Watch us grow, and grow with us by participating in the Jamerson Seed Library! When available, each household will be able to request 3 packets of seeds/bulbs/bareroots per week. Each packet will contain either a single kind or a mix of bulbs, bareroots, vegetables, herbs, wildflowers, decorative flowers, plants, and more. If you would like to donate seeds/bulbs/bareroots you can drop them off anytime during normal business hours.
Trot and Spot, the mobile book buses, sponsored by Appomattox Literacy Intervention Project (A.L.I.P.), a non-profit charitable organization which began in 1996 in order to promote literacy throughout Appomattox County, stopped for their last Spring Run stops at the Library on May 13th & 14th. Spot will return for the A.L.I.P Book Bus Summer Run on Wednesdays, June 4th, 11th, and the 25th, and July 2nd and 9th from 11:25 am to 12:00 pm.
On the Wednesday, May 14th’s Story & Craft Time Library Fairy MaKayla introduced the book “How to Catch a Bookworm” by Alice Walstead and Cesar Samaniego. How do you catch a bookworm? All we know is that he hides where there are lots of books to read! The kids enjoyed snacks while making their own version of a bookworm! Our next Story & Craft Times will be on Wednesday, May 21st & 28th, starting at 11:00 am and 12:00 pm.
For the Retro Jamerson Movie Night on Thursday, May 15th, we featured 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. We will be taking a break from Movie Night till this fall, as we have booked lots of events, including movies, for the 2025 Summer Reading Program.
In observance of the Memorial Day Holiday the Library will be closed on Saturday, May 24th, and Monday, May 26th. We will reopen for normal business hours on Tuesday, May 27th starting at 9:30 am. The book depository, located at the back of the building, will remain open during this time.
Get ready to read!! The Library staff is getting ready for our quickly approaching 2025 Summer Reading Program “Color Our World”! We will launch this much-anticipated program on Monday, June 2nd! You must register and submit your reading logs online using Beanstack as we are taking a more environmentally friendly approach to this year’s record keeping. To register download the Beanstack App on the Apple Store or Google Play. Search for the Jamerson Library and sign up each participant by following the instructions and answering a few simple questions on the App. If you have any questions or are having difficulty logging on, come to the front desk with your cellphone/tablet, and a friendly staff member will be happy to help you.
Be sure to keep up with the Library on our social media pages, our website (www.jrjml.org), our monthly newsletter, or the local online newspaper The Appomattox Times (https://appomattoxtimes.com). We will be posting the latest information, upcoming events, special programs, Summer Reading news, fun links, educational information and more!