May 3	-	Antiques Appraisals, 2pm
May 13	-	Trustee Meeting, 7pm
May 17	-	Eyes on Owls, 10am
May 26	-	Closed, Holiday
May 29	-	Book Discussion, Women of the Silk by Gail Tsukiyama at the home of Michelle Urban, 7:30pm
June 5	-	Summer Reading Program Sign Up
June 23	-	Summer Reading Program Begins
June 24	-	Book Discussion, Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen at the home of Susan Groff, 7:30pm
Aug. 4	-	Summer Reading Program Ends
Aug. 7	-	Ice Cream Party, 3:30pm

Library Events - Come one, Come all!!

Eyes On Owls!
Saturday, May 17 at 10am on the Temple Common.
Sponsored by the Mansfield Public Library and the Temple Recreation Department with assistance from the Bragg Fund.
Marcia Wilson of Eyes on Owls will be bringing six live owls for everyone to meet "up close and personal"! This event is free and open to all. Be sure to bring something to sit on if you don't want to sit on the ground! No sign up is required.

Aquisitions List News!
Beginning in May, the library will start updating the material acquisition list as needed on the the library webpage. This will keep our listing more current, at least that's the plan!

Summer Reading Program 2008!
Celebrating Temple's 250th with "That's Wicked Old!" - A Fun Look at the History of Temple.
Sign up begins Thursday, June 5th.
Sign up sheets will be available at Mansfield Library or at the school. They may be returned to Billie, to the library or be put in the book drop.
Program Start Date: Monday, June 23, 10:30 am
Program End Date: Monday, August 4 at 1pm
Ice Cream Party!! Thursday, August 7 at 3:30 pm
Includes Read to Me, ages 2-4 and Readers grades K-5
The Program:
Story and Craft hour: Monday and Friday at 10:30 am.
Readers grades K-5. Crafts will be related to old time craft activities. Limit 10 children. Sign up required.
Field Trips: There will be two Field trips. One will be to the Temple Historical Society and the other will be to the Colburn/Weston Farm. Parents will need to attend these trips for their children to go. Trips will replace Monday and Friday story and craft hour on the weeks that they occur. Permission slips will be required. Both trips will be hosted by Priscilla Weston.
Read to Me Summer reading storytime: ages 2-4. Mondays at 2:30 pm at the Library. No sign up needed.
Children are required to read, or have read to them, books taken from the Mansfield Public Library only. Other books will not count for reading charts.
When children come in to fill out their charts, they can put their name and phone # in the jar for a prize.
Hidden Picture is baaaack! Our hidden pictures this year will feature Temple people, historical items or activities that people did in the "Olden Days". If you find the picture, then you bring it into the library to get a prize. You will get to pick 2 prizes if you can tell us something about the picture. For example, who is it? or what is this? or why is this important? The picture will not be the same each time as it has been in other years!
Hidden Gem! Read any Erma Bombeck lately? Still funny and insightful after all these years!

Parking Reminder!
We have a sign indicating the library parking area. We only have 4-5 spaces for our patrons. Please avoid parking in these areas if you are in town for a meeting or a gathering. Many thanks!

DVD Drop Off Reminder!
Don't put videos and DVD's in the book drop. We would rather have them slightly late than damaged. If they are damaged, the patron is charged for replacement! We are working on ideas to solve the problem. Please share if you have one!

World Book Web has been slightly delayed. We should have it up in March.

Download audio books - Free!
Mansfield Public Library has joined the NH Audio book Consortium. This means that a large library of audio books is available to you and your family at no cost. You can use your computer, our computer or any computer! Listen at your computer, burn a CD, or download to an mp3 player.
The website is http://nh.lib.overdrive.com.
Our library number is 4460 and your Mansfield Library card number (for example: 44601000 is the library number plus a 1000 library card number).
Just follow the directions from there! We hope you enjoy this new convenience brought to you by your library.

Flip for Tumblebooks!
Tumblebooks is an interactive site with animated, interactive children's books, games, ecards etc.! Your child will enjoy exploring this site with you!
To access Tumblebooks go to:
www.tumblebooklibrary.com
Username: mansfieldlib
Password: libra
Please note: You need a flashplayer for this site. Tumblebooks recognizes most flash players. If you have Firefox as a browser, it will not recognize it, but you should be able to play anyway. If you do not have a flash player, they have a free download you can do on the spot.