Library Schedule for March 2015
The library is open every day in March and on winter hours now, which are: Monday to Thursday 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Friday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Saturday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; and Sunday 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Visit the library’s website at www.haddonfieldlibrary.org or call (856) 429–1304 for announcements of closings in inclement weather.
Computer Classes
March 4 from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. Drop in and check out free eBooks, movies, music, television and audio books with your library card using Overdrive, 3M Cloud and Hoopla subscriptions. Find out how to get all of these free collections with your eReader, mobile device, PC or iPad with your library card through the library’s subscriptions to these services. Registration is not required.
Hoopla e- Raffle!
Are you downloading books, music, movies and TV from digital platforms available through the library? Stop by the library to enter a raffle promoting hoopla, the 3M Cloud Library and OverDrive. Describe what you love most about borrowing e-titles or list a recently borrowed e-title. Raffle entries will be accepted from Feb. 11 through March 2. To learn more about signing up for hoopla, 3M and OverDrive, ask HPL staff or visit the library website at www.haddonfieldlibrary.org
Teen Tech Week is a time for libraries to showcase all of the great digital resources and services that are available to help teens succeed in school and prepare for college and 21st century careers. This year teen coordinator Erica Coonelly and the library staff want to get the word out about the library’s new Hoopla service. Hoopla offers borrowing of downloadable and streamed movies, music, television and audiobooks to mobile devices, smartphones, PCs and Apple products all with your library card. A raffle will be held from March 8 through 15. Any Haddonfield teens with library cards can enter the raffle if they sign up for Hoopla or to the library’s subscriptions to eBooks and audiobooks through the 3M Cloud and/or Overdrive. Teens who have previously signed up for any of these subscriptions are eligible to enter the raffle to win gift cards. Watch for more information in early March. The Haddonfield Friends of the Library generously fund the prizes for the raffle.
Buy a Leaf to support the “We Love Our Library” Campaign at HPL
The HPL Library Board of Trustees has begun the “We Love Our Library” campaign to provide fundraising for the library’s long awaited expansion and renovation. The library is slated to be expanded by a 2000 square feet addition on Tanner St in 2015. The expansion will provide an elevator and handicapped accessible bathrooms. The library’s interior will also be reconfigured for complete handicapped accessibility. The library will be closed for about seven months and operate at an alternative site. The renovation will also provide an opportunity to modernize the library to serve Haddonfield residents in the 21st century.
The Library Board is partnering with the Borough of Haddonfield to upgrade the library. The Borough Commissioners will pay for the improvements that will make the library handicapped accessible, as well as some building upgrades such as a new roof, heating renovation, etc. The Library Board is conducting the campaign to pay for enhancements to the building to allow it to operate as a 21st century library. This will include a vastly improved children’s department with better programming space and room for children to explore and learn in a fun, creative area. The library will also have a larger meeting room equipped with new technology, a distinct teen area, collaborative study spaces and browsing spaces for the community to delight in the library’s collections. Creating a place for community connection is a vital part of the renovation.
Toward that end the Library Board has launched the “We Love Our Library” campaign. The campaign will raise funds for the enhancements, such as contemporary furnishings, equipment and newer technology throughout the building. You can help by buying a leaf on the tree mural created by HMHS National Honor Society members. Student Event Coordinator, Abby Czernieckiis, led the National Art Honor Society on the project along with NAHS supervisor, Allie Westerside. The mural will act as a donor recognition element and a spark igniting the We Love Our Library campaign.
The tree is at the top of the stairs on the first floor of the library. Donations are being accepted from $5 to $250. Check with the library staff at the first floor circulation desk. Donations above $250 will be permanently honored in the library after completion of the renovation, anticipated to be seven months after construction begins!
For more information visit www.haddonfieldlibrary.org or contact the library director, Susan Briant at (856) 429–1304, ext. 7 or at sbriant@haddonfieldlibrary.org
General programs:
The Adult Book group meets on March 23 at 7 p.m. The featured selection is “Priceless” by Wittman. New members are welcome. For more information, contact Kathleen Metrick at (856) 429–1304, ext. 116 or email her at kmetrick@haddonfieldlibrary.org. Light refreshments will be served.
The Friends of the Library meet on March 19 at 7 p.m. New members are always welcome. For more information visit www.hfol.org.
The Library Board of Trustees will meet on March 24 at 8 a.m. in the library’s New Jersey room. The Board has reorganized. Its officers will continue as: Deborah Marchand, president; Gene Kain, vice president; Amy Goodworth, secretary; and Mary Eklund, treasurer. John Piotrowski is the assistant treasurer. Other members are: Janet Hallahan, Cheryl Squadrito-Moskovitz, mayor Jeff Kasko and superintendent of schools Rich Perry. The public is welcome to attend.
Tax Information: the library has a small selection of free federal tax forms for distribution (1040, 1040A and 1040 EZ.) No instructional booklets are available for free distribution this year. The library will assist with downloading forms for both the federal and New Jersey taxes at a cost of $0.15 a page. For more information visit www.irs.gov or the State of New Jersey Treasury website. VITA tax preparation is available throughout Camden County for senior citizens’ tax preparation. Visit http://www.nj211.org/vita09.cfm#Camden for more information.
