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Tay Township Public Library
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Newsletter Volume 22 Issue 4
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All Branches are closed Good Friday,
April 18th 2025 |
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Overdue items?
We will 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. We have also notified patrons with long overdue material, please remember to return items that are overdue before May 1st to avoid late fees. Ask library staff for more details. |
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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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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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Drop-in Easter Bunny Craft
April 15th - 19th All Branches Drop by your branch the week of Easter and make your own bouncy Easter Bunny! |
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Family Craft Party
Saturday, April 19th at 1 PM - Waubaushene Join us for a monthly family craft party! This month we are partnering with The Métis Nation of Ontario for an Earth Day event. For kids aged 4-10. Please email or call us to register.
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Seed Starting for Kids!
Saturday, April 26th at 1 - 3 PM - Waubaushene
Drop by the Waubaushene Branch and help us get some seeds started for the Waubaushene Community Garden, and start your own seeds to take home! No registration required. |
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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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2025 Puzzle Swap!
April 12th 11:00 AM Victoria Harbour Branch
Drop off your puzzles at any branch before April 10th 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 April 12th to pick out your new puzzles.
Call us or send an email for more information. |
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Artful Escapes - Beginner Watercolour Painting
Tuesday, April 29th at 5:30 PM - Port McNicoll Branch
Create your own work of art and learn some beginner watercolour techniques with video tutorials at the library.Free, all materials provided, for ages 12+, please register space is limited. |
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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
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? 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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First Wife's Shadow
Adele Parks
His first wife died. Now there's a vacancy... When Emma meets Matthew, a kind, handsome widower, he seems to be just what she needs. Yet as their relationship moves fast, Emma's friends worry she might be exploited. She's a rich woman after all. Emma doesn't care that Matthew has no money. But as the memory of his perfect first wife hangs over them, Emma does have one tiny doubt. If Matthew's wife hadn't died, he wouldn't be with her. And Emma wonders if she's second best. Can she ever fill the dead woman's shoes? As jealousy and suspicion blossom between Emma and Matthew, events take a darker, dangerous turn. Suddenly Emma doesn't know who she can trust. Her friends? Her husband? Or even herself...? |
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Beach Vibes
Susan Mallery
While Beth is proud of her Malibu beach shop, Surf Sandwiches, she's even prouder of her charismatic brother Rick, who rose from foster care through surgical residency. She makes subs, he saves lives. Life takes a turn for the happy after she finds out Rick is dating her new best friend, Jana. Then Jana's handsome brother adds even more sparkle to Beth's days... and nights. But when she catches Rick with another woman--like, with-with--her visions of an idyllic family future disappear in one awful instant. Either she betrays her brother, or she keeps his secret and risks losing the man she loves and her best friend. |
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I Got Abducted by Aliens and Now I'm Trapped in a Rom-Com
Kimberly Lemming
Dorothy Valentine is close to getting her PhD in wildlife biology when she's attacked by a lion. On the bright side, she's saved! On the not-so-bright side, it's because they're abducted by aliens. In her scramble to escape, Dory and the lion commandeer an escape pod and crash-land on an alien planet that has...dinosaurs? Dory and her new lion bestie Toto are saved in the nick of time by a mysterious and sexy alien Sol. On their new adventure, they team up with the equally hot, equally dangerous Lok, who may or may not be a war criminal. Whether it be trauma, fate, or intrigue, Dory can't resist the attraction that's developing in their trio. As this ragtag group of misfits explore their new planet, Dory learns more about how and why they've all ended up together, battles more prehistoric creatures than she imagined (she imagined zero), and questions if she even wants to go back home to Earth.
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Isola
Allegra Goodman
France, 1531. Orphaned by the age of five, Marguerite de la Rocque was heir to a chateau with its own village and lands. But her guardian, Jean Francois de la Rocque de Roberval, sells Marguerite's property to embark on an expedition to New France, bringing Marguerite and her maidservant with him. Aboard the ship, the women are limited to the company of the captain, the navigator Roberval, and his secretary -- a man whose musical talent, literary knowledge, and dark eyes intrigue Marguerite. It isn't long before the two of them are meeting secretly to declare their love for one another. When Roberval discovers this transgression, he is furious, seeing their affection as betrayal. As punishment, he maroons them on a small island off the coast, condemning them to certain death. Marguerite, the man she considers to be her husband, and her servant create a home for themselves inside a small cave. When the weather turns and the island is blanketed in ice, survival becomes nearly impossible. Marguerite is soon the only one left alive. She despairs, convinced she's been abandoned by God, and that she too will succumb to the brutality of the Island. Only then does she realize a strength her guardian could never have fathomed. She teaches herself to hunt and fish, to preserve food, and to scavenge. Months pass, and eventually Marguerite is discovered by a group of Basque fisherman. She persuades them to return her to France, where she tells her story and finally secures her own future, free from her guardian's control.
