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VPL Newsletter
August 14th through August 19th 2023
This week we're excited to host a special Violin Storytime, featuring Mira Gibbons! Mira shares her love of music with children by visiting libraries and playing her violin. We are also wrapping up our World Photography Day Photo Contest. There's something for everyone at the Vinton Public Library!
Monday, August 14th, 2023
- Open 9a-5p
- 10am: Adult Coloring Time
- 10am: Ready Set Build with Legos for Kids
Tuesday, August 15th, 2023
- Open 9a-6p
- 10am: Violin Storytime for Kids with Mira Gibbons
- 1:30pm: Lutheran Home Assisted Living Read-Aloud Book Club for Adults; held offsite at Lutheran Home Assisted Living
- 2pm: Advance Planning Informational Session for Adults
Wednesday, August 16th, 2023
- Open 9a-5p
- 10:30am: Children's Storytime
Thursday, August 17th, 2023
- Open 9a-6p
- 10am: Tummy Time, ages birth to 18 months
- Noon: Adventures in Bookclubbing for Adults: School Theme
- 1pm-3pm: DIY School Magnet
- 5pm-7pm: VPL @ Farmer's Market, held at Celebration Park
Friday, August 18th, 2023
- Open 9a-4p
- 9am-Noon: Free Coffee for Adults
- No Guided Journaling - Director out of office
- 2pm: Children's Movie
Saturday, August 19th, 2023
- Open 9a-Noon
- World Photography Day Photo Contest Judging
World Photography Day Photo Contest
It's not to late to submit your photos for our 1st annual World Photography Day Photo Contest! Prizes will be awarded to the top adult and the top child entry. Submit your photos by Friday, August 18th; Happy Snapping!
Event Information
Free Children's Movie and Popcorn
When?
Friday, Aug 18, 2023, 02:00 PM
Where?
510 2nd Avenue, Vinton, IA, USA
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Event Information
Advance Planning Informational Session
When?
Tuesday, Aug 15, 2023, 02:00 PM
Where?
510 2nd Avenue, Vinton, IA, USA
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Event Information
Adventures in Bookclubbing: School Theme
When?
Thursday, Aug 17, 2023, 12:00 PM
Where?
510 2nd Avenue, Vinton, IA, USA
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Author Spotlight: Curtis Sittenfeld
Curtis Sittenfeld is the bestselling author of seven novels: Prep, The Man of My Dreams, American Wife, Sisterland, Eligible, Rodham, and Romantic Comedy, which was picked for Reese Witherspoon’s Book Club. Her first story collection, You Think It, I’ll Say It, was published in 2018 and also picked for Reese Witherspoon’s Book Club. Her books have been selected by The New York Times, Time, Entertainment Weekly, and People for their “Ten Best Books of the Year” lists, optioned for television and film, and translated into thirty languages. Her short stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Washington Post, and Esquire, and in the Best American Short Stories anthology, of which she was the 2020 guest editor. Her non-fiction has appeared in The New York Times, Time, Vanity Fair, The Atlantic, Slate, and on “This American Life.” A graduate of Stanford University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Curtis has appeared as a guest on NPR’s “Fresh Air,” CBS’s “Early Show,” and PBS’s Newshour; four times been a Jeopardy! answer and once been a Word Search puzzle.
VPL Is selling a set of 4 used office chairs. Visit www.govdeals.com/vintonia to bid!
New Books in our Collection
Suset at the Cape, by RaeAnne Thayne
Finding Us, by Tracie Peterson
Out of Nowhere, by Sandra Brown
American Prometheus by Kai Bird
Band of Brothers, by Stephen E. Ambrose
The Body Keeps the Score, by Bessel A. Van der Kolk
Spotlight on Library Services: Books for Sale
Did you know you can purchase books from the Vinton Public Library? Check out our ever-changing collection just inside our North entrance. Books cost $0.25 for paperbacks, $0.50 for hardcover; you can also fill a bag for $1.00. Proceeds from the sales of these books go toward adding new titles to our collection.
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Library Hours of Operation
Mondays: 9a-5p
Tuesdays: 9a-6p
Wednesdays: 9a-5p
Thursdays: 9a-6p
Fridays: 9a-4p
Saturdays: 9a-Noon
Copy services: $0.20/black & white, $0.25/color
Fax services: $1.00 for 1-2 pages, $2.00 for 3+ pages
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Boardroom available by reservation
Email: library@vintonia.gov
Website: www.vinton.lib.ia.us
Location: 510 2nd Avenue, Vinton, IA, USA
Phone: 319-472-4208
Facebook: facebook.com/heartofvinton