TODAY is the LAST DAY to Claim Summer Reading Prizes!

TODAY, WEDNESDAY AUGUST 31st is the LAST DAY to Claim Summer Reading Prizes!  Stop by the Children's Desk with your reading record to get your prize packet full of time sensitive reward coupons (Like to the Oregon State Fair and Oaks Park!) and pick out a book to keep!  The library will be open today until 9:00 p.m.

August 31st is the Last Day to Claim Your Summer Reading Prizes!

August 31st is the LAST DAY to claim your summer reading prizes!  Kids who have met their reading goals and teens who have read for 20 hours may come to the children's desk to claim their prizes.  Prizes include:

• A FREE book of your choice
• A coupon for a $6.50 deluxe ride bracelet to redeem at Oaks Amusement Park (Coupon valid for one visit during these dates: August 3-28, September 3-4, and September 10-11).
• A youth admission ticket voucher to a Trail Blazer game
• A one-day youth swim pass for the Tigard or Tualatin Swim Centers
• And many more goodies! 

Support the Library Friends!

Many of you know that the Friends of the Tigard Library offers an annual book sale (usually twice a year).  But did you know that in addition to supporting the Friends at their book sales, you can support them year round using Amazon!  That's right!  You can shop at their Store on Amazon.com by following this link.  Then simply log in by using your own Amazon account.  OR you can support the Friends when you shop through their AmazonSmile link. Then Amazon will donate 0.5% of the price of your eligible AmazonSmile purchases to the Friends!  Can't remember the addresses of all of those hyperlinks?  No problem, you can just go to the Friends of the Tigard Library website and and click on "SHOP" to be linked to the proper Amazon shopping links. 

Do you have used books to donate for the October book sale?  There's still time to donate them.  Just bring them into the library and drop them off at the Circulation Desk.  We will even give you a tax receipt if you like.   For details on what donations are accepted, check out the Friends of the Tigard Library Donation Page.

It's Time for a Story Time Break!

Starting Monday August 22, 2016, we will be on a two-week story time break.  If you forget that we are taking some time off, no worries!  We'll have the toys out and available to play with in the Puett Room.  We will start our fall programs and story times the day after Labor Day, on Tuesday Septemer 6th.

Bring Your Own Binder- Study Skills Workshop

Look at this incredibly 80s Trapper Keeper. I was looking at bindesr on Google images for this post and I saw this and was like, OMG, I use to own this! I was immediately transported back to a time when the brand of your school supplies was important and everyone in my class traded in eraser shavings. Why? I'm not sure, but I know the rare colors were the most valuable. Also, rubbing the hard metal side of a ruler against an eraser is apparently the most efficient way to produce the biggest volume of tradeable shavings. In case you need to know.

Anyway, kids. Bring Your Own Binder to our study skills workshop on Wednesday, August 24 from 5-7 p.m. in the Burgess Community Room. Folks going into grades 6-9 are welcome for this presentation by teachers from the Huntington Learning Center about tools and skills you need to be successful in school. This information will be especially useful to students entering 6th grade or 9th grade who will soon be coping with a new set of expectations at school. We'll provide some extra school supplies and snacks. Be there!

Weekend Story Time

Attention: Families who cannot make it to story times during the weekdays, join us on the weekend instead! Even if you missed the first one in July, join us for the second one on Saturday, August 20 from 10:30 to 11:30. We're going to start out by making animal masks, and then weather permitting, take our stories outside! Get ready to run, jump and play with stories and songs. We will head outside promptly at 10:45, so if you want a chance to make your mask, be sure to be punctual. We'll start out in the Puett Room.

Thinker Tinker Lab: Magnets Push and Magnets Pull

Let's play with S.T.E.A.M.! (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math)

Join us in the Library Puett Room for our last Thinker Tinker Lab of the summer with "Magnets Push and Magnets Pull"!  It's happening on Monday, August 15th, 2-4 p.m.  All ages are welcome to attend.

August LEGO® Construction Zone

Drop in to work on making your own LEGO® creations with other builders!  We'll supply all the building blocks; you bring the creativity! Tomorrow is our last LEGO® Construction Zone for the summer.  We'll play on Sunday August 14th at 1:30-3:00 p.m. in the Puett Room. Kids ages 5 and up are welcome to attend.  Come and play for a few minutes or play for the whole 90 minutes!

Towers and Turrets!

Come play with towers and turrets on Saturday August 13th.  Come design your own fantastic architectural structure using cylanders, cardboard, and lots of loose knick-knack parts.   Let your imagination and creativity flow 1:30-3:00 p.m. in the Puett Room.  The possibilities will be endless!  And all ages are welcome to attend too!

Book Themed Baby Showers

Know someone in your life you need to throw a baby shower for?  Board books and children's picture books make great baby shower gifts...I gift those at baby showers all the time!  Can't think of a party theme to go with?  Check out this list of 17 book-themed baby shower ideas from HarperCollins Children's Books.  Of course all of the books have been published by HarperCollins, and that's OK because they publish great children's books!  Have fun and congratulations to the parents-to-be!

And, don't forget the library also offers Book Babies for ages 0-12 on Monday mornings at 10:15 a.m.  (However, we will be on a story time and program break staring August 22 and will resume on September 6.) PLUS, all new babies to the library (ages 0-12) can stop by the children's desk and pick up a Board Book Bundle courtesy of the Friends of the Library. It comes with a brand new board book, an early literacy book, and a rhyme booklet!

Thinker Tinker Lab - Squishy Circuits!

Monday August 8th, 2016

2-4 PM

Puett Room

All Ages

Explore circuits while letting your imagination run wild! We will use conductive and insulating dough to create art that really lights up. We will also have our Snap Circuit board and our Bee Bot out for more S.T.E.M play. 

Colorful dough will also be out and available for our youngest friends to explore and create with.

Get Out and Play!

Sunday 8/7/2016 

1:30-3:00 PM

All Ages

Join us for outdoor games on the library lawn! We will be playing mini golf, pool noodle croquet, soda bottle bowling and more! 

Graphic Novel Workshop With Phil Yeh

Do you like comics? Do you like FREE COMICS! Come to our awesome Graphic Novels Workshop on Tuesday, August 2 from 4-6, featuring artist and author Phil Yeh. You'll learn something about the history of comics, and get hands-on experience drawing and writing. Phil will be giving comics away. Ages 10 and up are welcome.