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NOW HIRING: Library CLERK, AND CUSTODIAN
Want to join our team? Grand Marais Public Library is seeking a Part Time Library Clerk and a Part Time Library Custodian for year-round employment. Full details of the position are available on the City of Grand Marais' website, which is linked below.
Part Time Library Clerk
Compensation: $15.31 per hour
Hours: 10 - 20 hours per week.
Deadline to apply: Friday, July 26, 2019 at 4:30 PM
Full Details.
Part Time Library Custodian
Compensation: $13.76
Hours: 5-10 per week
Deadline to apply:Wednesday, July 24, 2019 at 4:30 PM
Full Details.
Compensation: $15.31 per hour
Hours: 10 - 20 hours per week.
Deadline to apply: Friday, July 26, 2019 at 4:30 PM
Full Details.
Part Time Library Custodian
Compensation: $13.76
Hours: 5-10 per week
Deadline to apply:Wednesday, July 24, 2019 at 4:30 PM
Full Details.
To apply for either position, fill out a City Job Application, Veteran's Preference Points, and Tennessen Warning documents, all found here. Submit your documents to City Hall.
Crafternoon: A kids' summer reading program
Mondays - Thursdays
June 10 through August 8
2 PM - 4 PM
Find your creative genius at the library!
Explore a different activity each week, including Perler beads, altered book art, magic tricks, animation, and more.
No sign-up necessary.
Family Story Time: A Summer REading program
Tuesdays
June 11 - August 6
10:30 - 11:15 AM
All ages welcome
Touch, see, write, draw: a summer Reading program
WednesdaysJuly 1 - August 21
4 PM - 8 PM
Award-winning science writer Anne Brataas leads a free, drop-in science, writing and illustration lab for kids entering grades K-12.
Explore Lake Superior through the "jolly ologies": limnology, phenology, ichthyology, zoology, microbiology, and more!
(Photo credit: Scott Takushi, Pioneer Press)
Wundrous Readers Society
Thursdays, 4PM - 5PM
Youths, join the Wundrous Readers Society! We meet on Thursdays from 4-5pm for lemonade (in official Wundrous Readers Society mugs), doodling, and reading aloud! The books are geared toward ages 9-12 and all ages are welcome. We review the plot at the start of every gathering, so you'll be ready to jump into the story each week even if you've missed a night.
Scavenger Hunts and Where's Declan?
Coming soon as part of the Summer Reading Program.New each week, these activities allow participants to explore the library and beyond. Then, enter a drawing to win a prize each week. Winners must have discovered the correct answer, and are announced on Saturdays after noon.
In our Library Scavenger Hunts, kids solve clues to find hidden objects around the library.
Where's Declan? takes youths outside of the library, into City of Grand Marais. Declan, our Summer Reading Program mascot, keeps sneaking out of the library and taking selfies all around town. Guess where he's been each week.
read with aspen
Aspen comes to the library every Saturday11 AM - Noon
Who is Aspen?
Aspen is a registered Pet Partners Therapy Animal, who loves a good story and can hardly wait to hear your child read.
What is a Pet Partners Therapy Animal?
For more than 40 years, Pet Partners has worked to connect people with the healing therapy of animals. Aspen has been specially trained in various areas, including helping kids who need help with their reading skills. Working with a therapy dog also teaches kids to love books and reading. These types of programs featuring the opportunity for kids to read to dogs has grown immensely in popularity, and it is now offered at Grand Marais Public Library.
How does it work?
Parent (and child) call to sign up to read with Aspen and her teammate/handler Lisa Bauer for 20 minutes. Or, parents can show up at 11, and if there is a 20-minute opening available, they will be taken on a first-come, first-served basis.
A Recruiting Assistant will be on site to provide information about Census hiring, and to assist people with completing their online application for openings with the Census Bureau. The Bureau currently seeks people to do the lead up work prior to the actual census taking place in 2020. Positions include Address Canvasser, Crew Leaders and Field Supervisors to begin summer of 2019, and Enumerators that might start at a later date.
As with prior census events held at the library, this is a walk-in event. Those who might be interested may come in to meet with the Recruiting Assistant at any time during the hours listed. Interested parties may find more information at 2020census.gov/jobs.
The children’s show Old MacDonald Had a Banjo imagines a farm full of songs bursting out to entertain, educate, and involve the audience in singing, movement, and silliness. Folk musician Paul Imholte plays the part of Old MacDonald as he sings original and classic children’s songs. During the show, Paul will play the fiddle, guitar, hammered dulcimer, autoharp, cello, harmonica, spoons, jaw harp, and, of course, banjo. Children and adults alike will leave the show singing and smiling after this energetic program. Program length is 45 minutes.
