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RideNorfolk New Schedule

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:38:11 GMT

Ridenorfolk has revised its bus schedule effective February 13,2012. For more information and other news, please visit the Ridenorfolk website.

Tickets for the bus are available at all Norfolk County Library Branches.

Freedom to Read Week

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:51:23 GMT

RAISING AWARENESS

CELEBRATING FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION

ENCOURAGING PARTICIPATION

Freedom to read can never be taken for granted. Even in Canada, a free country by world standards, books and magazines are banned at the border. Schools and libraries are regularly asked to remove books and magazines from their shelves. Free expression on the Internet is under attack. Few of these stories make headlines, but they affect the right of Canadians to decide for themselves what they choose to read.

For more information, please visit the Freedom To Read Website.

Guest Speaker

Norfolk County Public Library welcomes Doris Kienitz as our Freedom to Read Week speaker.

Doris has written the book entitled Escape from East Germany: Kitchen Table Memoirs, which is a biography on her father depicting his life during and after World War 2 in East Germany, his many escapades, and how he risked his life helping people escape before his own family escaped.

Join us on the following dates as Doris reads from a challenged book.

Tuesday February 28th

Port Dover Branch at 10:30am
Port Rowan Branch at 1:00pm

Wednesday February 29th

Simcoe Branch at 2:00pm

Thursday March 1st

Waterford Branch at 3:00pm

Free Downloading Clinic

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 20:38:11 GMT

Starting February 8th, your Norfolk County Public Library staff will be offering a weekly Wednesday clinic to assist you in keeping up with how to use the latest in personal device technology. Feel free to bring your own devices in, if you have any questions about them.

Locations and Dates

Simcoe Branch Wednesday February 8th
Delhi Branch Wednesday February 15th
Simcoe Branch Wednesday February 22nd
Port Dover Branch Wednesday February 29th
Port Rowan Branch Wednesday March 7th
Simcoe Branch Wednesday March 14th
Waterford Branch Wednesday March 21st

The clinics will run between 1:00pm and 7:00pm on the listed Wednesdays above.

Live at the Simcoe Branch, Corin Raymond

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:03:43 GMT

Corin Raymond

The Norfolk Public Library & The Old Town Hall Bookstore Proudly Presents:

"Live at NCPL- Simcoe Branch, performance "BOOKWORM", written and performed by Corin Raymond, directed by Morgan Jones Phillips on Friday February 17th at 7pm: A story of a father reading to his son growing up in a library .

Tickets are $15.00 on sale ast Serafina's and the Old Town Hall

for more information contact claire@oldtownhall.org

A Magical March Break

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:16:15 GMT

Participate in daily activities for a chance to win the Grand Prize of a Magic Show Kit!

Featuring Lucas Wilson - The Illusionist!

Check the Ride Norfolk Schedule for
Times, and ride the bus to your local
library!

Program Schedule 2012

Delhi Branch

Storytime on Tuesday March 13th at 10:30am
Lucas Wilson - The Illusionist! on Thursday March 15th at 2:00pm

Port Dover Branch

Lucas Wilson - The Illusionist! on Tuesday March 13th at 2:00pm
Storytime on Friday March 16th at 10:30am

Port Rowan Branch

Storytime on Tuesday March 13th at 10:30am
Lucas Wilson - The Illusionist! on Wednesday March 14th at 2:00pm

Simcoe Branch

Storytime on Monday March 12th at 10:30am
Lucas Wilson - The Illusionist! on Monday March 12th at 2:00pm
Family Storytime on Monday March 12th at 6:30pm
Saturday Drop-In Fun on Saturday March 17th at 10:30am

Waterford Branch

Lucas Wilson - The Illusionist on Friday March 16th at 2:00pm
Storytime on Friday March 16th at 10:30am

Available at All Branches

Crafts!

Wednesday March 14th and Thursday March 16th at 2:30pm

Movies!

Tuesday March 13th and Friday March 16th at 2:30pm

Wii Games, Lego, and Board Games are available at any Branch during regular Library Hours.

