Girls Who Code
2024-01-24 16:30 - 17:30, 2024-02-07 16:30 - 17:30 (America/New_York)
For Students in Grades 3 through 12.
Girls Who Code is a non-profit organization dedicated to closing the gender gap in technology. The club is a FREE after-school computer science program, facilitated by Children’s Librarian Marie Nania and helpers from the JJHS Robotics Team. The club meets weekly.
Students are encouraged to bring their own laptops or Chromebooks; some will be provided.
Space is limited, please register below for the weeks you can attend.
Note: photographs are often taken at our events to post on social media and our website. Please let the event leader know if you would prefer your child not be photographed.

Family Storytime
2024-01-25 10:30 - 11:30
For Infants & Toddlers
Join Miss Marie in the children’s room for seasonal stories, music and more fun for infants and toddlers.
Please register below, so we have your info in case we need to cancel.

Adult Scrabble
2024-01-25 18:30 - 20:30
Are you a scrabble player? The Library has formed a Scrabble club for those who want to meet at the Library and play.
The group meets on the second and fourth Thursday evenings of each month at 6:30 pm.
This is NOT a drop-in program. We need to know the number of players each week to set up the room.
If you are interested in joining the group, please send an email to lewisborolibrary@gmail.com.

Family Storytime & Craft
2024-01-26 13:30 - 14:30, 2024-02-02 13:30 - 14:30, 2024-02-09 13:30 - 14:30
For Preschoolers.
Join Miss Marie in the children’s room for stories, music and crafts, for those in preschool.
Please register below, so we have your info in case we need to cancel.

Family Fun Saturday: Family Collage
2024-01-27 10:30 - 11:30
All Ages
Create a special family collage using your own family pics and supplies from our MakerSpace.
Bring your family photos, then create a personal collage with pictures, magazine clippings, fabric & more!
Space is limited; please register below.
Note: photographs are often taken at our events to post on social media and our website. Please let the event leader know if you would prefer your child not be photographed.

MakerSpace Corner
2024-01-29 10:00 - 17:00
All Ages. Drop in from 10 am to 5 pm.
Create your own invention or craft from the materials in the Makerspace Center.
No Registration Required

Library Closed - Records Retention/Clean-up Day
2024-01-30
The Lewisboro Library will be closed on Tuesday, January 30, so the staff can work on reorganizing files, storage, etc. The outside bookdrop will be open all day for those who need to return Library materials.

Lewisboro Seniors Book Group: "Cutting for Stone" - Postponed from January 17
2024-01-31 11:00 - 12:00
Our group meets in person on (usually) the third Wednesday of the month during the Lewisboro Senior Adults meeting at the South Salem Firehouse. All seniors are welcome!
This month the group will be discussing Cutting for Stone, by Abraham Verghese. This New York Times Bestseller is a saga of twin brothers, orphaned by their mother’s death at their births and forsaken by their father.
The Library will provide copies of the book to all participants. Large print copies are also available upon request. Please contact the Library if you need a copy of the book – (914) 875-9004 or lewisborolibrary@gmail.com. The book is also available as an eBook and audiobook via Overdrive/Libby.

(Virtual) How to Motivate Your Unmotivated Student
2024-01-31 19:00 - 19:30
Via Zoom.

Is your student in a January slump? In this 30-minute interactive webinar, parents are invited to learn a few tips, tools, and strategies to motivate, inspire, and support their student.
Presented by Successful Study Skills 4 Students.
Discover:

How to inspire your kids to motivate themselves
How self-esteem and anxiety impacts motivation
The effects of power struggles
The importance of goals and objectives, choices and consequences
What problem-solving skills benefit an unmotivated student

Please register for the Zoom link HERE.

Lewisboro Library Book Group: "The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store"
2024-01-31 19:30 - 20:30
The Lewisboro Library Book Group usually meets at the Library on the last Wednesday of each month at 7:30 p.m.
The book selection for this month is The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, by James McBride. It is a novel that begins in 1972, with the discovery of a skeleton that unravels the hidden secrets of Chicken Hill, a Pennsylvania neighborhood in the 1930s where Jewish and Black communities coexisted amidst racial tensions.
Books are available through the Westchester Library System and copies are often ordered in advance for members to pick up at the Library. New members are always welcome in this adult, co-ed book group. For more information contact Myrna or Steve Shomstein at (914) 533-2550.

Family Storytime
2024-02-01 10:30 - 11:00, 2024-02-06 10:30 - 11:00, 2024-02-08 10:30 - 11:00, 2024-02-13 10:30 - 11:00
For Infants & Toddlers with Caregiver

Join Miss Marie in the children’s room for seasonal stories, music and more fun for infants and toddlers.
Please register below, so we have your info in case we need to cancel.

Learn About Robotics
2024-02-01 18:00 - 19:00
Grades K – 5, and Middle Schoolers interested in learning about Robotics Teams.

Interested in robotics? Come meet members of John Jay’s M.O.B (Mechanical Operations Bureau) robotics team and hear about the FIRST Tech Challenge and their success last year in qualifying for the World Championship. Learn about strategies used for competition, see footage from their most recent qualifier and view a live demo of how the robot works.

You’ll also meet members of the John Jay Middle School’s First Lego League robotics team, who took first place at the recent Hudson Valley Regional Qualifier.

Space is limited, please register below.
Note: photographs are often taken at our events to post on social media and our website. Please let the event leader know if you would prefer your child not be photographed.