This program, sponsored by Arrowhead Library System, was funded in part or in whole with money from Minnesota’s Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.
Kim Woodward Osterholzer, aka the Amish Midwife, follows up on her very popular event held last summer with the presentation of her two new books Homebirth: safe & sacred, and, Nourish and thrive: happy healthy childbearing.
Homebirth describes American homebirth and homebirth midwifery with an in-depth look at statistics, training, and the quality of care homebirth midwives are able to provide their clients. The book also examines national maternal and neonatal mortality and morbidity rates—sadly, the worst in the developed world—and how they appear to relate to the philosophy and policies of our current medical system.
Nourish is a discussion of how to achieve and maintain the level of health that positions women and their babies to enjoy normal, low-risk pregnancies, labors, births, postpartum recoveries, and seasons of new parenting—pregnancies, labors, births postpartums, and parentings well-suited to home, if home is so desired.
A complementary event is also planned for 6 PM Wednesday, July 17, at the Cook County Community Center 4-H Log Building for a screening of the movie Why not home?
Kim Woodard Osterholzer, CPM, RM is a homebirth midwife of sixteen years with an active practice in Colorado. She has attended the births of nearly 600 little ones. She’s founder and proprietor of both Birth at Home Midwifery Services and Born For This: Giving Birth to a Happy, Healthy Family. The author plans to have copies of her books available for purchase at the event.
Monday, August 5, 2019, 1:00 p.m.
Join Rose Arrowsmith DeCoux for a storytelling adventure! Hear how Tatterhood battles a band of trolls, Manka solves impossible riddles, and Vasalisa dares to knock at the witch’s door. Daring heroines reclaim fairytales as fierce, funny, and feminine. Program length is 60 minutes, intended for youth ages 7-12, but appropriate and enjoyable for teens, mixed age audiences and adults. Stories will likely be too long for kids younger than 6.
This program, sponsored by Arrowhead Library System, was funded in part or in whole with money from Minnesota's Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.
June 28, 2019
Nate Cannon is an award winning, nationally recognized public speaker, trainer, and author, who recently gave a talk at the Grand Marais Public Library. Cannon’s presentation, “Outside the Box: Diversity, Language, and Bridges to Inclusion” draws upon his experiences as an out FTM (Female to Male) trans man to address current topics in the LGBTQ community. Cannon mixes his personal experiences as a suicide attempt survivor and transgender man living with unseen disability into a broader discussion of identity and social equality.
If you missed Nate's talk and would like to learn more, start with the WTIP interview below, and access his books through the library.
Books:
At the April meeting of the Grand Marais Public Library Board of Trustees, the library changed its policy regarding fines for overdue materials.
Effective immediately, fines will no longer be levied on Grand Marais Public Library (GMPL) materials kept beyond their due date, and existing fines on patron records are being waived. The library also will no longer charge $1 for a replacement library card. Library staff will be happy to assist those who have questions about their account.
It is important to note some charges remain in place, including charges for damaged and lost materials. Also, overdue fines on materials owned by a library other than GMPL are set by the owning institution and may not be waived.
Library materials still have due dates, and patrons are requested to return or renew them in a timely manner. If a patron fails to return an item, they may still be held accountable. After 58 days past the due date, the online system presumes the material is lost, and automatically places a replacement charge on the patron account.
Board considerations included the following: Library fines create economic barriers to information access and the mission statement as rewritten two years ago specifies that the library “removes barriers”; Economic inclusion is a priority in the 2019 Strategic Plan; Studies show fines are ineffective in ensuring materials are returned to libraries on time, eliminating fines can even result in materials coming back to the library sooner, and libraries that go Fines Free typically see an increase in circulation.
The elimination of fines has become a nationwide trend, and a number of other libraries in the Arrowhead Library System have already become Fines Free. We are proud to be joining libraries around the state and nation in making this change.
WTIP interview:
August 11 from 1 PM - 4 PM
Grandpa Lyle provided children's storytimes in libraries and schools throughout the Arrowhead region until his passing last year.
His Grand Marais Celebration of Life Ceremony is scheduled for Sunday, August 11 at the Community Center.
For more information, your contact is:
April Gerard (daughter)
aprilgerard@charter.net
218-590-8188
Watch this video for a detailed explanation of the construction phasing, staging and traffic control to impact Grand Marais over the next couple of years.
Coming soon: "Project Status" link.
Who is Aspen?
Aspen is a registered Pet Partners Therapy Animal, who loves a good story and can hardly wait to hear your child read.
What is a Pet Partners Therapy Animal?
