Book Soup: A Down-to-Earth Book Group for Adults
Tuesday, May 21 at 6 PM
Reading Room. Book Soup is a book group for adults where soup, bread and book talking are all on the menu! Individual participants choose their own titles, then share what makes the book great (or not so great). So join us and add variety to the “soup pot.” The bread and soup are provided, please bring your bowl, spoon, and appetite!
Film: The Empty House
Thursday, May 23, at 6:30pm
Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes. Believed dead after his fatal encounter with Professor Moriarity three years earlier at Reichenbach Falls, Sherlock Holmes returns to England to foil a murder plot by a former Moriarity lieutenant.
Friday, May 24, from 3–5 pm
Teen Video Game Tournament:
Forza Motorsport 4
Teens: Stop by after school Friday, May 24 for a friendly video game tournament on the library’s BIG screen!
Prizes -- Snacks -- Lower level
Donations Needed
The Friends of Rockland Public Library are holding the annual Book, Plant & Bake sale on Saturday, June 8. To help make this fundraiser a success, they are looking for donations of books, plants and baked items.
If you can provide any of these items, please contact the following:
For Books & Plants: Rebecca Albright- Phone: 975-3946, Email- becalbright@roadrunner.com
For Baked Goods: Eileen Spectre- Phone: 594-2457, Email-espectre144@gmail.com
Now Available for Check-Out
Orion Starblast Telescope: for one week to customers 18+ who have a vehicle. Questions? Want to put it on hold? Ask at the Reference Desk. Also Orion Binoculars for one week to customers 18+. Provided by Cornerstones of Science.
Midcoast Transit Survey
Camden, Rockport, Rockland and Thomaston have joined together to fund a study to look at transit in the Midcoast region - and they need your help!
Please take their short survey about where you go to work and shop, and how you get there.
New Language Learning e-Resource
NEW! Pronunciator has replaced Mango Languages as Rockland Public Library's interactive language learning e-resource. Sign up to begin learning a new language today!
- Upcoming class: Intro to Pronunciator- May 30 at 2:30pm
- Find Pronunciator in our list of e-Resources.
Mondays at 11:00 AM
Adult Art Workshops
Community Room. Led by artist Catinka Knoth. Each week is a different subject - such as frogs, lily ponds, herons, egrets, warblers, and migratory birds. Participants will work with pencil, colored pencil, crayon, and perhaps scissors, with a focus on drawing in color. Free of charge, with materials supplied.