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The Writer
James Patterson
When a world-famous crime writer's husband is found dead, detectives must uncover if she is the target, the next victim--or a mastermind. NYPD Detective Declan Shaw gets a call: How fast can you get to the Beresford building on Central Park West? In the tower apartment, Shaw finds a woman waiting for him. She's covered in blood. A body is lying dead on the floor of the luxurious living room. Every book in the apartment's floor-to-ceiling shelves is by the same author: bestselling true-crime writer Denise Morrow. "This is you?" Shaw asks the woman. "You're a writer?" Only one person knows the ending to this story. Is it the victim or the killer? |
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The Anatomy of Magic
J.C. Cervantes
Lilian Estrada seemingly has it all -- an ob-gyn star on the rise, a master at balancing work with whirlwind romances and part of a family of fiercely loyal and exceptional women, all bound together by an extraordinary secret. The Estrada women each possess a unique power, and Lily shines with the rare gift to manipulate memories. Yet not even her mystical abilities can shield her from a harrowing event at the hospital, one that sends her powers and her confidence spiraling out of control. Seeking solace, Lily retreats to her family's ancestral home in Mexico, only to find herself face-to-face with a ghost from her past -- Sam, the first love she never forgot. Nearly a decade since she last saw him, Sam is hardly the boy she once knew, and as old flames spark to life, Lily must navigate the mysteries of their shared history and the depths of her own heart if she hopes to control her unpredictable magic.
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Air-Borne: The Hidden History of The Life We Breathe
Carl Zimmer
Every day we draw in two thousand gallons of air and thousands of living things. From the ground to the stratosphere, the air teems with invisible life. This last great biological frontier remains so mysterious that it took over two years for scientists to finally agree that the Covid pandemic was caused by an airborne virus. In Air-Borne, award-winning New York Times columnist and author Carl Zimmer leads us on an odyssey through the living atmosphere and through the history of its discovery. We travel to the tops of mountain glaciers, where Louis Pasteur caught germs from the air, and follow Amelia Earhart and Charles Lindbergh above the clouds where they conducted groundbreaking experiments. We meet the long-forgotten pioneers of aerobiology including William and Mildred Wells, who tried for decades to warn the world about airborne infections, only to die in obscurity.
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Shift: Managing Your Emotions--So They Don't Manage You
Ethan Kross
Whether it's anxiety about going to the doctor, boiling rage when we're stuck in traffic, or devastation after a painful break-up, our lives are filled with situations that send us spiraling. But as difficult as our emotions can be, they are also a superpower. Far from being ‘good’ or ‘bad’, emotions are information. When they're activated in the right ways and at the right time, they function like an immune system, alerting us to our surroundings, telling us how to react to a situation, and helping us make the right choices. But how do we make our emotions work for us rather than against us? Acclaimed psychologist Dr. Ethan Kross has devoted his scientific career to answering this question. In Shift, he dispels common myths -- for instance, that avoidance is always toxic or that we should always strive to live in the moment -- and provides a new framework for shifting our emotions so they don't take over our lives.
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Will the Pigeon Graduate?
Mo Willems
The Pigeon had better graduate! He did the work! He paid attention to the little details! He overcame some BIG obstacles! The Pigeon’s got this . . . Or does he?
Do YOU think The Pigeon will graduate?
Grab your caps, don your gowns, and raise your hands for The Pigeon’s biggest adventure yet in this uplifting, hilarious, and inspirational graduation picture book from three-time Caldecott honoree Mo Willems. It’s a PhD* in fun!
(*Pigeon-y hilarious Diatribe) |
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Mallory and the Trouble with Twins: A Graphic Novel (The Baby-sitters Club #17 - Graphic Novel)
Arley NopraMallory knows she's a good baby-sitter. She's been looking after her seven younger brothers and sisters for years. So when Kristy offers her a steady job baby-sitting for the Arnold twins, Mal thinks it'll be easy money.
The twins sure are cute in their matching outfits. But once Mrs. Arnold leaves, Marilyn and Carolyn turn into twin terrors! They trick Mallory so that she can't tell them apart and they act like spoiled brats. Taking care of Marilyn and Carolyn is a baby-sitting nightmare. But Mallory is a responsible member of the Baby-sitters Club and she's not giving up! |
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Dirty Angels [DVD]
When a group of schoolgirls is taken hostage in Afghanistan, an American soldier named Jake (Eva Green) joins an all-women commando unit to liberate them. The plan -- gain the trust of the terrorists by posing as members of a relief organization. But double-crosses, tragedies, and the ghosts of Jake's past complicate the rescue in this do-or-die mission. |
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Wicked [DVD]
Wicked, the untold story of the witches of Oz, a young woman, misunderstood because of her unusual green skin, who has yet to discover her true power, and Glinda, a popular young woman, gilded by privilege and ambition, who has yet to discover her true heart. The two meet as students at Shiz University in the fantastical Land of Oz and forge an unlikely but profound friendship. Following an encounter with The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, their friendship reaches a crossroads, and their lives take very different paths. Glinda's unflinching desire for popularity sees her seduced by power, while Elphaba's determination to remain true to herself, and to those around her, will have unexpected and shocking consequences for her future. Their extraordinary adventures in Oz will ultimately see them fulfill their destinies as Glinda the Good and the Wicked Witch of the West.
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