Archive for December 2022

For the entire month of June, the Haverford Township Free Library designed a number of its programs to celebrate LGBTQ+ Pride Month. In addition to the library’s regular book groups, HTFL had its Tween Book Group read Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe and a specially created Adult Book group read Real Queer America by Samantha Allen. Additionally, the staff laid out colored stickies for patrons to write supportive and positive reinforcing messages as part of a Rainbow Wall of Inspiration for the whole community to see. And last, the library held a special Parenting Panel where parents and caregivers would come and discuss ways to explore healthy gender exploration for children.

As part of our programs and the health literacy initiative, members of the Self-Care Club over a period of 12 months read 1 chapter per month from the book The Art of Extreme Self-Care by Cheryl Richardson. When meeting every month, members discuss how what they read has impacted their life, taking care of themselves, and how they have applied and made the author’s wisdom part of their daily routines.

The Knowledge Quest was part of a larger series of “Scholar Sessions” put on by the First Year Seminar program. The Scholar Sessions are designed to help first year students learn more about campus resources and to help them feel more welcome in a variety of spaces on campus. The Knowledge Quest consisted of students visiting the Library, Writing Center, and one of the tutoring centers on campus

Four-week series to improve community members’ understanding of our local Cumberland water resources, raise awareness about our personal relationships to these resources, and heighten our sense of personal agency to ensure future generations enjoy healthy stream ecosystems and clean water resources locally and globally. Sessions included Local History & Watersheds; Life in and around Streams
;Stormwater: Problems and Solutions; and Recreation & Conservation.

Weekly educational series designed to help attendees and their loved ones learn more about Dementia. Sessions included “What is Dementia,” “What is Memory,” and “The Lobes of the Brain – Caregiver Education.”

In “Summers with Shakespeare” attendees, of all literary levels, discuss two plays by Shakespeare and analyze why they, and Shakespeare in general, remain relevant in today’s world. Bosler has been running the “Summers with Shakespeare” program since 2019. Jordan Windholz, PhD, a local professor at Shippensburg University, conducts and plans the program in coordination with the Library. Attendees received a copy of each play, which was theirs to keep. This is the only expense of the program and has varied depending the plays and number of attendees. A guidebook or course companion is produced each year as well by Windholz and a student researcher from Shippensburg University. This guidebook is placed in Bosler’s collection, making it available for all members of the community whether they were able to participate in the course or not.