In partnership with the Northumberland County Council for the Arts & Humanities, the library will be hosting an adult fall craft at the end of the month. The final product from this craft will be a fashionable piece of fall décor made from festive pumpkins placed on a weathered board that will undoubtedly signal the autumn season will soon be arriving. This adult crafting event will be held August 30th (Tuesday) at 5 PM and requires a $5 donation to the library to cover material costs. Class size is limited to 15 so register soon before it’s too late!

LEGO Club strikes again! Be sure to mark your calendars for our next time together at the library. We’ll be back in action with LEGOs next Thursday (8/25) at 6 PM!

For almost the entire rest of the year, Bloomsburg Children’s Museum will be visiting our library once a month for some imaginative and exciting STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) programs! The upcoming program entitled “Intro to 3D Modeling and Printing” will be held next Tuesday (8/23) at 6 PM. The targeted age range for this event is 7 to 15. While these are free events, we do ask that children are signed up ahead of time as only 20 slots are available each time.

Our next STEM program is “Intro to 3D Modeling and Printing” and will utilize the library’s very own onsite 3D printer. Students will design a personalized 3D-printed key chain. This class will give the students a design tutorial of Tinkercad software, which will provide them with the necessary skills to create their own projects in the future. The lesson begins with a presentation about 3D printers and how they work followed by students having time to design their very own keepsake!

Our Summer Reading “Oceans of Possibilities” program series has come to an end but we hope to see everyone back next year! The party this morning included of lots of yummy snacks, a balloon artist, an ice cream sundae bar, and a goodie bag of treats along with a free book for everyone to take home. Additionally, 3 lucky readers that completed their reading logs each week were selected as the winners of our Kindle Fire tablet raffle. Above all though, we would like to commend everyone who did their reading and filled out their reading logs this summer!

Remember, just because Summer Reading has come to an end doesn’t mean that coming to the library on a regular basis should too. We have lots of events all throughout the year including LEGO Club, STEM programming, adult book club, special events for holidays, crafts for both children and adults, Preschool Storytime & Movement, Book Bingo, and so much more! Stay up to date on everything happening at the library by following us on social media, The News-Item, and event calendars that are readily available at the front desk.

Remember that LEGO Club will be held this week on Thursday at 6 PM! While we certainly have plenty of LEGOs, please sign up at the library or by calling 570-648-3202.

Summer Reading Week 6 at Shamokin-Coal Township Public Library is this Wednesday (8/10) at 10:00 AM! This week will be our last morning together for Summer Reading and the accomplishments of all our young readers will be celebrated with a party that will feature food, games, music, and even a balloon artist.

Don’t forget to bring your completed reading logs from Week 5 in order to receive one last chance to enter your name into our Kindle Fire tablet raffle. We’ll be drawing 3 lucky winners at the party on Wednesday and each of them will receive their very own tablet to take home and start reading!

We hope everyone who came out for Summer Reading Week 5 had a blast exploring the library’s extensive collection of STEM materials. We witnessed beautiful buildings being constructed from magnetic tiles, intricate marble run structures, and so much more from the young and creative minds that attended!

Don’t forget to bring your completed reading logs from Week 5 in order to receive a free book next week and the chance to enter your name one last time into our Kindle Fire tablet raffle. We’ll be pulling 3 lucky winners during Summer Reading next week so be sure to keep up with your daily reading!

What a wonderful turnout for Book Bingo this evening!

Our next round of Book Bingo will be held August 18th (Thursday) at 6 PM upstairs at the library.

Come out to the library tomorrow evening at 6 PM for Book Bingo! All ages are welcome at this free event where rounds of bingo are played and the prizes are books. Best of all, even if you don’t win any rounds you’ll still be able to go home with a book of your choice to keep.

The theme for Book Bingo tomorrow evening is “Retro TV Series” including old favorites such as “M.A.S.H.”, “Gilligan’s Island”, and many more!

Summer Reading Week 5 at Shamokin-Coal Township Public Library is this Wednesday (8/3) at 10:00 AM! This week we’ll be having a STEM Day (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) where children will have access to all sorts of materials to really test out their budding abilities in these areas. Plus, events like these may even inspire our scientists and engineers of tomorrow!

Don’t forget to bring your completed reading logs from Week 4 in order to receive another chance to enter your name into our raffle. During the final day of Summer Reading, we’ll be drawing winners for grand prizes!