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This Week at the Library
This week at the Library, you can join us for:
One-on-One Genealogy Help – Tuesday, May 4, 9 AM – 1 PM
Basic Genealogy and DNA one-on-one help are now being held online via Zoom specific to your questions and research. Visit Johnson County Genealogical Society to schedule an appointment. A volunteer will email a personal Zoom meeting link to you prior to the scheduled date.
Take and Make: LED Paper Lantern – Wednesday, May 5, 2 – 3 PM
Come build something cool and flex your creative muscles every week with the B&V MakerSpace team! Register for a new project every week, pick up your supplies kit at your favorite library, grab some tools you probably already have lying around your home and hop online for a build-along video, complete instructions, advanced projects, shopping lists and more!
Table Top Games – Wednesday, May 5, 6 – 8 PM
Board games have brought family and friends together for years, and we are now in a golden age of game choices! Join us online to enjoy virtual games, meet new friends and have new adventures. You can feed a hungry panda in Takenoko, build a dinosaur zoo in Draftosaurus, or compete for the best collection of chameleons in Coloretto. All ages welcome.
Walk and Read – Friday, May 7, All Day
“Take a walk and read a book.” Not normally sound advice, but that is exactly what Johnson County Library is suggesting families do at various locations throughout Johnson County. Walk and Read creates a family reading experience in the great outdoors! Families who participate will read two stories posted around the path, one going each direction. When you finish one story, you can flip around to the other side of the sign and begin the next story, which will lead you back around the path.
Walk and Read
"Take a walk and read a book." Not normally sound advice, but that is exactly what Johnson County Library is suggesting families do at various locations throughout Johnson County.
Walk and Read creates a family reading experience in the great outdoors! Families who participate will read two stories posted around the path, one going each direction. When you finish one story, you can flip around to the other side of the sign and begin the next story, which will lead you back around the path.
Walk and Read is a program encouraging physical activity, literacy and family time, while allowing for social distancing. The paths are stroller and wheelchair friendly, allowing for members of all ages to join in the fun! Dates are subject to adjustment due to weather conditions.
TBT: Let's Dance!
As you very well know, April 29th is International Dance Day! You also know that nobody loves to dance more than a Librarian. Do you know who else likes to cut a rug? Johnson Countians! Want proof? Check out this jocohistory photo of a 1960s barn party sock hop!
Twist, Bunny-hop or Two-step yourself over to jocohistory.org. It is the place to dance through local history. Be sure to follow our hashtag on Twitter!
Happy Throwback Thursday! Some call it the best day of the week.
The Summer Guide is Here
Be sure to pick up a copy of the Summer 2021 Library Guide at your favorite Library branch.
In addition to listing our online programs and events, the Summer Guide includes information on:
- Library Connections to Space and Music
- Library Master Plan Update
- Summer Reading
- Community Resources
- Foundation News
The Guide is your source for ideas and inspiration for Summer fun for the entire family!
Take and Make with the JoCoLibrary MakerSpace
Come build something cool and flex your creative muscles every week with the Black and Veatch MakerSpace team!
Register for a new project every week, pick up your supplies kit at your favorite library, grab some tools you probably already have lying around your home and hop online for a build-along video, complete instructions, advanced projects, shopping lists and more!
Register now:
Wednesday, April 28, 2 -3 pm: Paracord Bracelets
Wednesday, May 5, 2 - 3 pm: LED Paper Lantern
Wednesday, May 12, 2 - 3 pm Embroidery
elementia issue xviii Reception and call for submissions
elementia issue xviii Reception
Friday, April 23, 2021
7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Online event
Celebrate the 18th issue of elementia, the teen literary magazine published by Johnson County Library. Explore concepts of our theme "Bodies" with readings from published teens, artwork, music and a keynote performance from poet Franny Choi.
And, we are calling on teen creators for the next elementia. We accept original poetry, fiction, nonfiction, graphic stories, photography and illustrations.
Submit your original poetry, short stories, essays, comics, or artwork through February 1, 2022.
TBT: Earth Day
We have so many materials for every age on the subject of Earth Day. Since we live here on this planet, we should probably read an owner's manual.
Our Throwback Thursday tie-in? The Earth is old—really old—older than the trees! Earth Day got us curious to see just what nature photos we could find at jocohistory.org. What will you find?
Remember, jocohistory.org is the place to time travel through local history. Be sure to follow our hashtag on Twitter!
Happy Throwback Thursday! Some call it the best day of the week.
Franny Choi Poetry Workshop
elementia's issue xviii featured author Franny Choi will lead a workshop on poetry writing for teens and adults. A poet, playwright, essayist, slam champion, and podcaster, Choi writes through her existence as a Korean-American queer woman living in a society that capitalizes off beauty, bodies, race, and sexuality, thus was the perfect honoree for this year's elementia theme: Bodies.