New Library Website

Our Library Blog Spot is being replaced with our new and exciting website.

Laura Foley our very own multi-talented Library Trustee has designed our new look.

We hope you'll like it and visit us often to find out all the things Hubbardston Library has to offer. Thanks for visiting our blog and now onto the main event...

http://www.hubbardstonpubliclibrary.org/

Ben-n-Jake Tonight at the Library

Tonight's Coffee House from 6:00pm until 7:30pm will feature local musicians Ben-N-Jake.
This duo will perform Folk Music on mandolin and guitar and it's completely free. Hope you'll stop by and enjoy the music and my really strong coffee.

Library Coffee House 2010

The Green Tones will be performing at Thursday's Coffee House. Stop by the library on January 7 for some musical entertainment between 6:00 and 7:30pm. Hubbardston's own Green Family will perform classic folk and country selections. Hope you'll join us for this free event.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

The library schedule for Thursday, December 31,2009, New Year's Eve will be from 1:00pm until 4:00pm. We will reopen Saturday, January 02, 2010 at 9:00am. Thanks for your patronage and support in 2009. We wish you all a Happy, Healthy 2010!

Holiday Schedule

The Library will be closed Thursday, December 24 and Saturday, December 26. We will open on Monday, December 28 at 1:00pm for all your library needs. Enjoy the Season.

Oh The Weather Outside is Frightful

The library will be closed today due to the storm. In most cases when Quabbin Regional School District closes due to weather conditions the library will follow suite. We will reopen tomorrow, Thursday at 1:00pm.

Certification WooHoo!!!!!

I am so happy to inform you that Hubbardston Public Library has again joined the ranks of Certified Public Libraries in Massachusetts. You as a Hubbardston resident are now free to borrow from other Massachusetts Public Libraries in person or through interlibrary loan.
CWMARS Library Catalog start your engines please.

Holiday Raffle Returns

The Hubbardston Public Library will again be holding its Annual Holiday Raffle. The Library Trustees are again seeking donations of handcrafted items, merchandise and gift certificates. All donations are greatly appreciated and all proceeds directly benefit the library.
If you are an artisan, crafter or local business owner please consider making a donation to the raffle.
The drawing will take place on Thursday, December 17, 2009. Raffle tickets are on sale now.
Suggested donation is $1.00 per ticket or 6 for $5.00.
Prizes are being added daily so stop by often.

Solstice Lanterns

Come to the library Saturday, December 05 from 10 to 11:30 am
to create your own Solstice Lanterns with local art teacher Renee Malowitz.
This tissue paper on glass project offers an option of silhouettes for older students and adults. This is a great family project, a fun way to celebrate the change of seasons and it's free at your public library. Participants will have a finished project at the end of the workshop to take with them.
Contact the library for more information.

Library Coffee House

Please join us Thursday December 3 from 6:00pm until 7:30pm for our Coffee House Series.
This month we will feature local blues guitarist Fish Fry Fred who will perform an eclectic selection for your enjoyment. Coffee and Tea are provided as well as light snacks. The performance is free to all. Hope you can make it.

New and Improved Hours

We are happy to report that the library has added new hours to our existing schedule. You may now visit the library on Thursday until 7pm and on Saturday from 9am until 12pm. We hope these additions will make it more convenient for you to use our services.

The Library is now open:

Monday 1pm - 7pm
Wednesday 10am - 4pm
Thursday 1pm - 7pm
Saturday 9am - 12pm

Children's Victory Garden Reception

The Hubbardston Public Library is holding a reception that is open to all to celebrate the work children did in the Victory Garden program. This program was inspired by the book, "How are You Peeling" written by Saxton Freymann and Joost Elffers and was funded by the Ezra Jack Keats Foundation in Brooklyn, NY.Please come to enjoy a snack, read books, do some crafts.Dress to get dirty.

Saturday October 24, 10-noon

Hubbardston Public Library

Feel free to bring a snack to share.

See you there

Call the HPL for more info.

978-928-4775

Library Book Sale

The Hubbardston Library is currently accepting your gently-used books for its upcoming book sale. We do not however take magazines, textbooks, moldy or musty books or condensed books.
Our tireless book sale organizer Wendy is busy sorting all your donations in preparation for the BIG SALE.
The library will hold it's annual Book Sale on Saturday, October 17 from 9:00 am until 4:00 pm.

Please Go Green and recycle your gently-used books to benefit the library.
And Remember to stop in and shop on October 17.

Images of America Hubbardston

Join us at the Library for a Book Signing. On Monday, October 19 from 5:00 - 7:00 pm author Gary Kangas will be on hand to discuss his new book: Images of America HUBBARDSTON.
The library will hold an intimate reception to celebrate the release of this new book featuring images of Hubbardston's past.
I have it on good authority that McArthur's Famous Danish will be on hand, so come early.

