Painting Class

"Our Feathered Friends"
Come join us for a springtime painting class!
Saturday, April 24, 2010
1pm - 3pm
Learn how to use acrylic paints to paint beautiful song birds.
This class is suitable for children 8-10 years of age.

Announcement for Barker Library Book Club Members

It's official! The Barker Library has a book club!
Our first meeting will be Saturday, May 15th, 2010 in the Library's Steele Meeting Room. Our first selection will be We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates.
If you haven't signed up for our book club yet, time is running out, so call us at 672-8051 or visit the Circulation Desk today.

Children's Concert Series

The SUNY Fredonia School of Music presents two half-hour performances by a
Harp Quartet
Saturday, April 10, 2010
10:30am and 11:30am
These concerts are specially designed for preschool aged children to experience music up close. Come join us!

The Barker

Next time you visit us, make sure you pick up a copy of our new joint library and museum newsletter, The Barker. Volume 1, Number 1 includes profiles of our staff members, a book review and an informative article about inventors from Fredonia. Each issue promises to fill you in on "what's new at the Library - and old at the Museum!"

Barker Library Book Club

Do you love books? Do you love to talk about books?
If you are an adult, if you are friendly, opinionated and fit the above description, then you may be interested in becoming an inaugural member of our book club.
Tentatively, our book club will meet four times per year on Saturday afternoons.
To register, please visit the Circulation Desk or call the library at 672-8051 by April 1, 2010.
We need at least 10 members to make our book club a reality.

PICASA Workshop

Barker Library is offering a repeat of our popular workshop, Managing Your Digital Photos.
The workshop will provide hands-on training using Picasa software (available free from Google).
It will include training on: how to transfer photos from a camera to a computer, sorting and arranging digital pictures using Picasa, improving the quality of pictures, how to e-mail pictures, printing pictures from Picasa, and creating Web-based albums that can easily be shared with others.
The workshop is free and will be held on Saturday, March 27 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Enrollment is limited so sign up early by calling 672-8051.
Participants may use a library-owned laptop or bring their own laptop with WiFi capability and Picasa3 already installed.

Tax Forms

It's that time again...
April 15th is right around the corner. Visit the table in our reference area for commonly-used Federal and New York State tax forms. Our staff will be happy to help you find other forms from the binder of reproducibles kept behind the Circulation Desk or sign up to use a public Internet workstation to search the IRS(http://www.irs.gov) or New York State Department of Taxation (http://www.tax.state.ny.us/) web sites to search for the forms you need. Copies and print-outs are $.10 per page.

Pre-School Storytime

Join us for Pre-School Storytime! Stories, films and music for little ones and the people who love them. Please take note of our new time - Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays at 10:30a.m.

My Antonia Book Discussion

On Saturday February 20, 2010, 2-3:30pm, the Barker Library will be holding a book discussion of this year's Big Read title, My Antonia by Willa Cather. Register at the Circulation Desk for our book discussion and receive a free copy of My Antonia along with a Reader's Guide. Refreshments will be served. Hope to see you there!

Big Read Open House

Please join us for an Open House as we celebrate this year's Big Read title, My Antonia. Come visit the library and sign up for our upcoming book discussion, check out our bulletin boad and displays and enjoy a musical performance by Kathy and Hannah Petersen.
Saturday February 13th, 2010, 2pm-4pm
Refreshments will be served.