Summer Reading Program For All Ages!

Things are a little different this year, but we’re still looking forward to a fun-filled summer.

Summer Reading:

For Kids: 

• Bingo: Fill out an entire bingo card and win a special prize from a local business, one per family, please! If you don’t fill out the entire card you can still email us a photo of what you have filled out at the end of the summer and be entered into a drawing to win a prize.

• Log: We still have our traditional logs. Fill them out over the summer and email us a photo of your log, for a chance to win a prize! Pick one up Friday, July 3rd, or Email Emily at elapierre@clamsnet.org for a welcome kit. 

For Teens:

• Bingo: Fill out an entire teen bingo card and win a prize, one per family, please! If you don’t fill out the entire card you can still email us a photo of what you have filled out at the end of the summer and be entered into a drawing to win a prize. LINK FOR VIRTUAL BINGO: mfbc.us/m/bv3tna
• Set your own goal: Fill out this google form https://forms.gle/Eytc6gt25st6ufc19 to set your own goal and win a $5 gift certificate to a local business like Mocha Motts.
• Battle of the Books: Participate in the Island Wide Battle of the books by reading all 6 books on this list: Teen Book List https://tinyurl.com/y8en28re (13-18) register here: https://tinyurl.com/y7vcbm94 or tweens Tween book List https://tinyurl.com/ycoat2vk (8-12)  register here:https://tinyurl.com/yd3aa7qr   and compete in a trivia contest over zoom at the end of August to win 1st, 2nd, & 3rd prize gift certificates from Bunch of Grapes

For Adults:

• Read and listen to what you want all summer long!  To enter drawings for prizes, write a short review and email it to: amcdonough@clamsnet.org.The review doesn’t need to be long! Please include the book title and author. A review will be randomly selected each week for a prize. All entries will be automatically entered in a drawing for a grander prize at the end of the summer. If you need ideas for fun and interesting titles contact us at vhpl_mail@gmail.com or visit NoveList for suggestions.  Both physical and electronic media are allowed for reviews.

Summer Activities:

For Kids:

Every Friday from 3-5  you can pick up a Take and Make bag for the following week that contains craft materials, recipes, coloring pages, and other fun surprises. Join us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/vhplya/ or YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwrzG6h9zRZrqA6xVCXl5hw for craft instruction, virtual story time and other fun activities.

Friday, July 10th we’ll have a Zoom Family Nailed It competition sign up here: http://www.eventkeeper.com/code/ekform.cfm?curOrg=VH&curName=nailedit 

Friday, July 31st join us for family Harry Potter Trivia sign up here http://www.eventkeeper.com/code/ekform.cfm?curOrg=VH&curName=2020/07/31_Family_Harry_Potter_Trivia

For Teens:

Every Sunday from 3-5 come to pick up a Take & Make Craft.

Follow us on Instagram for events, summer reading, & fun stuff https://www.instagram.com/vhplya/

Check out our links page for sign-ups and videos:
https://sites.google.com/clamsnet.org/teentest/home

For Adults:

Check out our webpage & Facebook for fun events such as book club, art lessons, and others.

Once a month, at your leisure, do our featured CreativeBug craft. Materials available for pick up June 28th and August 2nd or by emailing jrapuano@clamsnet.org
 
Sponsors:

We’d like to thank The Friends of the Vineyard Haven Public Library for Supporting Summer Reading! This summer we want to give back to local businesses for all their years of support, so the Friends will be purchasing and giving gift certificates from local businesses as summer reading and contest prizes this summer.

"Imagine Your Story" is sponsored by your local library, the Massachusetts Library System, the Boston Bruins, and the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners.

Images are copyrighted. Contact CSLP at contact@cslpreads.org for more information.

