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Tay Township Public Library
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Newsletter Volume 22 Issue 5
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Overdue items?
We start collection of overdue fines on May 1st. Just make sure you are renewing or returning items on time and you will have nothing to worry about. All books are 25 cents per day overdue, everything else is $1.00 per day. Ask library staff for more information. |
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Portarama is May 16th-18th!
Gently used Book Sale
Stop by the Port McNicoll Branch for the Marjorie Young Volunteer Association's gently used book sale on Saturday, May 17th, from 11 am - 3 pm. All proceeds support Library programs and special collections. Fill your own bag $5, or buy one of ours for an additional $3. Kids Colouring Corner while you browse!
New this year: The Victoria Harbour and Waubaushene Branches are also going to have book sales the same date, time and price. So you can visit any branch to fill your book bags!
Horticultural Committee Plant Swap and Sale Join us for a blooming good time on Saturday, May 17th from 11am to 3pm at the Port McNicoll Branch for the Tay Township's Horticultural Committee’s Plant Swap and Sale!
Support local beautification efforts while picking up some lovely plants for your garden! All proceeds from the sale help fund the beautification of Tay Township, thanks to the hard work and dedication of the Horticulture Committee. Come see what’s growing, learn more about what the committee does, and help keep our community vibrant, green, and beautiful.
Let’s grow together!
For more information on other Portarama Events and updates visit the Facebook Page. |
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Come see us at the Waubaushene Community Garden Planting Party!
Sunday, May 25th is Planting Day in the Waubaushene Community Garden! Join our local growers and Tay Library at 11:00 AM at Veteran's Memorial Park (60 Elm St.) for live music, children's activities, plant share, a potluck lunch and more! |
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Our Seed Library is ready to go!
Get growing today!
Get up to 10 types of seeds with over 100 varieties to choose from, including many native seeds. Thank you to everyone who participated last year and saved seeds for us. Visit a branch to browse our seed catalogue and pick out what to grow this year.
For more information on how to borrow seeds please visit our website. |
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Our new computers are here and ready to use!
We have two brand new, fast computers that print in each branch. You will need your library card to log in and access the computer. |
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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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Support your Library today by buying a book bag for $3.
Thank you for helping enhance our collections and programs! |
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Family Craft Party
Saturday, May 24th at 1 PM - Port McNicoll
Join us for a monthly family craft party! This month we are finally celebrating spring after a long harsh winter! We will be making paper flowers and coffee filter butterflies. For kids aged 4-10. Please email or call us to register. |
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Storytime for Babies and Tots
Wednesdays at 11 AM in Victoria Harbour Thursdays at 11 AM in Waubaushene Join us as we read books, sing songs, learn, & have fun! No registration required. |
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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! |
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Game Night!
Thursdays from 5:30-7:00 PM Waubaushene
Join us for Game Night with video games and board games. Great for kids of all ages, drop-in. |
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Artful Escapes - Beginner Water Colour Painting
Tuesday, May 27th at 5:30 PM - Port McNicoll Branch
Create your own work of art and learn some beginner water colour techniques with video tutorials at the library. Free, all materials provided, for ages 12+. This program is currently full, however please email us to join the waitlist. |
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Crops in Flowerpots
Saturday, May 31st at 1 PM Waubaushene Branch
Learn all about growing food in containers, and make your own planter to take home! Presented by Sharon Blomme, in partnership with the Waubaushene Community Garden. Ages 12+ Please register to secure a spot. |
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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 2:30 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 at 1:00 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. 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
Drop in anytime to any branch and visit the table that has crayons and colouring pages where children of all ages can colour and relax. |
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Pole Walking
Did you know that Tay residents can borrow poles for pole walking free of charge all year long? Check them out just like a book at any Library branch. Click here for more info. |
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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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33 Place Brugmann
Alice Austen
On the eve of the occupation, in the heart of Brussels, life for the residents of eight apartments at 33 Place Brugmann is about to change forever. Art student Charlotte Sauvin, daughter of a prominent architect in apartment 4L, knows all the details of the building and its people -- how light falls and voices echo, the distinct knock of her dearest friend Julian Raphaël, the eldest son of an art collector's family across the hall in 4R. But all that's familiar for Charlotte and the other residents of 33 begins to fracture as whispers of Nazi occupation become reality. The Raphaëls disappear, becoming refugees, nurses, soldiers, reluctant heroes. Masha, the seamstress on the 5th floor, deepens a dangerous affair with a wartime compatriot of Colonel Warlemont in 3R, a man far less feckless than he'd have his neighbors believe. And in the face of a perilous new reality, every member of this accidental community will discover they are not the person they believed themselves to be. When confronted with a cruel choice -- submit to the regime or risk their lives to resist -- each will discover the truth about what, and who, matters to them the most.
