Learning Resources – Stories, language, coding
Cultural Institutions – Zoos, Parks, Museums
Books and Storytelling – list from Waseca-LeSeur Library
Crafting – list from Waseca-LeSeur Library
Music – list from Waseca-LeSeur Library
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Check Out Our New Library App! Acorn Catalog
Check out our new library app!
Acorn Catalog
Search “Acorn Catalog” in your App Store to access your library account! Check your due dates, place holds, see library hours and your digital library card! Stop in or call the library for more information; you’ll need your library ID number and password to get started.
Children’s Programs for January
Drop-in Weekly Children’s Programs
The Lunch Bunch – Tuesdays @ 11:30AM, ages 2-5 Bring your lunch and enjoy an easy going craft/book/or open play!
Music in Motion for Toddlers –Wednesdays @ 10AM, ages 2-5 Move & sing with us!
Story Time & Craft – Thursdays @ 10AM, ages 2-6 A little bit of story, science, craft and play.
Check our all of our children’s programs on our main page happenings!
2026 Readers Dozen Challenge – Two Options
2026 Reading Challenge!
This year we have two different reading challenges! Pages Through the Ages or Keywords!
Keywords
OR
Pages Through the Ages
Read a book from the decade of the month and enter to win a prize! Each month, we will also show a film inspired by a popular pick from that decade.
January – 1910s
February – 1920s
March – 1930s
April – 1940s
May – 1950s
June – 1960s
July – 1970s
August – 1980s
September – 1990s
October – 2000s
November – 2010s
December – 2020s (so far!)
We will have some of the decades most popular books available each month by the front desk. Check our out website for even more book pick ideas!
*Audio books count! *Extra Credit! Borrow a book through a JCCL online resource (Hoopla or Palace Project) and have your name entered in that month’s drawing twice!
All Things Culinary – Thursday, January 15th @ 6:00PM
All Things Culinary Club
3rd Thursday of the Month @ 6:00 PM
Thursday, January 15th @ 6:00 PM
January is National Soup Month! Bring your favorite soup to share. Cookbooks available for inspiration!
Pages Through the Ages – January Flick Pick Thursday, January 22nd @ 4:30PM
Pages Through the Ages – January Flick Pick
Thursday, January 22nd @ 4:30PM
Join us for the 2004 version of “The Phantom of the Opera” based on Gaston Leroux’s 1910 novel. Attendees get an extra entry for our monthly reading challenge raffle! Light snacks provided; bring a pillow or comfy chair. The film runs for 2 hours and 20 minutes and is PG-13.
January Challenge! Watch the original 1925 silent version on Hoopla for a chance to win a prize!
Breakfast Book Club – Wednesday, Jan 28th @ 9:30AM
Breakfast Book Club
Nonfiction Book Club – Last Wednesday of the Month @ 9:30AM
Wednesday, January 28th @ 9:30 AM
Our non-fiction book club! We are discussing “The Crate: A Story Of War, A Murder, And Justice” by Deborah Vadas Levison. Stop by to pick up your copy!
JCCL WiFi Pavilion
The CT State Library and Gov. Ned Lamont created the Everyone Learns Library Grant that was offered to 61 CT libraries and JCCL was one of the lucky to be chosen.
Library staff noticed how many people were sitting in their cars last summer using the WIFI and wanted to create a comfortable space for everyone to use the high-speed internet we had installed.
Other Grant improvements inside the library have been completed. Stop in and check them out!
Visitors can enjoy a reading a book, working on the internet or just enjoy the beautiful gardens this year at the Janet Carlson Calvert Library. A picnic table and completed flooring due this June.
calvertlibrary.org -or- call us at 860-642-6207 for more information