Summer Program Schedule

School Age Events

These programs are for children in Kindergarten & up.

 Our rain location for events in the park is the library- except for Tom Joyce on 7/31. Please call for information.

JUNE

June 24^th- June 29^th ~ 9:00AM-1:00PM ~ Nature Camp ($100 for week) *Pre-register

JULY

Tues. July 9^th at  10:00AM ~ Exordium Adventure ~ Dig In: Tunnel, Hole and Burrow *in the park

Tues. July 16^th at 10:00AM ~ Exordium-Nature Art Program

Tues. July 23^rd at 10:00AM ~ Exordium Adventure ~ Dig In: To an Ant Colony! *in the park

Tues. July 30^th at 10:00AM ~ Exordium– Nature Art Program

Wed. July 31^st at 11:00AM ~ Tom Joyce the Magic Man *in the park.

AUGUST

August 6^th from 8:00AM-4:00PM ~ Hunting Safety Course * Pre-register

August 12^th-August 16^th ~ 9:00AM—1:00PM ~ Art Camp ($115 for week) * Pre-register

 

· Please remember that if you drop your child off at an event, you must sign them in & out.

·  Only children in grades 3 & up can attend a programwithout a parent/guardian. This privilege will be revoked if there are behavioral issues.

Toddler & Pre-School Events

JUNE

Wed. June 19^th at 11:00AM ~ I’m Dirty—fun with Mud!

Wed. June 26^th at 11:00AM ~ Music & Movement with Ellie!

JULY

Wed, July 3^rd at 11:00AM ~ Buried Treasure & Pirate FUN!

Wed. July 10^th at 11:00AM ~ Let’s Build It! Fairy & Gnome House Day

Wed. July 17^th at 11:00AM ~ Digging for Dinosaurs!

Wed. July 24^th at 11:00AM ~ Let’s Dig in with Mighty Machines!

Wed. July 31^st at 11:00AM ~ Tom Joyce the Magic Man! *This will be in the park—please call us for a rain location.

Young Adult Events

All Young Adult (YA) events are open to Students in grades 6 –8.

These events are for Youth only.  

Please pre-register for all YA events by calling the library at 868-3970.

 

Thursday, June 20^th 6:00pm-7:30pm ~ Minute to Win It Night Game Night!

Can you complete the challenge in less than a minute? Bring a few friends for a night of fun and laughter!

 

Thursday, June 27^th 6:00pm-7:30pm  ~ Annual Tie Dye Event!

We will have the dye and all the supplies! You bring the 100% cotton items that you want to dye and get creative J         

                                                              

Thursday, July 11^th 6:00pm-7:30pm  ~ Drop in Craft night!Art supplies will be on hand for Duct tape art…with Duct tape, the possibilities are endless!                                              

 Thursday, July18^th 6:00pm-7:30pm ~ Pizza & Movie Night! Grab your friends and come watch a recently released movie on our large screen TV with surround sound … all in out cool air-conditioned library!

Teens Summer Reading Challenge:

Enter to win some cool prizes every time you finish a book!

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Summer Reading Incentives…Don’t Miss Out!

Get a FREE book with Barnes & Noble’s Summer Reading Program!

 For more information or to download a reading log, please visit:

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/u/summer-reading/379003570/

It Pay$ to read with TD Bank!

We make reading fun while teaching young people the importance of saving money. It’s just part of TD’s commitment to education – and to you. Participating is easy:

1. Read 10 books this summer.
2. Print out the Summer Reading Form  (click on the link below)
3. Write down the names of the books they’ve read
4. Take the form to the nearest TD Bank
5. Receive $10 in a new or existing Young Saver account

To print off your child’s Summer Reading Form, visit: http://www.tdbank.com/summerreading/

” Hit the Books”  with the Vermont Lake Monsters

     The Vermont Lake Monsters believe reading is essential for children all year long. Therefore, the Vermont Lake Monsters are teaming up with Price Chopper to reward kids for reading in the summertime. This program is designed to maintain children’s reading skills throughout the summer.

What is “Hit the Books” Reading Program all about?  Any student who reads four books will be given a FREE child’s general admission ticket to a 2013 Vermont Lake Monsters regular season game.

Who is eligible? Any student in grades K-8 may submit ONE entry.

What does a student need to do? Each student needs to read four books at his/her level of reading between June 1st and August 1st, and complete the reading log which you can download by clicking on link below.

For more information, or to download a summer reading log,

Visit:  http://www.milb.com/content/page.jsp?ymd=20090220&content_id=40995726&sid=t462&vkey=team2

May Events

Call Wendi at 868-4697 for more information.

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2012 Year End Librarian’s Report

Another extraordinary year has passed here at the Highgate Public Library. Each year gets bigger and better for us, and this year was no exception. One thing is certainly clear and that is that during these challenging economic times, our public library is more valuable and relevant to the members of our community than ever before.  Be it through our public computers which give our patrons free access to the Internet for job searches, resume submissions, applying for unemployment or state aid benefits, or through one of our many free programs. Wayne Senville said it best when he said, “There’s been a dramatic change in the mission of a growing number of libraries across the country. No longer just static repositories of books and reference materials, libraries are increasingly at the heart of our communities, providing a broad range of services and activities. They are also becoming important ‘economic engines’ of our downtowns and neighborhoods.”

