past. He knows her parents are dead and she hasn't spoken to her sisters in years. Then they lose their apartment, her husband gets laid off, and Emma discovers she's pregnant. right as the bank account slips into the red. That's when Emma confesses that she has one more asset -- her parents' house, which she owns jointly with her estranged sisters. They can't sell it, but they can live in it. But returning home means that Emma is forced to reveal her secrets to her husband, that the house is not a run-down farmhouse but a stately mansion, and that her parents died there. Were murdered. And that some people say Emma did it. Emma and her sisters have never spoken about what really happened that night. Now, her return to the house may lure her sisters back, but it will also crack open family and small-town secrets lots of people don't want revealed. As Emma struggles to reconnect with her old family and hold together her new one, she begins to realize that the things they have left unspoken all these years have put them in danger again.
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The Bright Spot
Jill Shalvis
Luna Wright is a lot of things, but sweet and trusting aren't on the list. However, she's a sucker for the underdog and a hard-luck story. Adopted at birth, with scant knowledge of her biological family, she's created her own inner circle, a motley crew that includes her bestie Willow, to help her run the struggling but charming Apple Ridge Farm. With a farm-to-table cafe as well as a menagerie of rescued animals (complete with a baby goat who keeps escaping to the pantry to eat the secret stash of decidedly not organic potato chips), it's the best home she's ever known. But when Silas, the owner who they secretly call ‘the Grinch’, passes away, Luna discovers the farm is now under the control of both his investment manager, the enigmatic Jameson Hayes, and her. And that Silas had many, many secrets. Now Luna's carefully controlled corner of the world is threatened and she, along with some of her friends, has to dig deep to find true strength and the real meaning of love and family.
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Death of a Spy
M.C. Beaton
Sergeant Hamish Macbeth has some major problems to deal with -- crimes and criminals, even law enforcement agents, that he doesn't want anywhere near his beloved Highland village in Lochdubh. Hamish is worried about how the locals, as well as those in the wider area of his territory in Sutherland, will react to his new assistant officer. The officer is none other than the enigmatic American James Bland who is on an exchange scheme from his home city of Chicago in the United States, supposedly to study policing methods in Scotland. Hamish knows that this is far from the truth. Having recently become involved in identifying a Russian spy ring to solve a murder, he is aware that Bland's mission is to track down the members of the spy network still at large. Bland trusts Hamish to help him find all of those who may have been, or may still be, in league with the Russians. In the meantime, he and Bland have to contend with the everyday chores of rural policing. The tourist season brings with it the usual crop of traffic incidents, lost wallets, lost dogs, and people who are simply lost, but a spate of burglaries and robberies committed by a man described as having a gold tooth and a spider's web tattoo on his neck give Hamish cause for serious concern. The robberies become increasingly violent and the man is dubbed ‘Spiderman’ by the local press. Hamish has to use all of his contacts and every ounce of his Highland guile to find the robber.
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The Bad Weather Friend
Dean Koontz
Benny Catspaw's perpetually sunny disposition is tested when he loses his job, his reputation, his fiancée, and his favorite chair. He's not paranoid. Someone is out to get him. He just doesn't know who or why. Then Benny receives an inheritance from an uncle he's never heard of: a giant crate and a video message. All will be well in time. How strange -- though it's a blessing, his uncle promises. Stranger yet is what's inside the crate. He's a seven-foot-tall self-described ‘bad weather friend’ named Spike whose mission is to help people who are just too good for this world. Spike will take care of it. He'll find Benny's enemies. He'll deal with them. This might be satisfying if Spike wasn't such a menacing presence with terrifying techniques of intimidation. In the company of Spike and a fascinated young waitress-cum-PI-in-training named Harper, Benny plunges into a perilous high-speed adventure, the likes of which never would have crossed the mind of a decent guy like him.
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Lost : a History of Disappearances
Tim Rayborn
The Bermuda Triangle. Amelia Earhart. The Mary Celeste. D.B. Cooper. The lost colony of Roanoke. The Lindbergh baby. With puzzling disappearances that bewilder investigators to this day and infamous cold cases that will chill you to the bone, Lost is a compendium of the most compelling missing persons cases in history. These notorious stories will have true crime fans on the edge of their seats. From planes that took off and never touched down to kidnappings, murders, and people who seem to have vanished into thin air, jump into the evidence left behind to untangle these mysteries and ponder the lost souls who disappeared without a trace. |
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The Book of Invasive Species
Kit Carlson Invasive flora and fauna adversely affect our ecosystems. Some species are introduced purposefully, but even with the best intentions it is almost impossible to predict how a foreign organism will react to a new environment. The Carlsons introduce readers to invasive animals, plants, and microorganisms found across North America -- their identifying characteristics, habitats, threats they pose to their ecosystems, and how they can be managed.”--provided by the publisher. |
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Tell the Truth, Dragon!
Bianca Schulze After taking a bite out of a freshly-made cake, Dragon blames Cat but soon learns that it is important to tell the truth about one's actions. |
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Big Emotions
Elena Ulyeva Cam the chameleon is going to visit his grandmother. But when he enters a strange forest, he's not welcomed by the animals that live there. See how Cam feels -- and handles -- a variety of emotions. |
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Bluey the Videogame [Nintendo Switch]
Take on fun challenges as Bluey, Bingo, Bandit, or Chilli. Play your favourite games from the TV show, including Keepy Uppy, Chattermax Chase, and more. |
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Trolls Band Together [DVD]
Poppy discovers that Branch was once part of a boy band, BroZone, with his brothers Floyd, John Dory, Spruce, and Clay. But when Floyd is kidnapped, Branch and Poppy embark on a journey to reunite the other brothers and rescue Floyd. |
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The Holdovers
[Blu-Ray and DVD]A curmudgeonly instructor at a New England prep school is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go. Eventually, he forms an unlikely bond with one of them, a damaged brainy troublemaker, and with the school's head cook, who has just lost a son in Vietnam.. |
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Priscilla
[DVD]When teenage Priscilla Beaulieu meets Elvis Presley at a party, the man who is already a meteoric rock-and-roll superstar becomes someone entirely unexpected in private moments: a thrilling crush, an ally in loneliness, a gentle best friend. Through Priscilla's eyes, Sofia Coppola tells the unseen side of a great American myth in Elvis and Priscilla's long courtship and turbulent marriage, from a German army base to his dream-world estate at Graceland, in this deeply felt and ravishingly detailed portrait of love, fantasy, and fame. |
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