Taylor Swift Friendship Bracelet Night
2024-02-02 19:00 - 21:00
For Teens in Middle & High School
Are you ready for it?

Make friendship bracelets, sing along with her music (karaoke), and watch the Dare to Dream documentary.
Space is limited, please register below. If registration is full, you can call the Library to ask if any spaces have opened up – (914) 875-9004.

Note: photographs are often taken at our events to post on social media and our website. Please let the event leader know if you would prefer your teen not be photographed.

Annual Meeting: Featured Speaker Superintendent Andrew Selesnick
2024-02-04 14:00 - 15:30
This year’s Annual Meeting features a talk by Superintendent of Schools Andrew Selesnick on the topic of Public School 2024: The Sun Always Rises. The Superintendent will talk about the opportunities and challenges facing public schools as they educate, nurture, inspire, and prepare children for an ever more complex world, and the importance of community participation and support.
Andrew Selesnick joined the Katonah-Lewisboro School District as superintendent of schools in July 2015, after spending 23 years in the Chappaqua Central School District as an English teacher, department chairperson, assistant principal, and principal of Horace Greeley High School. For his final three years in Chappaqua, he served as the district’s assistant superintendent for leadership development and human resources.
His presentation will be preceded by a short business meeting.
Please register below.

BONUS Afternoon Film: "Barbie"
2024-02-05 13:00 - 15:00
We’ve added a bonus film to our bimonthly film series – another showing of the summer blockbuster Barbie. (Some registrants missed last month’s showing due to illness/snowy roads.)
Come see what all the Golden Globe and Oscar buzz is about!
Space is limited, please register below.

MakerSpace Monday: Valentine Cards
2024-02-05 16:00 - 17:00
For PK – Grade 5
Come work on crafts, technology and more in the MakerSpace Corner of the Children’s Room. This month we are making crafts with a seasonal theme.
Space is limited. Please register your child below.
Note: photographs are often taken at our events to post on social media and our website. Please let the event leader know if you would prefer your child not be photographed.

Middle Reads: Lifeboat 12 (Postponed from January)
2024-02-06 19:00 - 20:00
For Grades 6 – 8.
This group for middle school teens meets monthly to discuss books while enjoying refreshments.
This month we will be discussing the book Lifeboat 12, by Susan Hood. This poignant novel in verse is based on true events that tell the story of a boy’s harrowing experience on a lifeboat after surviving a torpedo attack during World War II.
Space is limited, Please register below.

Lewisboro Community Crafters: Valentine Buddies
2024-02-08 13:00 - 14:00
We have another great project for those who love to craft – and give back to others in our community!
Crafters will cut out and assemble a “Valentine Buddy” and fill decorated gift bags with Valentine-themed games and goodies to be delivered to Homebound Senior Adults in Lewisboro. (Thanks to Penny for making these cute bracelets to go in the bags!)

No crafting expertise required – just a great way to gather and do good for others!

Space is limited, please register below.

"What's Love got to do with it?": Film and Discussion
2024-02-09 18:30 - 21:00
Come join us for a pre-Valentine’s (or Galentine’s) Day screening and discussion of the 2022 romantic comedy “What’s Love got to do with it?”
How do you find lasting love in today’s world? Documentary-maker and dating app addict Zoe (Lily James) has only found an endless stream of Mr. Wrongs. Her childhood friend and neighbor Kaz (Shazad Latif) opts to follow his parents’ example of an arranged marriage to a bride from Pakistan. As Zoe films his hopeful journey from London to Lahore to marry a stranger, she begins to wonder if she might have something to learn from a profoundly different approach to finding love.
Space is limited, please register below.

Defensive Driving Course
2024-02-10 10:00 - 15:30
Six hour Defensive Driving course.
Completion of the course results in a ten percent liability insurance discount to the principal operator as well as a maximum of four points off the driver’s violation record.
Space is limited. Please register below and then pay in person at the Library by February 5 to hold your reservation. The fee is $45; seniors age 65 and over pay $35. Check should be made payable to John Coxen. If registration is full, please email the Library at lewisborolibrary@gmail.com to be placed on the wait list.
There will be a 30-minute lunch break, so be sure to bring a bag lunch.

Family Fun Saturday: Fire Breathing Dragons
2024-02-10 10:30 - 11:30
All Ages
Celebrate the Chinese New Year by crafting a fire breathing dragon!
Space is limited; please register below.
Note: photographs are often taken at our events to post on social media and our website. Please let the event leader know if you would prefer your child not be photographed.

Dungeons & Dragons
2024-02-10 16:00 - 18:00
For Players in Grades 4 – High School. Group will be split according to age.

Dungeons and Dragons is a fantasy role playing game. Players work collaboratively through a series of adventures, gathering treasure and experience points along the way.
This co-ed group meets 1-2 times each month. New and experienced players are welcome.
We just added an additional Dungeon Master, so opened up spots for 2 more players. Please register below.
Thanks so much to the Pezone family for running our D & D programs!

Afternoon Film: "A Haunting in Venice"
2024-02-12 13:00 - 15:00
Our afternoon film series continues with a showing of A Haunting in Venice. Based on a novel by Agatha Christie, the film chronicles Detective Hercule Poirot, who attends a seance at a haunted palazzo and is soon thrust into a sinister world of shadows and secrets when one of the guests is murdered.
Space is limited, please register below.

MakerSpace Monday: Valentine's Collage
2024-02-12 16:00 - 17:00
