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855 S. Jefferson
La Grange, Texas 78945
979-968-3765
979-968-6418
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Tuesday 10AM - 6PM Wednesday 10AM - 6PM Thursday 10AM - 6PM Friday 10AM - 5PM Saturday 10AM - 1PM Sunday 1PM - 5PM Monday - Closed |
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Holidays at the Movies! Click below on schedule for more information December 16th-31st movie schedule ![]() December 23rd movie schedule ![]() For printer friendly versions of the movie schedules please click on links below. December 16th-31st December 23rd |
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2009 Summer
Reading Club at the Fayette Public Library
A party at the La Grange Swimming Pool on July 30 marked the end
of the 2009 Texas Reading Club at Fayette Public Library.
Around 82 children and guests enjoyed an evening of
family fun to celebrate another successful season. This year the
weather cooperated (but we would have gladly come inside for a
movie if it would have rained!!) and we were able to
“Libraries: Deep in the Heart
of Texas!” was the theme for this year’s program, sponsored by
the Texas State Library and Archives Commission and local
libraries. The
summer reading club encourages children and their families to
become lifelong readers and library users.
Fayette Public Library
registered 263 children this summer, from toddlers to teenagers.
Together, they read and logged 3,854 books. Overall
library circulation for June and July set a new all time high at
18,192.
Children who read and recorded 10 or more books received the
official Texas Reading Club certificate signed by Texas Governor
Rick Perry. Children who read and recorded at least 5 books were
eligible to receive a free Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey circus
ticket. And if they
read and recorded 10 more they received 2 free tickets to a
Houston Astros baseball game.
A $400 grant from the Lower Colorado River Authority funded the
wide variety of weekly reading club prizes. Whataburger
presented each participant with coupons for free burgers and
Pizza Hut rewarded the first 100 children who received
certificates with a free personal size pizza. The Friends of the
Library and the Texas Commission on the Arts granted funds for
the paid performers.
Each week featured a different story time or program.
Our fan favorite and long-time SRC supporter,
Ballan Grant Keen started us off with a lively
sing-a-long and story time.
Clown Bonzo Crunch from Ringling Bro. Barnum & Bailey circus
visited again and entertained an overflow crowd on June 23. The
Reading Club met at the
“Beat the heat and stay cool!” was the theme for a new addition
to the summer offerings at the library.
On four Saturday mornings and two Sunday afternoons,
popular children’s movies including Wall-E, Finding Nemo, & High
School Musical, were shown along with popcorn and punch in the
meeting room “theatre”. The Friends of the Library funded a two
year movie license so these first run major motion picture
studio films could be presented.
A team of dedicated library staff planned and implemented the
2009 Texas Reading Club at Fayette Public Library.
Special recognition goes to Carol Jenkins and Kathy
Carter for planning the program and to library staff members
Sandra Briones, Maria Rocha, Aaron Kubesch, Kadie Rackley and
Jennigale Webb, whose cheerful faces greeted the children each
day.
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STORYTIME Don't forget about our weekly storytimes at 10 A.M. every Wednesday. Two lionhead rabbits named Trouble and Lefty joined us for a special storytime earlier in the year so come join us because you never know who might show up next.
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Come in and see the new exhibit |
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Be sure and check out our new framed Gift of 19th Century Maps to A gift of two high-resolution color copies of rare
19th century Bird’s Eye View maps of The maps are the creation of Augustus Koch, a
German-born cartographer who emigrated to the Unites States prior to the
Civil War, serving in the War as a map-maker until his discharge in
1865. By 1868, he had
acquired the profession of an itinerant Bird’s Eye cartographer
employing the skills he acquired during his military service, traveling
across the country plying his trade.
All in all, Koch produced more than 112 Bird’s Eye maps in his
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NEW TITLES! New Books The Last Child by John Hart Knock Out by Catherine Coulter The End of Overeating by David A.