Every day many people walk through our doors seeking help and information. It is our goal to serve each and every one of them to the best of our ability and ensure that when they walk back out the door, they leave with their needs met. In a small town such as ours, the library is an essential community resource, and one that we want to encourage everyone to use.

Over the next eighteen months, our main goal is to begin the automation process for our collection. For us, automation is a way of preparing the collection to become sustainable with the ever-increasing shift to a technology-based society. It will also allow our staff and patrons easier access to our current holdings and circulation records. For many, the convenience of searching our holdings from any computer, be it at the library or home, will be extremely beneficial. We also will be working closely with the town (planning commission and select board) on safety concerns which have been brought up regarding parking at the library. Together, we will continue to find ways to safely and effectively solve these concerns.

Here are a few highlights from our year:

• The library received a $1,000 from Ben & Jerry’s Community Action grant program to fund nature based education programs for the children of Highgate.
• Thanks to a Google Grant, the library received 3 refurbished Google computers to replace those that were on their last legs.
• In July, the library was fortunate to be awarded a $3,575 grant from Building Brighter Futures to put towards programing for Highgate’s children.

• In October, The Highgate Public Library became approved as a Girls on the Run site for our community. We are now the 7th site in Franklin County to date.  Since this will be our first year running the program, we will only be focusing on Girls on the Run, which is for students in grades 3-5. If all goes well and the demand is there, our hope is to add Girls on the Track (for grades 6-8) in the spring of 2014.  A HUGE Thank You goes out to those wonderful community members who have stepped up and offered to assist as coaches, as well as to MAHA for allowing us to use the arena for this program, which will begin in late March.

• In December, the library was given a wonderful new collection of Abenaki resources for the community to enjoy.
• E-book circulation, which is available to our patrons through Listen UP! Vermont, is picking up in popularity. If you have an e-reader and would like access to this service, please stop in and see us!
• Library passes to Echo, Shelburne Museum, Shelburne Farms, Vermont State Parks, Vermont Historic Sites, Birds of Vermont Museum and the Vermont Historical Museum, continue to save residents money and are always in demand.

If you have not visited the library lately, I invite you to stop in and check us out. You may be surprised at how the library has changed over the years and at all that we now have to offer!

Sincerely,

Liza L. Comiskey, Librarian

Download e-books and audio books 24/7 through our site with your library card!

A free digital media service available 24/7. Download audio and ebooks right to your mp3 player, Kindles, Sony Reader, Nooks, iPod or iPad, and many phones and other mobile devices.

New! There is now an app for the newer Nook models that enables direct wireless downloads!

Visit the Listen Up! Vermont  website  for more information. Just click on the Listen Up! Vermont icon (located in the Library Links section on our left sidebar) to be taken directly to the site.

Check out one of our library passes today!

 

                      Echo Lake Aquarium & Science Center Library Pass 

     With this pass, you will only pay a $4.00 (per person) admission fee when you visit the Echo Center. This pass admits 2 adults and 3 children at this discounted price.

     ECHO stands for Ecology, Culture, History and Opportunity. Check out the pass and discover over 60 species of fish, amphibians, invertebrates and reptiles at the Echo Center in downtown Burlington. There are also many hands on exhibits, traveling exhibits, live animal feedings and more.

For more information on what is happening at Echo this Summer, please visit http://www.echovermont.org/

Shelburne Museum

This day pass admits one family for free to the Museum grounds.

Located in Vermont’s scenic Lake Champlain Valley, Shelburne Museum is one of the finest, most diverse, and unconventional museums of art and Americana. Over 150,000 works are exhibited in a remarkable setting of 39 exhibition buildings, 25 of which are historic and were relocated to the Museum grounds.

For more information on Shelburne Museum and upcoming exhibitions, please visit http://shelburnemuseum.org/visit/

Shelburne Farms Day Pass

This pass admits two adults and their children under 18 years of age to the Walking Trails and Children’s Farmyard at no charge.

      Shelburne Farms is a 1,400 acre working farm with walking trails, children’s farmyard, inn and restaurant on the shores of Lake Champlain. The farm hosts many special events throughout the year.

For more information on what is happening at Shelburne Farms, this summer please visit: http://www.shelburnefarms.org/calendarofevents/index.shtm

        

       Vermont State Park Pass    
This pass provides day admission for up to 8 people in one vehicle.

     Nothing feels as good as a dip in clear, clean water on a hot summer day. Vermont State    Parks have some great options, whether you want to swim in a lake, river or even a swimming pool. There are big lakes like Lake Champlain, Bomoseen and Lake Carmi, or smaller, quieter lakes like Silver Lake or Lake St. Catherine. There is a brand new kid-friendly swimming pool with slide at Button Bay State Park and Salmon Hole on the West River is a great place to cool off at Jamaica State Park. For more information on State Park locations across the state, please click on any of the highlighted parks above, or visit www.vtstateparks.com 

Vermont’s Historical Society Museum

     Vermont’s History Museum is a multimedia exhibit presenting Vermont’s history from 1600 to the present day. There is one permanent exhibit aptly named “Freedom and Unity One Ideal, Many Stories”, which has been on display since 2004 that enables visitors to walk through time and experience a full sized Abenaki wigwam, a re-creation of the Catamount Tavern where the Green Mountain Boys gathered, a railroad station complete with a working telegraph and a WWII living room furnished with period music and magazines.