Norview Library Closed Week of February 6th

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:39:02 GMT

The NCPL Library site at the Norview Lodge will be closed the week of February 6th until further notice

Thank You

2012

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 21:24:10 GMT

No Meetings Yet

Santa Visits NCPL Branches

Sun, 20 Nov 2011 20:36:12 GMT

Simcoe Branch on Mon. December 5^th

Port Rowan Branch on Tues. December 6^th

Port Dover Branch on Wed. December 7^th

Waterford Branch on Thurs. December 8^th

Delhi Branch on Friday December 9^th

Santa asks if you could please bring a non-perishable food item for the EMS Food Drive. Thank-you!

Daisy Reader

Thu, 13 Oct 2011 14:31:45 GMT

General Information

With the launch of a new provincially-funded library program, public libraries across Canada are enabling people with print disabilities to access literature like never before.

Thanks to funding from the government of Ontario, public library patrons across the province now have the opportunity to borrow from the 80,000-title collection of alternative-format materials at the CNIB Library, including audio, braille and descriptive video.

For people who can't read print, the news means unprecedented access to a broad collection of accessible materials - books, magazines and newspapers - through their local library.

NCPL is partnering with CNIB to offer Daisy Reader Players and CDs for the Daisy Reader to those with a visual, physical or learning disability that prevents someone from reading regular print. Staff will be able to register a patron or assist a patron with a disability for access to the CNIB library with online access to audio books, CNIB catalogue and newspapers, magazines and databases. Visit the CNIB website for more information on CNIB.

What is a Daisy Audiobook?

DAISY (Digital Accessible Information System) is an international format standard developed by libraries for the blind. DAISY audiobooks have superior sound quality and functionality compared to other audio formats. Special features include chapter, paragraph, phrase and word navigation, bookmarking, skimming, sleep modes and reading speed control. DAISY titles fit on a single compact disc. These discs are meant to be played in special DAISY-compatible machines such as Victor Readers.Because of their special formatting, DAISY discs cannot be played on standard CD players unless those players are MP3-compatible. If your CD player was manufactured in the last five years, there's a good chance it is MP3-compatible and will also play DAISY CD. Feel free to listen to an audio introduction to DAISY players prepared by the CNIB or view a DAISY training and support video!

Who Qualifies?

Norfolk County Public Library will be able to register individual customers to receive delivery of CNIB library materials to their home or to the libraries for pickup.

Who qualifies for this service through the library? Anyone who is print disabled due to blindness, visual impairment, physical disability and/or learning disability in with the definition provided for "perceptual disability" in Section 32. (1) of the Canadian Copyright Act.

"Perceptual Disability" means a disability that prevents or inhibits a person from reading or hearing a literary, musical, dramatic or artistic work in its original format, including:

a. severe or total impairment of sight or hearing or the inability to focus or move one's eyes

b. the inability to hold or manipulate a book

c. an impairment relating to comprehension

How do I sign up?

You can register online with CNIB at www.cnib.ca/selfregistration.

Borrowing and Returning Procedure for the Daisy Readers

Loan Period: 3 weeks

2 renewals

Overdue Reader: $2.00/per day

Tillsonburg Reciprocal Borrowing Agreement

Mon, 13 Jun 2011 14:25:22 GMT

Residents of Norfolk County and the Town of Tillsonburg can now borrow materials from each other's libraries using a single card and without any annual membership fees!

THE AGREEMENT:

You will Need a valid (up-to-date and fine free) card at your home library.
Abide by all rules and regulations of the library system, or risk having current and future privileges revoked at both home library system and partnership library system.
Need to show ID, proof of residency in Tillsonburg or Norfolk and sign a registration form.
Eligible for all limits on numbers of holds, number of books on one subject, and other circulation or reference or Internet use policies; the same criteria will apply for all members, whether it is your home library or your reciprocal borrowing partnership library.
Pay fines for overdues at the library system owning the book.
This agreement applies solely to Tillsonburg and Norfolk; you are not eligible to use other libraries either of these two systems may form agreements with.
You must be a resident of Norfolk or the Town of Tillsonburg to participate in this agreement. If you are not, non-resident fees may apply. Proof of residency is required.

If this summary does not answer all of your questions, you are invited to ask library staff, or e-mail your questions to ncpl@norfolkcounty.ca