Lima Public Library

Columbus/Indigenous Peoples' Day Closing
2023-10-09
We will be closed on Monday 10/9.

Online Author Talk: European Travel Tips and Tools with Guidebook Author Rick Steves
2023-10-10 16:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York)
Join guidebook author and TV host Rick Steves as he shares the latest in smart European travel. In this entertaining, information-packed slideshow lecture, Rick will teach you the secrets of safe, smart, inexpensive travel — low on stress and high on fun. You’ll learn how to travel smoothly and affordably by planning an efficient itinerary, eating and sleeping well, avoiding crowds, packing smartly, and more.
About the Author: ​​Rick Steves is a popular public television host, a best-selling guidebook author, and an outspoken activist who encourages Americans to broaden their perspectives through travel. He is the founder and owner of Rick Steves’ Europe, a travel business with a small-group tour program that brings more than 30,000 people to Europe annually. Rick lives and works in his hometown of Edmonds, Washington, where his office window overlooks his old junior high school.
Register here and be sure to put your question in the form. It may be answered live!

Friends of the Lima Public Library: Food Preservation - Intro to Fermentation
2023-10-10 18:30 - 20:30, 2023-10-11 10:30 - 12:30

Story Time
2023-10-12 16:00 - 16:45, 2023-10-19 16:00 - 16:45, 2023-10-21 10:00 - 10:45, 2023-10-26 16:00 - 16:45, 2023-10-28 10:00 - 10:45, 2023-11-02 16:00 - 16:45, 2023-11-04 10:00 - 10:45
Join us for Story Time with Betsy for music, books, and a craft!
To sign up a Story Time update only newsletter, please fill out this Google form: https://forms.gle/xRXNFFE16ygj3asE6

Friends of the Lima Public Library: Disguise a mini pumpkin (all ages)
2023-10-12 18:00 - 19:00
Title: Disguise a Pumpkin Contest

Time: 6-7pm
Location: Lima Library, Scutt Room
Ages: All ages
Registration required: No
Description: Join the Friends of the Lima Library and Lima Library Staff for the first annual: Disguise a Pumpkin Contest! This is free and open to all ages.

It starts with picking up your pumpkin on October 12th from 6-7pm from the Scutt Room of the Lima Library. We will have 30 pumpkins that we will pass out to the first people to come down. Please only one entry per family.

We will have supplies on hand to decorate your pumpkin that night, October 12th from 6-7pm. If you need more time or need other supplies you are welcome to take your pumpkin home. Just bring it back to the Lima Library by October 17th.

Voting will be open to the public from October 18th-23rd in person at the Lima Library. Come down and check them out!

The winner will be announced on October 24th!

1. Pickup pumpkins: Oct 12th 6-7pm
2. Decorate: Oct 12th-17th
**On site decorating time will be provided Oct 12th from 6-7pm
3. Drop off pumpkin by: Oct 17th
4. Vote for your favorite at the Lima
Public Library: Oct 18-23rd
5. Votes counted and winner announced: Oct 24th

Crossroads Crafters' Circle
2023-10-14 09:30 - 12:00, 2023-10-21 09:30 - 12:00, 2023-10-28 09:30 - 12:00, 2023-11-04 09:30 - 12:00
Bring your favorite craft and socialize with like-hearted people! All crafts and all folks welcome. Any open Saturday at the library. Arrive and leave as you please.

CANCELED Story Time (This date only)
2023-10-14 10:00 - 10:45

Friends of the Lima Public Library: Help the Health of Our Community – Learn CPR!
2023-10-14 10:00 - 12:00
In Partnership with the Lima Ambulance, The Friends of the Lima Public Library are sponsoring a CPR class on October 14, 2023 from 10:00 AM to 12 Noon in the Scutt Room of the Lima Library. The class will be taught by certified CPR instructors from the Lima Volunteer Ambulance.

