Thanksgiving Closed Days

The library will be closed for the Thanksgiving holiday on Thursday November 22, Friday November 23, and Saturday November 24. In addition, the library will close at 3:00 p.m. on Wednesday, November 21. Happy Thanksgiving to you all!

New Hire

The library is happy to welcome Jessica Jahnke to the staff. Jessica is the new Library Assistant and will be responsible for adult programming and cataloging and the Babcock Book Club. She will assist with readers' advisory, reference, and circulation as well. Welcome to Jessica!

Babcock Book Club

The Babcock Book Club will meet next Monday, September 17 at 7:00 p.m. in the Ashford Town Offices lower floor conference room. We'll discuss Reyna Grande's book Across a Hundred Mountains, which is the One Book, One Region selection. The discussion is free of charge and all are welcome. Refreshments will be served. See you there!

New Staff

We are very happy to have two new Library Pages at the library. Emily Brown and Elizabeth Hernberg began their employment last week, and we are glad they're on board!

Closed Labor Day

The Babcock Library will be closed Monday, September 3, 2007 for Labor Day. A happy Labor Day to all!

Position Open

The Babcock Library needs a Library Assistant. The position is approximately 19 hours per week and requires at least a high school diploma and two years of library experience. For more details, see our ad on the Connecticut Library Consortium web site at http://www.ctlibrarians.org/ctlibs/jobs.html or call the library at 860-487-4420. We are accepting applications through August 31st.

Redesigned Web Site

Check out our redesigned and updated web site! Many thanks to Jean Jakoboski who made it happen! Our web address is www.babcocklibrary.org. There's lots of new content and links here now, also thanks to Jean.