Do you love puzzles but storing them is a problem? We are here to solve that problem! You can now borrow puzzles from the Jamerson Library. We have a puzzle shelf located in our seating area, there is plenty to choose from. It is one puzzle per household at a time, and return on your honor system. Have puzzles and don’t know what to do with them? Donate them to us!
ABCmouse.com is free inside this Library! ABCMouse.com is an online early learning curriculum that includes more than 3,500 learning activities and 450 lessons. Access to ABCmouse.com is limited to computers within the J. Robert Jamerson Memorial Library or through our Wi-Fi network. To access ABCMouse.com visit our kids resource page at: https://www.jrjml.org/kids/ and click on ABCMouse.com.
The Library is doing its own version of “spring cleaning” and have donated even more boxes of books to A.L.I.P. for Trot and Spot, the book busmobiles that come to the Library’s parking lot so that kids up through high school can borrow books.
If you are or plan on doing some spring cleaning the Library accepts donations of magazines, books, dvds, office and craft supplies with the understanding that if we can’t use them we will pass them on, put them in our book sale, or give them away on our free rack.
On Tuesday, April 15th Trot, the horse painted busmobile galloped by for another visit so that kids could borrow books. Trot’s next visits will be on Tuesdays, April 22nd & 29th and May 6th & 13th from 10:45 am to 11:45 am.
On Wednesday, April 16th the Girl Scouts of Skyline hosted the Jamerson Story & Craft Time. Troop leader Elizabeth Copp featured the book “Here Come the Girl Scouts” by Shana Corey. The kids made a paper bag puppet of Daisy, the nickname given to Girl Scout’s founder Juliette Gordon Low. The Library provided the snacks and juice. The rest of April’s Story & Craft times will be Wednesday, 23rd & 30th starting at 11:00 am and 12:00 pm. Everyone is welcome to attend with the understanding that this program is done on a preschool level.
On Wednesday, April 16th Spot, the dalmatian painted busmobile pulled up into the parking lot next to the Library to let kids borrow books. Trot and Spot belong to A.L.I.P (Appomattox Literacy Intervention Project)m a non-profit charitable organization which began in 1996 in order to promote literacy throughout Appomattox County. We are honored to be one of the many stops for Trot and Spot! Reading is a good thing! Spot’s next visits will be on Wednesday, April 23rd & 30th and May 7th & 14th from 11:25 am to 12:25 pm.
It was a retro Thursday Movie Night on April 17th with the Library going back in time to the future with the fun and iconic movie that made the Delorean car famous. Patrons enjoyed refreshments and a trip down memory lane. Our next Retro Jamerson Movie Night will be on Thursday, May 15th starting at 6:00 pm in our community room featuring a film about a young swashbuckler who rescues the beautiful titled heroine from her sinister husband-to-be in a fun and fetching fairy tale for the whole family. This movie is rated PG, and refreshments will be served.
It was all about the butterflies, community outreach, and family fun as the Jamerson Library fluttered over to James River State Park on Saturday, April 19th to set up as a guest vendor. The Library Director and an employee passed out Summer Reading and Library promotionals, set up a butterfly photo booth, and passed out free butterfly craft projects and bubbles! The Library showed guests how to use old newspaper as seed starter pots and plant sunflower seeds to spread happiness and promote pollinators like butterflies! We want to thank James River State Park for inviting us to join in on all the fun. Our next adventure with James River State Park will be on Saturday, May 17th for the Kids to Parks Day Fair from 10:00 am to 3:00 pm at James River. Kids to Parks Day is a nationally coordinated day designed to connect kids and families with their local, state and national parks. For more information visit the James River State Park’s website at: https://www.dcr.virginia.gov/state-parks/james-river .
On Friday, May 9th we will host our annual Jamerson Library Spring Plant Swap! Got some plants that need a new home? Come see us! Want to exchange a plant or two for some new friends? Come see us! Have something plant related like pots, seeds, bareroots or other items and don’t know what to do with them? Come see us! You will find us from 9:30 am to 5:00 pm in our community room with plants to swap out in a fair or generous exchange for plants and other plant-related items. We just have a few simple rules to follow: no dead plants, plants must be free of disease and infestations, plants should be easy to transport, you must leave plants to take plants, and you are responsible for bringing in a tote or box to take plants away.
Also on May 9th we will launch our very own Seed Library! If you would like to donate seeds/bulbs/bareroots so that the public can share in the joys of gardening please feel free to drop them off during normal business hours. Native and decorative flowers, herbs, vegetables, trees and more are welcome! We ask that you please clearly label what seeds/bulbs/bareroots you are donating, and the year they were harvested, if known.