The Science Activity Time for students who have finished 3rd-6th grades has been popular again this summer.

Here are pictures of the 3 programs held this summer:

The last meeting for our scientists was to deconstruct the electronics our patrons brought in for us. Thank you to everyone who brought in keyboards, old phones, cell phones and whatever for the students to explore! Scroll through to see all the happy faces and at the end you’ll see just how many items were donated!

   

    

 

 

 

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The second meeting, June 15, was just before Father’s Day. So, we made special cards for our dads! They light up!! Of all the projects this summer this one certainly required the most precision.  For those young scientist who like to take the initiative  it sometimes meant backtracking, redoing and tweaking the steps until all the rules of circuitry were followed so their cards actually lit up.

 

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The first Science Activity this summer was the building of the Brush Bot. This was a little robot made with the brush of a tooth brush, batteries, mini vibrators and more.

Although some new students were at first frustrated by the lack of precision a”kit” could offer they soon joined the fun of being their own designers and creators.

The students had a great time building and testing their bots.

 

 

 

OneClickdigital will have a large app update & logo change on Tuesday, June 27. After that time, the website & app will be called RBdigital instead. This update is large on their servers, the company is starting the update process on Monday, 7pm Central. It is possible some people may not be able to use their books until the update is complete overnight.

Computer users: for you, all you will see is the logo changing to RBdigital on the website where you check out books. Any update for you will be later in the year, but one was not needed at this time.

Mobile App Users:  (iPad/iPhone, Android, Kindle Fire)
On June 27, you will receive an app update. This is actually a fully new version of the app. You:

• may postpone installing the update if you are in the middle of a book (update will lose your place in the book). However, please install the update as soon as you’ve finished that book to avoid version problems later!
• will need to login again as the new version cannot retrieve your saved login from the old version (reset a forgotten login here).

What will have changed in the app?
It is a fully NEW version of the app. Expect screenshots with more explanation from the State Library the day of the update, when we can take images of our own accounts.

• App name change – will be RBdigital instead of OneClickdigital. Icon will be red & white still (like above).
• General colors changed – the app will have a black background, the menu will be red.
• Menu key – there will be a menu button on the upper left corner, this is where you’ll view holds list, history.
• Audiobooks search – previously you tapped “search” and that opened the OneClick website inside the app. The app will have its own search/browse screen to pull in books – this will work much better for smaller screens like phones, where opening the website in the app’s borders was very tiny.

Why is this update happening?
We only have OneClickdigital audiobooks statewide in Kansas, but Recorded Books (parent company of OneClickdigital) has had other digital services. They have been developing a single mobile app to cover all of their services. It is a good change for us because their tech team will only have one app to fix if there is a problem, and only one app to make improvements for going forward. As you can imagine, that will work out much better for everyone in the long term!

Questions: audiobooks@ks.gov

 

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As far back as the 1880’s Seneca was library minded and working towards having a public library. In 1916 C.C.K Scoville, President of the Business Men’s Club began to research Carnegie Libraries. Upon discovering there was no Carnegie money left for libraries, several civic organizations, including the Seneca Women’s Club,  joined forces to find alternate sources of funding. The library has an original handwritten copy of several questions sent to municipalities throughout Kansas seeking information on funding. With a new City hall being built the time seemed right to push for a library. An article from the February 1, 1917 Courier-Democrat encouraged citizens to sign a petition to vote for a tax levy. The following week the Library Board had secured 276 names for the petition, according to the Courier-Democrat. The levy would amount to .50 cents per $1000 worth of property. We have a display with copies of some of these articles.  We hope you come in and read them. We will share more of the library history over the year as we celebrate – SPOILER ALERT – the passing of the vote in 1917 to establish a public library.

 

What else was happening around the world in 1917?

The State Library of Kansas? KGI Online Library shared a wonderful blog post, just for us?

Enjoy a look back:

http://kslib.info/Blog.aspx?IID=373#item

When was the last time you looked at, really looked at, the stained glass windows in the ‘Old Stone Church’ that is our Community Room?

 If you look today, you will notice that one of the windows is absent from the library. It isn’t broken! We are having the windows repaired with new lead and steel reinforcements. The old plexi-glass will be replaced with plate glass in bronze tone steel frames to match the windows in the library building. After 113 years the lead in the windows has softened and can no longer support the weight of the glass, it is time for some serious repair work.

We are very excited for our first window to return and the rest to be completed.

 

Our STEM {Science-Technology-Engineering-Math} group needs your help.

We would like to study electronics with the students later this spring.

So we are needing old keyboards and phones, cell or landline, to deconstruct.

If you have items to donate, bring them by the library, if we are closed, leave them in the drop box.

Thank you!

March STEM Meeting was All About Weather

Great satisfaction was had by our budding scientists creating weather gauges.

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The January meeting of our STEM group studied eyeballs from cows.

Although some were leery to touch and cut into the eyeball, we had a great adventure discovering what makes up an eyeball.

Next month: How do eyes work? How do we see?

 

 

Our 2017 Reading Challenge

…celebrates 100 years of books from 1917 ~ 2017. Each month we will highlight a different decade on our display rack. The book selection will include titles published in those years or books about world events in that time period.

The challenge will cover books either published or written about world events that occured between 1917 and 2017.

Readers have two options:

100 Books: There books are of the reader’s choice. Reading from our selected list in snot necessary, but certainly can be done.

12 Books: Readers can chose to read one of our selected books per month throughout 2017.

We will keep a reading record at the Library to help readers reach goals.

Our Book Sale Cart is full and we have more books waiting their turn on the cart.

Stop in to see for yourself what we have available, for only ten cents each!! 

That deal is nearly a steal! See you soon.

We also have a basket of old magazines to give away inside the Library.

Quilting 101 with Susan Mitchell.
Are you interested?

The two-part class is set for

THURSDAY JUNE 15 from 7:00~9:00 PM

and continues on

SATURDAY JUNE 17 from 10:00 AM ~ 3:00 PM

at Seneca Free Library Community Room.

Deadline to sign up and pay the $15.00 fee is MONDAY JUNE 5.

Anyone interested in learning to quilt is welcome.

You will need to bring your own sewing machine, fabric and notions. 

The fee covers the cost of the latest Start Quilting with Alex Anderson, a very handy,

full-color guide for beginning quilters.

Pictured are samples of the projects Susan will be starting you on.

Choose EITHER the 20×42 inch table runner OR the 42×42 inch baby/wall quilt.

Materials you will need to bring, besides the fabric:

Sewing machine, rotary cutter, rotary mat, 12 1/2″ x 6 1/2″ rotary ruler, glass head pins, extra needles for sewing machine, thread, measuring tape and extra wound bobbins.

You will pick up the fabric list when you come in to sign up.

 This is the first in a series of adult continuing education classes sponsored by EYE, a collaboration between Nemaha Central Schools, Seneca Free Library and the Nemaha Central Schools Education Foundation. 

Share this with anyone you think might like to attend.

December Meeting – Frozen Party !!

Be sure to read the descriptions under each picture for the rest of the story. The winning fake snow recipe is: Recipe 1 Baking Soda & Shaving Cream Mix 1 cup of baking soda with 1 cup of shaving cream with a fork. Add a few drops of water until mixture takes on a snow-like appearance. you may need to add a little more water or baking soda, depending on the humidity of your room.

 

 

 

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At our October STEM meeting we learned all about

thermal dynamics with water and air.

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At the September 2016 STEM meeting attendees learned about density, polymers magnetism.