Spring Story Time
Please join for the second week of Spring Preschool Story time. Miss Julie will read the children’s classic, “The Very Hungry Caterpillar”, by Eric Carle and other stories about caterpillars. Come and meet Crispin the Caterpillar. Everyone will make a fun craft to take home and share a delicious snack with their story time friends.

Story time is for children ages 3-6 and will be on Wednesday, April 10, at 10:15 a.m. or 1:30 p.m. There will also be a session on Thursday, April 11, at 7:00 p.m. Sign up at the children’s desk or by calling 658-4312.

Lapsit
Lapsit will begin at the Milford Public Library on Tuesday, April 9, at 10:15 a.m. or 1:30 p.m. Lapsit is for ages newborn through three years old. Caregivers participate with their infants. Miss Heidi will be doing finger plays, songs and reading books about creatures that live in a small, small pond. Come and hear about five speckled frogs, ten splashing turtles and other animals that live in the bog. Sign up by calling 658-4312.

Communities Matter At Your Library: Celebrate National Library Week April 14-20
Next week, the Milford Public Library joins libraries in schools, campuses and communities nationwide in celebrating National Library Week, a time to highlight the value of libraries, librarians and library workers.

Libraries today are more than repositories for books and other resources. Often the heart of their communities, campuses or schools, libraries are deeply committed to the places where their patrons live, work and study. Libraries are trusted places where everyone in the community can gather to reconnect and reengage with each other to enrich and shape the community and address local issues.

Librarians work with elected officials, small business owners, students and the public at large to discover what their communities needs are and meet them. Whether through offering e-books and technology classes, materials for English-language learners, programs for job seekers or those to support early literacy, librarians listen to the community they serve, and they respond.

The Milford Public Library serves the Milford community by providing current best-selling fiction and non-fiction books, a wide variety of magazines, books on CD, e-books through OverDrive, and the latest movies and music for anyone’s tastes. The library has public access Internet and wireless access as well as programming for children, teens and adults throughout the year. Watch for Freegal coming soon.

“Service to the community has always been the focus of the library,” said Julie Frew, Milford library director. “While this aspect has never changed, libraries have grown and evolved in how they provide for the needs of every member of their community.”

MPL will also be receiving the following DVDs: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey; Lincoln; and Django Unchained (April 16). Over 60 new materials a week are added to the library’s collection.

Puzzle Day
Do you enjoy putting together puzzles? MPL will have a puzzle out on a table upstairs for all puzzle lovers to work on. This puzzle is in memory of Sharon Gilbert who passed away in March this year. Sharon was a member of the Friends of Milford Library. She helped create the new cookbook that is now for sale, and had many puzzles and loved to work on them. The puzzle will be out beginning Monday, April 8.

Adult Reading ClubThe Adult Reading Club concluded its winter program with a Grand Prize Drawing of a Kindle e-book reader going to Donna Priest. The Adult Reading Club had 68 participants this year, with over 570 books read. Participants enjoyed a weekly drawing for prizes from January 2nd to March 30th. This year’s theme was “Groundbreaking Reads.” Each of the following people won a prize in the weekly drawing: Donna Jackson, Devin Vanlaningham, Lydia Miller, Phil Beer, Mary Spicher, Elaine Stichter, Bonnie Newman, Viv Blakeslee, Anne Troup, Linda Napier, John Weybright and Julie Gunden.