Stop by the library to pick up a fun craft or activity to complete at home! Kid Craft Kits will be available on a first come, first serve basis, while supplies last, during curbside services or appointment-based visits.

Stop by the library to pick up a fun craft or activity to complete at home! Kid Craft Kits will be available on a first come, first serve basis, while supplies last, during curbside services or appointment-based visits.

Jane Christian presents Virtual STEAM: Sensory Bottles! Children ages 3-5, with an accompanying adult, are invited to join the fun of a virtual STEAM experience. This group offers an activity that will incorporate Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math. Registration required in advance.  Please pick up STEAM supplies from Storrs Library during Curbside Services, or an appointment-based visit.  

This program is sponsored by Pathways for Parents. Pathways for Parents is administered by Ludlow Public Schools and is funded by the Coordinated Family Community Engagement Grant through the Massachusetts Department of Early Education and Care.

Love to cook? Join us for Virtual Cookbook Club! We will be sharing our experiences cooking recipes from the Chef Bill website. Chef Bill has kindly granted permission to use recipes from his Zoom classes as our inspiration this month. Novice cooks are welcome! There is no need to register your recipe for virtual meetings as with our previous in-person Cookbook Club sessions.

Join our K-2nd Grade book group so we can discover great, funny stories together! Each month we will have a take-and-make craft and read something hilarious that may--or may not--have a banana in it. We will meet virtually to talk about what made us laugh the most. This month's book selection is YASMIN THE SUPERHERO by Saadia Faruqi. Register and pick up your copy and craft from our curbside pickup, or during an appointment-based visit. Make sure to register in advance to receive the Zoom link. 

A practical pantry doesn’t have to be Pinterest-pretty with dry goods decanted into jars with artful labels. It's more than just a place to store food; it’s a space that can support your goals – from eating healthier, creating a snack station for kids, or stocking up on supplies without losing control of where everything is.
 
Storrs Library invites you to join us with professional organizer Susan McCarthy to listen, learn, and enjoy or to set up your device near your pantry to go through the process during the program. We’ll use a minimal mess method so if you don't finish, you won’t be stuck with the contents of your pantry strewn over the floor. No need to buy organizing products before class; you’ll see what, if anything, you need after you go through your pantry. Have a box available for donations, a trash can nearby, and cleaning supplies on hand.
 
Susan McCarthy realized she was a minimalist midlife while going through her parents' house packed full of stuff. She founded A Life Less Cluttered to help others develop peaceful decluttered spaces in their homes. Susan is a certified member of NAPO, National Association of Productivity and Organizing Professionals.
 
This program is sponsored by Friends of Storrs Library.

We will be using Zoom for this presentation. You will need a computer, smartphone, iPad, or similar device that has a camera and audio ability.

New to Zoom? Watch one of their short videos to help you get started: Join a Meeting or Joining & Configuring Audio & Video.

New to videoconferencing and web chats? Download our Video Conferencing Privacy Tips handout for steps that you can take to safeguard your privacy online. 

Register in advance.  You will receive an email invitation to join shortly before we begin.

For caregivers with littles under age 1, grab your strollers and children and come meet others who haven't slept properly in weeks. We'll meet where the Story Walk is posted on the front sidewalk. A library staff member will be on hand to facilitate distanced sharing about our experiences caring for a tiny human. Come when you can, leave when you must, and hope that the littles will nap for us. Registration is required. Adult participants need to wear masks and adhere to social distancing. This program is weather-dependent.

Children from birth to fifteen months, with their caregivers, are invited to join Physical Therapist Lisa Erickson in Movement Across Milestones on Zoom. This program will focus on motor development education, with suggestions for caregivers to promote typical motor development. Caregivers will also receive ideas on floor time play. Please register, and registration will be for the four Fridays in May.  

This program is sponsored by Pathways for Parents. Pathways for Parents is administered by Ludlow Public Schools and is funded by the Coordinated Family Community Engagement Grant through the Massachusetts Department of Early Education and Care.

We will be using Zoom for this presentation. You will need a computer, smartphone, iPad, or similar device that has a camera and audio ability. New to Zoom? Watch one of their short videos to help you get started: Join a Meeting or Joining & Configuring Audio & Video. 

New to videoconferencing and web chats? Download our Video Conferencing Privacy Tips handout for steps that you can take to safeguard your privacy online.  

