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Upcoming Holidays & Closings:
December 23-26: Closed for Christmas
December 30-January 2: Closed for New Year

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Welcome to the second newsletter of December!

In addition to our usual programming over the next few weeks, we have some very exciting Zoom offerings!  Our Job Seekers Networking Group for those aged 50+ begins on January 4th.  There will be 2 meetings a month on the 1st and 3rd Wednesday mornings, and the same sessions will be offered again on the 2nd and 4th Wednesday afternoons.

Also on January 4th we'll be offering a Zoom event with the popular young adult authors Maureen Johnson and Jennifer Lynn Barnes.  It's not to be missed!

Read more about all the rest of our fall events below. See you at the Library!

Knitting Club for Adults
Monday, December 19
2:30 PM

Love knitting, crocheting, or other handicrafts? Join us for a monthly Knitting Club! We'll be meeting on the Mezzanine to work on our own projects and chat. Registration is recommended but not required,

Adults
Library Mezzenine

Paper Plate Snow Globes
Monday, December 19
3:30-4:30 PM

Let it snow!! We will make a snow globe with paper plates and a snowman AND snow inside it!! Sign up on-line to join the fun!

Children Age 6 and up
Children's Room

Drop-In and Craft

December 27- December 29

Looking to take a deep breath and relax this holiday season?  Come and color, or crochet a granny square to donate to the High School Yarn Club's granny square drive, or bring a craft of your own.  No pressure, we'll be here all week!

Adults and teens welcome.  Drop by any time!

This program was generously funded by the Friends of the Lynnfield Library.

Teens and Adults
Mezzanine

Story Time
Wednesday mornings
10:00 am

Story Time inside the Library is back! Join Miss Alex & Miss Joan for stories and songs at 10:00 AM on Wednesday in the Children's Room.

Recommended for children ages 5 and younger.
Children's Room

Virtual Yoga with Tammy Syrigos Irrera
Thursdays at
12 noon

Join us for a 60-minute yoga flow! Instructor Tammy Syrigos Irrera will lead us through yoga poses over Zoom. Register with a valid email to receive the link to join the class. You will receive an email with login information a half hour before the class begins. 

Please note!  We've added an extra class in December!

December 22 - Yoga with a Chair
December 29 - Yoga Flow and Sculpt
January 5 - Yoga Flow and Sculpt

This program was generously funded by the Friends of the Lynnfield Library.

Adults and Teens
Zoom

Come and Craft

Wednesday, December 28

Looking for something low key and relaxing to do in the midst of the holiday season?  Come and Craft at the library.  Bring your knitting, or embroidery, or other craft of your choice, and relax with your friends, or make new ones!  Coloring supplies will be provided.   

Teens and Adults
Mezzanine

Winter Word Puzzles for Teens
Thursday, December 29
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Join us for a cozy afternoon of Word Puzzles at the library. We'll have puzzle sheets available in the Young Adult area from from 11:00 - 1:00 PM. 

Ages 11-18
Young Adult Area

50+ Job Seekers Networking Group

The Massachusetts Library Collaborative's 50+ Job Seekers Group meets on the 1st and 3rd Wednesdays of the month, from 9:30am to 11:30am, and the 2nd and 4th Wednesday of the month from 6am to 8pm via Zoom.  You can attend either the evening meetings or the morning ones, and can pick the topics that will work best for you, or attend them all.  

January's topics are:
Self-Assessment & Transferrable Skills and
Create Your "Career Story" Pitch

If you are unemployed and actively looking, underemployed, seeking a new career direction, re-entering the job market after a long employment gap, or recently retired and looking for your "Encore Career", this networking group program is perfect for you! Remember, 85% of jobs are found through networking!

Join us in a professional forum for networking with peers in a safe and comfortable environment conducive to developing new relationships and developing skills and strategies to help in your career transition. Each meeting features a new topic. Meetings include a presentation and hands-on workshop on topics relevant to career transition, guest speakers, access to hiring managers, small group breakout rooms to network, and 1-on-1 coaching guidance. Participating on a regular basis will give job seekers the many tools and strategies needed for a successful job search.

Each biweekly meeting is facilitated by Deborah Hope, MBA, PCIC, an experienced executive career coach. Deborah is a former Fortune 500 executive, investment banker and entrepreneur and transitioned to executive coaching over 12 years ago. She has coached with Harvard Business School Executive Education programs, the Mass. Conference for Women., and has been trained or certified in a variety of coaching models and assessment tools. Deborah has facilitated 50+ job seekers networking groups since 2016.  

