Growing Up WILD Workshop

A BIG THANK YOU to Pam Landry, Education Coordinator, MassWildlife, who led this week’s Growing Up WILD workshop. Growing Up WILD is an early childhood education activity guide (ages 3 to 7) that builds on children’s sense of wonder about nature and invites them to explore wildlife and the world around them. Through a wide range of activities and experiences, it provides a foundation for developing positive impressions about nature while also building lifelong social and cognitive skills. This interactive six-hour hands-on workshop included crafts, music, conservation activities, reading and math connections and much more.

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Register soon for our next WMRLS MassWild Life Nature and Wildlife workshops – held in 2 western Massachusetts locations!

• Project WILD ~ Friday, April 9 at the Lenox Memorial Middle High School Library

• Project WILD ~ Friday, April 16 at the Great Falls Discovery Center, Turners Falls

~ Janet Eckert, WMRLS

Choose Privacy Week - May 2 to 8

From the Privacy Revolution Website:

"We kicked off Choose Privacy Week at a fun and exciting event on Saturday, January 16 during the ALA 2010 Midwinter Meeting. A full room of librarians and privacy advocates welcomed Hal Niedzviecki, author of The Peep Diaries: How We’re Learning to Love Watching Ourselves and Our Neighbors, for a thought-provoking talk on how the digital phenomenon of "peep culture" is affecting our ideas about privacy, individuality, security, and even humanity today. Full video coming soon!"

WMRLS is closed on Wednesday, February 10

Dear Western Massachusetts Libraries:

With worsening road conditions expected throughout the day today across our 4 county area, the Western Massachusetts Regional Library System will be closed on Wed. Feb. 10. Regional delivery will not take place. Please alert staff at your library whose work involves delivery tasks.

The WMRLS Executive Board will hold its meeting by a conference call at 2 p.m. this afternoon, as detailed in emails to board members yesterday and this morning.

Thank you for your understanding.

~ John Ramsay, WMRLS Regional Administrator

2010 Statewide Summer Reading Program Update

2010 Summer Reading Program

Our annual 2010 Massachusetts Regional Library Systems/MBLC Statewide Summer Reading Program is one of the many benefits of your WMRLS membership.

The following WMRLS member libraries are participating in this year's MRLS/MBLC Statewide Summer Reading Program

1. Adams Free Library
2. Agawam Public Library  
3. Arms Library, Shelburne Falls
4. Becket Athenaeum  
5. Belding Memorial Library, Ashfield
6. Berkshire Athenaeum, Pittsfield 
7. Buckland Public Library  
8. Bushnell Sage Library, Sheffield
9. Cheshire Public Library
10. Chicopee Public Library
11. Clapp Memorial Library, Belchertown
12. Clarksburg Town Library
13. Cushman Library, Bernardston
14. Dalton Free Public Library
15. Dickinson Memorial Library, Northfield
16. East Longmeadow Public Library
17. Edward Public Library, Southampton
18. Emily Williston Memorial Library, Easthampton
19. Erving Public Library
20. Field Memorial Library, Conway
21. Gilbertville Public Library
22. Goodwin Memorial Library, Hadley
23. Grace Hall Memorial Library, Montgomery
24. Granby Public Library
25. Granville Library
26. Greenfield Public Library
27. Griswold Memorial Library, Colrain
28. Hamilton Memorial Library, Chester
29. Hampden Free Public Library
30. Hatfield Public Library
31. Heath Free Public Library
32. High School of Commerce Library, Springfield
33. Hinsdale Public Library
34. Holland Public Library
35. Holyoke Public Library
36. Hubbard Memorial Library
37. Huntington Public Library
38. Jones Library, Amherst
39. Lanesborough Public Library
40. Lee Library Association
41. Lenox Memorial Middle & High School Library
42. Leverett Library
43. Lilly Library, Florence
44. M.N. Spear Memorial Library, Shutesbury
45. Mason Library, Great Barrington
46. Middlefield Public Library
47. Monson Free Library
48. Montague Public Libraries
49. Monterey Library
50. New Marlborough Town Library
51. New Salem Public Library
52. North Adams Public Library
53. Northfield Farms Field Library
54. Otis Library and Museum
55. Paige Memorial Library, Hardwick
56. Palmer Public Library
57. Pelham Public Library
58. Peru Library
59. Porter Memorial Library, Blandford
60. Richmond Free Public Library
61. Robertson Memorial Library, Leyden
62. Rowe Town Library
63. Russell Public Library
64. S. White Dickinson Memorial Library, Whately
65. Sandisfield Library
66. Shaw Memorial Library, Plainfield
67. Shelburne Free Public Library
68. Slate Memorial Library, Gill
69. South Hadley Public Library
70. Gaylord Memorial Library, South Hadley
71. Southwick Public Library
72. Springfield City Library
73. Storrs Library, Longmeadow
74. Sunderland Public Library
75. Tilton Library, South Deerfield
76. Tyler Memorial Library, Charlemont
77. Wales Public Library
78. Ware Jr. Sr. High School Library
79. Warwick Free Public Library
80. Wendell Free Library
81. West Springfield Public Library
82. West Stockbridge Public Library
83. Westfield Athenaeum,Westfield
84. Westhampton Memorial Library
85. Wilbraham Public Library
86. Williamsburg- Meekins and Haydenville Libraries
87. Williamstown Public Library
88. Worthington Library
89. Young Men's Library Association, Ware

~ Janet Eckert, WMRLS