Celebrate Cinco de Mayo with a program by Mexican-American writer, Angela Cervantes, author of Coco and many other books for young readers. Angela will share the story of how she became a writer and will follow her talk with a Q&A session to allow young readers and aspiring writers the opportunity to ask questions!
Opento 3rd-7th graders. To participate via Zoom, register in advance. You’ll be sent a link for the event and a password.
Northgate Book Club with Librarian, Marilyn Boatrightvia Zoom video conferencing.
Register in advance. You will receive a link and instructions for how to participate on the day and time of the book club. For online programs, I have read and agree to the City of San Rafael’s online legal and privacy information.
“Obreht offers a new representation of the West, both in the characters she chooses and the emotional rigor and range with which she writes. The result is at once a new Western myth and a far realer story than many we have previously received — and that’s even with all the ghosts.” ~NPR
We may have some copies of the book available to attendees of the book club. Please call us at 415-485-3323 to reserve a copy and schedule a curbside pickup appointment. If you are unable to physically pickup the book, please email facilitator marilyn.boatright@cityofsanrafael.org for assistance.
Future Titles:
September 3 – The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
October 1 – The Yellow House by Sarah Broom
November 5 – The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
December – TBD
This book club is brought to you by the Friends of the San Rafael Libraries.
Northgate Book Club with Librarian, Marilyn Boatrightvia Zoom video conferencing.
Please register in advance. After you register, you will be emailed a confirmation with a password to enter the Book Club via Zoom at the specified time.
For anyone who wants to attend, we may have a copy that we can mail to you. Please email: marilyn.boatright@cityofsanrafael.org
Virtual Book Club with Librarian, Marilyn Boatrightvia Zoom video conferencing.
Please register in advance. After registering you will receive a link and instructions for how to participate on the day and time of the book club. For online programs, I have read and agree to the City of San Rafael’s online legal and privacy information.
We may have some copies of the book available for attendees of the book club. Please call us at 415-485-3323 to reserve a book club copy and schedule a curbside pickup appointment. If you are unable to physically pickup the book, please email facilitator at: marilyn.boatright@cityofsanrafael.org for assistance.
March 18 – The Vanishing Halfby Brit Bennett, hosted by Librarian Marilyn Boatright
This book has been chosen as San Rafael Library’s “Book to Action,” a community-wide program from the California Center for the Book to Read/Discuss/Act during the months of March-June. We will be hosting two book discussions and a number of online programs around the issues this book brings up: race identity, transgender identity, colorism, passing, among others.
April 15 – Shuggie Bainby Douglas Stuart, hosted by Librarian Marilyn Boatright
More selections to come…
This book club is brought to you by the Friends of the San Rafael Libraries.
Join us via Zoom for a bilingual, participatory and original story told with music, dance and you!
WHEN: Wednesday, April 29 at 10:30am
WHO: For children birth-12 years, but the entire family is invited to join in!
HOW: Online via Zoom: Please register in advance. You will be sent an email with a password to enter the event at the specified time.
ZOOM Instructions
Our online programs use the Zoom software program. If you have not already used Zoom, you can either create a free account (zoom.com) or not, but you will need to complete an approximately minute long software download for your computer, phone or tablet. We recommend having this done well before the class start so that you can focus on the fun!
To login to our event, follow the provided link and then;
‘Join Audio Conference by Computer’ –(Green button)
Once in the event, you can choose to turn on your video (recommended!) and audio (recommended!) in order to participate. As moderators, we will selectively mute your audio in order to maintain focus on the presenter.
There is a button in the top right to toggle between ‘Speaker View’, which gives the focus to the presenter and ‘Gallery View’, which shows the gallery of the audience (including you!)
To participate, register ahead of time to join us via Zoom. You will be sent an email with a password to enter the event at the specified time.
Social-distancing? Shelter-in-place? Sickness? It’s enough to make anyone feel down these days. Express your feelings, and transform your Coronavirus (or other) blues into Blues Poetry in a class with librarian and California Poets in the Schools teacher, Lea Aschkenas. In this class for 4th through 7th graders, Lea will give a brief historical background of Blues music and poetry, share sample poems (some written by past students), and lead participants in an exercise to produce at least one original blues poem. Send your poems to her after the class, and we’ll publish them on the San Rafael Public Library website!
The library may be closed, but we still want to share stories, songs, rhymes, and movement with you. We are excited to offer online storytimes during this time of social distancing. Enjoy storytimes by your favorite San Rafael Public Library staffers while we’re all sheltering in place.
We miss our storytime families and can’t wait until we see each other again at the library. In the meantime we hope seeing some familiar library faces provide some comfort and normalcy for your kiddos during these strange times.
Lectura de Cuentos en línea en nuestro Canal de YouTube
La bibliotecapuedeestarcerrada, peroaúnasiqueremoscompartirhistorias, canciones, rimas y movimientos con ustedes. Estamos muyemocionados de ofrecerLectura de cuentosenlinea,online storytimes, duranteestetiempo de distanciamiento social.Disfrute de los cuentos del personal de la BibliotecaPública de San Rafael mientrastodosnosrefugiamos. Visitanuestro canal enYoutube, Storytime YouTube playlist. ¡Continuaremosactualizándolo con nuevoscuentoseninglés y español!
Además, tenemos consejos y actividades de alfabetización temprana para sus hijos, desde el nacimiento hasta los 5 años de edad. Visitanuestro canal enYoutube, Early Literacy YouTube playlist.
Extrañamos mucho a nuestras familias en la hora de cuentos y no podemos esperar hasta que nos volvamos a ver en la biblioteca próximamente. Mientras tanto, esperamos que el ver algunas caras familiares de la biblioteca les brinden algo de consuelo y normalidad a sus hijos durante estos momentosdifíciles.
We are moving our April Monday Night Book Club online via Zoom video conference facilitated by Librarian Pam Klein.
We will be discussing Katherine Anne Porter’s novella “Pale Horse, Pale Rider”which is about the relationship between a Denver newspaper woman, Miranda and a soldier, Adam, during the influenza epidemic of 1918. This compelling story follows the illness and delirium of Miranda, and is based in part on Porter’s own illness while working for the Rocky Mountain News in Denver.
We are moving our 2nd Monday Night Book Club online via Zoom video conference facilitated by Librarian Pam Klein.
Please register in advance on Zoom. You will be sent an email confirmation with a password to enter the book club at the specified time.
We will be discussing Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower. There are eerie similarities depicted in this 1993 science fiction novel and the world we live in today.
This book is available (with no waitlist!) as an eBook through the library’s subscription to HooplaDigital.com Sign-up with your library card for eBooks, eAudiobooks, movies, TV, and music.
We are moving our April Northgate Library Book Club online! This month’s selection is Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout. Facilitated by Librarian Marilyn Boatright.
Celebrate Cinco de Mayo with a program by Mexican-American writer, Angela Cervantes, author of Coco and many other books for young readers. Angela will share the story of how she became a writer and will follow her talk with a Q&A session to allow young readers and aspiring writers the opportunity to ask questions!
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We are moving our 2nd Monday Night Book Club online via Zoom video conference facilitated by Librarian Pam Klein.