Pember Library

As a result of economic conditions, the Pember Library finds it necessary to reduce hours.  We have adjusted hours to serve the maximum number of library patrons. Beginning the week after Christmas and through the winter months, we will be closed on Thursdays.

We thank you for your understanding and hope you are not inconvenienced by the reduction in hours.

We are planning our annual dinner and silent auction which will be held at the Lake St Catherine Country Club. We are seeking donations of products or services that can be auctioned to raise funds for general operating costs.

All donations are tax deductible.

Dinner tickets can be purchased from us, $40 per person or $75 per couple.  You can bid by attending the dinner, or you can email or call us.  Email bids will be accepted up to 12:00pm on the day of the dinner.

• Ardyce  at 642-2525 or abresett@sals.edu
• Bernie at 642-1515 or pember_edu@roadrunner.com

These categories may change or expand as items come in:

Auction Items ~ Art: 3-D

Auction Items ~ Art: Paintings, Prints, Photos

Auction Items ~ Baskets

Auction Items ~ Books

Auction Items ~ Furniture

Auction Items ~ Gift Certificates

Auction Items ~ Hand Made

Auction Items ~ Home Decor

Auction Items ~ Jewelry

Auction Items ~ Kitchen

Auction Items ~ Potpourri

Auction Items ~ Sports

Auction Items ~ Telescope Furniture

Auction Items ~ Wine & Dine

“Summer Reading at New York Libraries” announces the “2012 Teen Video Challenge – NYS Viewer’s Choice Award”

Have your opinion heard!  VOTE for your favorite videos, created by teens to promote summer reading. The “2012 Teen Video Challenge – NYS Viewer’s Choice Award” will be awarded to the three videos receiving the most votes. Click here to view all videos and vote for your top three choices!

Deadline for voting is midnight, August 15th, 2012. Winner will be announced in the beginning of September, 2012.

The Pember Book Club will be reading “The Dirty Life; on Farming, Food, and Love” by Kristin Kimball.

From Publishers Weekly:

Kimball chucked life as a Manhattan journalist to start a cooperative farm in upstate New York with a self-taught New Paltz farmer she had interviewed for a story and later married. The Harvard-educated author, in her 30s, and Mark, also college educated and resolved to “live outside of the river of consumption,” eventually found an arable 500-acre farm on Lake Champlain, first to lease then to buy. In this poignant, candid chronicle by season, Kimball writes how she and Mark infused new life into Essex Farm, and lost their hearts to it. By dint of hard work and smart planning–using draft horses rather than tractors to plow the five acres of vegetables, and raising dairy cows, and cattle, pigs, and hens for slaughter–they eventually produced a cooperative on the CSA model, in which members were able to buy a fully rounded diet. To create a self-sustaining farm was enormously ambitious, and neighbors, while well-meaning, expected them to fail. However, the couple, relying on Mark’s belief in a “magic circle” of good luck, exhausted their savings and set to work. Once June hit, there was the 100-day growing season and an overabundance of vegetables to eat, and no end to the dirty, hard, fiercely satisfying tasks, winningly depicted by Kimball.