Paper Cranes Project

The theme for this year’s Summer Reading Program is, One World, Many Stories. Our interactive project this year is based on the story of Sadako, and the Thousand Paper Cranes. Sadako was a girl who survivied the atom bomb at the end of World War II. Due to radiation exposure, she developed lukemia when she was in the sixth grade. She believed that if she made 1,000 paper cranes, she would be cured. For more information about Sadako and her story, follow this link. You could also read the book, Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes by Eleanor Coerr.


This summer, when you get your Summer Reading Program account activated, you can put your name on a paper crane here at the library.

We are asking everyone to help us get 1,000 paper cranes made by the end of July. You can find instructions on how to make paper cranes here: paper crane 1,   paper crane 2,   paper crane 3. If you need help, come in and we will try to show you how. Please use scrap paper for your cranes, thin paper works best. You can paint or color your cranes, if you wish. Maybe you would like to write a poem on the paper before you fold it into a crane.

When we get 1,000 paper cranes, we will send them to the Children’s Peace Monument in Peace Memorial Park, Hiroshima, Japan. We hope that you will want to make some paper cranes and donate them to the library’s project .We will hang the paper cranes in the Children’s Department in June and July, while we are working towards 1,000. If you have a message for peace you would like included, bring it to the library or email it to tleonard@eldoks.com . Be sure to have “peace message” in the subject line.

If you want to learn more origami, or watch video instructions, try this webpage

Summer Reading Program Sign Up Starts Today

Starting today you can register for this year's Summer Reading Program! We had some requests to open registration before school was out, so we have made it available. This is for registration ONLY. Your account cannot be activated until June 1.  For details, follow this link.

Bring your Library Card when You come to the Library

Monday, May 16 through Wednesday May 18, you MUST have your library card to check out. Our check out system will be down for an upgrade those days. The online catalog will also be unavailable. We are sorry for any inconvenience this may cause.

Special Hours Friday, May 13

The library won't open until noon, on Friday, May 13th. Friday's hours will be from noon to 5:00 PM. We will resume regular hours on Saturday, May 14. We are sorry for any inconvenience this may cause.

Friends of the Library Book Sale

This weekend, Friday, May 6 and Saturday May 7, the Friends of the Library are having their book sale! The sale is open during regular libary hours, 9-5. Books are selling for $5.00 a bag and there is a raffle for a great gift basket! Come in and take advantage of the bargains!
611 S. Washington, El Dorado, KS.  316-321-3363

We're BACK!

All things are up and running again over at the Library Kids website. So, if you have been wondering how the 2011 Summer Reading Program will work, all the info is now available. Yay!

Library Kids Website Temporarily Down

As I was updateing the website this morning, with Summer Reading Program 2011 information, the site suddenly went all kinds of haywire. Oh, NO! I have sent out a call for help and am impatiently awaiting an answer. I hope it will be quickly resolved, but have no idea. As is typical of things in computer land, one minute everything was fine, the next they weren't. Chaos is just a click away.

AWE Early Literacy Stations are here!!!

Out with the old and in with the new. The old IMac computer is gone and in its place we now have two brand new AWE Early Literacy Stations in the Children's department! They are both loaded with tons of great programs for learing and fun. Music, art, science, math, reading, and much more!!! They are for ages 2-10, but older kids might like them, too. They are equipped with 2 sets of earphones so parents can play along with the kids!


Oh, boy!!!

HAPPY EARTH DAY!

In honor of Earth Day, here is a way to reuse, recycle, and repurpose.

Here is an idea for a book bag with no sewing if you wish. Take a tank top you don't want to wear anymore. Run a string through the hem(an old shoestring works well), pull it tight, tie a knot and you have a bag! If you can't run a string through the hem, just gather the bottom of the shirt up tight and wrap the string around and around it very tightly, about an inch up from the bottom, and tie it in a knot.

If you would rather sew the bottom of the shirt closed, turn the shirt wrong side out, or not, lay it out flat, line up the sides, and sew across the bottom. You might want to sew it twice for extra strength.

