Cundy’s Harbor Library has tried something new, and it looks like a hit. More than 40 people turned out on Sunday, November 22, for the Library’s first community dance fundraiser at Cundy’s Harbor Community Hall, all proceeds to benefit the Library. Board member Denise Deshaies organized the event, which netted the Library over $300. Square Dance Caller Walter Bull very kindly donated his time to teach us all the ins, outs, and do-si-dos of Modern Western Squares, and the Library Board provided an abundance of drinks and snacks to give all present plenty of energy. Those who were there asked when we would do it again. If you weren't there, you missed a great afternoon of fun—don't miss the next one!
From far left, caller Walter Bull; Walter teaching the dance; dancers in action while the snacks await.
Nothing stands still at your library. Once again, Cundy’s Harbor Library is indebted to the volunteers of Bowdoin College Common Good Day, this time for help brightening up the library’s front room to match the new reading room of last year’s addition. Bowdoin volunteers helped librarian Sam Schwartz and his wife Denise prepare the front room floor for painting, while another Bowdoin volunteer team helped Board Secretary Jody Watson bring order out of chaos on the slope to the harbor behind the library, restoring our harbor view in the process.
Once the floor was painted, Sam, Board vice president Ann Greene, Board members Leslie Bradbury and Denise Deshaies, and new library volunteer George Mirabile went to work reorganizing the books so that the Maine special collection and the Adult Fiction collection are more accessible and properly inventoried. The same team is now working its way through a complete inventory and reorganization of the Children's collections. And now that we have a better idea of what we already own, Sam has begun buying brand-new books (the first in over a year) to bring the collection up to date.
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Here are some pictures of the Bowdoin Common Good Day event at Cundy’s Harbor Library on September 12, 2009. Captions will be added as soon as Sam finds where he left the paper on which he wrote the Bowdoin volunteers' names!
Over fifty friends and neighbors of Cundy’s Harbor Library, including Elisabeth Doucett, director of the Curtis Memorial Library in Brunswick, joined us at our open house, June 25, 2009, to celebrate the completion of the library’s expansion. To the accompaniment of Steve Quigley's music, celebrants toured the new rooms, feasted on a buffet of dessert items provided by the Library Board of Directors, and applauded as Board president Sue Hawkes saluted the hard work of everyone who made the addition possible. Ann Greene, Harry Rich, and Rosanna Welner, the Board's Building Committee, came in for special recognition. If you would like a copy of the evening's program, click here to download it in PDF format. Here is a selection of photos of the event:
Board member Denise Deshaies puts the finishing touches on the buffet before guests arrive, while Steve Quigley warms up. A standing-room-only crowd, including outgoing Board vice president Harry Rich and two members the latest generation of library patrons, Kaileb Hawkes and Nathan Harley, waits for festivities to begin.
Library Board President Sue Hawkes acknowledges the efforts of Building Committee members Ann Greene, Harry Rich, and Rosanna Welner. Harry and Rosanna received copies of Susan Pulsifer's “Ode to Cundy’s Harbor Library” in honor of their retirement from the Board; Harry responds in characteristic style.
After Ann Greene reads a brief history of Cundy’s Harbor Library, original board member Gary Anderson reveals some hitherto unknown details of the purchase and move of the library’s original building to its current site.
Starting Tuesday June 23, children can “Be Creative at the Library”. Cundy’s Harbor Library once again is offering a six-week Summer Reading Program on six successive Tuesdays, through July 28, 2009, 10:00 am to 11:30 am at the library. Please see our Summer Reading Program page for full details.
In response to requests from our patrons that we make the library more available to adults after work as well as children after school, Cundy’s Harbor Library has extended weekday hours yet again. As of Tuesday, May 19, the library is now open from 2:00 pm to 8:00 pm Tuesdays and Thursdays. Saturday hours remain 9:00 am to 2:00 pm.
The price of electricity seems to keep going up. If you've been wondering where all that power is going so you can try to cut down usage and save money, Cundy’s Harbor Library can help. The Maine Public Utilities Commission, through its Efficiency Maine program, has given the library two Kill-a-Watt® meters, and we’re now lending them out to library patrons. You can borrow one, with helpful instructions from Efficiency Maine, for a week at a time. See the Efficiency Maine press release about the program by clicking here.
Cundy’s Harbor Library can now issue Portland Public Library cards to our patrons. Come into the Library and get your PPL card, which will not only give you borrowing privileges at the library in Portland, but will also unlock a wealth of on-line PPL resources available over the Internet, including genealogy databases, downloadable audiobooks, auto repair manuals, business research tools, and e-books for children. You can also request books from 20,000 libraries around the country through PPL’s Inter-Library Loan program.
Cards are available free to all residents of Cumberland and York Counties. You can register for your Portland Public Library card any time Cundy’s Harbor Library is open.
