Canaan Town Library and Enfield Public Library Present:
Wednesday, August 7, 10 :00 am Canaan Elementary school outdoor classroom
Join a naturalist from Squam Lakes Natural Science Center to meet three live animals that you could see on your next outdoor adventure! Learn about the places they live, what they eat, and the adaptations that help them survive.
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The Library’s phone is not working as normal. We may call out, but if you call in, you will be directed to voicemail. Please leave a message and we will get back to you. If possible, you may also send email to circulationdesk@canaanlibrary.org. Thanks!
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Canaan Town Library’s Summer Reading Program is our way of encouraging everyone to read together all summer long – in whatever form that takes! It could be audiobooks, eBooks, graphic novels, picture books, chapter books – we love them all! Whatever age you are, we encourage you to celebrate the summer at CTL, where your adventure begins!
All programs are free and open to all children, preschool through 5th grade. This year, we are hoping you will join us by playing READING BINGO! Fill in the squares on your bingo card to win some great prizes.
Pick up your Bingo Card at the Canaan Town Library starting Saturday, June 29th!
Summer Events:
July 6: Take and Make Craft Kit*
July 13, 9:30 am: Story Time
July 27, 10 am – 12 pm: Lego Club
August 3: Take and Make Craft Kit*
August 7, 10:00 am: Squam Lake Science Center: Wildlife Adventure**
Join a naturalist from Squam Lakes Natural Science Center to meet three live animals that you could see on your next outdoor adventure! Learn about the places they live, what they eat, and the adaptations that help them survive., Outdoor Classroom, Canaan Elementary School
August 17, 9:30 am: Story Time
August 24, 12:00 pm: Bingo Celebration Ice Cream Social
August 31, 10 am – 12 pm: Lego Club
* Supplies are limited.
** This event is co-sponsored with the Enfield Public Library.
Happy Summer Reading!
The Canaan Town Library
Summer Reading is designed to encourage reading for pleasure in a relaxed environment, stimulate a lifelong reading habit, provide an opportunity to make friends and connect with library staff, and generally create interest in libraries. PARENTS – Want to read along with your child this summer? Look for our Adult Summer Reading Program, BEAT THE HEAT BEACH READ BINGO!
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The painters have made their way to the front of the library! The front door will be CLOSED this week. Please enter the library through the lift entrance or the back door. Please do not park in the back driveway, those spaces are reserved for town employees.
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Please join us for our discussion of Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers: the Story of Success. We will meet at 6:00 pm for our annual Summer Potluck at the home of one of the “Bookies”. Contact the library for directions.
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Registration is full. Contact the library to be put on the waiting list. Join us for a Friends of the Canaan Town Library craft program — Build a Terrarium. Saturday, July 20, 10:00 am. Materials are provided for this free program. Donations are welcome and 100% will go to the Friends of the Canaan Town Library. Registration is required and space is limited to 12 Adults. To register, email the library at circulationdesk@canaanlibrary.org or call 603-523-9650.
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The Meetinghouse Readings, Canaan, NH’s grassroots literary series, presents its 36th season of outstanding and emerging voices in fiction, poetry and nonfiction beginning Thursday July 11, 2024.
Founding moderator William Craig returns to the podium to welcome novelists Lynn Stegner, Yukiko Tominaga, Paul Harding and Ken Cadow and poets Ellen Bryant Voigt and Jennifer Militello.
Militello, whose collections include The Pact (2021)and Knock Wood (2019)will be celebrating her appointment as New Hampshire Poet Laureate. A catastrophic storm kept former Vermont Poet Laurate Voigt (Headwaters, Messenger: New and Selected Poems 1976–2006) from reading at the Meetinghouse last summer; her re-engagement is much-anticipated!
Booklist praised Lynn Stegner’s 2016 story collection, For All The Obvious Reasons, for “incandescent” prose leaving “an indelible impression on the reader’s memory.” She is racing copies of her soon-to-be-published novel, The Half-Life of Guilt, to the Meetinghouse.
“A skilled collage of carrying on and finding oneself after catastrophe” (Ethan Joella), Yukiko Tominaga’s 2024 novel, See: Loss. See Also: Love is receiving praise including Best Book of Spring 2024 (Oprah Daily).
The latest novel from Pulitzer Prize-winner Paul Harding (Tinkers, Enon) is This Other Eden, reimagining the true story of an outcast community on Maine’s Malaga Island. This Other Eden was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2023, a finalist for the National Book Award and longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award 2024.
In Norwich resident Ken Cadow’s debut novel, Gather, a teenager in rural Vermont struggles to hold on to the family home while his mom recovers from addiction. Gather was a finalist for the 2023 National Book Award,
As ever, the readings will be held in the beautiful 1793 Meetinghouse on Canaan Street. Admission is free; homemade refreshments are memorably worthy of generous donations. Authors’ books will be on sale, courtesy of the Norwich Bookstore.
ALL READINGS BEGIN AT 7:00 P.M.. Please, No Infants, Toddlers or Squirmers!
Thanks to the Friends of the Canaan Town Library, patrons now have access to the digital version of the New York Times.
Hover over the Online Resources menu at the top of the page, click on New York Times and follow the directions to get a daily link to the complete digital New York Times. There’s no need to pay, you just need to create a New York Times account. You will have full access for the next 24 hours!
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Wednesday, January 17: We are in Phase 5 of our Phases of Operations. Masks are optional inside the library. Our weekly hours are 1-8 pm Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesday, 1-5 pm Thursday, 9-12 pm Fridays, and 9-1 pm Saturdays. All hours are now walk-ins with no appointment necessary. We are offering Library Take Out, our contact-less pick up service every day that we are open.
Safety Measures in place for Phase 5:
The public computer terminals will be separated by a plexiglass guard wall.
Disposable masks and hand sanitizer will be made available at no cost.
Surfaces will be sanitized and cleaned according to CDC guidelines.
Library Take Out is a great option! We are now offering Library Take Out every day that the library is open. Patrons are welcome to call: 523-9650, email: circulationdesk@canaanlibrary.org, or use our online catalog to place materials on hold.
HOURS Hours:M 1-8 pm, T 1-8 pm, W 1-8 pm, TH 1-5 pm, F 9-12 pm, S 9-1 pm
LIBRARY TAKE OUT
Library Take Out is no contact pick up of library materials.
Call or email your requests and we will confirm your specific pick up date and time. Library Take Out: Every day we're open!