Starting March 15, 2010, the library will open at 10 a.m. rather than 9 a.m. Monday through Friday. Check the Hours page for complete hours for both locations.
March Staff Picks
Check out what Kimberly-Little Chute Public Library staff are recommending this month:
Help for the Homeless
The Library is serving as a collection point for "Help for the Homeless" now through March 21st. Please bring in your donation of new hygiene items to help ease the financial strain on area homeless and crisis programs. Items collected will be given to local shelters. Most needed items include: laundry soap, cleaning supplies, garbage bags, paper towels, bathroom tissue, feminine needs, diapers and baby care, hair care, soap and deoderant, first aid, dental care, etc. Thank you!
Programs for Kids & Families
Storytime is in session! Check out the storytime page for more details. And don't miss Family Game Nights coming soon:
March 2nd at 6:00 p.m. in Kimberly
March 11th at 6:00 p.m. in Little Chute
Fox Cities Reads
This year’s Fox Cities Reads is once again a collaboration between the public libraries of Appleton, Neenah, Menasha, Kimberly, Little Chute and Kaukauna, as well as UW-Fox Valley and the Appleton Area School District.
This year's author is Wisconsin-based Lesley Kagen and her New York Times best-selling novel Whistling in the Dark. We hope you enjoy this choice, which takes place in Milwaukee in the late 1950s. In this mystery story, Sally O’Malley is a feisty heroine who will tug at your heartstrings and make you laugh.
We will be hosting discussions of "Whistling in the Dark" on the following dates. Please join us and be a part of Fox Cities Reads!
Saturday, March 13, 9 a.m. at the Great Lakes Chocolate & Coffee Company, Kimberly
Monday, March 22, 6:30 p.m. at the Little Chute Public Library
Fox Cities Book Festival
Check out the new web site for the Fox Cities Book Festival and explore the wonderful authors who will be visiting the Valley this April! We will be having 4 authors at our library, so be sure to start reading their books now. Here's who is coming:
Beth Kephart, Wednesday, April 14, 6 PM in Little Chute (writing workshop)
Kao Kalia Yang, Thursday, April 15, 10:00 AM in Little Chute (Hmong memoir author)
James Campbell, Thursday, April 15, 7 PM in Little Chute (nonfiction)
Lesley Kagen, Friday, April 16, 9:30 AM in Kimberly (Fox Cities Reads author)
Join in some Cafe Conversations while you wait for the Festival to arrive. Here's the complete schedule.
New Library Policies
The Board of the Kimberly-Little Chute Public Library recently adopted several new policies to help ensure the safety and comfort of all library users. Please review the Safe Child Policy, Rules of Conduct, and Security Policy. If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to call the library and ask to speak to the Director.
Coming Up with Readers Groups
The Kimberly-Little Chute Reader’s group meets the third Thursday of the month at the Kimberly Public Library. The March meeting will take place on Thursday, March 18th at 1:00 p.m. The book we will be discussing is The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards. Edwards is one of the featured authors who will be in the Fox Valley on Sunday, April 11th in conjunction with the Fox Cities Book Festival.
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter hinges on the birth of fraternal twins, a healthy boy and a girl with Down syndrome, resulting in the father's disavowal of his newborn daughter. A snowstorm immobilizes Lexington, Ky., in 1964, and when young Norah Henry goes into labor, her husband, orthopedic surgeon Dr. David Henry, must deliver their babies himself, aided only by a nurse. Seeing his daughter's handicap, he instructs the nurse, Caroline Gill, to take her to a home and later tells Norah, who was drugged during labor that their son Paul's twin died at birth. Instead of institutionalizing Phoebe, Caroline absconds with her to Pittsburgh. David's deception becomes the defining moment of the main characters' lives, and Phoebe's absence corrodes her birth family's core over the course of the next 25 years. David's undetected lie warps his marriage; he grapples with guilt; Norah mourns her lost child; and Paul not only deals with his parents' icy relationship but with his own yearnings for his sister as well. Come join us for what should be an interesting discussion.
The Kimberly-Little Chute Evening Reader’s group meets the fourth Monday of the month at the Little Chute Public Library. The March meeting will take place on Monday, March 22 at 6:30 pm. The book we will be discussing is Whistling in the Dark by Leslie Kagen. Whistling in the Dark is this year’s community read and once again a collaboration between the public libraries of Appleton, Neenah, Menasha, Kimberly, Little Chute and Kaukauna, as well as UW-Fox Valley and the Appleton Area School District.
The loss of innocence can be as dramatic as the loss of a parent or the discovery that what's perceived to be truth can actually be a big fat lie, as shown in Kagen's compassionate debut, a coming-of-age thriller set in Milwaukee during the summer of 1959. Ten-year-old Sally O'Malley fears that a child predator that has already murdered two girls, Junie Piaskowski and Sara Heinemann, will target her or her little sister, Troo, next. Sally's mom is in the hospital, while her big sister, Nell, is distracted by love and her step dad, Hall, by the bottle, so who can save her if the killer is, as she suspects, her neighbor, David Rasmussen, a popular cop who has a photo of Junie hanging in his house? Though the mystery elements are sketchy, Kagen sharply depicts the vulnerability of children of any era. Sally, "a girl who wouldn't break a promise even if her life depended on it," makes an enchanting protagonist.
As a side note, Kagen will be at the Kimberly Library Friday, April 16th from 9:30-11:30 as part of the Fox Cities Book Festival.
Census Testing Information
We know how important the census is. The gathering of accurate and comprehensive information, in our community, is critical to funding programs and services in the future. If you're interested in becoming a census worker, testing is available at the following times and locations:
Kimberly Village Hall, Cedar Room
Wed March 03 10:00 AM
Wed. March 17 10:00 AM
Little Chute Village Hall, East West Room, LL
Thur Feb 25 10:00 AM
Thur March 11 10:00 AM
Thur March 25 10:00 AM
You must present a Passport, Driver's License and SS card, or birth certificate.
Job & Career Resources
Thanks to a grant received by the Outagamie Waupaca Library System, we have been able to add a number of books and DVDs on job and career development. Take a look at the list of books that have been added. Remember to also use InfoSoup's Job & Career Resources page, which includes job skills practice tests, links to job sites, and OptimalResume - a resume building tool.
Wheeled Walkers Available
We have two wheeled walkers available for your use in the library. The walkers were funded by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services which administers the Library Services and Technology Act. Please ask library staff for information about the walkers or feel free to use one during your next visit to the library.
Email Notices
Keep your e-mail address current with the library in order to receive
notices that your requests have arrived, get courtesy notices the day before an item is due, and overdue notices if your items are late (see Online Forms). PLEASE NOTE: If your spam filter requires a form to be completed to allow access to e-mails from the library, you must add e-mails for the domains mail.owls.lib.wi.us and mail.nfls.lib.wi.us to your approved list. Bouncebacks from spam filters may cause your e-mail address to be deleted from your contact record.
As
with other library information, the privacy of your e-mail address and
communications are protected under state law (Wis. Stat. 43.30). They
will never be given away, sold, or traded to a third party.
ROI Calculator
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Wii Play!
The Wii will be out on Tuesday afternoons after school, so come on in and game with us. Check the program calendar to the left for details on when and where.
CHANGE IN HOURS
Help for the Homeless
Census Testing Information
