Children
About the Children’s Department
The Children’s Department houses books, magazines, videos, learning kits, and more for babies, toddlers, and elementary school children. Family Fun Story Time for babies to school age children is held on Wednesday mornings from 9:30-9:50 followed by 10:00 and 10:30 times available for scheduled groups. Story Time activities include songs, stories, and crafts and helps introduce little ones to small groups. School-aged children from PreK-5th grades have their own program, Book Connection, held on Thursday afternoons from 3:30-4:30pm. Month-long sessions are developed around a theme. The afternoon begins with a snack and a story, and ends with a take-home craft related to the current theme. All programs are free. Children 7 and younger must have a parent stay with them, however, we encourage a parent of older children to remain on site. Printable flyers are available when programs are offered. Come check it out!
Library Closed Burger Day
The library will be closed Saturday, May 5 for Burger Day! As we have for several years, the library staff will be working in the Information Booth at the annual festival. Stop by and see us!
*Dream Big-Read* Summer Reading Program
The 2012 summer program will kick-off in the Children’s Deaprtment of the Library on Tuesday, June 5. Stories and crafts make up the Tuesday programs with toddlers meeting frm 9:15am-9:45am. Kids who have completed Pre-K-5th grades meet from 10:00am-11:00am.
Wednesdays will be the day for guests to entertain at the library. All programs will be held from 10:00am-11:00am. Guests will include the El Reno Fire Department, Magician John Pansze; and storyteller Caroline James.
Free movies and popcorn are a fun way to relax on a Thursday afternoon at the library. Movies begin at 2:00pm. Please bring your own favorite drink with a lid.
Click here for a complete *Dream Big-Read* schedule.
Mobile catalog page
If you visit our website from your mobile device, you’ll notice some changes! Our catalog page (the place the search for titles, access OverDrive e-content, and renew your books) now has a slick new mobile interface! Preview it in your browser by clicking here.
The catalog page should automatically display in the mobile format when you visit it from your phone, tablet, etc. You shouldn’t notice any changes to the catalog if you’re accessing from a regular computer.
Let us know what you think! We’re excited about this upgrade!
Larger selection of e-books
When you search the library’s catalog page, you’ll see some new resources available. They are e-books from Project Gutenberg and downloadable audio books from LibriVox.
A few tips:
- Project Gutenberg & LibriVox titles are usually classics that are no longer under copyright restrictions.
- These titles have no due date. Once you download them you can keep them forever! You might want to choose a Gutenberg title over a OverDrive title for that reason.
- Gutenberg e-book titles are available in a variety of formats (HTML, EPub, Kindle, etc.)
- Most LibriVox titles are MP3s