Up and Running

The Library Kids website is up and running again. Most of the missing images have been replaced. So, yay!

Don't forget, Preschool Story Time begins tomorrow at 10:00 a.m.

The Official Word is- WAIT

Got the word this afternoon on the Library Kids website. I am to wait until next week to try and fix things. So, for now things will stay as they are. Thanks for you patience.

No Images For Now

Still having problems with the Library Kids website. It may be quite awhile before it is back to its former glory.
Weather and websites, both beyond our control.

Movie today @ 2:00. G-Force. Come one, come all.

Still not back to normal

The Library Kids website is trying to come back, but there are still problems. All of the images are gone, for one. They are working on fixing things, but it will take some time. In the meantime, don't forget, we are showing the movie "G-Force" in the Clymer room on our BIG screen. The show starts at 2:00 pm and is open to all ages. As usual, children under seven years of age, must be accompanied by an adult while in the library.

Holiday Hours

We will close at 5:00 pm tomorrow, December 31, 2009. We will be closed all day Friday, January 1, 2010. We will reopen at 9:00 am Saturday, January 2. Happy New Year, everyone!!

Website Down

Our Library Kids website is down. Not sure when it will be up. Seems to be a problem with the server and beyond our control.
In the meantime, check here for news!

CONTESTS

There are two new contests to enter if you fancy yourself an artist or author. Visit our Library Kids website for details.

OVER 1,000 !!

The paper chain is officially over 1,000 links long! Thanks to our fabulous readers, the chain is now 1,011 links long. Each link represents a book that has been read. It is beautiful and fun! It is worth a trip to the library just to see it. How many times have you seen a paper chain that is over 1,000 links long? I will get pictures posted, but they don't do it justice. Speaking of pictures, the Children's Department has a Flickr page now. Visit and see the crafts the kids have made.

Mr. Boo it is!

Sorry I didn't get the announcement posted sooner. I have no excuse. I posted it to our webpage, Library Kids, and to our Twitter page, but I just plain forgot to post it here on the blog. I am so sorry! The library staff voted and the winner, by a landslide, was Mr. Boo. The winning name was submitted by Sterling Schurr. Mr. Boo is delighted with his name, although in the picture it doesn't look like it, I assure you, he is smiling.

There were lots of good names to pick from. Thank you to everyone who entered the contest.

Name that Ghost!

Our ghost is in search of a name. Enter the "Name Our Ghost" contest and win a book! To enter, come to the Children's Department and write your suggestion for a name on the official entry form. You must be under 18 years old to enter and you can enter as many times as you wish! Entries must be in by October 29th. The winner will be announced on October 30.

THE SUMMER READING PROGRAM PICTURES ARE IN THE PAPER!!!

The 2009 Summer Reading Program pictures are in the Friday, August 21, issue of the El Dorado Times.
They look great! Copies of the paper are available for 75 cents each, at the El Dorado Times office, 114 N. Vine, here in El Dorado. I will try to get a few copies at the library as well.
Thank you, Julie, and the El Dorado Times, for making it possible to get the pictures of these fabulous readers in the paper. We appreciate your generous support of our summer reading program.
Thank you, too, to the parents and teachers of these readers. Without your support the reading program would not be possible.
More thanks to come on Monday. I am writing this from home, and don't have the information I need to thank everyone who helped us this year. I mainly wanted to get the word out that the pictures are in the paper!

Successful Summer

The 2009 Summer Reading program is a success! Our readers read a total of 11,192 books. Those keeping track of time spent reading recorded 2,648 hours. Fabulous! Thanks to the readers, and thank you to the parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, and teachers who helped make the summer a success.

If you earned the prize of your picture in the paper, today and next Monday, Aug 10, are the picture days. Just come to the library and we will take your photograph.

If you earned the prize of the swim party, be sure you have picked up your invitation. It is required for admission. It will get your whole family in to the pool.

You can still glue a lid on the art project and add to the paper chain, if you want to. The chain is up to 826 links! It looks great.

Time is Runing Out !

Friday, July 31st at 5 PM is the last day to record your reading !

STORYTIME ART ON FLICKR

The paper strip sculptures created by the preschool storytime groups are now on Flickr.
They are so much fun and amazingly intricate, just paper and glue. Circle Gallery & Frame Shop here in El Dorado donated the matboard for the bases. Thanks, Jeanne!

Stay tuned for more preschool art from the fall session, which begins September 3.

TWO PROGRAMS TODAY!

This afternoon at 2:00 the K-5th program will be all about the drama! There will be a reader's theater presentation of "The Boy Who Wanted the Willies!" Brianne will also have games, stories and a craft.
At 6:30 Magic Melton the Magician will dazzle us with mystifying feats of magic! This is the last of our special program for the 2009 Summer Reading Program. Everyone is invited to come in and help us finish with a bang!

Business as Usual

Programming resumes next week. Tuesday,July 7, at 2, K-5th program with Miss Brianne.





Also on July 7th, 6:30 P.M., Teresa Bachman, local, award winning folk muscian, will entertain us with her music, in the Clymer room. She plays banjo and dulcimer. This program is for all ages and it's free. Great for the whole family!

Teresa is also the director of the Kansas Oil Museum and Butler County Historical Museum. If you haven't been there, you should go. It is a fascinating window on El Dorado's past.

On Thurdsay, Preschool Story Time resumes, with stories about the beach! This is for ages 3-5, but everyone is welcome. We meet at 10:00 and 11:00, in the Clymer room for stories, songs, and crafts.

Grandview School

Had a great visit at Grandview school this morning. They invited me to tell them about the Summer Reading Program. I got to speak to about 120 kids and they were a great audience!
Thanks for the invitation and thanks for adding to our paper chain!
See you at the library!

Trail Mix Today

2PM today! Barbara Roths, Butler County Extension agent and our own Miss Brianne will present a Trail Mix extravaganza. Stories, games, and mixing of trail mix.
If you have food allergies, let us know!
Trail mix ingredients:
Cheerios, whole grain Goldfish Crackers, Craisins, M&M's.
There is no heat wave at the library! Come to the library and be cool!
See you there!

Bongo Barry Show a Rousing Success!

Bongo Barry was so much fun! Many thanks go out to the El Dorado Evening Kiwanis for making the show possible. We had a capacity crowd, babies to grandparents. Bongo Barry worked his musical magic on the crowd at one point and turned them and himself into human kazoos, with nothing more than a piece of waxed paper! I am not kidding!

He is posting a recording of the event on his website. Select the "Download Summer Shows" link . Or go here. User name: summer 09. Password:bongob.

Bongo Barry said the crowd was fantastic. I hope you were there!

Tomorrow, Preschool Story Time at 10 and 11.

Next Tuesday, June 23, at 2PM, Trail Mix Adventures, for K- 5th grade.

There is plenty of time left to register for the Summer Reading Program and earn prizes.

See you there!

Still so much fun to be had at the library!

Donate to the Library!

We are now officially on Goodsearch.com. Put Bradford Memorial Library in as your charity, do your search from there and they will donate money to the library! If you shop from any of the businesses on the site, a portion of the purchase also goes to the library! So easy!

If you go to the Pizza Hut at 2423 West Central, in El Dorado, on the 2nd & 4th Tuesdays after 4:00 PM, 20% of your purchases go towards the library! Stop by the library and pick up a coupon to take to the West Central Pizza Hut ONLY. Call Pizza Hut at 316-321-2340 for details. Thank you patrons! Thank you Pizza Hut!