Join our 3rd-5th grade book group and find a reason to laugh each month! We'll read weird and funny stories with a matching activity and meet up on Zoom to talk about them. This month's book selection is HOW TO GROW UP AND RULE THE WORLD by Scott Seegert. Register and pick up your copy and activity from our curbside pickup, or during an appointment-based visit. Make sure to register in advance to receive the meeting link.     

Stop by the library to pick up a fun craft or activity to complete at home! Kid Craft Kits will be available on a first come, first serve basis, while supplies last, during curbside services or appointment-based visits.

Join Storrs Library as historian Dory Codington explores the material culture shifts leading up to the American Revolution.

In December 1767, the Town Meeting of Harvard, Massachusetts voted to discourage the sale and purchase of items as varied as tea, carriages, and ready-made clothing. Material culture had increasingly made women’s lives easier, and so the rejection of it shows us that consumers were willing to separate themselves from Britain. Much of the rhetoric at the beginning of this path toward the Revolution centered on tea, that "wicked weed."

Dory Codington is a local historian and novelist. As a Freedom Trail and Faneuil Hall Guide, for the National Park Service, she began to investigate the social changes that were necessary to embrace the higher notion of Independence and America’s break from Great Britain. She has three novels set during this time period: Cardinal Points, Beside Turning Water and Fate and Fair Winds.

We will be using Zoom for this presentation. You will need a computer, smartphone, iPad, or similar device that has a camera and audio ability.

New to Zoom? Watch one of their short videos to help you get started: Join a Meeting or Joining & Configuring Audio & Video.

New to videoconferencing and web chats? Download our Video Conferencing Privacy Tips handout for steps that you can take to safeguard your privacy online. 

Register in advance.  You will receive an email invitation to join shortly before we begin.

For caregivers with littles under age 1, grab your strollers and children and come meet others who haven't slept properly in weeks. We'll meet where the Story Walk is posted on the front sidewalk. A library staff member will be on hand to facilitate distanced sharing about our experiences caring for a tiny human. Come when you can, leave when you must, and hope that the littles will nap for us. Registration is required. Adult participants need to wear masks and adhere to social distancing. This program is weather-dependent.

Children from birth to fifteen months, with their caregivers, are invited to join Physical Therapist Lisa Erickson in Movement Across Milestones on Zoom. This program will focus on motor development education, with suggestions for caregivers to promote typical motor development. Caregivers will also receive ideas on floor time play. Please register, and registration will be for the four Fridays in May.  

This program is sponsored by Pathways for Parents. Pathways for Parents is administered by Ludlow Public Schools and is funded by the Coordinated Family Community Engagement Grant through the Massachusetts Department of Early Education and Care.

We will be using Zoom for this presentation. You will need a computer, smartphone, iPad, or similar device that has a camera and audio ability. New to Zoom? Watch one of their short videos to help you get started: Join a Meeting or Joining & Configuring Audio & Video. 

New to videoconferencing and web chats? Download our Video Conferencing Privacy Tips handout for steps that you can take to safeguard your privacy online.  

The Library is closed in observance of Memorial Day. 

A few years ago, Arnie Pritchard inherited the World War II army footlocker of his father, Anton (Tony) Pritchard.  It turned out to contain hundreds of letters and other family papers from Tony’s service in the Army and in the United Nations’ refugee program in postwar Europe.

From these letters Arnie has created a story. “This Business of Fighting” focuses on Tony’s time in the front lines in Europe. It portrays a young man dealing with everything from raw fear to his role as a leader to his exposure to a world both wider and more brutal than he had known.  Tony wonders how he will respond to his first combat, describes crawling through the freezing woods of the Ardennes under enemy fire, and sees crowds of escaping forced laborers wandering the roads of Germany as the Nazi regime was collapsing.

Arnie Pritchard has a Ph.D. in history from Yale, and has been telling stories in public for about twenty years.  He lives in New Haven, Connecticut. 

We will be using Zoom for this presentation. You will need a computer, smartphone, iPad, or similar device that has a camera and audio ability.

New to Zoom? Watch one of their short videos to help you get started: Join a Meeting or Joining & Configuring Audio & Video.

New to videoconferencing and web chats? Download our Video Conferencing Privacy Tips handout for steps that you can take to safeguard your privacy online. 

Register in advance.  You will receive an email invitation to join shortly before we begin.

Storrs Library invites you to this presentation to consider how the early feminist anti-violence movement was transformed once institutionalized by the criminal justice system and advocacy organizations. Drawing from ethnographic research, the talk will provide the perspective of victims of domestic violence as they react to intervention by government officials and attempt to re-establish their lives.

