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Friends & Library News
FRIENDS OF ROCKPORT PUBLIC LIBRARY
Post Office Box 8 • Rockport, Maine 04856
207.236.3642 • www.rockport.lib.me.us
rpl@rockport.lib.me.us
Fall 2019
The Director’s Corner
Ben Blackmon, Library Director
We know the new building is on everyone’s These updates come out weekly and are full
mind, but I want to share other exciting news of construction details. The project is moving
first: the Rockport Public Library has joined very fast and these updates are the best way to
the Maine Reciprocal Borrowing Program. keep up to date on the construction schedule.
This program allows anyone with a valid The biggest question everyone asks us here at
library card from one of 68 participating the library is when will the new building be
libraries to visit any of the other participating finished. Our best answer is the third quarter
libraries and check out materials in person. It's of 2020. We expect be moving into the new
referred to as "walk-in" borrowing because it library anywhere between September to
essentially turns your local library card into a October next year. As we get closer to the
"statewide" library card! completion of the building we will be able to
Now onto the new library news! give a firm opening date.
As the year comes to close our excitement for There is also a lot of great news to be shared
the summer of 2020 keeps building (bad pun about the ongoing fundraising for the new
intended). If you have driven by the library. As of the writing of this newsletter, we
construction site of our town’s new library have raised 1.7 million toward our goal of 2
you can see that what used to look like a hole million! This is amazing news. I want to thank
in the ground is starting to look like a everyone that has donated toward the new
building! The foundation has been poured and library. You have brought us this far! If you
all the steel framing is complete. The next haven’t contributed yet, I ask you to consider
steps are to frame the building and put a roof doing so. Now is the best time to give, since
on. The plan is to get the building fully boxed every donation from now until the end of the
in by the middle of December so the work can year is being matched! If you wish to make a
move inside during the cold, dark months of donation, please make checks out to the
winter. Rockport Library Foundation or donate online
If you would like to read construction updates at:
they are posted on the Town of Rockport’s https://www.rockportlibraryfoundation.org
website: https://www.town.rockport.me.us/.
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Give the gift of Reading
This Holiday Season
Bricks
Give the gift of a custom engraved brick
that will be displayed for generations to
come at the new Rockport Public Library.
Inscribe the names of your loved ones,
or a special message on a brick.
A Month of Interlibrary Loan
Libraries all across the state share their
collections with one another through a
wonderful interlibrary loan program. You
can help support this program by adopting a day, week, or
month of the service. We advertise your generosity with signage
in the library and with bookmarks that go inside every
interlibrary loan book. This is a great way to honor a loved one or
help promote a business.
Amazon Smile
You can help support the Library by using Amazon Smile. A
portion of every purchase you make will be donated to the
Library. Search “Friends of Rockport Library” on Amazon Smile.
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Recurring Events at the Library
French Conversation Group: Mondays & Fridays, 1:30 to 2:30 p.m.
Open to all who are conversationally fluent in French.
Fiber Arts Group: 1st, 3rd & 5th Tuesdays, 3 to 5 p.m.
If you like to knit, crochet, embroider, felt, or do other types of fiber
arts, come to the library and enjoy the company of other craftspeople!
Drop-in Mah Jongg: Wednesdays, 1 to 4 p.m. and Saturdays at 9 a.m. to noon.
Stop by to meet other Mah Jongg enthusiasts. All levels of play welcome.
First Wednesday Book Club: 1st Wednesday of each month, 6:30 to 8 p.m.
The group decides what book it would like to read and discusses it on the first
Wednesday of each month. The next month’s book is decided at each meeting.
Maine Genealogical Society: 4th Wednesday of each month, 6:30 to 8 p.m.
Anyone interested in family history is welcome to attend. You do not need to be a
member of the society to join the meeting.
Bridge Group: Thursdays, 12 to 3 p.m.
Come play the wonderful game of bridge. All skill levels welcome.
Knitting Group: Thursdays, 1 to 3:30 p.m.
The knitting group will meet at the Library every Thursday over the winter, from
November 21st through April of 2020.
Tech Tutors: Thursdays, 4 to 5:30 p.m.