You may choose to attend the class for free as part of the Friends and Family Course. If you want an America Heart Association CPR card, the cost of the course is $20. Both classes are offered at the same time however, for the certification the class time is longer.

Friends and Family Course: FREE
Students will learn both adult and infant CPR through lecture and hands-on practice. We will also review some basic first aid including what to do in case of choking. The class will last approximately 2 hours and certificates of completion will be provided.

Date: October 14, 2023 Class Time: 10 a.m.to 12 noon
Location: Lima Public Library Scutt Room
Pre-Registration Required: This class is limited to 12 people. Pre-registration is required.
This class is sponsored by the Friends of the Lima Public Library and the Lima Ambulance Service.

Click here for registration form.

Friends of the Lima Public Library - "Can you belize it? We went to Belize" Travelogue
2023-10-16 18:30 - 20:30
TBD

Friends Meeting
2023-10-17 18:30 - 20:00
Friends of the Lima Public Library Meeting

Online Author Talk: Master of Suspense: An Author Talk with Ruth Ware
2023-10-18 14:00 - 15:00
You’re invited to tune in as we chat with New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in Cabin 10 and The It Girl as she talks about her newest book, Zero Days.
In the adrenaline fueled thriller, Zero Days, Jack and her husband, Gabe, are hired by companies to break into buildings and hack security systems, and their best penetration specialists in the business. But after a routine assignment goes horribly wrong, Jack arrives home to find her husband dead. To add to her horror, the police are closing in on their suspect—her. Suddenly on the run and quickly running out of options, Jack must decide who she can trust as she circles closer to the real killer.
Stop the suspense and register for the thrill now!
About the Author: Ruth Ware worked as a waitress, a bookseller, a teacher of English as a foreign language, and a press officer before settling down as a full-time writer. She now lives with her family in Sussex, on the south coast of England. She is the #1 New York Times and Globe and Mail (Toronto) bestselling author of In a Dark, Dark Wood; The Woman in Cabin 10; The Lying Game; The Death of Mrs. Westaway; The Turn of the Key; One by One; The It Girl; and Zero Days. Visit her at RuthWare.com or follow her on Twitter/X @RuthWareWriter.
Register here and be sure to put a question in the form. It may be answered live! You can catch the replay at the same link, if you can’t make it to the live call.

Home Alone Safety (Ages 8-12)
2023-10-18 18:00 - 19:30
This class is designed to teach children ages 8-12, who are home alone the importance of behaving responsibly. Topics include: basic first aid tips, what to do when a stranger comes to the door, answering the telephone, internet safety and how to react during a variety of miscellaneous emergencies such as power outages and fires. Knowing when your child is ready to stay home alone is a difficult decision; preparation can make the transition much easier for you & your child.
Presented by Epic Trainings. Registration is required. Please use this Google Form to register.

Friends of the Lima Public Library: Meet the Mayor, John Skiptunas
2023-10-19 18:00 - 20:00
Join the Friends for another informal chat with Lima Village Mayor, John Skiptunas.

Friends of the Lima Public Library: Car Maintenance - How to Change & Check Fluids with Joe Mati (Ages 16+)
2023-10-21 13:00 - 14:00
Title: Adulting 102

Time: 1-2pm
Location: Lima Library parking lot
Ages: 16+
Registration required: No

Description: Mr. Alati has volunteered an hour of his time to come help anyone age 16+ learn some basic car maintenance. Adults that want a refresher or are learning the first time are welcome too.

Mr. Alati has 51 years of experience in automotive repair with the last 31 teaching high schoolers hands on skills with the HF-L BOCES program.

This first session will be checking and changing fluids. Air filter as time allows. Free. No registration required.

Friends of the Lima Public Library: Game Night
2023-10-23 18:30 - 20:30

Special Meeting: Library Board of Trustees
2023-10-25 18:30 - 19:30
The Lima Public Library Board of Trustees will be having a special meeting for the purposes of discussing the long-range planning.

