Friends of the Jones Library System News

Identity theft is one of the most pervasive and insidious crimes of the 21st century.  Local author and attorney Steve Weisman can tell you where you are at risk as well as how to protect yourself.  This is the first in the  Money Smart Week  series of programs offered by the Jones Library. Tuesday, April 23 at 7 pm - Woodbury Room

Join us for the fourth installment of the 2012-13 jubilat/Jones Reading Series, featuring poets Ben Kopel, Laurie Saurborn Young, and Amanda Nadelberg.  Meet the poets at an informal Q & A session that will follow each reading. Sunday, April 21 at 3 pm - Woodbury Room

Stephen King's  The Shining Some Stephen King novels are scary: you jump, you scream, you startle. Is  The Shining  creepy or scary? And how much of this distinction is transformed in the translation of the text from novel to film?    Join us for an exploration of  The Shining , led by Marisa Parham, Associate Professor of English at Amherst College, before its screening at the Amherst Cinema on April 23.  Saturday, April 20 at 2:30 pm - Woodbury Room This program is the third in a “Books into Films Series” by the Jones Library and the Amherst Cinema.

Don't forget, the Jones Library will be closed on March 31, Easter Sunday. And then, no fooling, the Jones Library will be open all day on Monday, April 1, from 9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. The Jones will return to its normal schedule and open at 1:00 p.m. on future Mondays.

People of the Book Reading Group Join this scholar led book discussion of  Hope: A Tragedy   by Shalom Auslander.  The discussion will be led by Rachel Rubinstein, from Hampshire College. Thursday, April 18 at 7 pm - Woodbury Room

The Great American Songbook & Beyond Too Human in Concert at the Jones Library.  Roger Bruno and Ellen Schwartz are joined by Lou Bocciarelli on upright bass for jazzy, bluesy originals and jazz standards. Tuesday, April 9 at 7 pm - Woodbury Room

Congratulations to our basket winners: Joan, Alan, Ellie, Tom, Bonnie, and Fern !  And THANK YOU to all of you who purchased raffle tickets and who attended Saturday's Spring Fling. Your support helps makes our town libraries great!