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The Wild Lavender Bookshop
Jodi Thomas
The trees that circle Someday Valley near Honey Creek are dressed in their fall finest, providing a pretty backdrop for the local businesses, including the little bookshop loved by schoolteacher Cora Lee Buchanan. There, under the watchful eye of owner Noah O'Brien, Cora Lee and her sister Katherine meet each Wednesday. Their talk mostly revolves around one subject -- their father, known to everyone in town as Bear. Both Cora Lee and Katherine worry about Bear Buchanan. They've no idea Bear has a secret life of his own. As for the sisters, Katherine, beautiful and self-absorbed, is in search of her third husband, while Cora Lee is in love for the first time. On warm nights, she climbs up to her building's roof to chat with Noah and listen to the melody of the water below. Yet there is more intrigue afoot in Honey Creek. Andi Delane has arrived in town to hear the last wishes of the father she never met. She was shocked to get a letter from lawyer Jackson Landry, and she has few expectations of this mysterious will, or of Deputy Danny Davis who's been assigned to protect her. But fall always brings changes, and this year there will be enough to alter not just the lives of those who call Honey Creek home, but the future of Someday Valley itself.
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Flirting Lessons
Jasmine Guillory
Avery Jensen is almost thirty, fresh off a breakup, and she's tired of always being so uptight and well-behaved. She wants to get a hobby, date around (especially other women), flirt with everyone she sees, wear something not from the business casual section of her closet -- all the fun stuff normal people do in their twenties. One problem -- Avery doesn't know where to start. She doesn't have a lot of dating experience, with men or women, and despite being self-assured at work, she doesn't have a lot of confidence when it comes to romance. Enter Taylor Cameron, Napa Valley's biggest flirt and champion heartbreaker. Taylor just broke up with her most recent girlfriend, and her best friend bet her that she can't make it until Labor Day without sleeping with someone. (Two whole months? Without sex? Taylor?!?!) So, she offers to give Avery flirting lessons. It should keep her busy and stop her from texting people she shouldn't. And it might take her mind off how inadequate she feels compared to her friends, who all seem much more settled and adult than Taylor. At first, Avery is stiff and nervous, but Taylor is patient and encouraging, and soon, Avery looks forward to their weekly lessons. With Taylor's help, Avery finally has the life she always wanted. The only issue is now she wants Taylor. Their attraction becomes impossible to ignore, despite them both insisting to themselves and everyone else that it isn't serious. When Taylor is forced to confront her feelings for Avery, she doesn't know what to do and, most importantly, if she's already ruined the best thing she's ever had.
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Dead Broke, Colorado
William W. Johnstone
The town got its unusual name when a pair of brokedown prospectors accidentally dropped a stick of dynamite in the Rockies -- and unwittingly unearthed a massive vein of silver. One of the two men dropped dead from excitement. The other one named the place ‘Dead Broke’ in honor of his dead broke companion and declared himself mayor of a brand-new mining town. Mayor Allane Auchenleck, better known as Nugget, put Dead Broke on the map. But when the silver market takes an unexpected nosedive, the bustling boomtown goes bust. And all hell breaks loose. Almost overnight, Dead Broke turns into a lawless hotbed of angry out-of-work miners and out-for-blood merchants. In desperation, Mayor Nugget considers a few hairbrained schemes like bringing in mail-order brides, building ice castles to attract tourists, even planting other minerals in the mines to fool investors. But Dead Broke needs law and order, so Nugget sends for top gun Mick MacMicking. Of course, a notorious gambler named Connor Boyle has other plans and, with his band of hired guns, he plans to blow Dead Broke off the map to get what he wants. For this town to survive, Nugget, Mick, a drunken lawman, and a woman gambler will have to put the dead back in Dead Broke and some cool-hand killers in the ground.
