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
Category: Programs
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 (Morning Programs start at 10am)
Music in Motion for Toddlers –Wednesdays, ages 2-5 Move & sing with us!
Story Time & Craft – Thursdays, 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!
2025 Readers Dozen Challenge
2025 Reading Challenge!
Our annual year-long reading challenge is here again! Each month, read a book with one of the corresponding monthly key words in the title. Enter your name each month to win a prize, and if you complete all 12 months, you may just take home the grand prize!
Monthly Key Word
Jan – Storm, Time, Know, Return, Break, Hour, Twist, Silence
Feb – Art, Golden, Dream, First, Club, Went, Stay, Live
Mar – Deep, Clever, Sand, Little, Happy, Date, Guest, Over
Apr – Rest, Days, Upstairs, Sing, Shell, Starlight, Life, Couple
May – Lost, City, Wind, Hide, Lie, Fan, Room, Clear
June – Great, Wander, Child, Mine, Book, Watch, Heart, Save
July – Sunrise, Deepen, Story, Sweet, Resort, Good, Left, Ever
Aug – Side, World, Sound, Trial, Word, Hotel, Now, Say
Sept – Borrow, Survive, Listen, Where, Sleeping, Crash, Please, Count
Oct – Bury, Ghost, Chain, Glass, Moon, Last, One, Street
Nov – Tale, Final, Feast, Bloom, Cliff, Wide, Memory, Always
Dec – Fable, Flirt, Truly, Shop, Winter, Yours, Warm, Love
*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!
Holiday Closing Schedule
Tuesday, Dec. 31st
Half Day – Open 9AM-1PM
Wednesday, Jan. 1st
CLOSED
Page Turners Book Club: Thursday, Jan 9th @ 6:00PM
Page Turners Fiction Book Club
Thursday, Jan 9th @ 6:00PM
Our fiction book club! This month, we are discussing “First Lie Wins” by Ashley Elston. Stop by to pick up your copy! Stick around for a Friends of the Library meeting at 7:00PM!
All Things Culinary – Thursday, Jan. 16th @ 6:00PM
All Things Culinary Club
Thursday, Jan 16th @ 6:00PM
January is National Soup Month! Bring your favorite soup to share. Cookbooks available for inspiration!
Breakfast Book Club – Wednesday, Jan. 29th @ 9:30AM
Breakfast Book Club
Wed, January 29th @ 9:30 AM
Our non-fiction book club! We are discussing “Beaverland: How One Weird Rodent Made America” by Leila Philip AND “Knife : Meditations After an Attempted Murder” by Salman Rushdie.
Stop by to pick up your copy!
New 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