Another Charge Up Your Chapters!

 

Charge Up Your Chapters

Once again the Friends of Grand Coulee Area Library sponsor the "Charge up Your Chapters" event at Voltage Coffee House on February 14th from 9 AM to Noon.

We'll provide hand-me-down books for your to peruse and perhaps take home. Donations appreciated.

Purchase raffle tickets for the Valentines Basket, filled lots of heart-felt goodies.

Fill out a word puzzle.

Do this and purchase your own coffee and quiche, freshly made at Voltage.

Funds raised by your generous donations help support our local Grand Coulee Library and enable the Friends of Grand Coulee Area Library to fund part of the cost of books for Dolly Parton's Imagination Library, which sends free books each month to preschool children. 

Do you have a preschool child? Sign up your child here.

See you at Voltage on Valentines Day!

Library as Curbside Convenience

 

Grand Coulee Public Library is Curbside!

Curbside hours, Monday through Friday from 1 - 4 PM, means that you may call or order online to receive a text, email or phone message when your order is ready.  

Just order online or you can call the Grand Coulee Library at 509-633-0972.

For more information see the article: Curbside. And, if you have questions, try the live chat or call-in service-- see "Live-Chat" information.

Take Home Kits

Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics [STEM] Kits are available at our library.  Read about STEM kits here.  The library has several types of kits:

Available this week of August 25 --

• a ribbon ring craft kit,

• balloon rockets STEM Kit,

• for Teens a reflection journal and origami activity

These kits are available during curbside pickup from 1-4 Monday through Friday.

Nature Packs

A Nature Pack?  You mean with a Discover Pass? Binoculars? Hand lens? Even a bug viewer? How about a compass? And a nature guide-- "Curious Kids Nature Guide"? Field Journals? Maps? 

YES! 

Just place a pack on hold online or you can call the Grand Coulee Library at 509-633-0972.

What Else is happening at the library?

Well--- curbside and online only-- but what a great selection:

• Check out the Virtual Selection here-- including STEM activities, story times, and yoga.
• Need some sports -- an entire selection of SPORTS fiction is ready for you.
• Take the Summer Survey about the virtual program
• North Central Regional Library changed its name to North Central Washington Libraries -- NCW Libraries.

Stay informed 

at the 

Grand Coulee Public Library Website!

The Library in a Pandemic

Library is Closed--- With Virtual Options

Yes, the library is closed.  A pandemic grips us. But look closer:  

Grand Coulee Library Website

Notice that you can link to North Central Regional Library summer STEM activities for kids in a virtual way:

You can still use your library card for online resources from North Central Regional Library:

And, if you have questions, notice the icon for a chat on any library site:

North Central Regional Library started the Online Help weekdays from 9-11 am in April: New Live Chat and Phone-In Service to better serve all the communities.

And remember the Virtual Author Series-- online in Zoom. Register here.  Next up is Peter Heller on July 7th.  His new book is The River---a story of two college students on a wilderness canoe trip - a gripping tale of friendship. Here's the author's inspiration.

What? You don't have a library card? Get one here!

So remember to check our Grand Coulee Library website for new virtual events to help us through the pandemic.

A Gracious Thank You

The Friends of Grand Coulee Area Library [FriendsGCAL] thank the Paul Lauzier Foundation where the legacy of Paul Lauzier lives on through their charitable foundation.

The Friends of Grand Coulee Area Library received funding from the Paul Lauzier Foundation to enhance the Grand Coulee Library’s Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics [STEM] Programs. 

The grant allowed the FriendsGCAL to purchase much needed equipment and supplies for the program:

• AV Equipment [large TV / laptop ]


• Audio System


• Digital Microscope


• Microscope Slides


• Supply kits [periscopes, hydraulic elevator]


In addition, the grant provides for honorariums for much needed presenters to guide children in STEM activities.

Dennis Carlson and Frank Ayers, community members, started the STEM activities in February for the after school program.  

With the guidance of Frank Ayers, kids built periscopes to learn how they work, and what works best for the length of the tube and for position of the mirrors so that you can see over that wall!

In another STEM program at the library, Dennis Carlson introduced solar car kits, teaching kids how to build them and how they work with sun’s energy.

Electricity and electrical circuits were a hit on yet another day with Dennis. Imagine, potatoes and lemons as batteries!

As you know, the library is closed due to the situation with the coronavirus. Some online services are still available 24/7. Closure has prevented the library from implementing the STEM activities, but the FriendsGCAL are still working to fine-tune the activities and supplies we will be able to fund once the library opens again. 




Thanks again to the Paul Lauzier Foundation for their support for this work for kids, allowing the FriendsGCAL to help our library inspire the children in our community.

If you missed sessions, here are some links for at-home:

• the periscope session--you can build your own without a kit following directions here.


• the solar car session--an "Instructable" lesson here

• the electrical session, Potato Circuits from Teaching Engineering


And please follow along with North Central Regional Library’s science lady-- Heather --for at-home STEM activities.

Thank You

Thank you 

Grand Coulee Area Community

for your support of our local library:

 Grand Coulee Public Library

Interesting conversations, resource connections, and an enjoyable evening made this event another success.

Proceeds help us provide the library with supplies needed for various programs.

Because of such community support, the Friends of Grand Coulee Area Library are also able write and receive grants that add greatly to what we can do for our library.

In addition to the great evening and funds raised, many connections were made to provide needed presentations for the library's STEM children afterschool program: Science, Technology, Engineering, Math.

If you have knowledge to share in these, perhaps you will participate -- contact Lisa at the library We've so many people who "know stuff"-- geology, archeology, weather, technology, architecture, astronomy-- you can do it. We even have a stipend for an honorarium should you choose to help out!

Again, thank you for supporting the library!

See you in February for the Charge Up Your Chapters at Voltage!

Photo Album for the Event