For more than 40 years, Pet Partners has worked to connect people with the healing therapy of animals. Aspen has been specially trained in various areas, including helping kids who need help with their reading skills. Working with a therapy dog also teaches kids to love books and reading. These types of programs featuring the opportunity for kids to read to dogs has grown immensely in popularity, and it is now offered at Grand Marais Public Library.
How does it work?
Parent (and child) call to sign up to read with Aspen and her teammate/handler Lisa Bauer for 20 minutes. Or, parents can show up at 11, and if there is a 20-minute opening available, they will be taken on a first-come, first-served basis.
CENSUS WORKER SIGN-UP EVENT
Monday, July 22 from noon - 2 PMA Recruiting Assistant will be on site to provide information about Census hiring, and to assist people with completing their online application for openings with the Census Bureau. The Bureau currently seeks people to do the lead up work prior to the actual census taking place in 2020. Positions include Address Canvasser, Crew Leaders and Field Supervisors to begin summer of 2019, and Enumerators that might start at a later date.
As with prior census events held at the library, this is a walk-in event. Those who might be interested may come in to meet with the Recruiting Assistant at any time during the hours listed. Interested parties may find more information at 2020census.gov/jobs.
Old MacDonald Had a Banjo
Tuesday, July 23, 2019, 3:30 p.m.The children’s show Old MacDonald Had a Banjo imagines a farm full of songs bursting out to entertain, educate, and involve the audience in singing, movement, and silliness. Folk musician Paul Imholte plays the part of Old MacDonald as he sings original and classic children’s songs. During the show, Paul will play the fiddle, guitar, hammered dulcimer, autoharp, cello, harmonica, spoons, jaw harp, and, of course, banjo. Children and adults alike will leave the show singing and smiling after this energetic program. Program length is 45 minutes.This program, sponsored by Arrowhead Library System, was funded in part or in whole with money from Minnesota’s Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.
Amish midwife Kim woodward osterholzer
Wednesday, July 24 at 6PMKim Woodward Osterholzer, aka the Amish Midwife, follows up on her very popular event held last summer with the presentation of her two new books Homebirth: safe & sacred, and, Nourish and thrive: happy healthy childbearing.
Homebirth describes American homebirth and homebirth midwifery with an in-depth look at statistics, training, and the quality of care homebirth midwives are able to provide their clients. The book also examines national maternal and neonatal mortality and morbidity rates—sadly, the worst in the developed world—and how they appear to relate to the philosophy and policies of our current medical system.
Nourish is a discussion of how to achieve and maintain the level of health that positions women and their babies to enjoy normal, low-risk pregnancies, labors, births, postpartum recoveries, and seasons of new parenting—pregnancies, labors, births postpartums, and parentings well-suited to home, if home is so desired.
A complementary event is also planned for 6 PM Wednesday, July 17, at the Cook County Community Center 4-H Log Building for a screening of the movie Why not home?
Kim Woodard Osterholzer, CPM, RM is a homebirth midwife of sixteen years with an active practice in Colorado. She has attended the births of nearly 600 little ones. She’s founder and proprietor of both Birth at Home Midwifery Services and Born For This: Giving Birth to a Happy, Healthy Family. The author plans to have copies of her books available for purchase at the event.
Brave Girls and Wise Women
Monday, August 5, 2019, 1:00 p.m.Join Rose Arrowsmith DeCoux for a storytelling adventure! Hear how Tatterhood battles a band of trolls, Manka solves impossible riddles, and Vasalisa dares to knock at the witch’s door. Daring heroines reclaim fairytales as fierce, funny, and feminine. Program length is 60 minutes, intended for youth ages 7-12, but appropriate and enjoyable for teens, mixed age audiences and adults. Stories will likely be too long for kids younger than 6. This program, sponsored by Arrowhead Library System, was funded in part or in whole with money from Minnesota's Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.
Nate cannon on wtip's roadhouse
June 28, 2019Nate Cannon is an award winning, nationally recognized public speaker, trainer, and author, who recently gave a talk at the Grand Marais Public Library. Cannon’s presentation, “Outside the Box: Diversity, Language, and Bridges to Inclusion” draws upon his experiences as an out FTM (Female to Male) trans man to address current topics in the LGBTQ community. Cannon mixes his personal experiences as a suicide attempt survivor and transgender man living with unseen disability into a broader discussion of identity and social equality.
If you missed Nate's talk and would like to learn more, start with the WTIP interview below, and access his books through the library.
Books:
- Dying to Hang with the Boys - 2019
- Running on a Mind Rewired - 2012
- Queer Voices: Prose, Poetry, and Pride - 2019
overdue for change
Grand Marais Public Library is proud to become a fines free library.At the April meeting of the Grand Marais Public Library Board of Trustees, the library changed its policy regarding fines for overdue materials.
