Closed today in observance of Labor Day.
. Regular library schedule starts today, Tuesday, September 4th. The hours are:
- Monday-Wednesday 9:00 AM—8:00 PM
- Thursday & Friday 9:00 AM—5:00 PM
- Saturday 9:00 AM—4:00 PM
- Sunday 1:00—4:00 PM
Offered the first Wednesday of every month at 10:30 a.m. upstairs in the Rogers Room. A wonderful opportunity to expose children to music in a group setting. Caregivers and children are invited to sing and dance together! Call the Children’s Room at 978-412-8713 with any questions. Free and no registration is required. Sponsored by The Friends of the Ipswich Public Library.
Monthly meeting of the Friends of the Ipswich Library.
What do you get when you cross a cookbook with a book group? A Cookbook Club, of course!
Check out a copy of the selected book (starting on August 23) at the library, pick a recipe (we'll keep track to avoid duplicates), and prepare it for the program. We'll sample lots of good food, talk about what worked and what didn't, and select future cookbooks.
This club meets every first Thursday of the month at noon.
September's cookbook title is Elizabeth Bard's Lunch in Paris: A Love Story with Recipes
Registration is required and begins on Thursday, August 23.
Neither the food served at cookbook club nor the facilities have been inspected by the state or the local public health agency.
Today, SEPT 8 is the first weekend service for FY2019.
Visit the Children's Room and Collins Room to investigate new play opportunities afforded the library through The Mind in the Making grant, provided by the Institute of Museum and Library Sciences and administered by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners.
Stop to play at in the newly renovated play corner or check out different learning stations, including coding toys, light tables and blocks in the Collins Room. Refreshments will be served.
The Ipswich Memory Cafe is a friendly, relaxed gathering space for those living with memory changes and their care partners. Join us for coffee, conversation, and simple activities in a safe and supportive environment. To RSVP, please contract Beth Wright at the Ipswich Council on Aging at 978.356.6650 or email bethw@ipswich-ma.gov.
Love a good mystery? Join fellow mystery lovers and discuss the assigned book. This time, we are reading The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler. Copies are now available to be checked out on the Mystery Book Club Shelf near the holds in the main circulation room of the library.
Questions? Please contact Katy Wuerker at the library.
Monthly Meeting of the Library Trustees.
New early literacy offering designed especially for caregivers with infants through pre-walkers. An interactive program of songs, stories and finger-plays for caregivers and babies to enjoy together. Ipswich Children’s Room staff are trained in the presentation of this well-renowned program. No registration is required. Siblings welcome. Call the Children’s Room at 978-412-8713 with any questions.
An interactive early literacy program for caregivers with infants through 2-year-olds. No registration is required. Songs, stories, music and finger-plays for caregivers and babies to enjoy together. Ipswich Children’s Room staff are trained in the presentation of this well-renowned program. No registration is required. Siblings welcomed. Call the Children’s Room at 978-412-8713 with any questions.
This program lasts about 30 minutes. Adults interact with the child in their care while listening to stories, participating in large motor skill activities and crafts together. Participants are invited to stay and play/chat afterwards.
This is a great program not only for parents, but for grandparents and their grandchildren or for caregivers who want to participate in Story Time with the children in their charge. It will last 30 to 45 minutes with play time provided following the program.
No registration is required. Older and younger siblings may attend. Contact the Children’s Room at 978-412-8713 with any questions.
The Ipswich Poetry Group meets upstairs on the second and fourth Wednesdays every month at 6:30pm to share poems in progress and give and receive feedback. All are welcome! Email ipswichpoetrygroup@gmail.com with questions or call Sarah at 617-584-7025.
This weekly story time is a lovely bridge between Mother Goose on the Loose and traditional Story Time. For children ages 2-3 and their caregivers, this story time continues the rhymes and fingerplays of Mother Goose on the Loose, while introducing slightly richer picture books and a simple craft.
