Please take a moment to fill out this very short survey for Miss Wendy. She is trying to gather some information to help in planning her Preschool Storytimes. Thank you so much in advance for your help!
The survey will close on February, 1st.
*Registration is required and we ask that you only register if you can assure your attendance on Saturday, February 13th for the whole event that starts at 10:30am and ends at 12:00pm.*
Come join us for a community conversation about Caste: The Origins of our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson.
Prior to the event, we invite you to read the book or alternatively study the excerpts and support materials that will be emailed to you prior to the event.
The Warmth of Other Suns, the first book by Pulitzer Prize–winning writer Isabel Wilkerson, offered an epic narrative portrait of the Great Migration. In her magnificent latest, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, Wilkerson deepens and extends her examination of the inception and consequences of American racism, finding direct connections to the outcastes of India and the horrors of the Third Reich.
Her historical opus draws on years of research, stories, and previously published works to reveal, for example, that the Nazis used U.S. miscegenation laws as a blueprint for their own approach to genocide, and that Martin Luther King Jr., on a 1959 visit to India, observed, “Yes, I am an untouchable, and every Negro in the United States of America is an untouchable.” That realization informed his civil rights work thereafter. Wilkerson unearths bone-chilling parallels in systems of oppressive regimes that otherwise seem radically dissimilar to explain caste and how it predated and helped define racism in America.
Hope you’ll join us for what promises to be a rich experience!
The Macedon Public Library will be hosting a series of workshops open to the entire OWWL community to help people learn more about job seeking in a virtual world led by Career Sherpa, Hannah Morgan.
*Every session is free and open to everyone. Registration is required.*
In light of the regional increase in COVID cases, the monthly library board meetings will be held virtually via GoToMeeting until further notice. January’s meeting is scheduled for Thursday, January 14 at 6:00pm. As always, the meetings are open to the public. If you are interested in “attending”, please email newarklibrarydirector@owwl.org for the link.
In the past we have offered a service to teachers and day care organizations called a Resource Tote but we’ve recently revamped and expanded this service to include families!
With our Resource Take-Home Bags you can fill out a form describing what types of books you’re looking for and when you’d like them ready by.
Once the form is filled out, our staff will select some books fitting your request saving you from spending time browsing!
All you’ll have to do is come into the Children’s Room to pick them up or call us for a Curbside pickup!
Call the library at (315) 331-4370 or stop in if you have any questions.
