Inventor’s Workshop: Roller Coaster Engineering with The Lawrence Hall of Science
Custom make a table-top marble roller coaster! Kids and their caregivers will design and test their coasters to keep their marble on track through all their loops, twists, and turns. Participants get to take home their projects. For children 5 years and older with a caregiver. Space is limited, please register at the Children’s Reference Desk, or give us a call at 415-485-3322. Sponsored by the Friends of the San Rafael Public Library.
This is Marin’s favorite book event of the year so bring your friends and family to spot some great summer reading…
Volunteers from Friends of the San Rafael Library will set out 8,000 books on 30 tables for easy viewing and many more will staff the sale as cashiers and helpers of good cheer.
There will be a charming children’s corner with everything from board books for babies to teen books.
We’ll have a huge arts section with painting, drawing, single artist books, art history, ceramics, photography, architecture & decorating.
Another large & delicious section will be cook books, plus gardening & landscape design.
Other areas of interest: poetry, spirituality, natural history, history, health & fitness, psychology, travel, science & math, music & sheet music, mythology, anthropology, classics, oldies, hard cover fiction and nonfiction, coffee table books minus the coffee, reference, trade fiction and nonfiction, CDs, DVDs, sets of vintage books and much more.
All of this will be on the Library Lawn under the beautiful oak tree.
Sponsored by: Friends of the San Rafael Library. All proceeds benefit the San Rafael Public Libraries.
Give our damaged, out of date books new life by upcycling them into boxes! We’ll provide precut book covers, duct tape, and oodles of crafting odds and ends. Program is for middle school youth in 6th-8th grade. Sign-up at the Children’s Reference Desk, or call us at 415-485-3322!
Please join us for a continuing series of classes for small businesses and independent professionals who would like guidance on building their web presence through their websites, email marketing, and social media.
Facilitator, Melanie Lamoureux, User Experience Consultant and owner of Jumpinsites, will present this series of classes, each one building on the next.
All classes meet on the following Thursdays from 6:00 – 7:30 pm in the Library Meeting Room
Class 1:Thursday, May 5
We will focus on getting an essential one-page website up and running quickly. This site can be expanded and refined as students learn more in subsequent classes about how to best utilize their sites for their particular needs. Students will leave with a workbook for their web content and clear steps for how to get it into a site and launched.
Class 2:Thursday May 19
In this class you will be translating your completed workbooks into your webpage when you put it all together, learn how you can use Google Fonts and hex colors to further customize the look/brand of your site, and learn how to use metadata and social sharing info to help search engines and social media know what your site is about
Please bring your completed workbooks and a laptop (if you have one). We will be doing some exercises online together.
Classes 3 & 4: Thursdays
June16 and June 23
Creating images that are the right size for the web can be tricky. In this class, I will show you quick and easy ways to make engaging images for your website and social media channels using tools that are on every Mac computer. Bring your laptop to this hands-on 2-part workshop.
Do you raise chickens? Have you been thinking about it? You probably want to come to this talk.
All it took was a few baby chicks and a carpeted floor, and soon, Jane Ishka, a San Francisco Bay Area homesteader, literally felt her skin crawling. She—and her house, her car, and all of her belongings—had been infested by the red poultry mite, Dermanyssus gallinae. Driven from her home and bed by the biting and itching, Jane used her scientific background to figure out what was wrong, and most importantly, how to fix it.
Come hear the entertaining and informative Jane Ishka read from her new book, The Year of the Mite. Jane will discuss how the book is helping shift popular and professional thinking about parasitic mite infestations.
From Amazon reviews:
“Filled with scientific details, up to date research, support and resources,The Year of the Mite is forthright and compelling. But it’s Ms. Ishka’s deep sense of compassion for life, her honesty and her generosity, that keep you turning the pages.”
“This is an AMAZING book. It’s funny, insightful, sensitive, and engaging. For those who might be a bit ticklish about the topic, don’t worry, it’s about more than a mite infestation, a lot more. A great science read, and also such an honest story about relationships, and even more, how we care about each other.”
“What a fascinating story of real life perseverance and investigative science writing. I also follow Jane’s posts on Facebook and on her blog where she continues to develop the main thrust of her book: namely that science says that what happened to her and others like her is impossible.”
“As a family who has gone through a mite infestation for over a year, we have seen it all. Jane Ishka has captured our anguish perfectly… this book does an amazing job of showing readers every aspect to the problem.”
You’ve probably heard of origami, but have you heard of tapigami?!
Tapigami is the art of manipulating tape into designs and sculptures, developed by Sacramento artist Danny Scheible.
Come by the library and try your hand at this unique art form! Danny will be here to demonstrate. Materials are provided. You bring the inspiration!
Mother’s Day is coming, and Father’s Day will be here soon. Handcraft a beautiful greeting card for your Mom or Dad, make Thank You notes, Love notes, or the card of your fancy. Adults and children are welcome, however children under eight should be accompanied by an adult.
We’ll be discussing a different area of genealogy research each month. Our speaker, Jeffery Vaillant, Director of the Marin County Genealogy Society and genealogy junkie loves a challenge, so come with your questions!
Meets every 2nd Tuesday of the month (unless otherwise noted) in the Library Meeting Room.
2018
January 9 – Immigration and naturalization records, fold3
February 13 – Federal and State census, draft registrations, city directories
March 13 – Genealogical and historical societies, state and local libraries
April 10 – County histories, reverse genealogy (locating living relatives)
May 8 – Genealogical research checklist
June 12 & July 10 – What is Your Genealogy Adventure? Bring your stories of success and challenges to share with others.
Notice that the focus is on United States records, however, each topic has its international element.
August 14 – Summer Break – no class
At the San Rafael Libraries and all of the MARINet libraries, you have FREE in-library access to the most popular genealogy research tool – Ancestry.com
Inside any of the city and county libraries, just log in with your library card number and PIN/password.
Inventor’s Workshop: Roller Coaster Engineering with The Lawrence Hall of Science
Give our damaged, out of date books new life by upcycling them into boxes! We’ll provide precut book covers, duct tape, and oodles of crafting odds and ends. Program is for middle school youth in 6th-8th grade. Sign-up at the Children’s Reference Desk, or call us at 415-485-3322!
From Amazon reviews:
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