An interactive early literacy program for caregivers with infants through 2-year-olds. No registration is required. Songs, stories, music and finger-plays for caregivers and babies to enjoy together. Ipswich Children’s Room staff are trained in the presentation of this well-renowned program. No registration is required. Siblings welcomed. Call the Children’s Room at 978-412-8713 with any questions.
A meeting for registered members and those who may be interested in registering for the 3rd grade book club, Book Buddies, and their parents/guardians. At this meeting we will meet each other, get a copy of the book we will be discussing in October, answer questions about the group, and explain how it all works.
A meeting for registered members and those who may be interested in registering for the 4th and 5th grade book club, Radical Readers, and their parents/guardians. At this meeting we will meet each other, get a copy of the book we will be discussing in October, answer questions about the group, and explain how it all works.
New early literacy offering designed especially for caregivers with infants through pre-walkers. An interactive program of songs, stories and finger-plays for caregivers and babies to enjoy together. Ipswich Children’s Room staff are trained in the presentation of this well-renowned program. No registration is required. Siblings welcome. Call the Children’s Room at 978-412-8713 with any questions.
An interactive early literacy program for caregivers with infants through 2-year-olds. No registration is required. Songs, stories, music and finger-plays for caregivers and babies to enjoy together. Ipswich Children’s Room staff are trained in the presentation of this well-renowned program. No registration is required. Siblings welcomed. Call the Children’s Room at 978-412-8713 with any questions.
Book Selection Night
This program lasts about 30 minutes. Adults interact with the child in their care while listening to stories, participating in large motor skill activities and crafts together. Participants are invited to stay and play/chat afterwards.
This is a great program not only for parents, but for grandparents and their grandchildren or for caregivers who want to participate in Story Time with the children in their charge. It will last 30 to 45 minutes with play time provided following the program.
No registration is required. Older and younger siblings may attend. Contact the Children’s Room at 978-412-8713 with any questions.
Registration for the October 4th Cookbook Club starts today! Click here to register.
This weekly story time is a lovely bridge between Mother Goose on the Loose and traditional Story Time. For children ages 2-3 and their caregivers, this story time continues the rhymes and fingerplays of Mother Goose on the Loose, while introducing slightly richer picture books and a simple craft.
A Drop-In Craft program held once a month on a Thursday afternoon from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. Check the online calendar or pick up a calendar in the Children’s Room. Intended for school age children with intricate and challenging crafts. Each child under the age of 8 must be accompanied by an adult caregiver to actively assist with the craft. No registration is required. Call the Children’s Room at 978-412-8713 with any questions.
An interactive early literacy program for caregivers with infants through 2-year-olds. No registration is required. Songs, stories, music and finger-plays for caregivers and babies to enjoy together. Ipswich Children’s Room staff are trained in the presentation of this well-renowned program. No registration is required. Siblings welcomed. Call the Children’s Room at 978-412-8713 with any questions.
Ipswich girls (K-12th grade) who are interested in becoming a Girl Scout are welcome to drop by to meet the Ipswich Girl Scouts AND decorate a mini pumpkin to take home with you.
All are welcome! This month we are reading Elastic: Flexible Thinking in a Time of Change, by Leonard Mlodinow. Copies are available to borrow from the library.
New early literacy offering designed especially for caregivers with infants through pre-walkers. An interactive program of songs, stories and finger-plays for caregivers and babies to enjoy together. Ipswich Children’s Room staff are trained in the presentation of this well-renowned program. No registration is required. Siblings welcome. Call the Children’s Room at 978-412-8713 with any questions.
An interactive early literacy program for caregivers with infants through 2-year-olds. No registration is required. Songs, stories, music and finger-plays for caregivers and babies to enjoy together. Ipswich Children’s Room staff are trained in the presentation of this well-renowned program. No registration is required. Siblings welcomed. Call the Children’s Room at 978-412-8713 with any questions.
This program lasts about 30 minutes. Adults interact with the child in their care while listening to stories, participating in large motor skill activities and crafts together. Participants are invited to stay and play/chat afterwards.
