Hall Memorial Library 2014
18 Park Street, Northfield, NH 03276 * www.hallmemoriallibrary.org * (603) 286-8971
Serving
the towns of Tilton and Northfield since October 6, 1887
Trustees: Leif
Martinson, Northfield, Chair, lifetime appointee
Nancy Court, Northfield,
lifetime appointee
Nell Grant, Tilton,
lifetime appointee
Kathi Mitchell,
Tilton, elected
Tom Fulweiler, Northfield,
Secretary, elected
Staff: Jennifer Davis, Director
Julie
Dylingowski, Children's Services
Brittany Moore, Young
Adult, Technical and Cataloging Services
Maggie McCall, Programming,
Publicity and Inter-library Loan
Sarah Poirier, Overdues
and Circulation
Scott Tedford, Maintenance
Amber Groz,
Library Page
Krystal Groz, Library
Page
Volunteers included Nell Grant,
Nancy Court, Susan Nadeau, Beverly Green, Cheryl Geiger, Josie Nichols, Don
MacDonald; groups of students and faculty from Tilton School, teens from
Winnisquam Regional Schools and many others who assist in significant ways.
Volunteers help keep our plants alive, take books to our homebound patrons,
sponsor programs, set-up our booksale and assist with story time. In 2014
volunteers contributed 361 hours to the library! Hall Memorial would not be where it is
without the dedication and assistance of its volunteers.
Donations were given by the
Tilton-Northfield Rotary Club, Lucinda Hope, Donna Burbank, the Boucher family,
Chuck and Kathleen Mitchell, Pizza Hut, and Market Basket, along with many
donations made in memoriam. Many others gave books to add to our collection or sell
in our booksale; 880 of those items were added to our permanent collection.
Hall
Memorial Library continues to serve the towns in a variety of ways. We
provide Literacy Outreach to the youngest members of our communities by
visiting childcare centers and schools, and providing an active summer reading
program. We reach out to our elders with our homebound program. Patrons of all
ages come through our doors for books, DVDs, large print books, audio books,
young adult & children's items, a Ukulele, museum passes, & magazines. 2014
saw the addition of a Telescope, donated by the Rotary, in conjunction with the
NH Astronomical Society, which can be checked out for three days. We are pleased to be able to contribute positively
to so many aspects of our community’s vibrant life.
Over
7,982 patrons of all ages participated in one or more of the 561 programs produced
by the Library this year. Our summer reading program was a resounding success,
with a theme of "Fizz, Boom, Read."
Together, 118 children read over 52,000 recorded minutes to total more
than 866 hours of summer reading! The Library's ongoing programs include weekly
programs with Project Teen, the Knit Wits, children's crafts, chess club for all
ages, two story times with a craft, Spanish Club, outreach to daycare centers, Scrabble,
Mexican Train, Canasta, three book clubs, and monthly art displays. We publish our list of programs, activities
and new books in the local newspapers, online, in our newsletter and of course,
at the library itself. Don’t forget to like us on Facebook!
Our web-based offerings include the
Encyclopedia Britannica and the state supported EBSCO database; which can be
accessed through www.hallmemoriallibrary.org. The library subscribes to NH
Downloadables, which offers Audiobooks and eBooks. If you have trouble
accessing ebooks online, feel free to stop in to the library on Tech Tuesdays,
were we offer free help with your tech devices.
Our public access computers were used 7,739 individual times and we continue
to offer free Wifi.
Hall Memorial Library is so much
more than books! Libraries are the heart
of every community and we invite you to come down, try out a program, check out
a book, read our newspapers, meet our friendly staff and utilize this great
community asset.
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