We have on hand experts to help you with whatever your tech troubles are.
Poets’ Corner: 1st & 3rd Thursdays, 4 to 5 p.m.
The workshop is open to the public and welcomes all levels of ability and
experience. Bring a selection of work to share.
VR Friday: Fridays, 3 to 5 p.m.
Come try out the Library’s HTC Vive Virtual Reality headset. We will show you how
to move and interact in the world of VR.
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Camden Conference
Events
Held in the Auditorium of the
Rockport Opera House Rockport Public Library
The Media Revolution: Changing the World is the theme of this year’s Camden Conference. To help
explore this topic, the Camden Conference, in collaboration with the Rockport Public Library, will be
showing films at the Rockport Opera House.
Documentary Showing: “The Great Hack”
Saturday, January 11th at 2:00pm at the Rockport Opera House
Data has surpassed oil as the world’s most valuable asset. It’s being
weaponized to wage cultural and political warfare. People
everywhere are in a battle for control of our most intimate personal
details. From award-winning filmmakers Karim Amer and Jehane
Noujaim, THE GREAT HACK uncovers the dark world of data
exploitation with astounding access to the personal journeys of key
players on different sides of the explosive Cambridge Analytica/
Facebook data scandal.
This event is presented by the Camden Conference and the Rockport Public Library. This event is
free and open to everyone.
The Front Page: A History of the News from Town Criers to TV
Friday, January 24th at 6:30pm at the Rockport Opera House
Mac Deford and Tom DeMarco are back for a thirteenth 100-minute History Roadshow for
2020! Each year they choose as their topic something at least vaguely relevant to the subject of that
year’s upcoming Camden Conference. It is informative, humorous and above all entertaining.
Tom DeMarco is the author of fifteen books (his speculative
novel, The One-way Time Traveler, is the latest) and a Principal of
The Atlantic Systems Guild, a technology think tank with offices in
the United States, United Kingdom and Germany. Mac Deford is
a retired Foreign Service officer with service primarily in the
Middle East. He had a subsequent career with Merrill Lynch
International, mostly in South America and Asia, and was a
regular columnist with The Free Press.
This event is presented by the Camden Conference and the
Rockport Public Library. This event is free and open to everyone.
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Upcoming Children’s Events
December Crafts Star Wars Crafts and a Movie Showing
Monday, December 23rd
Wooden Ornament Painting 1:30-5:00pm
Wednesday, December 4th The latest Star Wars movie just came out!
3:30-5:00pm We're excited. Are you excited? Come on
Come paint wooden down to the library to make some Star
ornaments for your Wars crafts and even watch a Star Wars
home for the movie!
holiday season!
We'll have all the
ornaments and
paints you need.
Snow Globe Craft
Wednesday, December 11th
2:00-5:00pm
We're making snow
globes! Drop in
Baby Story Time
anytime between Baby Story Time meets every Friday at
2:00 and 5:00 to 10:30am.
make one to bring This is a story time focused on babies,
home.
from birth to age 2. Mr. Ben will have high
contrast books, read-alouds, and more!
Holiday Cookie Decorating All are welcome.
Wednesday, December 18th
3:30-5:00pm Story Time
Holiday cookies! The Every Tuesday morning at
best crafts are the
10:30 a.m. join us for stories,
ones you can eat when
you're done. Everyone fingerplays, songs, and
is welcome! We'll also sometimes a craft. This
have celery and carrots program is for babies
to munch on as well. through age 5.
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Donating Books to the Friends of the
News from the Rockport Public Library Book Sale
Friends The Friends of the Rockport Public Library
By Ann Filley book sale raises money for programs at the
Library. Everyone working on the book sale is
The Friends would like to officially thank our a volunteer.
former president, Kathleen Meil for all her
We accept books throughout the year for a
work and support of the library and the goals sale held the first full week after the Fourth of
of the Friends. Kathleen has been a great July. Here are some guidelines:
partner and she will be missed!
