Upcoming Events
See what's happening this month.
Click on the Events Calendar to see a detailed listing of programs and events happening at SCPL. Click on the video to view events happening in March.
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Library Pickup Lockers Offer 24/7 Contactless Service
Library patrons who are unable to get to the library during regular business hours can now choose to have their reserved materials placed in a library pickup locker for convenient self-service pickup. Lockers are located at the Rockport-Main Library at the Third Street entrance. Call 812-649-4866 for more information.
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Spring is in the air! Enjoy books or audiobooks while on the go. Dowwnload our free e-book and audio app-Libby! Stop by or call the Library and we can help get you started.
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Dinosaur Meet & Greet
On April 15th at 1:00 PM in front the the Main Library on Walnut Street you and your little dinosaur lovers will have the opportunity to meet Seraphina and her friends. Seraphina stands over 6.5 feet tall and is 17 feet long! This will be a great photo opportunity!
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Back By Popular Demand-Food Truck Friday! |
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Each month SCPL will feature a new puzzle challenge. For this month's challenge, download or pick up a puzzle sheet at any branch and solve as many of the puzzles as you can. Return your sheet by email or drop it off at any SCPL location. Each person who solves the puzzle correctly will be entered into a drawing for a $10 local gift card.
Download your Marich puzzle challenge here.
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Memorial and Honor Donations |
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Selections From the New Shelf |
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Child Programs and Events |
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1000 Books Before Kindergarten |
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Do you have a baby, toddler or preschooler? If so, join SCPL's 1000 Books Before Kindergarten program to help your child be ready for kindergarten. This program promotes reading to newborns, infants, and toddlers and encourages parent and child bonding through reading. The goal of the program is to establish strong early literacy skills that will allow children to gain the confidence to become strong readers. Contact our Children's Department or Click here for more information.
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Adult Programming
In Person Classes!
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The Book Club at Rockport meets the first Friday of every month at 1:00 PM. You can join virtually or at the Main Library in Rockport. For more information please contact Erin by calling 812-649-4866. |
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April 1st at 1:00 PM at Rockport in the Large Meeting Room
Discussing Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
The English-language debut of one of Japan’s most talented contemporary writers, selling over 650,000 copies there, Convenience Store Woman is the heartwarming and surprising story of thirty-six-year-old Tokyo resident Keiko Furukura. Keiko has never fit in, neither in her family, nor in school, but when at the age of eighteen she begins working at the Hiiromachi branch of “Smile Mart,” she finds peace and purpose in her life. In the store, unlike anywhere else, she understands the rules of social interaction—many are laid out line by line in the store’s manual—and she does her best to copy the dress, mannerisms, and speech of her colleagues, playing the part of a “normal” person excellently, more or less. Managers come and go, but Keiko stays at the store for eighteen years. It’s almost hard to tell where the store ends and she begins. Keiko is very happy, but the people close to her, from her family to her coworkers, increasingly pressure her to find a husband, and to start a proper career, prompting her to take desperate action.
-Excerpt from Amazon.
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April 13th at 3:30 PM at Hatfield in the Community Room
Discussing Welcome to the World, Baby Girl! by Fannie Flagg
Once again, Flagg's humor and respect and affection for her characters shine forth. Many inhabit small-town or suburban America. But this time, her heroine is urban: a brainy, beautiful, and ambitious rising star of 1970s television. Dena Nordstrom, pride of the network, is a woman whose future is full of promise, her present rich with complications, and her past marked by mystery.
Among the colorful cast of characters are:
Sookie, of Selma, Alabama, Dena's exuberant college roommate, who is everything that Dena is not; she is thrilled by Dena's success and will do everything short of signing autographs for her; Sookie's a mom, a wife, and a Kappa forever
Dena's cousins, the Warrens, and her aunt Elner, of Elmwood Springs, Missouri, endearing, loyal, talkative, ditsy, and, in their way, wise
Neighbor Dorothy, whose spirit hovers over them all through the radio show that she broadcast from her home in the 1940s
Sidney Capello, pioneer of modern sleaze journalism and privateer of privacy, and Ira Wallace, his partner in tabloid television
Several doctors, all of them taken with—and almost taken in by-Dena
There are others, captivated by a woman who tries to go home again, not knowing where home or love lie.
-Excerpt from Amazon.
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April 11th at 1:30 PM at Richland Branch
Discussing A Good Neighborhood by Therese Anne Fowler
In Oak Knoll, a verdant, tight-knit North Carolina neighborhood, professor of forestry and ecology Valerie Alston-Holt is raising her bright and talented biracial son, Xavier, who’s headed to college in the fall. All is well until the Whitmans—a family with new money and a secretly troubled teenage daughter—raze the house and trees next door to build themselves a showplace.
With little in common except a property line, these two families quickly find themselves at odds: first, over an historic oak tree in Valerie's yard, and soon after, the blossoming romance between their two teenagers.
A Good Neighborhood asks big questions about life in America today—what does it mean to be a good neighbor? How do we live alongside each other when we don't see eye to eye?—as it explores the effects of class, race, and heartrending love in a story that’s as provocative as it is powerful.
-Excerpt from Amazon.
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If you find yourself stressing over what to make for dinner then join SCPL's Virtual Recipe Swap page on Facebook. Click here to request to join. This group allows members to share tips, tricks, and recipes with each other. Join today!
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