 The Dare County Library will be closed on Monday, May 29, 2023 in observance of the Memorial Day holiday.
We will resume normal business hours on Tuesday, May 30, 2023.
In this Month's Newsletter:
- Auto-Renewals of Your Checked-Out Books
- May New Releases Reservation Forms
- Hatteras Library Pop-Up Event
- Book Clubs
- Library Orientation Night
- Children's Bookmark Contest
- Barnyard Blast at the Hatteras Library
- KidsFest
- Bilingual/Dual Language Family Night
- Coastal Gardening Festival
- Lost Colony Souvenir Programs Digitized
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What are “Auto-Renewals?”
With our recent upgrade to new software, we are now able to offer our library users automatic renewals of items as they become due. We encourage all of our users to sign up for email notifications so that you will receive a friendly reminder via email 48 hours before an item becomes due.
For materials that are not on hold for another library customer, your materials will automatically renew for another loan period - three weeks for most items and two weeks for popular new fiction. You will receive an email notice about the titles that have auto-renewed as well as their new due date. There is a limit of two renewals or autorenewals, meaning you can borrow an item for its original two- or three-week loan period and then have it for two additional two- or three-week loan periods as renewals.
As always, you have the option to return the items, call the library to renew them, or log into your account from home and renew them. From our online catalog at https://www.earlibrary.org/ you can access your account, renew items and place holds. If you have any questions, please call or stop by your Dare County Library location.
  Click on the link to your home library branch below, fill out the form and click "submit." As soon as we receive your submission, we will add you to the request queue.
PLEASE NOTE: The lists are the same for all three library locations. It is crucial that you click the button below for the library location from which you borrow books.
Manteo Library and Kill Devil Hills Library May Book Club Meetings:
These are the last meetings of the 2022-2023 Library Book Clubs. Meetings will resume in September 2023.
Kill Devil Hills Library Book Club:
May 9, 2023 at 4 p.m.
"The Hemingses of Monticello" by Annette Gordon-Reed
Please contact Meaghan Beasley at the Kill Devil Hills Library at 252-441-4331 to learn how to join.
Manteo Library Book Club:
May 11, 2023 at 4 p.m.
"The Tobacco Wives" by Adele Myers
Please contact Sophie Bennewitz at the Manteo Library at 252-473-2372 to learn how to join.
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The Beach Food Pantry Returns to the Manteo Library in May
When: Monday, May 22 at 5:30 p.m.
Where: Manteo Library
The Beach Food Pantry will be visiting the Manteo Library to once again share fresh produce with the local Manteo community. This produce is free to anyone who lives or works in Dare County, and no I.D. is required. Please come by and take some home!
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I Didn't Know I Could Do That: Library Orientation Night
When: Tuesday, May 23 from 5 p.m. 6:30 p.m.
Where: Kill Devil Hills Library
Did you get your Dare County Library card but aren't sure what you can do with it? Does the new online library catalog have you a bit stymied? Are you overwhelmed that all of your holds come in at the same time?
Come to our first Library Orientation Night to learn about all of the great things you can do from home with your Dare County Library card. We'll cover how to search, place holds and find information about titles in the new catalog. Then we'll go into your Dare County Library account to show how you can create a username and password, cancel and suspend holds, create lists to control when your books come in, update your PIN and more!
Registration is not required to attend. We hope to see you there!
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 Dare County Library Children's Bookmark Contest
There's still time to submit an entry for the 2023 Dare County Library Bookmark Contest. Bookmark entries must be received by the end of the business day on Thursday, May 4, 2023.
Children can decorate a blank bookmark with library-related pictures and/or words. There are four age categories (ages 2-6, ages 7-9, ages 10-13 and ages 14-18), and the winner selected in each category will receive a gift certificate to a local bookstore. The Dare County Library will print the winning bookmarks in color and make them available at the front desk of each of the libraries throughout the year. Observed annually to coincide with National Library Week, our bookmark contest is a fun way for children to get creative and show how much books, reading and the library mean to them.
For more information, or to pick up an entry form, please stop by any of the three Dare County Libraries: Manteo, 252-473-2372; Hatteras, 252-986-2385; or Kill Devil Hills, 252-441-4331.
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Join the Barnyard Blast at the Hatteras Library
When: Saturday, May 6, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Where: Hatteras Library (indoors)
Join Michelle and Ms. Tammy for a free, fun, family event for all ages at the Hatteras Library. The "Barnyard Blast" will feature crafts, games, refreshments, a riddle-solving challenge and prizes! In addition, your farm experience will be complete with a visit from one of Michelle's chickens and her baby chicks.
Stop in anytime between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. This event is open to the public.
Contact Tammy Batschelet at the Manteo Library (252-473-2372 / tbatschelet@earlibrary.org) or Michelle Lord at the Hatteras Library (252-986-2385 / mlord@earlibrary.org) with questions or for more information.