Register for Virtual Event with NY Times Book Review Editor Pamela Paul

On Thursday, July 9th at 5pm, The Vineyard Haven Public Library Building Fund will present a free virtual event with New York Times Book Review Editor Pamela Paul. Attendance is limited, so please register to receive an invitation to participate online via Zoom: https://bit.ly/3fReRs7

Pamela Paul is the editor of the New York Times Book Review and oversees books coverage at the New York Times, which she joined in 2011 as the children’s books editor. She is also the host of the weekly Book Review podcast for the Times. She is the author and editor of five books, including My Life with Bob: Flawed Heroine Keeps Book of Books, Plot Ensues, and How to Raise a Reader, co-authored with Maria Russo. Her work has appeared in the Atlantic, the Washington Post, the New York Times Magazine, Time, the New York Times Education Life, the Economist, Vogue, Psychology Today, and other national publications.

This event will be presented as a conversation facilitated by Vineyard Haven seasonal resident Maureen Sullivan, a widely-recognized leader and educator in the library profession and past president of the American Library Association.

The Vineyard Haven Public Library Building Fund, Inc. is a nonprofit, 501(c)3 organization, formed in 2018 to raise funds for improvements to the library building at 200 Main Street.

Anti-Racism eBook Titles with No Waiting List

This week, we've made the following in-demand eBook titles available to all Vineyard Haven Library cardholders, with no waiting list. Follow the link or click the book cover photo to check out the eBook on Overdrive. You may need to log into your account with your Vineyard Haven card in order to access.

In a profound work that pivots from the biggest questions about American history and ideals to the most intimate concerns of a father for his son, Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a powerful new framework for understanding our nation's history and current crisis. Americans have built an empire on the idea of "race," a falsehood that damages us all but falls most heavily on the bodies of black women and men—bodies exploited through slavery and segregation, and, today, threatened, locked up, and murdered out of all proportion. What is it like to inhabit a black body and find a way to live within it? And how can we all honestly reckon with this fraught history and free ourselves from its burden? Between the World and Me is Ta-Nehisi Coates's attempt to answer these questions in a letter to his adolescent son. Coates shares with his son—and readers—the story of his awakening to the truth about his place in the world through a series of revelatory experiences, from Howard University to Civil War battlefields, from the South Side of Chicago to Paris, from his childhood home to the living rooms of mothers whose children's lives were taken as American plunder. Beautifully woven from personal narrative, reimagined history, and fresh, emotionally charged reportage, Between the World and Me clearly illuminates the past, bracingly confronts our present, and offers a transcendent vision for a way forward. https://clamsnet.overdrive.com/media/2184718

Antiracism is a transformative concept that reorients and reenergizes the conversation about racism—and, even more fundamentally, points us toward liberating new ways of thinking about ourselves and each other. At it's core, racism is a powerful system that creates false hierarchies of human value; its warped logic extends beyond race, from the way we regard people of different ethnicities or skin colors to the way we treat people of different sexes, gender identities, and body types. Racism intersects with class and culture and geography and even changes the way we see and value ourselves. In How to Be an Antiracist, Kendi takes readers through a widening circle of antiracist ideas—from the most basic concepts to visionary possibilites—that will help readers see all forms of racism clearly, understand their posionous consequences, and work to oppose them in our systems and in ourselves. Kendi weaves an electrifying combination of ethics, history, law, and science with his own personal story of awakening to antiracism. This is an essential work for anyone who wants to go beyond the awareness of racism to the next step: contributing to the formation of a just and equitable society. https://clamsnet.overdrive.com/media/4591699

The New York Times best-selling book exploring the counterproductive reactions white people have when their assumptions about race are challenged, and how these reactions maintain racial inequality. In this "vital, necessary, and beautiful book" (Michael Eric Dyson), antiracist educator Robin DiAngelo deftly illuminates the phenomenon of white fragility and "allows us to understand racism as a practice not restricted to 'bad people' (Claudia Rankine). Referring to the defensive moves that white people make when challenged racially, white fragility is characterized by emotions such as anger, fear, and guilt, and by behaviors including argumentation and silence. These behaviors, in turn, function to reinstate white racial equilibrium and prevent any meaningful cross-racial dialogue. In this in-depth exploration, DiAngelo examines how white fragility develops, how it protects racial inequality, and what we can do to engage more constructively. https://clamsnet.overdrive.com/media/3716950