Online Author Talk: A Lifetime of Writing: A Conversation with International Bestselling Author John Irving
2023-10-26 19:00 - 20:00
You are in for a treat when you join us for an intimate conversation with John Irving as he chats about not only his most recent novel, The Last Chairlift, but also about his prolific body of work and a lifetime spent writing. Irving’s first novel was published when he was just twenty-six years old. He has gone on to be nominated for a National Book Award three times and won an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay.
The Last Chairlift, Irving’s self-proclaimed final long novel, begins in Aspen, Colorado in 1941, when Rachel Brewster, a slalom skier, competes at the National Downhill and Slalom Championships. Little Ray, as she is called, finishes nowhere near the podium, but she manages to get pregnant. Back home, in New England, Little Ray becomes a ski instructor. Her son, Adam, grows up in a family that defies conventions and evades questions concerning the eventful past. Years later, looking for answers, Adam will go to Aspen. In the Hotel Jerome, where he was conceived, Adam will meet some ghosts; they aren’t the first or the last ghosts he sees.
You don’t want to miss this hour online with internationally bestselling author John Irving. Register now!
About the Author: John Irving was born in Exeter, New Hampshire, in 1942. His first novel, Setting Free the Bears, was published in 1968, when he was twenty-six.
Irving has been nominated for a National Book Award three times, winning in 1980 for The World According to Garp. In 2000, he won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Cider House Rules. In 2013, he won a Lambda Literary Award for In One Person. Internationally renowned, his books have been translated into more than thirty-five languages. A Prayer for Owen Meany is his best-selling novel, in every language.
John Irving is a dual citizen of the United States and Canada. He lives in Toronto.
Register here and be sure to put a question in the form. It may be answered live! You can catch the replay at the same link, if you can’t make it to the live call.

Friends of the Lima Public Library Meeting
2023-10-30 18:30 - 20:30
Continuation of October meeting to finish agenda

Online Author Talk: Hollywood, Home, Heart, and Healing: A Conversation with Actor John Stamos
2023-11-01 20:00 - 21:00
Join us for an intimate conversation with Full House star, John Stamos, as he leads us through his incredibly moving and vulnerable memoir, If You Would Have Told Me.
If you would have told a young John Stamos flipping burgers at his dad’s fast-food joint that one day he’d be a household name and that, at the height of his success, he’d be living alone, divorced, with no kids, high on a cocktail of forgetting, he might’ve asked, “You want fries with that?”
John burst onto the scene in General Hospital, propelling him into the teen idol stratosphere, a place that’s often a point of no return. But Stamos beat the odds and over the past four decades has proved himself to be one of his generation’s most successful and beloved actors. Whether showing off his comedic chops on Full House or his dramatic skills on ER, pushing the boundaries on Broadway or living out his youthful dreams as an honorary Beach Boy, John has surprised everyone, most of all himself.
A universal story about friendship, love, loss, and the courage to embrace love once more, John Stamos’s memoir is filled with some of the most memorable names in Hollywood, both old and new. Funny, deeply poignant, and brutally honest, If You Would Have Told Me is a portrait of a boy who went from believing in Disney magic to a man who learns that we have to create our own magical moments in life.
About the Author: John Stamos, a three-time Emmy nominee, has earned his reputation as a highly regarded actor and producer throughout his over forty-year career in television, film, and on Broadway. His rise to fame began with his role in General Hospital and he has since captivated viewers with his diverse performances in Big Shot, You, ER, Grandfathered, Full House, and Fuller House and on stage in Cabaret, Bye Bye Birdie, and Gore Vidal’s The Best Man. Beyond acting, Stamos is a skilled musician, collaborating with The Beach Boys since 1985. He also serves as an ambassador for Childhelp.
Register here and be sure to put a question in the form. It may be answered live! You can catch the replay at the same link, if you can’t make it to the live call.

Friends of the Lima Public Library: Make a Roller Coaster for a Marble
2023-11-04 10:30 - 12:00
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