Professor Kristin Bumiller is the author of In an Abusive State (Duke University Press, 2008) which examines the relationship between the feminist movement against sexual violence and criminal justice policy. She is also the author of a seminal book on employment discrimination, The Civil Rights Society (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988).  Her has written numerous articles span a broad range of interests in anti-discrimination policy, feminist theory, gender and punishment, and disability rights. Professor Bumiller received her PhD in Political Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is the George Daniel Olds Professor of Economic and Social Institutions in the Department of Political Science at Amherst College.

This program is cosponsored by Storrs Library, Longmeadow Historical Society, Longmeadow Adult Center as part of our "Hidden Voices of History" series. This program is made possible through CARES Act funding to Federal Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners.

We will be using Zoom for this presentation. You will need a computer, smartphone, iPad, or similar device that has a camera and audio ability.

New to Zoom? Watch one of their short videos to help you get started: Join a Meeting or Joining & Configuring Audio & Video.

New to videoconferencing and web chats? Download our Video Conferencing Privacy Tips handout for steps that you can take to safeguard your privacy online.

Register in advance. You will receive an email invitation to join shortly before the program begins.

For caregivers with littles under age 1, grab your strollers and children and come meet others who haven't slept properly in weeks. We'll meet where the Story Walk is posted on the front sidewalk. A library staff member will be on hand to facilitate distanced sharing about our experiences caring for a tiny human. Come when you can, leave when you must, and hope that the littles will nap for us. Registration is required. Adult participants need to wear masks and adhere to social distancing. This program is weather-dependent.

Join Storrs Library for a reading with Robert Chipkin, long-time journalist and columnist for the Springfield Republican and Masslive. He recently published Paws to Remember: the Wit and Wisdom of Theo the Golden Retriever, a compilation of his columns written from the point of view of his dog, Theo. Robert will be reading selections from his book, which will also be available for purchase.
 
Please bring a blanket or lawn chair as this program will be held on the Front Lawn of Storrs Library. This program is weather-dependent, and the rain date is Monday, June 28th. Advanced registration is required and space is limited. Masks and social distancing are required.

Storrs Library is excited to offer an adult summer yoga program with Lisa Katz, who offers classes for all ages and abilities. Each session will be held in the evenings at 6:30pm on the second Tuesday of the month: May 11, June 8, July 13, and August 10. No experience is necessary. Space and permission is given to go at your own pace. You will leave with an open heart and a connection to yourself and others.
 
Lisa Katz is an RYT-200hr certified yoga instructor. Lisa offers creative fun classes for children and adults of all ages and populations. Her classes are gentle, playful, adaptable, enjoyable, unique and allow all to be welcomed as they are.

This program will be held on the Front Lawn, social distancing and masks are required. Please bring your own supplies such as a mat, water, and bug spray. In the case of inclement weather, the session will be moved to Zoom. All registrants will be notified via email along with a Zoom link. Advanced registration is required for each session.

This program is sponsored by the Friends of Storrs Library.

On June 9th at 12:30 pm, join the Longmeadow Adult Center and Storrs Library for a private virtual “behind-the-scenes” tour of the Historic Wang Theatre in Boston, Massachusetts. The experience will include both live and pre-recorded content including historic images and narration of the theatre’s 95-year history. The program will be approximately 45-60 minutes long and allow for interaction and questions from guests.

Sponsored by FOLOCA.

We will be using Zoom for this presentation. You will need a computer, smartphone, iPad, or similar device that has a camera and audio ability.

New to Zoom? Watch one of their short videos to help you get started: Join a Meeting or Joining & Configuring Audio & Video.

New to videoconferencing and web chats? Download our Video Conferencing Privacy Tips handout for steps that you can take to safeguard your privacy online.

Register in advance. You will receive an email invitation to join shortly before the program begins.

This program will be held on the library lawn, so please bring a blanket or lawn chair if you would like to! Space is limited, and participants must register in advance. Masks and social distancing are required. In the event of inclement weather, this program will be held on Zoom. 

For caregivers with littles under age 1, grab your strollers and children and come meet others who haven't slept properly in weeks. We'll meet where the Story Walk is posted on the front sidewalk. A library staff member will be on hand to facilitate distanced sharing about our experiences caring for a tiny human. Come when you can, leave when you must, and hope that the littles will nap for us. Registration is required. Adult participants need to wear masks and adhere to social distancing. This program is weather-dependent.