Based on the viral Instagram challenge that captivated participants worldwide, Me and White Supremacy takes readers on a 28-day journey of how to dismantle the privilege within themselves so that they can stop (often unconsciously) inflicting damage on people of color, and in turn, help other white people do better, too. When Layla Saad began an Instagram challenge called #meandwhitesupremacy, she never predicted it would spread as widely as it did. She encouraged people to own up and share their racist behaviors, big and small. She was looking for truth, and she got it. Thousands of people participated in the challenge, and nearly 100,000 people downloaded the Me and White Supremacy Workbook. Updated and expanded from the original workbook, Me and White Supremacy,takes the work deeper by adding more historical and cultural contexts, sharing moving stories and anecdotes, and including expanded definitions, examples, and further resources.
https://clamsnet.overdrive.com/media/5008327

Announcing Contactless Pickup From MV Libraries

Vineyard Haven Library will be reopening our library book drop to accept returns starting Monday, June 8th. Due dates for all currently checked out items have been extended through June 30th and there is no need to return items immediately.  Items may only be returned at our curbside book drop, the book return slots at the entryway will remain closed. Returned items will be quarantined before being checked in, so there will be a delay between the date of return and when the item is removed from your CLAMS account. Martha’s Vineyard libraries are fine free, and no late charges will accrue.

All six Martha’s Vineyard libraries are happy to announce that contactless pickup of books, DVDs, and other library materials will begin the week of June 15, 2020. The schedule and procedures for pickup services will vary by library, so call or email your local library or visit their website for details. In the coming week, Vineyard Haven library staff will begin contacting patrons who already have items waiting on our holdshelf, to arrange pickup for those items beginning June 15th. Additional details on contactless pickup at Vineyard Haven Library can be found here: www.vhlibrary.org/contactless.shtml.

Martha’s Vineyard public libraries are committed to the health and safety of our staff and the public. We have worked closely with local Boards of Health, and following local and professional guidelines to prevent the spread of COVID-19, to develop an island-wide plan to resume library services in phases. When contactless pickup begins, library buildings will remain closed to the public, and all in-person public programs and meetings are suspended until further notice.

For library patrons who may continue to feel safer staying home, all libraries will continue to offer you digital materials, services, programs and support.

Thank you for your patience and understanding as we adjust library services to serve you safely as conditions allow.

Online Library Card Application

If you don't have a library card you can apply online and get instant access to our eBook collection. If you haven't used your card recently and it has expired, send us an email at vhpl_mail@clamsnet.org

If you don’t yet have a CLAMS library card, you can now register online and start downloading ebooks or use databases immediately. Here’s how:

You will need a computer or cell phone and access to your email account.

1. Go to https://library.clamsnet.org/selfreg

2. Fill out the form and submit. The screen will refresh, with your name, new card number and username. Print the info, take a screenshot or jot down your new card number – you’ll need it in just a moment.

3. Click the link in the first bullet point to log in and create a PIN/Password:
Login to My Account and establish a PIN (Password) Scroll down to and click Did you forget your PIN/Password? Enter your new card number.

4. Check your email for a link to set your PIN/Password.

Your ecard will now be valid until June 30th and will give you access to materials at OverDrive for eBooks, eAudiobooks and eMagazines (when asked for your library, select “CLAMS Library Patrons”). It also includes all Massachusetts Library Database. Individually owned library databases such as Kanopy are not included. Please visit your local CLAMS library with a photo ID before June 30th to upgrade to a regular card with full privileges.

If you will be using your phone or an eReader, we suggest you download the Libby App.