Duxbury Free Library
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Location:
Duxbury, MA, 02332
Phone:
781-934-2721
Mon:
2:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Tues - Thurs:
10:00 am - 8:00 pm
Fri - Sat:
10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Sun:
1:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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Duxbury Free Library Our hours for Thanksgiving weekend are as follows: Wednesday (today) 10 - 5; closed Thursday; Friday & Saturday 10 - 5; Sunday 1 - 5. Have a safe and happy Thanksgiving!

Yesterday at 6:15am
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Duxbury Free Library Upcoming YA events for this week: Knitwits, Tuesday, Nov 24 at 2:30pm and Bookmarks, Wednesday, Nov 25 at 2pm. Both will be held in the YA area on the upper level.

Mon at 12:36pm
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Duxbury Free Library This reader can attest to the wonderfulness of This is Where I Leave You. Has anyone else read any of these "under the radar" books?

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I LOVE this idea. I was thinking it would be fun to have a program where people sign up to read out loud the first chapter of thier favorite books. Another way to get a buzz going....
Mon at 1:19pm
Jane
Jane
Let the Great World Spin is the winner of the National Book Award!
Tue at 5:25pm
Ellen Snoeyenbos

Ellen Snoeyenbos Now here's a nice way to have patrons help promote a library event: http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/11/cardboard_tube_battle.html

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My local library picked up on the festive trend of Cardboard Tube Fighting. The Boston Globe covered the preparations: The group discovered cardboard tube fighting last summer in time to incorporate a bit of it into a presentation on Greek mythology at a reading program party. ...
Ellen Snoeyenbos
Ellen Snoeyenbos
Thanks to Chris Connors for doing this!
November 21 at 5:07am
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Duxbury Free Library On Sunday, 11/22 at 2:00 Joshua Kendall will present his book The Man Who Made Lists: Love, Death, Madness and the Creation of Roget's Thesaurus. The author will discuss his painstaking research on Dr. Peter Roget's life and Roget's attempt to divide the world into exactly 1000 concepts. All are welcome - reserve your ticket at the circulation desk.

November 19 at 8:56am
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November 19 at 8:56am
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Duxbury Free Library Just a reminder....Gather 'Round Storytime will be held Friday, Nov 20 at 10:30am in the Children's Dept. Stories for preschoolers through kindergarten with an adult. See you there!

November 19 at 8:29am
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They don their armor. They mask their faces and stare menacingly at their enemies. They raise their swords. Battle cries ring out, and the wild nonsense begins.
Kirstin

Kirstin What a great article about the Bookmarks. Congrats.

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They don their armor. They mask their faces and stare menacingly at their enemies. They raise their swords. Battle cries ring out, and the wild nonsense begins.
Rose Hickey
Rose Hickey
Really excellent article! Hope there are crowds attending on Sat.!
November 19 at 6:11am
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Duxbury Free Library After 20 years of loyal service to the Duxbury Free Library as a volunteer shelf reader, Gordon MacIver, is leaving us. We celebrate his quiet service to our library and wish him all the best! If you see him, thank him, please!

November 18 at 7:37am
Amy H Tull
Amy H Tull
Oh... say goodbye to Gordon for me. Wednesday mornings won't be the same at the DFL.
November 18 at 2:30pm
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Duxbury Free Library Something you may not have known...find these authors in our catalog.

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The history of literature is filled with authors who also performed surgery or scribbled prescriptions. Lynn Neary speaks with two doctors who are also fiction writers — Abraham Verghese and Terrence Holt — about the link between medicine and writing literature.
Ellen Snoeyenbos

Ellen Snoeyenbos Love this quote from our friend, Neil:
"Librarians are the coolest people out there, doing the hardest
job out there on the frontlines. And every time I get to encounter or work with
librarians, I'm always impressed by their sheer awesomeness." Neil
Gaiman

November 17 at 6:02am · Report
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Duxbury Free Library Hey adults are welcome to participate i the Cardboard Wars on Saturday at 2 p.m. Let yourself be a little silly, take up a tube and do some shield whacking....! It 's for a good cause, too.

November 16 at 1:52pm
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Duxbury Free Library The Duxbury Free Library will open on Sundays from 1 – 5 pm beginning November 22, 2009....Hurray!

November 13 at 7:41am
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Duxbury Free Library changed their Hours.