The Friends of Snow Library’s 2023 winter-spring Lifetime Learning session resumes in April with new and continuing courses. All courses are available online and three are also presented in person at the Craine Room in the library.

You will need to verify your library cards again on or after Monday, April 4. (This date has been moved back from March 27). Please note that passwords have not changed. You will need to use the same card number and password, and simply log back in to verify.

Here is a helpful link: https://help.libbyapp.com/en-us/6061.htm

The Friends of Snow Library 2023 winter-spring Lifetime Learning session continues with new courses to expand your mind. All are available online and three are also presented in person at the Craine Room in the library. All are recorded and available for viewing again.

We are deeply saddened by the loss of Mary Reuland, director at Snow Library for 14 years and a library trustee since 2014. Her obituary may be found here.

The  Friends of Snow Library 2023 Winter-Spring Lifetime Learning session continues with courses to expand your mind. All but one are available online as well as in person at the Craine Room in the library. All are recorded.

Thank you for your patience as we continue to learn the new software system which was implemented throughout the 36 CLAMS libraries on Feb. 27.

CLAMS and library staff have been working diligently in the days leading up to and following the implementation to ensure a smooth transition between software systems, but inevitably there are unexpected glitches. Many of you have experienced problems logging into either the CLAMS catalog or Libby/Overdrive. CLAMS is prioritizing all the problems people are reporting, and successfully logging into your account and utilizing eMaterials is high on the list.

A course on American poetry, subtitled "A Place for the Genuine" and led by Joseph Auciello, is among the new Lifetime Learning offerings in the week beginning Monday, March 6.

Using the text "100 Great American Poems," supplemented by contemporary verse from The Poetry Foundation, Auciello's course offers participants an opportunity to enjoy and discuss American poetry. It takes place from 10:30 a.m. to noon on Wednesday, March 8. …

The Friends of Snow Library will begin accepting registrations for the 2023 winter-spring Lifetime Learning Session on Monday, Feb. 6. Classes begin on Monday, Feb. 27 and cover a broad range of topics, from the Ukraine War to Irish mythology, American poetry to Cape Cod coyotes, the art of Edward Hopper to the music of the Baroque. Register online at friendsofsnowlibrary.org, or drop by the library to pick up a form.

On February 27, the CLAMS network will roll out new staff and patron software. Here is what you need to know:

All out-of-network interlibrary loans, including from Commonwealth Catalog, will be suspended beginning Friday, Feb. 3 and will resume on Monday, Feb. 27.

Your current reading history will not be transferred to the new system at the outset. More information will be provided when available.

For more information on all your questions about the migration, go to: https://info.clamsnet.org/new-catalog-coming-soon/.

Looking for a way to pass the time on a cold winter day? Come to the library and borrow a jigsaw puzzle. You’ll find our puzzle collection at the end of the center aisle in our non-fiction area. Puzzles may be borrowed for two weeks and must be returned to Snow Library (please avoid using the book drop; bring them to the front desk).

Our thanks to Sally Lamson for donating puzzles to help us kickstart this recent addition to our "library of things."

Come to the Craine Gallery at 2 p.m. on Wednesdays through Feb. 1 and see a movie on our big screen. The film showings feature recent releases on DVD. "Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris" (PG), starring Lesley Manville and Isabelle Huppert, will be shown on Jan. 11; "Ticket to Paradise" (PG13), starring Julia Roberts and George Clooney," on Jan. 18, and "The Banshees of Inisherin" (R), starring Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson, on Jan. 25. On Feb. 1 we will show "Tár" (R), starring Cate Blanchett. Admission is free.

Book donations to the Friends of Snow Library are being accepted on Saturdays during book sale hours, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., and throughout the week during the library’s open hours. Please bring no more than two boxes or bags of books in excellent condition. DVDs and music CDs also accepted. For fiction, the more recent the publication date, the better.

If you have a larger donation than two boxes, please call (508) 317-7493 to make an appointment.

The Friends of Snow Library’s fall Lifetime Learning session closes with a last round of courses next week in the Craine Room. Topics include film, politics, history, photography, and the Great American Songbook. Some classes are new, some continuing, and many are offered via Zoom as well as in person.