Ages 50 and up
Zoom
Register Here

Author Maureen Johnson (Nine Liars) in Conversation with
Jennifer Lynn Barnes (The Final Gambit)
Wednesday, January 4
7:00-8:00 PM

Enjoy a special evening with two of the country's top young adult authors as Maureen Johnson (Nine Liars) is interviewed by Jennifer Lynn Barnes (The Final Gambit), in this ZOOM webinar.

Maureen Johnson is the #1 New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of more than a dozen young adult novels, including the Truly Devious series, the Shades of London series, Suite Scarlett, and 13 Little Blue Envelopes. 

Jennifer Lynn Barnes is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of more than twenty acclaimed young adult novels, including The Inheritance Games trilogy, Little White Lies, Deadly Little Scandals, The Lovely and the Lost, and The Naturals series.

Teens and Adults
Zoom
Register here.

Can you crochet?
Help the high school yarn club make blankets.

The High School Yarn Club is looking to make granny square blankets to donate to the Citizens Inn in Peabody.  You can help by crocheting a 5x5 granny square and dropping them off at the Lynnfield Public Library. These square will then be made into blankets by the Yarn Club.

All ages
Drop off at the Circulation Desk

Starting up your reading list for the New Year?
Join the Massachusetts Center for the book
2023 Reading Challenge

Here is how the challenge works:

- Sign up for the Lynnfield Library Beanstack to track your reading!

- Sign up for the Mass Center for the Book 2023 Challenge. 

- Choose a book to read that fits the monthly challenge.  January's is a book less than 100 pages in length!

- After you read, log your book in Beanstack and fill out this form to tell Mass Center for the Book about it!

- That's it!

• If you read at least one book, you will be invited to a year-end celebration hosted by Mass Center for the Book.
• If you read a book in each of the 12 months, you will be entered in a drawing by Mass Center for the Book to win 1 of 2 totes filled with books and Massachusetts goodies.

Lynnfield History Slides

Are you interested in Lynnfield history? Then you’ve come to the right library! The Lynnfield Public Library genealogy collection houses a series of slide kits that were created in the 1970s to preserve a visual record of historic features in Lynnfield.

The kits are located on a black cart in the Marcia Wiswall Lindberg Room - which houses our local history and genealogy collection. These slide kits depict historic Lynnfield homes including the Joseph Henfield House , Captain Thomas Flint House , and Joseph Tapley House. Other topics include the Lynnfield Common and historic photos of Lynnfield. Each blue plastic cased kit comes with slides, a cassette narration, and a transcript of the cassette. And, yes, we are talking old-school slide carousels. These slides can be viewed on our ViewScan machine in the genealogy room – just see the reference librarian for assistance.

Prefer to take your time viewing at home but don’t have a projector? No worries! These kits can be checked out for three weeks along with one of our slide viewers from the “Library of Things.” Please contact Pat Kelly at 781-334-5411 for more information.

New in the Library of Things

We’ve come to that time of year when nights are long and cold, holidays abound, and friends and family gather near to us. Light up the night with a game from our Library of Things Game Collection! We have forty games in our collection for all ages. We have board games like Clue, card games like Cards Against Humanity, and game sets like our newly added Bowling Set for Kids and Ping Pong. Celebrate the holidays and ring in the new year with a game or two! Be sure to check out what else is in our Library of Things, including puzzles, wireless hotspots, and Nintendo Switch Lites.

Lynnfield Rotary Presents
Michael Brophy - Genealogical Researcher

Lynnfield Rotary is honored to have Michael Brophy, professional genealogical researcher and heir specialist, as their guest speaker at their January 26th meeting.

This lecture covers the basics of starting out in the search of one’s ancestry. Topics to be covered are first why do we study our ancestry and what makes it so compelling? Several reasons will be explored with some audience participation encouraged. Basic methodology will be explained along with the first steps to beginning research. A few tips towards organizing a large genealogical project will be given. Record sources such as vital records (birth, marriage, death) will be explored along with census, passenger lists, naturalizations, and cemeteries. Examples will be given with noteworthy and common people from various time periods and ethnic groups. Recent advances in the field such as DNA and the internet with popular websites will be discussed. The resources of the Church of Latter Day Saints (the Mormons) will be explained.

Register by January 20th.  Tickets are $35 and will include a light dinner.

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