Kessler, MD Cemetery Dance by Douglas J. Preston Gone Tomorrow by Lee Child Don’t Swallow Your Gum by Aaron E.
Carroll Mommywood by Tori Spelling The Necklace by Cheryl Jarvis Pygmy by Chuck Palahniuk Just Breath by Susan Wiggs The Neighbor by Lisa Gardner
New Audio Books
Promises in Death by J. D. Robb Paths of Glory by Jeffery Archer
New Children's Books L is for Lone Star a Texas Alphabet
by Carol Crane Batty about Stuck in the Mud by Garry Parsons Little Miss Patriot by Peter W.
Barnes The Baabaasheep Quartet by Leslie
Elizabeth Watts Too Many Frogs by Sandy Asher Farmer Dale’s Red Pickup Truck by
Lisa Wheeler Armadillo Tattletale by Helen
Ketteman Little Blue Truck by Alice Schertle Can Anyone Hear Me by Jessica Meserve Dirt on my Shirt by Jeff Foxworthy Ten Cows to
New DVD's Homeward Bound Homeward Bound II The Water Horse Legend of the deep Nights in Rodanthe Night in the Museum Twilight Marley & Me The Pink Panther Journey to the Center of the Earth High School Musical 3 Nim’s Island
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Thanks to all who helped and shopped at
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Come to the Library and pick up these Free brochures Shining Stars: Toddlers Get Ready To Read Shining Stars: Preschoolers Get Ready To Read Shining Stars: Kindergartners Learn To Read Shining Stars: First graders Learn To Read Shining Stars: Second & Third Learn To Read The Effect of Family Literacy Interventions On Children’s Acquisition Of Reading: From Kindergarten To Grade 3 A Child Becomes A Reader: Birth Through Preschool A Child Becomes A Reader: Kindergarten Through Grade 3 Put Reading First: Kindergarten Through Grade 3 Literacy Begins At Home: Teach Them To Read Big dreams: Preschool Through Grade 3 Growing Up Drug Free: A Parent’s Guide To Prevention Early Warning Timely Response: A Guide To Safe Schools Preventing Bullying
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Mission Accomplished
On Saturday, February 21, 2009
the cover slammed shut on a quest that began Tuesday, July 21, 1998.
That was the day the Houston Chronicle published a list of the
Top 100 novels of the 20th
century compiled by the editorial board of Modern Library, a
division of Random House.
Upon seeing the list, Marie Watts set a goal of having read each of the
books in her life time.
“I would
not have been able to accomplish my goal had it not been for the Fayette
Public Library,” Watts explained.
“When I moved from Houston in 2003, I headed straight to the
library to continue my mission.
I was pleasantly surprised to see how many of the books were
actually on the shelves.”
Watts continued, “The library is the crown jewel of La Grange and we are
so fortunate to have such a resource.”
When she had completed all the books the library owned, she
turned to the inter-library loan program in which the library
participates.
Kathy
Carter, library manager, agreed the Fayette Public Library does have a
terrific collection of materials.
“Unfortunately,” she said, “It’s not possible to have everything
patrons need.” So, in order
to provide as much information as possible to the community, the library
participates in the Interlibrary Loan program. This service allows for a
library patron to borrow materials or receive photocopies of
documents owned by another library. The patron makes a request for
materials through the librarian, who, acting as an intermediary,
identifies owners of the desired item, places the request, receives the
item, makes it available to the patron, and arranges for its return.
Most of the books obtained from interlibrary loan come from the
Austin Public Library, the regional ILL resource center.
If, however, Austin doesn’t have the item, the request goes out
through a national system and materials are sent from public and
academic libraries throughout the nation.
There is no cost for this service other than postage fees for
returning the materials to the lending library.
Watts
explained that her parents were readers and read in bed at night rather
than watch television. She
has adopted the same practice.
What’s next? Reading
additional novels listed by Time Magazine’s
All-Time 100 novels published
in 2005. The list was
composed by Time critics and picked English-language novels from 1923 to
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