April 2024 | City of Calabasas, CA

Ages	Day	Time
Lap Sit Up to 24 months	Thursdays	10:30 a.m.
Toddler ages 2 to 4 years	Thursdays	11:00 a.m.
Preschool ages 3 to 5 years	Tuesdays	1:30 p.m.

All Story Times will be held in the Multi-purpose room. Go to the front of the library and follow signs.

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For more information, click here.

Tutoring will be held by appointment on Zoom. Times are available on Tuesday, April 9th and 30th from 4:00 to 5:00 p.m.

Sign up is required. Please fill out this form to make an appointment for tutoring for your child. Tutoring for students up through 8th grade is done by Advanced Placement and Honors high school students.

For more information, click here.

WRITERS' CLUB

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Attention 3rd through 7th Graders!! If you like creative writing and hanging out with your friends then join the Writers’ Club! Hosted by the Calabasas Library and run by high school students. No experience in writing is necessary...This is just for fun!

The Writers' Club will meet one Saturday of the month. Look for the signs in front of the Library.

Upcoming meetings:

Saturday, April 6th at 3:30 p.m.

The meeting will be held on the outside patio. For more information, click here.

PAWS TO READ

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Is your child’s reading going to the dogs? Let’s hope so! PAWS to Read is back!

Bring your new and emerging reader (grades K-3) to the Calabasas Library to share in a unique reading program. Therapy dogs, trained through Pet Partners, will sit (or lie!) and listen while your child experiences the joy of reading aloud.

WHEN: Saturday, April 13th

*TIME: 11:30a.m - 1:30p.m.

*This is one on one (dog/handler and reader) event for children grades K through 3rd.

WHERE: Calabasas Library
200 Civic Center Way

QUESTIONS: Call (818) 225-7616 ext. 2

RESERVATION: Reservations required. Please click here.

DIY CRAFT EVENT FOR ADULTS

In honor of Earth Day in April, on Wednesday April 3rd at 5:30 p.m. in the library, we will be making seed paper. Seed paper is recycled paper that you can use and then plant.

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Make a reservation so we have enough supplies. Make a reservation here. You will also need to bring a baking or cookie sheet, an old dish cloth, colander and rolling pin.

Email ksteward@calabasaslibrary.org for more information or click here.

ONLINE FILM FANATICS

On Wednesday, April 17th at 6:00 p.m. we’ll be discussing three great films!

Jews and Baseball (2010)
Not Rated and 91 minutes

Two-time Oscar winner Dustin Hoffman narrates this documentary that highlights the contributions of Jewish Americans to the most American sport of them all: baseball.

This movie is available on hoopla and other streaming services.

Fear Strikes Out (1957)
PG and 100 minutes

When the record book closed on Boston Red Sox outfielder Jimmy Piersall's career, it showed 17 seasons in the major leagues and an impressive lifetime batting average of .272. But before he racked up those numbers, Piersall faced a foe much tougher that a 90-m.p.h. fastball: mental illness. Anthony Perkins stars as Piersall in this powerful true story.

This movie is available on hoopla and other streaming services.

For more information, click here.

ONLINE GENEALOGY - BACK TO THE BASICS

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On Tuesday, April 30th at 6:00 p.m., join us for back to the basics with an online introduction to genealogy. Learn to use many resources of information to begin tracing your family history.

Email Karilyn Steward at ksteward@calabasaslibrary.org for the Zoom link.

For more information, click here.

TUESDAY EVENING BOOK CLUB:THE PERSONAL LIBRARIAN BY MARIE BENEDICT AND VICTORIA CHRISTOPHER MURRAY

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A book club for adults at the Calabasas Library!

The next meeting will take place on Tuesday, April 16th at 5:30 p.m. and we will be discussing The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict and Victor Christopher Murray

Patrons age 16 and up are welcome.

For more information, click here or email Barbara Lockwood at blockwood@calabasaslibrary.org

Sponsored by the Friends of the Calabasas Library

WEDNESDAY MORNING BOOK CLUB: A LONG PETAL OF SEA BY ISABEL ALLENDE

Join us at the Library on the third Wednesday of each month!

The next meeting will take place on:

Wednesday, April 17th at 11:00 a.m.

A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende

For more information, click here or email Karilyn Steward at ksteward@calabasaslibrary.org.

Calabasas Library
200 Civic Center Way
818-225-7616

FRIENDS OF THE CALABASAS LIBRARY

The Friends of the Calabasas Library are a volunteer group of citizens that work with the library to raise funds and sponsor programs to enhance library service throughout the community.

Check the Friends webpage for the donation policy.

For more information, please email Karilyn Steward at ksteward@calabasaslibrary.org.

The Friends have a Venmo account where you can donate or pay your membership. Venmo: @CalabasasFriends

CALABASAS HISTORY PROJECT

To better share our past, the Calabasas Library created a website at www.calabasashistory.org. With 200 photos and more added often, this special website gives everyone a great glimpse into our interesting past. You can access the website from home, but there is a dedicated computer in the Library, where you can access the website, as well.

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The school days of early Calabasas is captured in this photo from our first schoolhouse built in 1890. While undated, this photo appears to be circa 1910 and is the entire student body of the school - grades 1-8 - with a weary looking teacher in the middle. This school was where Cadillac of Calabasas is today.

Please share your old photos with us - If you have historic photos or items related to Calabasas or surrounding communities, please contact Library Archivist Brian Rooney at archives@calabasaslibrary.org or 818-224-1757 so that he can scan your items for our archives and return them to you.

BOOK REVIEW: WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING FOR IS IN THE LIBRARY BY MICHIKO AOYAMA

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This is a charming book set in Japan but the themes of connection, reading and finding a place for yourself are universal. In each of the five chapters, the people live in a community and in each story, the common thread is the librarian. She not only provides recommendations but wisdom and somehow, exactly what they need. The Library has the title in book and e-book.

MESSAGE FROM THE CITY LIBRARIAN, BARBARA LOCKWOOD

We’d like to welcome our newest hourly Librarian, Melissa Gwynne. Melissa worked for years at the Burbank Public Library and has a wealth of experience. She will be learning how to use our Integrated Library system and getting to know all our policies and procedures in the coming months. She replaced Marlene who left to retire.

You may have noticed that staff changes frequently. While we have six full time staff, most of our people are hourly workers. With the low joblessness rate, many leave to get full time jobs. We are in a constant mode of hiring and training. The Circulation Department is currently interviewing candidates for clerk positions since three staff members left this year. Over the years we have trained many librarians right out of library school. Many have gone on to prominent jobs; directors of Pomona Library and Camarillo Library and Assistant Director of Pasadena Library. Others are full time at Los Angeles Public Library or libraries across the country.

Several of our current long time librarians have retired from other systems and are not looking for full time work. We very much appreciate them. Our younger staff hold several part-time jobs and we appreciate them and their time management skills!

Despite the comings and goings of staff we try to make your library experience as seamless and customer friendly as possible. But, we appreciate your willingness to sometimes go with the flow as we bring new employees up to speed.

That’s all for this month.
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