Leigh and David Fisher wrap up their “Political Potpourri” film series with a screening of “Casablanca” from 1:30 to 4 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 14. The classic 1942 movie stars Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman and is set against a background of political intrigue in North Africa as World War II begins. A discussion follows the screening. . . .

The Friends of Snow Library's 2022 fall Lifetime Learning session continues with three new courses and five continuing ones. Week seven kicks off with a screening of "The Way We Were," starring Robert Redford and Barbra Streisand, at 1:30 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 7 as Leigh and David Fisher's Reel Time series (theme: "A Political Potpourri") resumes. On Tuesday, Nov. 8, entomologist Larry Dapsis introduces "Forensic Entomology: Who Dunnit?" at 10:30 a.m., and later that day, at 1:30 p.m. poli sci professor Russ Leng launches his two-part course titled "The Trial of Vladimir Putin and Russian-American Relations After the Ukraine War." …

Politics and government take center stage as Lifetime Learning brings back Barbara Comstock, political commentator on ABC, CNN and PBS, and Richard Finnegan, poli sci professor at Stonehill College, to lead classes on Congress and the Supreme Court in November.

Comstock, also president-elect of the bipartisan U.S. Association of Former Members of Congress, will talk about respect for the rule of law and the legislative process in her Zoom-only lecture titled "On the Brink of the Midterms" from 1:30 to 3 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 1. Finnegan will explore how two ideas of judicial interpretation - originalism and liberal interpretation - are creating "Our Torn Supreme Court" from 1:30 to 3 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 3. Finnegan's course continues on Nov. 10 and Nov. 17. . . .

Lifetime Learning continues the week of October 24 with a new film series presented by Leigh and David Fisher, a look at the life and art of Georgia O’Keefe, and a slide talk with photographer Dmitri Kasterine, who has captured portraits of leading 20th century figures such as Mick Jagger, David Hockney and Queen Elizabeth II, to name a few. . . .

Former Massachusetts Attorney General Scott Harshbarger asks, “Have Democracy and the Rule of Law Prevailed? Will the Midterm Elections Provide an Answer?” in a course next Tuesday, Oct. 18, from 1:30 to 3 p.m., as week four of Lifetime Learning gets underway. Also on the slate: Katherine Dowd Gulotta leads a discussion of the book “His Name is George: One Man’s Life & Struggle for Racial Justice,” from 1:30 to 3 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 19. . . .

A live interview with Broadway musical stars and a course on the Cape’s night sky top the list of new offerings from the Friends of Snow Library as their fall Lifetime Learning session continues.

On Tuesday, Oct. 11 from 10:30 a.m. to noon, Jung-Ho Pak, artistic director and conductor of the Cape Symphony, talks with three Broadway performers who will be featured in the Symphony’s “Bravo Broadway” show later next week. Dee Roscioli is best known for starring as the witch Elphaba in Wicked and as Cher in The Cher Show . Hugh Panaro starred as the Phantom in over 2,000 performances ofThe Phantom of the Opera. Scarlett Strallen starred as Gwendolyn on Broadway in Travesties and as Mary in Mary Poppins on Broadway and in London. Zoom only.

Later on Tuesday Harvard astronomy professor Dimitar D. Sasselov, presents “Cape Cod’s Night Sky.” In an afternoon lecture in the library’s Craine Room from 1:30 to 3 p.m., Sasselov will discuss how to spot planets, stars, constellations and more in various seasons over the Cape, which boasts one of the darkest skies on the Eastern Seaboard. In the early evening, he’ll set up a telescope and lead a star-gazing session on Orleans’ Skaket Beach from 5:30 to 7 p.m. . . .

The Friends of Snow Library's 2022 Fall Lifetime Learning session has begun. Look for continuing programs in film, literature and natural history in the coming week, along with a new course led by Joseph Marchio, “A Musical Odyssey Beginning in Ancient Times.” . . .

The Friends of Snow Library are holding a Fall Bulb Fundraiser through October 15. Click here to order flower bulbs and support Snow Library. Online orders will be delivered directly to your door (for a $6 shipping fee).

Money raised will be used to purchase periodicals, books and museum passes for Snow Library, and pay for children’s programs.