Cars, Trucks, Trains & Planes – Wednesday, April 16 from 4:00 – 5:00 p.m. Grades K-6.
Bring your favorite car or truck to show others, experiment with flight by launching paper airplanes, make your own model car to race, pick a book about your favorite vehicle.
Youth Book Club – Thursday, April 17 from 6:30 – 7:30 p.m. Grades 3 – 6.
Bring your favorite poem or write an original. We will be reading and discussing poems and will create a poem as a group.
The library will be offering 4 computer workshops during the week of April 14. There will be a maximum of 10 participants per class. Registration is required. Call 753-1042 or sign up at the library. All workshops will take place 10:00 – 11:00 a.m.
Monday, April 14 – Basic Windows I – Learn specific skills to navigate a computer using Microsoft Windows.
Wednesday, April 16 – Basic Windows II – A continuation of the basic functions of Microsoft Windows.
Thursday, April 17 – Explore the Internet – Navigation and basic terminology. Tips and techniques for better searching.
Saturday, April 19 – Web-based E-mail – Learn some basic skills using an e-mail account on the Web.
Join other knitters on Monday, April 7th from 6:00 – 7:45 p.m. in the library Art Gallery room. Work on your project, meet other knitters, share ideas, browse knitting books and get help and ideas.
Will be held the first Monday of every month.
On Saturday, April 5th from 10:30 a.m. until 12:30 p.m. in the Youth Services room downstairs in the library learn how to make a book with SUNY Cortland student Bethany Sopchak. She will be here as part of the community Big Read. All ages are welcome.
Sue Grafton’s newest mystery is not really a mystery. You know from the beginning that a 
caregiver that has been hired to look after private investigator Kinsey Millhone’s elderly neighbor, Gus Vronsky, is not who she says she is. And you also can guess that the sociopathic caregiver is truly evil and that Gus will be in danger. What you don’t know is how Kinsey will discover what is really going on. Grafton expertly builds the suspense, along with a couple of side stories thrown in to break up the tension, towards a harrowing ending.
Despite a violent ending which seemed a bit far-fetched, Grafton’s 20th novel in her series of Kinsey Millhone mysteries, is another gem. The issues of identity theft, elder abuse and betrayal of trust are all too real and are probably even more common today than in the 1980’s time frame of the novel.
Here’s a must for all sports fans!
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And it’s free!
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Turn-Off Week (which used to be known as TV Turn-Off Week, but now includes computers, text messaging, etc.) is coming April 21 – 27.
The library, along with several other organizations in our community, has been busy planning a week full of activities to help you to reduce your screen time. Soon you will be seeing flyers and pledge cards around town announcing the activities.
If you return a signed pledge card to the library by April 28 you will be entered into a drawing for some fabulous prizes.
You will find more information in the coming weeks in the Turn-Off section on the homepage of the Cortland Free Library.
In April, our adult book discussion group will be talking about “Memoirs of a Geisha” by Arthur Golden. We will meet Wednesday, April 23 at 6:30 pm or Thursday, April 24 at 10:00 am.
The Washington Post Book World describes the book this way: “Astonishing…breathtaking…You are seduced completely.”
The book, according to one of our book group members, is MUCH better than the movie. Hope you can join us.
Jodi Picoult does it again. Her new novel, “Change of Heart” explores another controversial topic 
and she again weaves a mesmerizing tale. This time it’s a cross between “My Sister’s Keeper” and the “Green Mile.” Death penalty issues, Gnostic gospels, heart transplants – what a mix! But it will keep you reading and keep you thinking long after you’ve turned that last page.
Just a reminder – tomorrow night (March 13) we will be having a Tie-Dye T-Shirt program for teens from 6:30 – 7:30 p.m. Bring your own t-shirt and experiment with different techniques to create specific patterns. (Grades 7-12).
Also this week there will be an artist talk on Saturday (March 15) at 11 a.m. in our art gallery. Our March exhibitor, Jan Kelly Philpot, will be present to talk about her work which includes oils, watercolors, pastels and inks.
Next week (March 19 and 20) we will be having our book discussion groups. Wednesday night at 6:30 p.m. and Thursday morning at 10 a.m. we will be discussing “Fahrenheit 451″ by Ray Bradbury.
Also on March 20 (Thursday) will be two programs in the evening: Teens and adults who want to learn more about “Open Source Software” can come to the library and listen to Phillip Sorensen, computer specialist at Cornell, talk about the ideas, development methods and an overview of some of the different FOSS projects and applications. For those in grades 3-6, our Youth Book Club will also be meeting at 6:30 p.m. Read a book with a green theme (environmental, St. Patrick’s Day, etc.) and then join us for activities and fun with other tweens.
Hope you can join us!
