Come to the Winfield Library on Monday, June 6th from 11:00 -12:00 and meet Rusty the Railcat for our Summer Reading Program kick off!!! While you’re signing up for this years’ Summer Reading there will be face-painting and baseball card cut out photo opps! Come into the library wearing your sports uniform and receive an extra ticket for the next week’s prize drawing! This year’s Summer Reading Program goes from June 6th – July 29th. Hope to see you there!!!
Created by the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago in 2002, Money Smart Week® is a public awareness campaign designed to help consumers better manage their personal finances. The Library will have a large variety of free consumer help sheets located in the Reference Department on the second floor of the Crown Point location.
The Crown Point Community Library location will also host the following special presentations for FREE!
Personal Finance for Adults April 19 at 2:00 p.m. in Meeting Room 1
Kelly Griese, Investor Education Coordinator from the Indiana’s Secretary of
State office, will present a Personal Finance seminar for adults including the subjects of debt, credit cards and budgeting.
Light refreshments will be served and a $25 Visa gift card door prize will be awarded to one of the attendees at the conclusion of the presentation.
Preventing Identity Theft April 26 at 6:00 p.m. in Meeting Room 1
Crown Point’s Fifth Third Bank will present a seminar on preventing Identity Theft. Identity theft is a form of stealing someone’s identity in which someone pretends to be someone else by assuming that person’s identity, usually as a method to gain access to resources or obtain credit and other benefits in that person’s name. Come hear how you can prevent identity theft from impacting your finances.
For more information please contact Julie Wendorf at 219-306-4597.
The Crown Point Community Library is celebrating National Library Week, April 10 – 16, by presenting its annual miniature golf event, a “Hole Lot of Fun”. Come celebrate the library and participate in this fun-filled event! Tickets go on sale April 1 at the Crown Point and Winfield Branch Library. Skip the long lines on the day of the event!
This year we have four schools participating in the “hole decorating” contest sponsored by our Friends of the Library: MacArthur Elementary, Lake Street Elementary, Solon Robinson Elementary and Trinity Lutheran. Tell your family and friends to come to the event to play and VOTE for their favorite school. The winning school will receive $300 to purchase books for their school library.
Tickets are $5 per person or $20 for a group of five. Your ticket includes one game of mini golf and entry to the Family Fun Zone where there will be refreshments, face painting, a balloonist, games and more! Ronald McDonald will be visiting at 10:30 a.m.
Don’t worry about parking, the City of Crown Point has donated “Molly the Trolley” to transport you to and from the library that day. Park at the Wheeler Middle School lot and the trolley will take you around the square and drop you off right in front of the library. The trolley will run every 30 minutes from 10 – 3 p.m.
We are so excited for this event! Hope to see you there!
Come into the Winfield Library on April, 12th at 11:00 AM for stories, activities, & tips for proper handling and care techniques of ducklings and chicks. No registration required.
The Crown Point Community Library will take part in the Big Library Read program, the world’s largest global eBook reading club through libraries and schools that connects millions of readers around the world with the same eBook at the same time. Crown Point Library users will be able to borrow the eBook and audiobook, American Sniper: The New York Times bestselling memoir of U.S. Navy Seal Chris Kyle, starting Thursday, March 17 and concluding on Thursday,March 31 by visiting https://crownpoint.overdrive.com/. Big Library Read is facilitated by OverDrive, the leading platform for eBooks and audiobooks from the library. The free program runs for two weeks and to get started reading, all that is needed is a Crown Point Community Library card.
The Crown Point Library has partnered with the Lake County Animal Control Shelter and hosting Amnesty Week, March 6-13, 2016, to bring overdue materials back to the library, waive overdue fines and help out the shelter with food supplies. From March 6-13, patrons can donate a can of wet cat or dog food for $1 forgiveness (up to $20) on their card. Although, only pet food items can be used towards fine forgiveness, cat litter and clean towels are also needed.
Don’t have any overdue items? You can still make a donation and receive a $1 coupon for the Friends of the Library Ongoing Book Sale. One Coupon per person.
Complete details are available at all library public desks.
We are celebrating the Teen Tech Week theme “Create It At Your Library” all month long. Teens are welcome to hangout in the program room at the Crown Point Library to relax and get crafty! A different project will be available each week through the month of March. This is a drop-in program, no registration is required. Grab a friend and join us on Tuesdays, March 8, 15, 22 at 3:15 p.m. in the Teen Zone!
Did you get a new eReader, iPad, or phone for Christmas?
Let us show you how you can use the library’s eBook collection!
The Reference Department will provide a drop-in training session on Tuesday, February 23 from 10:00 – noon OR 5:30-7:00 p.m. at the Reference Desk on the 2nd Floor. Reference staff will be available for one-on-one assistance to guide patrons in checking out an eBook and trouble shoot difficulties on how to use this digital library resource on your personal device. Be sure to bring your device, library card, and pin number so we may assist you in checking out an eBook.
Help sheets and guidance are available both online and at the Reference Desk during regular library hours.
Join the Friends of the Crown Point Library as they celebrate their long time support for the Library at a public open house on Thursday, February 25 from 5 – 7 p.m. in the meeting rooms. In true spirit of Library Lovers Month, come connect and reconnect with good Friends at your library!
Refreshments and entertainment will be offered. Join the organization or renew your membership. Find out exactly what our Friends organization does for the Crown Point Community Library. For more information please contact Rose at (219) 663-3924.
