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12/19 MCBA Book Club: “The Best of Iggy” by Annie Barrows

Thursday, December 19th from 4PM-4:45PM

Join us monthly to discuss one of the 2024-2025 Massachusetts Children’s Book Award book nominees! If your child reads 5 of the nominees by May, they are able to vote for their favorite to win the Massachusetts Children’s Book Award. In December, we are reading “The Best of Iggy” by Annie Barrows. Copies will be available at the Children’s Room Circulation Desk. **Please pick one up and read the book before the meeting!** Continued »

12/20 Preschool Story Time

Friday, December 20th from 10:30AM-11:30AM

Preschoolers can join us on Friday mornings for their very own Story Time! We will use stories, songs, felt boards and more to help your child to develop early literacy and kindergarten readiness skills. Each meeting will conclude with a craft to reinforce additional skills. Siblings are welcome. Weekly sign-up necessary! This program is for children 3-5 years old.

12/20 Pokemon Club

Friday, December 20th from 4PM-5PM

Do you like Pokemon? Want to hang out with other people who do? Bring your cards and come to trade, see what others have and play Pokemon with us!! This program is for children in grades K-5. **Please note the time of this program has changed!**

12/21 Boardgame Afternoon

Saturday, December 21st from 2PM-4PM

Join us for tabletop gaming. These games are designed to get you thinking and having fun! Absolutely no experience necessary. We’ll be there to teach the ins and outs of each game, no confusing instruction pamphlet involved. Featured games will be “Azul,” “Dungeon Mayhem,” “The Quacks of Quedlinburg,” and “Cascadia.” Registration recommended!

12/22 Family Movie: Frozen (2013)

Sunday, December 22nd from 2PM-4PM

Join us for a Family Movie! This week we’re watching Frozen (2013). Rated PG.  No registration necessary, just drop in! Caregivers must attend with their child(ren). Continued »

12/24 EARLY CLOSURE: Christmas Eve

Tuesday, December 24th the library will be closing at 12PM in observance of Christmas Eve.

12/25 CLOSED: Christmas Day

Wednesday, December 25th the library will be closed in observance of Christmas. 

Historic Stairs Nearly Complete!

The Library’s Historic Entrance renovation is nearly complete. This week the refurbished lampposts were re-installed. New custom-fabricated railings are starting to go in this week.

If all goes as planned, we hope to open the Historic Doors soon. In the meantime, the entrance does remain closed.  To see all the work involved, see https://stevensmemlib.libguides.com/historicentrancestairs

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

NEW Tech Help Hours

Do you have a new phone, tablet or other device? Or, one you would like learn more about it? Tech Help is now available on Wednesdays from 10:30am – 11:30am and 6pm – 7pm

Please register on our online calendar. Meet in the library Reading Room for personalized technology assistance. Bring your device, laptop, tablet, smartphone, etc. and your questions! Continued »

Now available: Chromebooks for in-library use

You can now check-out one of our Chromebook to use anywhere within the library!

Chromebooks are available for check-out at the reference desk. Continued »

OverDrive/Libby Lending Period Update

Starting today (3/29), the default lending period in OverDrive/Libby will be 14 days. Patrons will still have the option to select 21 days or 7 days when borrowing!

MVLC Mobile App: Apple & Android available now

MVLC library users now have their choice of the MVLC Mobile App iOS version is available to download from the Apple App Store  or the MVLC Mobile App Android version and may be downloaded from the Google Play Store.  Users who have set up the previous mobile app on their devices will need to uninstall the old app and then go to the appropriate store to download the new app.