For more information on the museum, please visit: http://www.vermonthistory.org/

Birds of Vermont Museum

This pass provides free admission for one  family

The Birds of Vermont Museum is a delightful place where visitors can learn about birds and their roles in the earth’s ecosystems.

A private, non-profit organization, the Museum features over 497 carved wooden birds, representing 258 species. Here, natural history meets art.

The woodcarvings depict Vermont’s nesting species in their natural habitats as well as North America’s endangered and extinct species.

For more information on the Birds of Vermont Museum, please visit http://www.birdsofvermont.org/

 Checkout Policy

* Two (2) day checkout.   Passes are due back at the library by closing time (6:00pm weekdays and Noon on Saturdays)  2 days from checkout.

* You may reserve a pass by calling the library at  868-3970. You will be put on the wait list and contacted when it is available. The library cannot reserve the pass for specific dates.

* You will have 1 day from the time and date the library calls you for pass pick-up. After 1 day the pass will be made available to the next person in line.

* Fee for the late return of any Pass: $5.00 per day late

* Fee for a lost pass: $50.00

Genealogy Resources

Genealogy:

Finding Your Family History in Vermont.

Genealogical research can be fun and fascinating.

Tips and Resources for Searching

Suggestions from FamilySearch:

1. What do you already know? Talk to other family members. Use a form and start filling in the information.
2. What else do you want to know? It can be helpful to pick one person to research.
3. Where to look? Decide where your answers are likely to be found. Try published family histories, censuses, local histories, and vital records.
4. Contact a library, government office, or internet site that may give you this information. Make notes of who you contacted, when, and what information you found.
5. Add the new information to your pedigree chart, family group record and personal and family history notes.

HeritageQuest (includes census & family histories)

HeritageQuest online from Proquest is an invaluable online genealogy database that you can access from home. Records include census data, family records, local histories, and more.

Call or visit the Library at (868-3970) to obtain the latest username and password for this database. If you already have these codes, click the HeritageQuest link on the left sidebar (in the link section) to begin searching.

Old Newspapers

The Vermont Department of Libraries office in Montpelier has a large collection of old Vermont newspapers on microfilm. Call (802) 828-3268 to confirm their holdings and hours.

Bailey-Howe at UVM  has many Vermont newspapers on microfilm. Call (802) 656-2023 to see if they have what you’re looking for.

Other Resources

The Highgate Town Clerk’s Office has on file: land records dating back back to late 1700s and indexed vital records dating back to 1857. For more information, please contact Wendi Dusablon, Town Clerk at hgtownclerk@gmail.com.

The Highgate Historical Society has a rich collection of local photographs, artifacts, and Highgate-related resources. The museum is open for admission from May to October – on the 1st & 3rd Sundays from 9:00am-2:00pm or by appointment. Please contact Charles T. Nye, Curator at 802-868-4619 for further information.

The Vermont Historical Society has a rich collection of photographs, music, and family and town histories. With a research library located in Barre, the VHS also makes much of their catalog available online.

Vermont French-Canadian Genealogical Society with research experts for specific French Canadian families, library hours, and classes. This is located  in Colchester on the St. Michael’s College north campus.

RootsWeb Vermont is a research-sharing database of information submitted by genealogists.

National Archives government-sponsored site with links to military service records, World War II photos, immigration records (including ship passenger lists), naturalization records, and land records.

American Merchant Marine at War: a private site dedicated to mariners and U.S. Naval Armed Guard shipmates who died in service during all wars. Resources include ship histories, information about sinkings, casualties, and some government documents. Also includes a helpful list of additional resources for those seeking military records of loved ones.

Cyndi’s List is private site with a massive collection of web sites that will be helpful to genealogists.

FamilySearch is the largest genealogy organization in the world, maintained by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Universal Class ~ Learn something New Today!

The Vermont Department of Libraries, Recorded Books and the Institute of Museum and Library Services is proud to bring this new and exciting opportunity to Vermont residents.

Quick Facts:

In order to have access to this service (which you can get to through the link on our sidebar), you will need to visit us and get a special bar code number. This will allow you full access to all Universal Class programs. Your current library card number will not work for this service.

• You will need to create an account and have a valid e-mail address to  in order sign up for courses.
• You are welcome to enroll in up to 5 course.
• You have up to 6 months to finish each course.
• You have access to your courses 24/7 viz the internet.
• Attend class and do assignments on your schedule.
• Each course has a real instructor who you may communicate with using e-mail.
• These are non-credit courses and are provided for your personal enrichment. These courses are not intended to be a substitute for any state, government, licensing, or educational requirements.