McKinney Public Library News & Events
The McKinney Public Library System enriches the lives of the people in the community by creating open access to a wide variety of materials, services, and information in a responsive and friendly environment that promotes lifelong learning.
Texas BlueBonnet Book Club
Grades: 3rd—6th
Time: 3:30 p.m.
Roy and Helen Hall Memorial Library-Dulaney Room
The Bluebonnet book club will meet five times to discuss all of the 2009/2010 Bluebonnet book nominees and then participants will vote for their favorite nominee.
Dates:
December 14th, 21st, 28th
January 4th and 11th
Open 10-6:
Monday - Wednesday
December 21 - 23
and
Thursday, December 31st
CLOSED:
Thursday, December 24thFriday, December 25th
and
Friday, January 1st
Join us Saturday, January 23, 2010 (10:30am—noon) for a FREE program, led by Tresa Tatyrek, on how to plan for a genealogy research trip.
Be sure you are fully prepared to make the best use of your time when you reach your destination. Tresa is an experienced genealogist of many years and an active member of several genealogical and lineage societies.
Open 10-6:
Monday - Wednesday
December 21 - 23
and
Thursday, December 31st
CLOSED:
Thursday, December 24th
Friday, December 25th
and
Friday, January 1st
Family movies:
Saturday, December 12th at 10:30 am
"Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer"
&
"A Charlie Brown Christmas"
John and Judy Gay Library opening
McKinney’s second library is now open!
Join us as the city celebrates the grand opening of the John and Judy Gay Library on Thursday, Dec. 10 at 10:30 a.m.
The library is located at 6861 W. Eldorado Pkwy. Parking is available at Gabe Nesbitt Community Park, and shuttle service to the library will be provided through the Parks, Recreation and Open Space Trolley.
Refreshments will be served following the ceremony.
School Age Craft Program - Children's Department
Wednesday, Dec. 9th - 3:00 pm
Make a Gingerbread House
Puppet Show - Children's Department
Monday, Dec 7th - 10:30 am
Tuesday, Dec 8th - 10:30 am
"The Little Red Hen Makes a Pizza"
ResumeMaker guides you step-by-step through building quality
résumés and cover letters, and allows you to keep track of contacts, companies, data, and documents that help you find a job. Includes virtual interview practice, interview tips, expert job search advice, and links to 60+ job boards across the country.
http://www.mckinneypubliclibrary.org/Click on Databases, then ResumeMaker. Once you are at the Northeast Texas Library System site, click the ResumeMaker logo. You’ll be prompted to create a free account, which requires a valid email address.
December 5, 2009
11:00 am to 5:00 pmClear those old magazines out of your house! Stock up on magazines for the children’s school projects!
Bring your magazines to the Dulaney Room of the McKinney Public Library, 101 E Hunt St., between 11 AM and 5 PM the first Saturday of each month. Then help yourself to magazines others have brought!
There is no cost involved. Due to a shortage of storage space, magazines cannot be stored at the Library before the event.
For more information, please call the Library at 972-547-7323
Mystery Writer and McKinney native Deborah Crombie
Dulaney Room of the Roy and Helen Hall Memorial Library, 101 E. Hunt St.
Thursday, December 3, 2009, 7 PM
The McKinney Public Library will offer a free talk to the public by bestselling mystery writer Deborah Crombie on Thursday, December 3rd at 7 PM. Ms. Crombie will discuss her thirteenth and latest Detective Superintendent Duncan Kincaid/Sergeant Gemma James mystery, Necessary as Blood, published October 2009.
Ms. Crombie, a McKinney native, was born in Dallas, grew up in Richardson, and graduated from Austin College in Sherman with a degree in biology. Although a native Texan, her novels are set exclusively in the United Kingdom. She divides her time between Britain, where she researches her novels, and McKinney, where she shares an early Arts and Crafts bungalow with her husband, three cats, and two German shepherd dogs.
After living in both England and Scotland, she wrote her first Duncan Kincaid/Gemma James novel, A Share in Death (Scribner, 1993), which was nominated for the Agatha and Macavity awards for Best First Novel. Her fifth novel, Dreaming of the Bones (Bantam, 1997) was nominated for a Best Novel Edgar award in 1997. It was a Macavity winner, a New York Times Book of the Year, and was chosen by the Independent Mystery Booksellers of America as one of the 100 Best Crime Novels of the Century. Her subsequent award-winning novels have been published worldwide to international acclaim.
“What Else Are You Reading?”
The next meeting of the McKinney Public Library Adult Book Club will be Wednesday, December 2nd, at 12:00 noon. Please join us for conversation and refreshments at our “What Else Are You Reading?” meeting where participants discuss books they’ve recently read. These titles help form the basis for books chosen for the next year’s reading list.
We meet on the first Wednesday of the month at noon in the Dulaney Room of the Roy and Helen Hall Memorial Library, 101 E. Hunt St. New members are welcome!
In January the book club will discuss The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff.
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