Monet's Magic Garden

The Hubbardston Public Library is very happy to welcome back Mr. Greg Maichack, pastel artist and teacher extraordinaire. This years workshop will be held on Friday, October 2, 2009 from 6:00-8:00 p.m at Hubbardston Public Library. Mr. Maichack will introduce his new program entitled How to Pastel Paint As Impressionists MONET'S MAGIC GARDEN. No experience necessary to participate in this adult workshop and all materials are provided. Seating is limited so sign up in advance by calling the library at 978-928-4775 or emailing at hublib@charterinternet.com This program is supported by a grant from the Hubbardston Cultural Council, a local agency, which is supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.

Not a Runner? Not a Problem.

The 12th Annual Hubbardston Library 5K Road Race/Walk is scheduled to take place on Saturday, September 12, 2009 at 9:00 AM Sharp. Rain or Shine.

Even if you're not participating in this year's event you can look like you did! For a limited time, these indigo blue, 100% cotton, long sleeved t-shirts are being made available to the general public for only $12.00 each. Order forms are available at the Hubbardston Public Library until Wednesday, August 26. Don't get left at the starting line, order your tee shirt today.

Getting Up to Speed

The week of August 24, 2009 the Hubbardston Public Library will begin implementing our winter schedule. We are currently advertising for a paid staff position to help cover our new expanded hours. The library interim schedule (until our position is filled) will be:

Monday 1:00 PM to 7:00 PM

Wednesday 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM

Thursday 1:00PM to 5:00 PM

After our new staff member completes their training period, we will increase the library's hours to include Thursday until 7:00 PM and add Saturday hours from 9:00 AM to Noon to our existing schedule.

We are also in the process of reinstating some of the library's previous library programing.

Look For:

• Story Hour each Wednesday from 10 to 11 beginning September 16


• Book Discussion Group for Adults will meet on the 3rd Thursday of each month at 7 PM beginning September 17


• Coffee House Musical Series will continue on the first Thursday of the month from 6:30 PM until 7:30 PM beginning in October.

Thank You Ezra Jack Keats Foundation and Josephine Amato

After 8 weeks of digging, planting, weeding, composting and all other means of gardening, the Children's Victory Garden Project has come to its conclusion. The participants in this program took part in designing a garden, learning about plants, creating whimsical art and donating to the local food pantry. The Library owes a BIG Thank You to the Ezra Jack Keats Foundation for funding this socially relevant project for Hubbardston's Youth.

The Children's Victory Garden and Art Exhibit was brought about through the hard work of our own Library Trustee, Josephine Amato. The Victory Garden Art Exhibit is currently on display at the library. Please stop by and see the photographic display.

Hubbardston Library to Sport a New Look

The Trustees of the Hubbardston Public Library are delighted that the Town of Hubbardston fully funded the Library’s operations for Fiscal Year 2010 at its Annual Town Meeting in June. So now that they are able to devote their energies to something other than simply trying to keep the library open, they’re addressing an issue that has been on the back burner for the past couple of years—the state of the library hedge.
The barberry shrubs that define the front yard of the library building were originally donated by a group of Hubbardston residents and teachers at the beginning of the last century. They were designed to be a living fence to separate the Library grounds from the foot traffic from the newly built school building. The barberry species surrounding the building have since been classified an invasive species by the United States Department of Agriculture. Gaps have formed in the shrubbery, but because it is an invasive species it is not possible to purchase replacement plants. It therefore seems prudent to get rid of this hedge, since without ongoing maintenance it quickly becomes an eyesore.
Having voted to remove the hedge, the Trustees are open to considering various landscaping ideas that Town residents may have for the front of the library. The next Board of Library Trustees meeting will be at the Hubbardston Public Library on Monday, July 27, at 7:00 pm and the public is invited to attend. The Trustees welcome any suggestions on possible solutions to establishing a border around the front lawn of the library, whether it will be plantings or donated decorative metal fencing. It is important to note that any expenditure toward landscaping of the library grounds would come out of an existing special trust fund to be utilized for this purpose, not from the funding voted for library operations under the town budget.
So if you’d like a say in what the Hubbardston Public Library should look like, please attend the next meeting of the Board of Trustees on July 27.

Blast Off to a Starship Adventure at Your Library

Reading can take you anywhere you want to go. This year it can even take you on a Starship Adventure. !
Sign up has begun for 2009's Statewide Summer Reading Program:
A Starship Adventure at Your Library.
Our goal as always is to keep children reading over the summer and utilizing their library as well.
Children who sign up and agree to read over the summer can earn free ice cream at Calico & Creme, be eligible for discount passes to area attractions and enter into drawings for fun prizes.
It's free and it's at the Hubbardston Public Library so stop by and sign up today.

Starship Adventure at your library is sponsored by your local library, the Massachusetts Regional Library Systems, and the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners.