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Looking for Great Summer Reads for Kids?

Posted by admin in Books and reading, Books for Teens, Uncategorized, children's books on June 22, 2010

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For fourth, fifth, and sixth graders looking for good books to read over the summer we recommend trying a book on the 2010-2011 Great Stone Face Award list. The Great Stone Face Award is given each year by New Hampshire Children’s Librarians to an author whose book receives the most votes by 4th-6th grade students. The winner for 2009-2010 is Gordon Korman’s Swindle. An unscrupulous baseball card collector swindles 6th grader Griffin Bing out of a valuable card, so Griffin assembles a group of unlikely misfits to steal the card back. Swindle and the nominees for 2010-2011 can be found in the library’s children’s room.

For more summer reading suggestions for kids, teens, and adults click here.

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Teen Space

Posted by admin in Books for Teens, Library Services on January 4, 2008

Teen Advisory Group Members Wanted

If you’re in grade 6 and up and want to make a difference in how the library serves Kensington teens, we want your help. Join TAG, our new Teen Advisory Group, and let us know what kinds of books, movies, music, and programming for teens you’d like to see at KPL. Email, call us, or post your ideas here. It’s your library too!

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Library Value Calculator

Libraries throughout the state of New Hampshire offer a variety of entertainment and educational materials to taxpayers at a very economical rate.

The average New Hampshire taxpayer contributes about $26 in taxes per year to fund public libraries and their services.1 But how much would they need to pay out-of-pocket if they purchased their books, movies and other library services in stores?

Use our calculator to find out!

Enter in the left hand column the number of times per month you and your family use each service.
The estimated retail value of each service will be calculated on the right.
The total value of their library use is shown at the bottom of the worksheet.
Tip: Tab between entries and do not use commas.

**Value of Library Services**
Services Used	Library Services	Value of Services
	Books Borrowed	$
	Magazines Borrowed	$
	Movies Borrowed	$
	Audiobooks Borrowed	$
	Museum Passes Borrowed (per person)	$
	Magazine Use in Library	$
	Interlibrary Loan Materials	$
	Meeting Room Use per Hour	$
	Adult Programs Attended (per person)	$
	Children's Programs Attended (per person)	$
	Hours of Computer Use (i.e. Internet, MS Word, etc.)	$
	Newspaper Articles Viewed Online	$
	EBSCO Database Searching (number of months used)	$
	Reference Questions Asked	$

		$

The NH Library Use Calculator is based on the spreadsheet developed by the Massachusetts Library Association and adapted for web use by the Maine State Library, the Chelmsford Public Library and the Chelsey Memorial Library.

Find out how we calculated these figures.

Footnote #1: This figure comes from the 2006 New Hampshire Public Library Annual Report. As soon as the 2007 report is released, we will update this figure.

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