you know . . .
We have a Friends of the Library group?
Farmville Public Library’s Friends of the Library group is very important in helping us provide many of the wonderful activities, speakers, and craft supplies used by you, our patrons, every year.
In 2024, the Friends gave funds to provide the activities at the kids tent at the Dogwood Festival. During our summer reading program, they financed the kids and adult reading prizes as well as the Sylvan Park Bird Show. They also paid for the birdwatching instructor, Susan McRae, and the birdhouse supplies. Throughout the year they gave donations for the materials used to make many of the take & make kits found at children’s desk and for the ornaments kits at the Main Street StoryWalk during the Taste of Farmville They also helped to bring the Ed’s Dinosaur Live programs the day before Thanksgiving.
The Friends raised the funds in 2024 by having book sales at the Dogwood Festival and several Books & Brews events at the Duck Rabbit Brewery. This coming year they are planning a big book sale event with bingo and more in the spring in addition to other events. They also raise funds through their membership drive. The Friends annual membership drive is going on now. You can join or renew your membership on our website (farmvillelibrary.org/friends) or you can pick up a brochure on the card catalog in the main lobby or upstairs on the book sale rack near the desk.
On Tuesday, January 14 at 6:30pm the Friends will host a program by maritime archeologist, Kimberly Kenyon, from ECU’s QAR Lab. She will share her experience excavating a 1st century BC Roman ship found in the Aegean Sea near Turkey. The program is free and open to the public. We hope to see you there!
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Farmville Parks and Rec are looking for your help . . .
Farmville Parks and Rec are currently working on their 10-year strategic plan. They want and need your opinions as they plan the future of the parks and recreation department. This plan will help guide them in prioritizing projects throughout town as well as when applying for federal and state funding grants. Use this QR code or go to their website (https://farmvillencparks.com/) to give them your opinion.
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February
Saturday, February 1st
Save the Date for lots for family fun
Saturday, February 15 10:30 am
Celebrate the joy of friendship at the Library! friending”, mini bouquet arranging, and card making. While the name suggests gals, this event is open to any adult who wants to make a new friend.
Tea and treats will be served, but feel free to bring a favorite from home share with the group.
Registration is required for this program. You can register by calling the library, scanning the QR code at the right, or visiting farmvillelibrary.org/galentines
Wednesdays
Storytime
Lapsit Storytime at 9:30 am
Mondays
This interactive program between children and their caregivers features age-appropriate activities for ages birth to 15 months. The 30-minute program includes a read-together book, lap bounces, music, and movement with shaker eggs and scarves, and concludes with the bubble dance. Each family is provided a copy of the featured Read Together book to share during the program.
Toddler Storytime at 10:30 am
Kids can waddle, toddle and wiggle during Toddler Time for ages 1-3. The 30-minute program includes a read-together book, lap bounces, music, and movement with shaker eggs and scarves, and concludes with the bubble dance. Each family is provided a copy of the featured Read Together book to share during the program.
Scan the QR code or go to https://www.smartstart.org/dollypartons-imagination-library/registration-dolly-partons-imaginationlibrary/ to register your child to receive a free book each month until they enter kindergaren
Thursdays
Lapsit Storytime at 9:30 am
This interactive program between children and their caregivers features ageappropriate activities for ages birth to 15 months. The 30-minute program includes a read-together book, lap bounces, music, and movement with shaker eggs and scarves, and concludes with the bubble dance. Each family is provided a copy of the featured Read Together book to share during the program.
Pre-K Storytime at 10:30 am
Preschool Storytime features early literacy activities for ages 3-5 including a picture book read aloud, music and movement, and a hands-on activity including STEM and art projects.
1000 Books Before Kindergarten is a program designed to introduce literacy skills to children before they start kindergarten. The program provides a way to strengthen bonds, increases attention spans, develops speaking/speech patterns, and allows for a safe way to explore the world.
Families with children ages 0-5 are invited to sign-up for 1000 Books Before Kindergarten. Participants will receive a tote bag with goodies to begin the reading journey toward reading 1,000 books.
Homeschool STEM & Stories
Friday, January 10 10:30am all ages
We’ll read aloud Except Antarctica by Todd Sturgell.
“Turtles are found on every continent EXCEPT Antarctica. But not for long! Follow along as a rogue group of determined animals embark on an adventure (and defy their flustered narrator in the process)”
Particpants will make a boat to take a group of animal friends to Antarctica Will your boat Float?
Food by the Foot Walk
Saturday, January 11 11am
All ages are invited to join in a walk from the Library to the Farmville Outreach Soup Kitchen, as we line the 450 feet of sidewalk along the way with your donations of canned and boxed foods. We're encouraging participants to donate at least one foot of canned and boxed food. Our goal is 2,000 items. Donations may be dropped of in advance or the morning of
The program begins with:
a read aloud of the picture book Saturday at the Food Pantry, a sensitive look at food insecurity Participants can create a drawing which we’ll shared with those who utilize the Kitchen's lunch service
We'll tour the Outreach Kitchen and watch a cooking demonstration from one of the Kitchen's volunteer chefs.
