Library Hours
New Hours Effective January 3, 2012
Monday & Tuesday:
10:00a.m. to 8:00p.m.
Wednesday:
10:00a.m. to 5:00p.m.
Thursday:
10:00a.m. to 8:00p.m.
Friday
10:00a.m. to 5:00p.m.
Saturdays:
10:00a.m. to 2:00p.m.
Sunday:
CLOSED
Please Be Patient from May 31-June 7!
The library will be getting new computer software. Unfortunately, this will cause some delays on placing and receiving holds. From May 31-June 7, we will not be able to place any holds. From June 4-6, we will not be able to check any materials in. Due dates will be made June 7.
Please be patient during this transition, and plan to order all your books and movies before May 31!
In honor of Memorial Day, the library will be closed on Monday, May 28. Please put all materials in the drop box in the alleyway between the church and the library. Thank You!
Learn more about the Salem Witch Trials at Jane Lamb's Book Talk & Signing on Saturday, June 9 at 11:00 in the Wauseon Public Library's Reading Room!
Summer Reading Program Registration--June 18-23.
Join the Wauseon Public Library's Summer Reading Program!
Due to software upgrade, this year's program will begin the third week of June and run through the end of July with prizes awarded the first week of August.
All of the programs are FREE and open to presschoolers to high schoolers.
Please register June 18-23 in the Children's Room, and pick up your reading log!
Upcoming Programs
Monday, June 25--Bedtime Movies at 10:30 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. in the Children's Room.
Tuesday, June 26--Summer Reading Program Story Time at 10:30 a.m. in the Second Floor Meeting Room.
Thursday, June 28--Glowstick Bug Crafts from 10-11:00 a.m. and 4-7:00 p.m. in the Second Floor Meeting Room.
Friday, June 29--Teen Game Day from 1-3:00 p.m. in the Second Floor Meeting Room.
Book Discussion Groups
Inspirational Book Discussion Groups
Join the library's NEW inspirational book discussion group.
On May 15 at 6:30 p.m., the Tuesday Evening Inspirational Book Discussion Group will be discussing Delivered with Love by Sherry Kyle. The group is faciliated by Tammy Allison and meets the third Tuesday of each month. at 6:30 p.m.
According to the book jacket, “An old love letter found in the glove compartment of a young woman's inherited 1972 Volkswagen propels her to leave her life in Los Angeles and go to the small town of Capitola, California. There her dream of finding the writer of the letter leads her on an unexpected journey that changes her life forever.”
Mystery Book Discussion Group
The Mystery Book Discussion Group meets the last Tuesday of each month. The next book discussion is scheduled for Tuesday, May 22 at 6:30 p.m in the Wauseon Public Library's second floor meeting room.
The group will discuss Devil’s Food Cake Murder by Joanne Fluke and The Crepes of Wrath by Tamar Myers. The discussion will be facilitated by Director Amy Murphy.
According to Publishers Weekly, “Hannah Swenson, the baking whiz of the Cookie Jar in Lake Eden, Minn., is still torn between the two less than perfect men in her life…When someone shoots visiting Lutheran minister Matthew Walters, who's covering Rev. Bob Knudsen's duties at Holy Redeemer while Bob is on a belated honeymoon cruise, the only witness to the murder is Jacob, a mynah bird, who squawks, ‘The wages of sin is death.’ Between eating and baking, Hannah and cronies investigate Matt
hew's background, especially his relationship to his creepy, paroled convict cousin, Paul. Mouthwatering recipes include butterscotch bonanza bars and pineapple casserole” in Devil’s Food Cake Murder.
Recipes also abound in The Crepes of Wrath. According to Publishers Weekly,”Feisty Mennonite innkeeper and talented sleuth Magdalena Yoder offers a mix of murder and mouthwatering recipes in this, her ninth Pennsylvania Dutch mystery. When Lizzie Mast, a kindly Amish woman, dies of a drug overdose, Melvin Stoltzfus, the inept police chief of Hernia, Pa., asks Magdalena to investigate.”
Inspirational Book Discussion Group
On June 9 at 10:30 a.m., the Saturday Morning Inspirational Book Discussion Group will be discussing Michael by Jill Eileen Smith. The group is faciliated by Heidi Goehmann and meets on Saturday's at the beginning of each month.
Accordind to the author's web site, "The Wives of King David is a biblical fiction series set in ancient Israel during the reigns of King Saul and King David. Each story is a fictional rendering of the biblical account of three of David’s most well-known wives. Enter a world filled with love and longing amidst political upheaval and palace intrigue. Read the real-life accounts of David and his wives in 1 and 2 Samuel, 1 Chronicles, and many of David’s Psalms. Get to know the man whom God called “a man after my own heart,” and then with the truth of Scripture in hand, imagine what it was like for the women who loved him."
