San Anselmo Public Library

To address The True Cost of Water, we are hosting a conversation with journalist and professor Peter Annin, discussing his book The Great Lakes Water Wars, led by Program Director of the Great Lakes Now Sandra Svoboda. Examining water’s true cost, Annin and Svoboda discuss the aging water systems in the Great Lakes region and across the United States. Annin also provides foundational knowledge about various concepts like diversion and pollution, encouraging audience members to gain a larger understand about the challenges ahead. As the nation prepares to pour billions of federal dollars into rescuing water systems, join this program to learn more.

Jennifer Weiner reviews the ups and downs of her book covers.

Join us tomorrow, May 10, at 12pm for our May Art Talk Tuesday -- Adornment: Displays of Wealth and Status. Gold, silver, gems, pearls. Crowns, earrings, pendants, bracelets. For thousands of years people of all countries and cultures have ornamented themselves with costly, intricate, and often symbolic, jewelry to attest to their wealth, status, and importance. Cultures from the ancient Persians and Koreans to 18th century ethnic Indonesians to modern Chinese and South Asians have loved beautifully crafted adornment. Speaker Mary Mead will share examples of eye-catching and meaningful wearable art from the Asian Art Museum’s fabulous collections. Interested in attending? Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us//register/WN_qq5q0ZELSiyyemr4zdrA2Q

Create Your Own Mitten for this week's Grab and Go Craft for Kids! Inspired by Jan Brett’s, The Mitten, color and put together a mitten and the forest animals to go inside! Grab and Go Crafts for Kids are available on a first-come, first-served basis while supplies last during our curbside hours. Crafts are best for ages 5-10. One bag per child please.

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Enjoy full online access to major newspapers like The New York Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, and The Wall Street Journal with your library card number and password/PIN! Visit our E-Services webpage for a full list of our digital resources, with links and instructions for accessing online newspapers: https://www.townofsananselmo.org/644/E-Services.

New Year Curbside Reminders Curbside service remains our best route to serving your library needs. Given the state of the pandemic in Marin, we are under strict rules to provide the safest environment possible for you, our loyal library patrons. We must all abide by the following in order to continue to be able to provide curbside service: 1. Always wear a mask when picking up your items 2. Limit one person at a time in the u-shape table space when picking up your bag 3. Ma...intain 6-feet of distance from others We appreciate your support in this matter as we all try to keep each other safe and healthy. See more

Participate in our first Cookie Recipe Exchange, December 7-17! Bake your favorite cookie, take a photography of you cookies and send the picture and the cookie recipe to [email protected]. We will create a digital book of all recipes for San Anselmo to enjoy.

New Year, new books! Get personalized book (or audiobook, DVDs, music, and more) recommendations with a Book Bundle from your San Anselmo Public Library. Visit https://www.townofsananselmo.org/1436/Book-Bundles and fill out the form. A librarian will put together a bundle of books/DVDs/audiobooks for you to browse and enjoy!

Create your own paper dreidel in next week's Grab and Go Craft for Kids! We will provide a template to color and instructions -- you provide the imagination and fun! Grab and Go Crafts for Kids are available for pickup during our Curbside Hours and while supplies last. One bag per child please.

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Use your imagination and create a winter window ornament with this week's Grab and Go Craft for Kids!