Blaine County Library

September is Library Card Sign Up Month! If you don’t have a library card, you are missing out.

The library will be hosting the Book Character Fun Run during the Sugarbeet Festival. Registration forms are available at the library. You can register up until 9:30 a.m. on September 23rd. Prizes will be awarded for 1st place in men’s, women’s, and youth (18 and under). We will also have prizes for best costume.

Fall programs started September 11th. Emily is continuing with some of our original programs, modifying others and adding some new things. Mondays will be 4th through 8th grade Activity from 4:00 to 5:00 p.m. Tuesday will be Story Time for preschool and younger children from 10:30 to 11:00 a.m. Hangout for grades 5 through 8 will be Tuesday afternoon from 4:00 to 5:00 p.m. Wednesday we have 2 new programs. Home School Hour from 1:00 to 2:00 p.m. This program will be an hour of fun, student-led educational activities. All home school kids are welcome. Board Games and Coloring will be from 4:00 to 5:00 p.m. All kids from kindergarten through 12th grade are welcome to join us. Teen Scene (ages 13-18) will be every other Wednesday from 6:00 to 7:00 p.m. (September 27th). Thursday will be LEGO Club for students in 2nd grade and up from 4:00 to 5:00 p.m. This will be strictly LEGO fun with challenges and free building. Friday we will have Movie Day from 2:00 to 3:30 p.m. Everyone is invited to join us. Children under 5 must be accompanied by an adult.

We want to get the word out about a couple of resources for homeschool students and for any student who may need a little extra help. We now offer access to Educate Station in the library and from your home computer using your library card to log in. Educate Station provides a full curriculum for PreK through 5th grade with weekly and monthly learning plans and worksheets in English Language, Arts, Math, Science, Social Studies, as well as Social & Emotional Learning (SEL). We also have a subscription to World Book Online. Here you will find resources for Pre-K through high school and beyond. You can access more than 2,500 eBooks. We have flyers with information about these services at the library. Both can be accessed from our website.

Another resource available to our patrons is MontanaLibrary2Go. This service allows patrons to download audio and e-books to portable devices and computers. There are nearly 17,000 audio books and over 25,000 eBooks available. Almost 5,000 magazines are also available on MontanaLibrary2Go. Just download the Libby app to your device and you are ready to start enjoying free, downloadable books. You will need to know your library card number to access this service.

Did you know that The Chinook Opinion from 1890 through 1978 is now digitized? They can be accessed on any computer in the library. If you have a subscription to Ancestry.com, you can access the newspapers from your home computer.

We are pleased to announce that Blaine County Library is participating in the Dolly Parton Imagination Library program. Children from 0-5 years old are eligible. If you have a child, grandchild, niece, or nephew who is eligible, sign them up! Only a small portion of eligible children in Blaine County are currently receiving books through Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library. We have forms available in the library to register a child or you can register them on-line at http://www.imaginationlibrary.com/checkavailability. Once a child is registered, they will receive a free book in the mail in approximately 6-8 weeks.