{"id":12927,"date":"2013-05-20T18:51:57","date_gmt":"2013-05-21T01:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/?p=12927"},"modified":"2013-05-20T18:51:57","modified_gmt":"2013-05-21T01:51:57","slug":"library-to-receive-books-via-grant-childrens-program-to-take-a-nap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/?p=12927","title":{"rendered":"Library To Receive Books Via Grant, Children&#8217;s Program To Take a &#8220;Nap&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/librarylogosmall.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-275\" title=\"librarylogosmall\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/librarylogosmall-300x296.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"296\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/librarylogosmall-300x296.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/librarylogosmall-150x148.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/librarylogosmall.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Press Releases posted 5\/20\/13\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>It\u2019s Naptime for the Library\u2019s Popular Preschool Storytime<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Preschool storytime at the Sierra Madre Public Library will take a week\u2019s nap and will not meet on Monday, June 3 and Wednesday, June 5.<\/p>\n<p>Summer Reading begins on June 10, and library programs are taking a break so staff can ready the library for all the summer activities. Summer Reading includes divisions from preschoolers through adults with prizes and programs throughout the summer.<\/p>\n<p>Storytime will resume on Monday, June 10. Parents and preschool children meet for Storytimes on Mondays 10:00 \u2013 11:00 a.m. and Wednesdays 7:00 \u2013 8:00 p.m. for stories, songs, crafts and play.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sierra Madre Library Receives Grant to Buy Books!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Good news for Sierra Madre. The Sierra Madre Public Library has just received $7,500 from the State of California to buy new books. \u00a0In a program called Books4U, all public libraries in California received these one-time funds through monies from the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA). Funds are available this spring to buy print materials in six areas: Early Literacy\/Parenting, Workforce Development, Non-English Language\/ESL, Reference, Children\u2019s\/Teen, and Popular Fiction.<\/p>\n<p>Library Director Carolyn Thomas said, \u201cThis is such good news. It will give us a boost in these tough economic times.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Check the library website , New Book Alerts, for all new titles arriving in the library. <a href=\"http:\/\/cityofsierramadre.com\/departments\/library\">http:\/\/cityofsierramadre.com\/departments\/library<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Press Releases posted 5\/20\/13\u00a0 It\u2019s Naptime for the Library\u2019s Popular Preschool Storytime Preschool storytime at the Sierra Madre Public Library will take a week\u2019s nap and will not meet on Monday, June 3 and Wednesday,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,35],"tags":[22,23],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12927"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}