Library Hours
Monday - Saturday: 10 am - 2 pm
Tuesday and Thursday: 3 pm - 8 pm
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Location
3537 Lake Elmo Avenue North
Lake Elmo, MN 55042
Link to map
651-773-4926 |
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Other Popular Items
Adult Books: Unbroken, Killing Lincoln, Heaven is For Real, Killing Kennedy, A Dance with Dragons, Fifty Shades of Grey, The Black Box, Stolen Prey, Guilty Wives, The Best of Me, A Game of Thrones, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
DVDs: Les Miserables, Django Unchained, Argo, Skyfall, Lincoln, Life of Pi
Children's: Dear Dumb Diary, Stallion by Starlight, Diary of a Wimpy Kid,Berenstain Bears
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May Events
Saturday, May 11 at 10:00 am: Author Gloria Van Demeltraadt: “Memories of Lake Elmo”
Tuesday, May 14 at 6:30 pm: Author Gloria Van Demeltraadt: “Memories of Lake Elmo”
Wednesday, May 15 at 7:00 pm: Music Jam. Drop in to play and hear acoustic music led by Charles Calvert
Thursday, May 16 at 6:30 pm: Author James Kosmo: “Still Standing: The Story of SSG John Kriesel”
Friday, May 17 at 6:00 pm: New Century Artist Reception, featuring artwork on display in the library
Story time is 10:30 am on first and third Friday (May 3 and 17) for toddlers and preschoolers
June 10-August 16: Summer reading program for elementary and junior high students . . . sponsored by Pinz, Gorman’s Restaurant, Target, and Joe Park Golf @ Country Air Wedge Course
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May is Older Americans Month. We are celebrating with a display featuring materials celebrating this year's theme: Unleash the Power of Age. |
Library News
May 13, 2013
This is the most extraordinary small town library . . . unfolds like a treasure box. Read more of the library review at McEvoy's Library Visits Project blog.
The cataloging team has added 1020 books, DVDs, and audiobooks to the library in the past 30 days. Our community's catalog has more than doubled in size since the library opened last September. New-to-the-collection books can be easily viewed and accessed on the "New this Month" shelf located to your right as you enter the library. The shelf holds 120 books, so it is completely refreshed every 4-5 days.
Expansion creates opportunity, and in April we moved adult nonfiction books to a previously unused area across the hall from the main library space. The "Bernie Wilke Room", named for our primary nonfiction curator and a long-time Pioneer Press editor, doubles the space available for Lake Elmo's nonfiction collection. Oversized ("coffee table") books have also been moved into the new nonfiction room; the library has a large and popular collection. Come in and check it out.
The children's room specialist moved the large collection of early readers (levels 1-6) into kid-friendly baskets on lower shelves. The team has also grouped popular series together (Wimpy Kids, Nate, Magic Treehouse, etc.) in lower shelves along the left wall as you enter the children's room.
In April the New Century Artists group hung beautiful original artworks on the picture moldings (installed by the facilities committee) throughout the library. Cement ramp upgrades were made to the front and rear library entrances the week of April 21st.
In addition, a generous donor provided a Mac computer with cinema display. We are now a "Mac AND PC" site!
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Did You Know?
Crowdsourcing: the practice of obtaining needed services, ideas, or content by soliciting contributions from a large group of people or community.
A crowdsourced library, Lake Elmo Library is unusual. 97.5% of our books, DVD's, and audiobooks have been donated by the community. The shelving, computers, tables, and chairs are also 97% donations, as well as labor used to run our library. The library follows a strong tradition of recycling and reuse in the Lake Elmo community.
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| East Metro Writing Room Meets on Mondays |
Writers looking for a quiet space, free coffee, craft conversation, and inspiration are invited to Lake Elmo Public Library on Monday mornings from 8:30 to noon.
Membership is free and open to any writer seeking motivation and heads-down drafting time. In addition to the quiet room, the “procrastination station” will be open for coffee breaks and lively chat with other authors. A smaller breakout room is available for discussion on topics ranging from passive voice to marketing kindle books.
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(published on 05/15/2013) |