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The Summer Guests
Tess GerritsenIn Purity, Maine, former spy Maggie Bird and her Martini Club of ex-CIA operatives are drawn into the search for a missing teen with ties to their past, as they confront an innocent friend's wrongful suspicion, a buried corpse, and dark secrets that threaten to unravel everything they've worked to protect. |
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The Page Turner
Viola Shipman
Emma Page grew up the black sheep in a bookish household, raised to believe that fine literature is the only worthy type of fiction. Her parents, self-proclaimed ‘serious’ authors who run their own vanity press, The Mighty Pages, mingle in highbrow social circles that look down on anything too popular or mainstream, while her sister Jess is a powerful social media influencer whose stylish reviews can make or break a novel. Hiding her own romance manuscript from her disapproving parents, Emma finds inspiration at the family cottage among the ‘fluff’ they despise -- the juicy summer romances that belonged to her late grandmother. But a chance discovery unearthed from her Gigi's belongings reveals a secret that has the power to ruin her parents' business and destroy their reputation in the industry, a secret that has already fallen into the hands of an unscrupulous publishing insider with a grudge to settle. Now Emma must decide -- as much as she's dreamed of the day when her parents are forced to confront their own egos, can she really just sit back and watch The Mighty Pages be exposed and their legacy destroyed?
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Memorial Days
Geraldine Brooks
It was Memorial Day, 2019, when Geraldine Brooks received news that her husband Tony Horwitz had collapsed and died, far from home, in the middle of his own book tour. The complex tasks required in the face of such a sudden death left her no time to properly grieve for him. Three years later, still feeling broken and bereft, she booked a flight to a remote island off the coast of Tasmania. Alone on a rugged stretch of coast, she revisited a thirty-five-year marriage filled with risk, adventure, humor, and love. There, she pondered the ways other cultures deal with mourning and finally seized the time and space she needed for her own grief. |
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Shark Girl
Kate BeatonWhen Shark Girl is captured by an evil fishing captain's net, he better watch out! With the sea witch's help, Shark Girl becomes a human sailor and launches a plan to mutiny! But Shark Girl needs the help of her crewmates before she can enact her plan. Will Shark Girl sink or swim? |
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Beyblade X
[Graphic Novel] Homura Kawamoto
Bladers are ready to battle it out! They've set their sights on the top of The X tower and prepare to fight their way to victory. With new technology and powerful opponents entering the arena, Beyblades are pushed to their extremes as they race through a new era. Amateur Blader Robin Kazami is left without a team after a crushing defeat. Things start to look up when he runs into former Beyblade champion Jaxon Cross, who is on his own journey to fight back to the top of The X tower under the alias ‘Blader X’. This unlikely duo teams up and vows to rise to the top of Beyblade! |
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A Cheesey Brie-ginning [Graphic Novel]
Guy KopsombutPillow the bear wants to become a hero. In order to become one, he must collect Hero Badges. Pillow has collected a lot of badges, but one in particular eludes him -- The Dragon Slaying Badge. So when Pillow learns about a dragon that has stolen all of his town's cheese, he figures it's finally his chance to earn his badge. But the dragon isn't guilty after all. In fact, she isn't even a dragon! She is a shape-shifting fairy named Fae, and thanks to Pillow's tip, must now clear her name, find out who took the cheese, and why. |
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Star Overdrive [Nintendo Switch]
Race across an alien planet on your Hoverboard in this high-speed action-adventure. Master tricks, solve puzzles, battle enemies, and shape your destiny! After intercepting a cryptic distress signal, you, the protagonist Bios, find yourself stranded on an enigmatic planet called Cebete. Armed with your versatile Keytar and advanced Hoverboard, you'll navigate diverse biomes, confront challenges, evolve your hidden powers, and uncover the mystery behind the disappearance of your beloved Nous. Bend the environment to your will by combining abilities, unlocking skills as you clear ruins. Battle or explore at your pace, using powers to outsmart enemies. Explore three distinct biomes, each with unique landscapes, creatures, and hidden challenges. No two rides feel the same.
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Moana 2 [DVD]
An epic animated musical takes audiences on an expansive new voyage with Moana, Maui and a brand-new crew of unlikely seafarers. After receiving an unexpected call from her way-finding ancestors, Moana must journey to the far seas of Oceania and into dangerous, long-lost waters for an adventure unlike anything she's ever faced. |
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Flight Risk [DVD]
A pilot transports an Air Marshal accompanying a fugitive to trial. As they cross the Alaskan wilderness, tensions soar and trust is tested, as not everyone on board is who they seem. |
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Mufasa [DVD]
Follow the epic tale of the unlikely rise of the Pride Lands' beloved king. An orphaned Mufasa is lost and alone until he meets Taka, heir to a royal bloodline. This launches an epic journey that tests the pair's bonds as they evade a deadly foe. |
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