This is a great program not only for parents, but for grandparents and their grandchildren or for caregivers who want to participate in Story Time with the children in their charge. It will last 30 to 45 minutes with play time provided following the program.
No registration is required. Older and younger siblings may attend. Contact the Children’s Room at 978-412-8713 with any questions.
Bark and Read an International Dog Therapy Program
Drop by today to see if this is a program that might benefit the young reader in your life and to meet the trainer and her dogs.
Registration will be required for future time slots (15 minutes) for Bark and Read, a program that boost the confidence of young readers with Christine Christoforo and her dogs, Cayenne and Rue, who have been trained by Therapy Dogs International. This program is best for tentative readers and/or children who might be uncomfortable with dogs.
The Ipswich Poetry Group meets upstairs on the second and fourth Wednesdays every month at 6:30pm to share poems in progress and give and receive feedback. All are welcome! Email ipswichpoetrygroup@gmail.com with questions or call Sarah at 617-584-7025.
This weekly story time is a lovely bridge between Mother Goose on the Loose and traditional Story Time. For children ages 2-3 and their caregivers, this story time continues the rhymes and fingerplays of Mother Goose on the Loose, while introducing slightly richer picture books and a simple craft.
The Louise & Hugh Johnson Lecture series hosts well-known regional and national authors. The library is pleased to announce that the next author for this lecture series will be Alexandra Fuller.
Alexandra Fuller has written five books of non-fiction. Her debut book, Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood, was a New York Times Notable Book for 2002, the 2002 Booksense Best Non-fiction book, a finalist for the Guardian’s First Book Award and the winner of the 2002 Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize. Her 2004 Scribbling the Cat: Travels with an African Soldier won the Ulysses Prize for Art of Reportage. In 2008, Fuller’s The Legend of Colton H Bryant told the story of a modern-day Wyoming cowboy working on that state’s oil rigs. She contributed the essay on Wyoming in the 2008 book State by State: A Panoramic Portrait of America. The New York Times Best Selling, Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness, is a prequel/sequel to Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight. Her most recent memoir, about marriage and divorce, is entitled Leaving Before the Rains Come. Fuller has written for The New Yorker, Vogue, and is a frequent contributor to National Geographic Magazine. Her first novel is Quiet Until the Thaw.
On September 27, Ms. Fuller will read from and discuss her memoirs and first novel (published in 2017), Quiet Until the Thaw. Copies of the book will be available for purchase.
Free. Registration required. This event begins at 7:30 p.m. Book sales and cash bar available starting at 6:30 p.m. (Bar will be cash only. No debit/credit cards will be accepted).
The Johnson Lecture Series is made possible by a permanent endowment by Louise & Hugh Johnson. The Johnson endowment was left to and is managed by the Friends of the Library and is intended to enrich the lives of Ipswich residents. Louise and Hugh loved life. They loved books, nature, friends, good food, and each other. They lived together in their treasured Cape Cod style home in Ipswich. Louise was very involved with the Ipswich Public library, the garden club, bird watching, and poetry. Hugh had a background in publishing, loved to fly fish, and cherished Jane Austen's novels (his favorite being Emma).
An interactive early literacy program for caregivers with infants through 2-year-olds. No registration is required. Songs, stories, music and finger-plays for caregivers and babies to enjoy together. Ipswich Children’s Room staff are trained in the presentation of this well-renowned program. No registration is required. Siblings welcomed. Call the Children’s Room at 978-412-8713 with any questions.
Jeff Klapes, "The Traveling Librarian" will take you on a photographic journey to Istanbul!
Join us for an armchair traveler’s journey to the cosmopolitan city of Istanbul. A major crossroads of eastern and western civilization, Istanbul is not Turkey's political capital, but it is the country's largest city and cultural hub. Rich with gorgeous Islamic architecture, fascinating markets, and vibrant street life, Istanbul is a city that will amaze you with its opulence. Jeff Klapes is the Head of Reference Services at the Lucius Beebe Memorial Library in Wakefield, Massachusetts.
This program is made possible by a grant from the Coburn Charitable Society.
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