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The Lego® Club needs your help - we need Legos® and lots of them! We are thrilled with the enthusiastic response to our upcoming Lego® club! Many have promised to come build Lego extravaganzas and that means we need your help! We are learning that you can never have enough Legos® so please consider donating any gently used Legos® to the Kids Lego club (please no Duplos®, Bionicles®, or Mega Bloks®). Our club members will use and reuse the Legos® at
our monthly meetings to build their creations. You can deliver the boxed or bagged Legos® to the Youth Services office where the Youth Services staff will provide you with a donation receipt for an income tax deduction. The club’s awesome creations will be on display each month in the Youth Services area! Thank you for supporting the library.
Who Wrote Shakespeare? Wednesday, October 6 at 7:00 PM Samuel Blumenfeld, author of "The Marlowe-Shakespeare Connection", will address the long-standing debate over the true author of Shakespeare's plays. Could the author of the works attributed to Shakespeare actually be poet and playwright Christopher Marlowe? FREE! Registration begins on Monday, September 20th in the Information Services Department.
Free, Downloadable eBook content now available through the J. V. Fletcher Library: Visit our website and click on “Non-Book Collections” from the vertical menu bar on the home page. Then choose “Downloadable audio & eBook.” Our Overdrive database is now offering patrons the ability to download digital book content to mobile devices such as the Sony Reader, Nook and KOBO. All you need is your library card and a PC or Mac.
Before you can download eBook content to your computer though (and then to your mobile device if you choose) you do need to first download a free eBook reader application called: Adobe Digital Editions. (Choose “Digital Help” or “Help FAQ” from the Overdrive home page to find out how to download Adobe Digital Editions to your PC or Mac.) Titles downloaded to your device will automatically expire at the end of the lending period, or you can return them early. Either way, there are no late fees. Enjoy!
New Chinese Foreign Language Titles! The Library is pleased to announce that we have added one and fifty new titles to our Chinese Language collection. One of our goals this fiscal year was to enhance, update and enrich this collection. We chose books written in both simplified and traditional Chinese. The titles that we requested and reviewed are current (published in the last three years), topical, and cover a variety of subject areas (both Fiction and Non-Fiction.) Based on past surveys and readership we ordered: new fiction, romance fiction, history, biography, self-help, interior design and cookbooks.
The Chinese Foreign Language Collection is located on the ground floor, next to the Large Print Collection. If you are not familiar with this location, please ask any Librarian to show you where it is housed.
Safari Books On-line: The Library now has a subscription to this exciting database that allows users to access the full text of over 3,000 technology titles on-line. Find titles on a variety of topics including computing, databases, programming, web design, and more. All of the books have been published in the last three years by major technology publishers such as Cisco press, IBM Press, O'Reilly, Prentice Hall, and many more.
This database is accessible from your home or office.
The J. V. Fletcher Library is offering a weekly support service, Westford Job Seekers Network, at the library every Wednesday from 2-3:30pm.
Links to Resources for Domestic Violence:
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