No encyclopedias, Reader's Digest books,
Taking on the role as president is Betsy Elwin. textbooks, or magazines
Betsy joins Nelda McClellan as secretary and No VHS tapes
Ann Filley as treasurer. We also welcome two No moldy or insect/rodent eaten items
new board members, Jane Schroeder and Books must be in salable condition
We accept games, jigsaw puzzles, CDs, and
Brian Filley. We always have room for more. DVDs in good condition
So, if you would like to know more about Donations can be dropped off at the library
becoming a board member or have a great during regular hours
idea for the Friends, please get in touch! We Large collections can be dropped off at our
can be reached by email at sorting facility in West Rockport by
arrangement (typically mornings Tues or
rockportlibraryfriends@gmail.com. Thurs).
Our top priority this winter is to create a plan
Large collections can be picked up and/or
for our 2020 book sales events. Our goals are
packed up. They must be located close by--
to have smaller, more frequent events which
Rockport, Camden, Rockland. We are
will be held at the Library and/or the Opera
sometimes able to pick up from farther away.
House, and to partner with other groups and
Most of this needs to be done during business
hold “pop-up” sales in conjunction with
hours M-F as we only have access to our
other events. If you would like to be part of
sorting area during that time. We need one to
that planning process, please let us know.
three weeks lead time to pick up a collection.
Becoming a Friend is one way to support the Contact us at Books4Rockport@gmail.com
library and our annual membership runs
from July 2019 to June 2020. An individual
membership costs $15.00, a family
membership is $20.00, and a patron
membership is $50.00.
Thank you for your ongoing support!
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The 2019 Friends We could not have succeeded without the
Book Sale help of the Rockport Public Works
department, who provided the necessary
By Ann Filley support for picking up approximately 100
tables, hauling books and helping us
What a book sale! distribute the remaining books at the end of
The Friends of the Rockport Public Library the sale. What a wonderful gift to support
want to extend a heartfelt thank you to the another town department!
wonderful community of Rockport. The From the wonderful staff at Mid Coast
Friends raised over $15,000.00 at our Recreation, where the sale was held, to our
summer book sale which will help support many volunteers who unpacked, arranged,
programs, activities and library needs that organized, set up tables, took in payments,
are not part of the annual town budget. we could not have done it all without you!
In September, the Friends donated $8,000.00 Library staff got the word out about the sale,
to the Library and in October donated an helped collect books and offered Hot Dog
additional $2500.00 to the Rockport Library Day to hungry library patrons and book
Foundation for the matching Dollar for Dollar buyers.
campaign towards raising the remaining
We would also like to thank the work crew
amount needed to build the new library. The
from the Bolduc Correctional facility, who
Friends will sponsor some of the landscape
helped load and unload more than 30,000
design in the new library and we’ve set aside
items in more than 1000 boxes!
$2000.00 towards a butterfly garden at the
new site. We know that the butterfly garden And of course, many thanks to those of you
has been very well received here at the who donated and continue to donate books
temporary site. for our sale. And thanks also to all who
bought and will continue to buy books!
We want to offer a special thanks to all our
volunteers, especially our book collectors, It was a terrific 50th year of the sale and a
sorters, and packers. They worked very hard good opportunity to begin our plans for
all year and made our sale organized and hosting multiple book sales at the new
memorable. Our industrious book sorters are library site. So, stay tuned for updates, dates
Brian Filley, Pris Wood, Bobby Brown, Peter and times for 2020 book sales!
Chamberlain, and Nina Galante.
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Friends of Rockport Public Library
P.O. Box 8 Place
Rockport, ME 04856 Stamp
Rockport Public
Library Hours
Monday 9 – 5:30
Tuesday 9 – 5:30
Wednesday 11 – 8
Thursday 9 – 5:30
Friday 9 – 5:30
Saturday 9 – 5:30
Please enroll me as a member of Friends of Rockport Public Library
For the July 1, 2019 – June 30, 2020 year (dues and donations are tax deductible)
___ Individual ($15) ___ Family ($20) ___ Business ($50) ___ Patron ($50)
__ New member __ Renewal Additional donation $ ___
Please make checks payable to Friends of Rockport Public Library
Send to: Friends of Rockport Public Library, P.O. Box 8, Rockport, ME 04856 or drop off at library
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