Items should be new and unopened. Needed items include canned fruit and vegetables, rice, beans, flour, sugar, corn meal, spices, cases of bottled water, and single serve individually packaged snacks. The Kitchen also accepts sealed non-perishable, refrigerated, or frozen items as well as produce.
Count along as Grandma’s family and friends fill her tiny house until there’s no room left inside!
The StoryWalk® is located at Oliver Murphrey Park parking along Dale Drive
Tuesday, January 21 11am
Books and Bites ages
4-11
Sample homemade mac & chees and dessert and learn about the Nowhere Club of cooks who secretly funded the Montgomery Bus Boycott The read aloud is Pies from Nowhere: How Georgia Gilmore sustained the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Friday, January 24
5pm and 6pm
Children ages 1-6 and their adults are invited for a Jumbo Brick Building Storytime at 5pm and 6pm The program features two book read alouds and a time to build with Biggo Blocks. Kids can choose from 192 jumbo blocks plus wheel attachments to create moving vehicles and structures.
Family LEGO Night for
Elementary LEGO Night
6:30pm
Elementary students and their families are invited to celebrate International LEGO day with us. The program features hands-on activities including: LEGO Man in Space: learn about the true story of how two high school students sent a LEGO minifigure 15 miles into the Earth's atmosphere. Participants will build a capsule from bricks and use helium filled balloons to lift a minifigure Then make a parachute to help your mini-figure land safely back on Earth Participants will launch their parachute from the 2nd floor to see if it works
Jumbo Brick Building: Work with a team to build a 5 foot rocket ship. They'll be time to build your own creation using some of the 192 Biggo Blocks and 10 wheel sets.
Brick Building Contest: Participants will have 10 minutes to build a creation using bricks from the library's collection. 1st place will receive a $25 gift card to Barnes and Noble. All participants will receive a prize.
Jumbo Brick Building Storytime
Join us for Farmville’s first Community Read!
A community read is a way to bring people together from all different parts of our community to create a shared experience that will lead to engaging conversations. We’ll discover that we are more similar than we are different.
For our first community read we have chosen Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride. Books are available in regular and large print beginning January 15th. We will discuss the first third of the book at our first breakfast meeting on February 22 at 9am. Look for more information on coming soon our website and Facebook.
Craft Night
Thursday, January 9 at 6:30pm
All adults are welcome to join us at our monthly Craft Night! This month, we’re making beautiful white door wreaths out of coffee filters
Registration is required, as supplies are limited. Register online at farmvillelibrary.org/craft-night-registration or by calling the Library. Registration is free!
Classic
Film Club
Monday, January 13 at 6:30pm
Our movie this month stars James Stewart as an 1890's cowboy. He and his pals, Jeb Webster and Walter Brennan, drive cattle from Wyoming to Alaska, where a corrupt sheriff steals their herd and they tangle with him to get it back
Bring your own snacks and drinks with lids, and as always, feel free to bring your comfy chair along, too
Tuesday, January 21 at 2pm
Thursday, January 23 at 6:30pm
Book Club
This month, we’re reading “The Tobacco Wives” by Adele Myers
“North Carolina, 1946. Maddie Sykes is a burgeoning seamstress who’s just arrived in Bright Leaf, North Carolina the tobacco capital of the South where her aunt has a thriving sewing business. She soon learns that Bright Leaf isn’t quite the carefree paradise that it seems. A trail of misfortune follows many of the women, including substantial health problems. Maddie wants to report what she knows, but in a town where everyone depends on Big Tobacco to survive, she doesn’t know who she can trust and fears that exposing the truth may destroy the lives of the proud, strong women with whom she has forged strong bonds. ” -
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Copies of the book (including large print) are available for check out at the adult services desk located on the second floor All adults are welcome to join us!
*ASL interpretation will be available on 1/21 at 2pm.*
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Puzzle Day
n activities in the Program Room for the whole family to wap les okmarks, puzzle piece canvas art, and ornaments program, so no registration is required Everyone is welcome!
Coffee & Tuesday, January 28 at 10am
Lake Waccamaw & Lake Phelps Canoe Restoration Project
In the 1980s, 23 dugout canoes were discovered in and around the Lake Phelps, and four were recovered for further study Additionally, another canoe was recovered from Lake Waccamaw in April of 2023 Elise Carroll, QAR Conservator for the NC Office of State Archaeology’s Queen Anne’s Revenge Conservation Lab in Greenville, will discuss the history of Native American activity around the lakes, the discovery of the canoes, and the conservation efforts to stabilize and preserve the recovered canoes for generations to come.
There is no registration required for this program. All are welcome!
Stitch’n Together
Tuesday, January 28 at 6:00pm
We are meeting early this month for a potluck! Bring something to share and we will have some fun fellowship before we stitch.
This group enjoys crafting with any kind of needle. They knit, crochet, cross-stitch, and more. They love to help others learn, too. Bring a project you are working on OR come learn a new one. This group is open to everyone. They love to socialize as much as they craft, so come meet a new friend!
OurStaff
Angie Bates Library Director
Emma Repp Adult Program Assistant
Heather Harden Youth Librarian
Candis Williams Library Technician
Alexis Wynne Kera Moran
Priscila Kelly Library Assistants