Effective immediately, fines will no longer be levied on Grand Marais Public Library (GMPL) materials kept beyond their due date, and existing fines on patron records are being waived. The library also will no longer charge $1 for a replacement library card. Library staff will be happy to assist those who have questions about their account.
It is important to note some charges remain in place, including charges for damaged and lost materials. Also, overdue fines on materials owned by a library other than GMPL are set by the owning institution and may not be waived.
Library materials still have due dates, and patrons are requested to return or renew them in a timely manner. If a patron fails to return an item, they may still be held accountable. After 58 days past the due date, the online system presumes the material is lost, and automatically places a replacement charge on the patron account.
Board considerations included the following: Library fines create economic barriers to information access and the mission statement as rewritten two years ago specifies that the library “removes barriers”; Economic inclusion is a priority in the 2019 Strategic Plan; Studies show fines are ineffective in ensuring materials are returned to libraries on time, eliminating fines can even result in materials coming back to the library sooner, and libraries that go Fines Free typically see an increase in circulation.
The elimination of fines has become a nationwide trend, and a number of other libraries in the Arrowhead Library System have already become Fines Free. We are proud to be joining libraries around the state and nation in making this change.
WTIP interview:
Grandpa Lyle Gerard's Celebration of life ceremony
At the Community CenterAugust 11 from 1 PM - 4 PM
Grandpa Lyle provided children's storytimes in libraries and schools throughout the Arrowhead region until his passing last year.
His Grand Marais Celebration of Life Ceremony is scheduled for Sunday, August 11 at the Community Center.
For more information, your contact is:
April Gerard (daughter)
aprilgerard@charter.net
218-590-8188
Highway 61 construction project
Watch this video for a detailed explanation of the construction phasing, staging and traffic control to impact Grand Marais over the next couple of years.
Coming soon: "Project Status" link.
24-hour library services
Libby is an app that allows you to borrow ebooks and e-audiobooks with more ease than the Overdrive app it replaces. The collection continues to grow, and offers new titles every month.
Bookmyne is an app that allows you to manage your library account from an Android or iOS (Apple) device. Check due dates and renew items here. You'll need your library card number and pin (usually the last four digits of your telephone) to use Bookmyne. Highly recommended by library staff.
RB Digital is an app that allows you to borrow (and keep!) digital magazines. RB Digital works with Apple iOS, Android, and Kindle Fire devices. Get registered at arrowheadmn.rbdigital.com. Then, get the RB Digital app from your device's app store and enjoy.
Bookmyne is an app that allows you to manage your library account from an Android or iOS (Apple) device. Check due dates and renew items here. You'll need your library card number and pin (usually the last four digits of your telephone) to use Bookmyne. Highly recommended by library staff.
RB Digital is an app that allows you to borrow (and keep!) digital magazines. RB Digital works with Apple iOS, Android, and Kindle Fire devices. Get registered at arrowheadmn.rbdigital.com. Then, get the RB Digital app from your device's app store and enjoy.
online tech help videos
Try these!
Over 40 Tech Support videos offer short, straight-forward instructions on a variety of topics, including:
- Copy and paste
- Make a phone call from your GMAIL account--for free.
- Attach a file to your email
- Crop your photos
Readers' comments welcome
Did you love your latest read? Tell the next reader!
Grand Marais Public Library is helping readers share their reading experience with others. A slip of paper inside the cover of a book invites readers to leave a brief comment for the next person who may pick up that book. Notes should be anonymous,
and may include things that give subsequent readers feedback about your reading experience.
If a user finds a Grand Marais book that does not contain a slip, they may request one at the front desk. This effort supports goals in our 2018 strategic plan to build a sense of community and belonging.
Arrowhead Library System, in partnership with Recorded Books, is happy to announce the launch of the RBdigital eMagazine Collection. RBdigital eMagazines offers full-color, interactive digital magazines for anytime, anywhere reading on desktops, mobile devices, and apps. You can browse the collection of over 120 popular magazines with no holds, no checkout periods, and no limit to the number of magazines you can download.
To create an account and start downloading eMagazines, please visit http://arrowheadmn.rbdigital.com/.
Director Steve Harsin announces RB Digital on WTIP. Listen in:
This free app, created by Overdrive, is now available! Check it out. Visit the library for one-on-one help getting started. We want this experience to be as exciting for you as it is for us.
