In this Issue:

Library Holiday Hours

Zoom Author Talk with Daniel N. Warshawsky

Weekly Staff Pick!

What's Happening This Week At The Library For Kids

What's Happening This Week At The Library For Teens & Adults

Connect with Us!

Library Holiday Hours

The Falmouth Public Library and its Branches will be closed on Monday, January 15th in observance of Martin Luther King Day.

Zoom Author Talk with Daniel N. Warshawsky

Tuesday, January 30th, 2pm-3pm

Online via Zoom

So many of us are passionate about finding ways to reduce food waste so we're thrilled to be hosting author and professor Daniel N. Warshawsky for a virtual discussion of his new book Food Waste, Food Insecurity, and the Globalization of Food Banks.

"Food banks—warehouses that collect and systematize surplus food—have expanded into one of the largest mechanisms to redistribute food waste.  Based on fifteen years of in-depth fieldwork on four continents, Daniel Warshawsky illustrates how and why food banks proliferate across the globe even though their impacts may be limited."

This Zoom event has been shared with us by the Ashland Public Library! Click the button below to register, and receive the Zoom link! 

Please note that this event is online via Zoom only.

Weekly Staff Pick!

Suits (Seasons 1 - 9)

"While running from a drug deal gone bad, brilliant young college-dropout Mike Ross slips into a job interview with one of New York City's best legal closers, Harvey Specter. Tired of cookie-cutter law school grads, Harvey takes a gamble by hiring Mike on the spot after recognizing his raw talent and photographic memory."

What's Happening This Week At The Library For Kids

Weekly Programming for Children:

Thursdays: It's Game Time! from 5pm-7pm at the East Falmouth Branch

Fridays: Scavenger Hunt from 2pm-7pm at the North Falmouth Branch

Saturdays: Scavenger Hunt from 9am-12pm at the East Falmouth Branch

                 It's Game Time! from 9am-12pm at the East Falmouth Branch

Tuesdays: Stories, Songs and Instruments from 10am-10:30am at the East Falmouth Branch

                Stay & Make: Drop-In Craft from 10am-2pm at the North Falmouth Branch

                Block Party: Legos At The Library! from 3:30pm-5pm in the Hermann Room

Animals in Winter Book Display & List

Stop by the Children's Room to check out books from our Animals in Winter display.

You can also explore even more Animals in Winter children's books by using our Animals in Winter booklist.

What's Happening This Week At The Library For Teens & Adults

Weekly Programming for Teens and Adults

Thursdays: Why Knot Knit Nite from 5pm-7pm at the East Falmouth Branch

Tuesdays: Sit n' Stitch from 10am-12pm at the East Falmouth Branch

                Genealogy Help Session from 2pm-4pm in the Reference Department

Coming to a Neighborhood Near You
Thursday, January 11th, 2pm-3pm
Hermann Room

Join Mass Audubon's Long Pasture Wildlife Sanctuary Director Ian Ives as he explores the local increase in abundance of deer, coyote, fisher, turkey, bobcat and osprey and the conflicts, management measures and ethical considerations that arise as a result.

Ian Ives is the Director at Mass Audubon’s Long Pasture, Ashumet Holly, Barnstable Great Marsh and Skunknett River Wildlife Sanctuaries on Cape Cod. His job responsibilities include overall management of the sanctuaries and staff, community outreach, advocacy, environmental stewardship and education. One of his primary goals is to engage the community in Mass Audubon’s mission work and expand activities at the wildlife sanctuaries he oversees.

Zoom Talk: What Works in Community News
Thursday, January 11th, 7pm-8pm
Online via Zoom

Journalism professor and author Dan Kennedy will discuss his new book, What Works in Community News: Media Startups, News Deserts, and the Future of the Fourth Estate, which serves as a groundbreaking study of the journalism startups that are solving the local news crisis one community at a time. Local news is essential to democracy. Meaningful participation in civic life is impossible without it. However, local news is in crisis. According to one widely cited study, some 2,500 newspapers have closed over the last generation. And it is often marginalized communities of color who have been left without the day-to-day journalism they need to govern themselves in a democracy. 

This event has been generously shared with us by the Tewksbury Library!  Registration is required for this event.  A Zoom link will be sent prior to the event.

Please note that this event is online via Zoom only, and takes place when our library is closed for the day!

Falmouth Genealogical Society
Saturday, January 13th, 10:30am-12pm
Hermann Meeting Room

The Falmouth Genealogical Society will be hosting their live monthly meeting with their presenter via Zoom.

Pam Vestal: "Finding What You Need and Making the Most of What You Find" With so much information available to us today, it can be hard to know how to find what we seek, or what to do with it after we've found it.  Discover an assortment of techniques that can help you search the internet more successfully, extract those useful genealogical nuggets from your documents, organize what you've found, and evaluate your evidence.  We'll look at tools for locating overlooked records, understanding codes in documents, recovering missing websites, finding evidence of name changes, and much more.

FPL Fiction Book Club - Pachinko
Tuesday, January 16th, 4pm-5pm
Hermann Meeting Room

Please join us for the monthly meeting of the FPL Fiction Book Club as we discuss Pachinko by Min Jin Lee.  Come pick up a copy of the book at the reference desk and the join us to share your thoughts!  Registration is appreciated.

"In early 1900s Korea, prized daughter Sunja finds herself pregnant and alone, bringing shame on her family until a young tubercular minister offers to marry her and bring her to Japan, in the saga of one family bound together as their faith and identity are called into question."

Dungeons & Dragons: Introduction and Character Creation for Adults
Tuesday, January 16th, 6:30pm-8pm
Hermann Meeting Room

Are you an adult who is curious about Dungeons & Dragons and thinking about trying your hand at playing? This program may be a great start for you!

It's a two-in-one with an introduction to help familiarize you with the basics of D&D as well as character creation. Come in to learn about this exciting game and have a guided walkthrough for creating and filling out a character sheet of your own.  If you're interested in D&D, be you a new adventurer or a seasoned veteran, we hope to see you here!  Registration required.

Zoom Talk: Fierce Females: Women in Art with Jane Oneail
Wednesday, January 17th, 7pm-8pm
Online via Zoom

Women have long been the subject of art, often depicted as nothing more than objects of desire. How do images of women change when women become the creators?

This program examines the history of women in art in brief and then explores the lives, careers and works of several major women artists from the Renaissance to the twentieth century, including Artemisia Gentileschi and Mary Cassatt.

This program is being offered via the  Sargent Memorial Library in Boxborough, and we thank the Library Board of Trustees for sponsoring it. Click the button below to register, and receive the Zoom link! 

Please note that this event is online via Zoom only.

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