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KidsFest Returns May 12
When: Friday, May 12, from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Where: Roanoke Island Festival Park
Bruce the Bear will join Miss Donna and Ms. Tammy at this year's KidsFest, presented by the Children & Youth Partnership for Dare County (CYP) at Roanoke Island Festival Park.
Bruce the Bear is a beloved storybook character created by author Ryan T. Higgins. You may have read (more than once!) "Mother Bruce," "Hotel Bruce," "Santa Bruce" or "Peek-A-Bruce" if you are a parent of young children.
Find Bruce the Bear, Tammy and Donna at the Dare County Library table to make a craft while you enjoy this fun and free family event.
Please call the CYP for more information at 252-441-0014 or visit www.darekids.org.
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Children & Youth Partnership Class: Open Your Own Family Childcare Home
When: Wednesday, May 17, 2023, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Where: Kill Devil Hills Library
Have you ever thought about providing childcare in your own home? If the answer is yes, please join us for a free informational session to find out how to open a licensed family childcare home.
Early childhood specialists from the Children & Youth Partnership for Dare County will provide all of the information you need to know to decide if you'd like to become a licensed family childcare home provider. They will also be available to provide training and technical assistance to guide you throughout the licensing process.
Some of the benefits of opening your own licensed family childcare home are:
· You can go into business for yourself and be your own boss.
· You can have many opportunities to be creative, develop your own ideas and do something
you enjoy.
· You can have a very rewarding job.
· You can stay home with your own children and still provide income for your family.
· You can provide social interaction for your own children.
· You can be there for your baby’s firsts.
· You can be there when your children get home from school.
· You do not have to pay for childcare for your own children.
· You can provide a service that is greatly needed in Dare County.
Registration is required for this free session. Please call 252-441-0614 or visit www.darekids.org/events to register.
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Bilingual/Dual Language Family Night:
When: Monday, May 22, 2023, from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
Where: Manteo Library
Who: Everyone!
This free, fun, family event is open to the public, and no library card is required. The Elizabethan Gardens will join the event this month for a "garden-themed" night, and the Beach Food Pantry will be visiting with fresh produce boxes for anyone to take home.
Bilingual/Dual Language Family Night is fun for the whole family! From 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. at the Manteo Library, we will have a Spanish language game and a family STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) project. We are looking forward to seeing everyone there for another fun night of games, laughs and prizes!
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Hatteras Library: Growing Readers Storytime
Thursdays: 10:15 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. (for ages 2-3) and 11 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. (for ages 3-5)
For more information, please call the Hatteras Library at 252-986-2385 or email Tammy Batschelet at TBatschelet@earlibrary.org.
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Kill Devil Hills Library: Growing Readers and Hooked on Books Storytime
Storytime:
Mondays and Thursdays: 10:15 to 10:45 a.m. (for age 2) and 11 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. (for ages 3-5)
For more information, please contact the Kill Devil Hills Library at 252-441-4331 or email Donna Roark at DRoark@earlibrary.org.
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Manteo Library: Growing Readers Storytime, Hooked on Books and Paws for Reading
Storytime:
Mondays: 11 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. (for ages 3-5)
Wednesdays: 10:15 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. (for ages 2-3) and from 11 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. (for ages 3-5)
Hooked on Books:
Wednesdays: 3 p.m. to 3:45 p.m. (for grades K-7)
For more information about Storytime and Hooked on Books, please contact Tammy Batschelet at 252-473-2372 or TBatschelet@earlibrary.org.
Paws for Reading:
Thursdays: 2:45 p.m. to 3:45 p.m.
For more information about the program and to reserve a spot, please contact Sophie Bennewitz at 252-473-2372 or SBennewitz@earlibrary.org.
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 Find the Dare County Library at the Coastal Gardening Festival
When: Saturday, May 20, 2023, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Where: Thomas A. Baum Senior Center, 300 Mustian Street, Kill Devil HIlls, NC 27948
Join the Dare County Library at the 19th Annual Coastal Gardening Festival held by the N.C. Cooperative Extension Dare County Master Gardener Volunteers. This rain-or-shine event is a must-attend for all locals - of all ages - with green thumbs.
Dare County Library staff will have a fun garden-friendly activity for the kids as well as information about our Seed Library. We hope to see you there!
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The Lost Colony Souvenir Programs Digitized: A Dare County Library, The Lost Colony and DigitalNC Collaboration
You can now look at every Lost Colony annual souvenir program going back to 1937. While the North Carolina Digital Heritage Center, housed at UNC Chapel Hill's Wilson Library, had digitized most of the programs, their collection was incomplete. Thanks to the Lost Colony and the Digital Heritage Center's satellite location at Elizabeth City State University, along with Dare County Library, we were able to pool our materials and get every program scanned and uploaded. You can now find access to the collection through the Lost Colony website and DigitalNC, the Digital Heritage Center's online portal for archived materials.
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