For those of you using the Overdrive app: Libby is replacing the Overdrive app, which will be discontinued in the future. The benefit of switching to Libby is a streamlined experience, where you can read or listen to your library materials "in the app," rather than having to switch over to OverDrive Media Console, Amazon.com and Kindle App, etc. Still have questions? Please ask!
Grand Marais Public Library is grateful to receive 16 cloth bags handmade and donated by members of a Fiber Arts Guild interest group. Over the years, the library has received recycled plastic grocery bags from members of the community. These are provided to customers needing to cover books from precipitation or simply carry them home. Until the Guild donated cloth bags, we had no alternatives to offer. We are looking forward to receiving another donation of the beautiful, personal bags Guild members created.
Hear more from the Fiber Guild in this WTIP Roadhouse recording:
The library can accept excellent condition new books published within the last 2 years. Why? Read more.
County folks, we know it can be difficult to return books to Grand Marais Public Library on time. Did you know you can borrow paperback books and other materials from the Arrowhead Library System via u.s. mail free of charge?
The items come to your mailbox; you return them through your mailbox. The same is true for city residents in assisted living. ALS Executive Director Jim Weikum joins Tracy Benson on WTIP to explain:
With much help from the community, the Grand Marais Public Library completed a strategic planning process this year that will guide our actions for the next five years.
Our new mission is:
The Grand Marais Public Library increases knowledge, inspires creativity, removes barriers, and builds community across Cook County.
Our tagline is:
EXPLORE. LEARN. CREATE. CONNECT.
Our priority goals are:
Grand Marais Public Library is pleased to announce it has once again achieved a 5 star ranking in the annual Library Journal Star Libraries standings. Last year, when Grand Marais was ranked a 5 star library for 10 years running, it was one of only 13 libraries in the nation to do so Visit the Library Journal website to read more.
If a user finds a Grand Marais book that does not contain a slip, they may request one at the front desk. This effort supports goals in our 2018 strategic plan to build a sense of community and belonging.
New digital magazine collection
Available now.Arrowhead Library System, in partnership with Recorded Books, is happy to announce the launch of the RBdigital eMagazine Collection. RBdigital eMagazines offers full-color, interactive digital magazines for anytime, anywhere reading on desktops, mobile devices, and apps. You can browse the collection of over 120 popular magazines with no holds, no checkout periods, and no limit to the number of magazines you can download.
To create an account and start downloading eMagazines, please visit http://arrowheadmn.rbdigital.com/.
Director Steve Harsin announces RB Digital on WTIP. Listen in:
would you like to try e-books and e-audios?
This free app, created by Overdrive, is now available! Check it out. Visit the library for one-on-one help getting started. We want this experience to be as exciting for you as it is for us.
For those of you using the Overdrive app: Libby is replacing the Overdrive app, which will be discontinued in the future. The benefit of switching to Libby is a streamlined experience, where you can read or listen to your library materials "in the app," rather than having to switch over to OverDrive Media Console, Amazon.com and Kindle App, etc. Still have questions? Please ask!
FIber Arts Guild donates cloth bags to library users
Grand Marais Public Library is grateful to receive 16 cloth bags handmade and donated by members of a Fiber Arts Guild interest group. Over the years, the library has received recycled plastic grocery bags from members of the community. These are provided to customers needing to cover books from precipitation or simply carry them home. Until the Guild donated cloth bags, we had no alternatives to offer. We are looking forward to receiving another donation of the beautiful, personal bags Guild members created.
Hear more from the Fiber Guild in this WTIP Roadhouse recording:
Do you accept book donations?
The library can accept excellent condition new books published within the last 2 years. Why? Read more.
mail-a-book program for county residents
Listen to this short WTIP audio clipCounty folks, we know it can be difficult to return books to Grand Marais Public Library on time. Did you know you can borrow paperback books and other materials from the Arrowhead Library System via u.s. mail free of charge?
The items come to your mailbox; you return them through your mailbox. The same is true for city residents in assisted living. ALS Executive Director Jim Weikum joins Tracy Benson on WTIP to explain:
Library gets a New strategic plan, mission, tagline
Winter 2017With much help from the community, the Grand Marais Public Library completed a strategic planning process this year that will guide our actions for the next five years.
Our new mission is:
The Grand Marais Public Library increases knowledge, inspires creativity, removes barriers, and builds community across Cook County.
Our tagline is:
EXPLORE. LEARN. CREATE. CONNECT.
Our priority goals are:
- The community will increase understanding and appreciation of the full range of human diversity.
- The community will have increased knowledge and utilization of library resources and programs throughout the county.
- People will enjoy a comfortable environment that gives them a sense of community belonging.
- Young children will develop a love of reading and improve their literacy.
The library gets 5 stars 11 years in a row
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