Bell Memorial Library Events Week Of Feb. 15
News Release
MENTONE — Please take notice that Bell Memorial Public Library now has a new business telephone number. Their new number is: (574)-893-3200. Due to unforeseen issues with their previous phone lines, their former number (574)-353-7234 is no longer in service.
Bell Memorial Public Library, 101 W. Main St.,Mentone.
Teen Book Club will meet from 4:30-7 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 11. Any teen or young adult interested in joining should contact Natalie Salazar at (574)-893-3200.
New DVD’s arriving soon:
- Army of One
- Ava
- Born a Champion
- Breach
- Buddy Games
- Chick Fight
- Christmas at Dollywood
- Christmas Town
- Come Play
- Coming to America
- Country at Heart
- Faith Under Fire
- Fatman
- Fear of Rain
- Freaky
- Frida
- Hard Kill
- Holiday for Heroes
- In the Key of Love
- The Informer
- JL Family Ranch: The Wedding Gift
- The Kid Detective
- The last Vermeer (feb 23)
- Let Him Go
- Love and Monsters
- Love in Winterland
- Love, Weddings, & Other Disasters
- Mulan
- One Winter Weekend/One Winter Proposal
- Synchronic
- Tesla
- Trafficked: A Parents Worst Nightmare
- Unhinged
- A Valentines Match
- The Very Excellent Mr. Dundee
- Wander
- When Hope Calls Season 1
- Winter in Vail
BOOKSALE! BOOKSALE! BOOKSALE!
Where? BMPL Main Lobby
When? Daily during normal business hours
Why? Because everyone needs more books, right? (They have added DVDs, including some T.V. series).
Story Hour takes place at 10 a.m. every Friday in their children’s room. This week’s theme will be Valentine’s Day. Stories being read are: “Valentine’s Day” by Mary C. Schuh; “The Valentine” by Monique Felix; “Valentine Mice” by Bethany Roberts; and “Valentine’s Day is Cool” by Kim Dean. Children will create a Valentine mouse for their craft.
Check out what’s streaming on Hoopla Digital. New audiobooks just added to Hoopla: “Gray Hair Don’t Care” by Karen Booth; “Roots, Branches and Spirits” by H. Byron Ballard; and “This Changes Everything” by Helen McGlinn.
Teens and children can browse these titles: “All Aboard at Silver Street Farm” by Nicola Davies and “The Wild Book” by Juan Villoro. All that is required to use Hoopla’s streaming service is a valid library card. For more information, please stop in and speak with a library staff member.
Bell Memorial Public Library now offers wireless printing from your smartphone or tablet. User must use the MENTONEWLAN for this to work
Persons using wireless printing will need to know how to print to print from their own device, Library staff cannot provide support for printing or other issues on patron owned equipment.
- Be sure you are connected to the MENTONEWLAN.
- Open the item to be printed and select the print command.
- Search for the CANON MF642c series printer
- Click on the printer icon to begin the print process.
This is a new service and the library staff are still learning how to use the machine. If there is an issue with the machine, please leave a note for Mr. Boggs or e-mail him at [email protected]
Curbside services are always available. Please call (574)-893-3200 to request materials. You can also email Stephen Boggs at [email protected].
Additional patron services at the Bell Memorial Public Library. Demand has certainly risen for Internet Hotspots and the library has just added three new units for patron use. The units are free to use, can be reserved, circulate for one week and are only available to residents in the Bell Memorial Library’s tax district, which includes the Town of Mentone and Harrison Township or to patrons who have purchased a library card. The Hotspots use the T-Mobile/Sprint network and have exceedingly good download speeds and connectivity. Just contact the Library if you have any questions.
Another new service is the patron use VHS videotape converter to digital. Contact Stephen Boggs at (574)-893-3200 or [email protected] to setup a time to come to the library to learn how to use the machine and begin digitizing homemade videotapes. Users will need to bring their own storage device such as a USB flash drive (4Gb minimum) or an external hard drive. Copying off-air programs is not allowed.
Plans are also being considered to add a document/photo scanner which will include a 35mm film or slide scanner, a circuit machine for patron use as well as a 3-D printer. Just contact Mr. Boggs at the library for more details.
The Bell Memorial Public Library is sharing artwork from the Jail Chemical Addictions Program (JCAP) in Marshall County (and others in a few months). The art class is a program to help enhance the quality of life for participants, by offering art classes through Heartland Artists Gallery, to help them on their road to recovery.
The artwork will be on display in the Library until mid-February and the works that have been done so far are excellent. The Heartland Artists Gallery is located in Plymouth and their website is: https://heartlandartgallery.com/