The arm holes are the handles and it is strong and stretchy.

Your bag is done! You can get a lot of books in it!

Colin O'Brien will be at a very special Preschool Story Time tomorrow, April 21, at 10:00. It is going to be SO MUCH FUN! We don't often get musicians of this caliber here, especially at story time, so please plan to be here, even if it is raining!! He will do a special "kid oriented" show with his banjo, fiddle, guitar, dancing feet and singing. Don't miss it!

Tangled!!!

Today at 4:00, the library is showing the movie, "Tangled" on the really big screen.  All ages welcome. Children under the age of seven must be adcompanied by an adult while in the library. 
Run time - 100 minutes
Rated PG for brief mild violence
(After the movie - come to the Sloppy Joe Dinner! , see previous post)

Sloppy Joes Today!

Today is the day!

Sloppy Joes from 4-7 at the Depot on North Main!!

Sloppy Joe, Chips and Drink- $5.00, Desert 50 cents.

Dessert Auction at 6:00.

SEE YOU THERE!

Sloppy Joes, Sloppy, Sloppy Joes!!!!

One week from today, on April 19 from 4PM-7PM, the Friends of the Library are having a Sloppy Joe Dinner at the Main Street Depot, 430 N. Main. Sloppy Joe, Chips and drink for $5.00, dessert, 50 cents.  At 6:00 is a Dessert Auction with many delectable, delightful, desserts up for the highest bidder! Proceeds benefit Bradford Memorial Library.

Fractured Fairy Tales---TODAY!

Today at 4:00, Brianne presents Fractured Fairy Tales for kids in grades K-5th. New versions of favorite fairy tales, games and a craft!
Come to the Clymer room downstairs for some fractured fun!

Children under the age of seven must be accompanied by an adult while in the library.

Art! Art! Art!

The 2011 Week of the Young Child Art Show is now on display in the Children's depeartment! It will be up through the month of April. The groups participating this year are:
BCC Educare, El Dorado Headstart, First Baptist Day Care, First Baptist Preschool, Jeffeson Pre-K, Skelly Pre-K, Trinity Methodist Trinity's Tykes, and Bradford Memorial's Preschool Story Time. 
Thanks to all the teachers and artists who provided us with the wonderful art!
Preview here on our Flickr page. But come and seeit in person, It is worth it!

Snow daze

Our schedule sure has been random lately due to the snow. We are open this afternoon, even though El Doardo schools are closed.  The snow has stopped falling, the sun is shining but it is still really cold. Crummy snow, too. Too fluffy to build with.

 Brianne has cancelled her Life Size Candy Land game this afternoon.  It is just too cold out to expect many to attend. She will present it in March, probably during Spring Break. Look for it!

Preschool Story Time will go on as planned tomorrow morning. We will be doing stories with a "Love" theme in honor of Valentine's Day, which is coming up soon.

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Off to see the WIZARD!!

Come and celebrate Kansas 150th birthday by watching the Wizard of Oz! Join us, for a special interactive screening of The Wizard of Oz, Saturday, Jan 29, at 2:00 pm, in the Clymer room. Sing along with Judy Garland, the Tin Man, Scarecrow and Cowardly Lion. Blow bubbles for Glenda the Good Witch, boo and hiss at the Wicked Witch of the West.


Experience this classic movie as you never have before! All ages are welcome.

The more the merrier!

Preschool Story Time Returns

Preschool Story Time Spring Session begins tomorrow! For 3-5 year olds, but everyone is welcome! We meet in the Clymer room for 30 minutes of stories, songs, and crafts. See you there! Yay!

It's all in the numbers...

This year we have: 1/1/11, 1/11/11, 11/1/11, & 11/11/11. Take the last two digits of the year you were born and how old you will be this year.. add them...

Despicable Me -- showing today!

Come in today at 4:00 pm and see the movie, Despicable Me, in the Clymer Room, on the really big screen! All ages welcome.
 Children under the age of seven must be accompanied by an adult while in the library.
95 minutes, rated PG