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The Many Faces of BARD program will be held on Thursday, March 6, 2025. The topic for this month will be Introducing the DA2: NLS's Newest Talking Book Machine. There will be a presentation and demonstration of the machine. The rest of the hour will be spent answering your questions about the presentation or any questions related to BARD.

Join us for the ABLE Library book club! Our next meeting is on Wednesday, February 19, 2025, from 3:30 to 4:30 PM. We do not have a specific book for this meeting - this is a chance to come and talk about something you've read recently that you'd like to share with others. Did you love the book and want to spread the news? Did you hate a book and want to save your fellow ABLE Library patrons from a bad book? Come talk about it!

Join the Central Vermont Council on Aging (CVCOA), the ABLE Library, and our friends in Scotland for "Play Me a Memory - Jukebox with friends in Scotland." We meet every Wednesday morning from 10:30 to 11:15. This is a dementia-friendly gathering, where we share tunes, stories, and laughter. We warmly welcome you to join as often or as randomly as you like, and we invite your requests of favorite songs or artists to add to our "jukebox." Please contact Barb Asen at CVCOA for more information or to register: basen@cvcoa.org or 802-477-1364.

Join us for the ABLE Library book club! Our next meeting is Wednesday, January 15, from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. We will be talking about Gather by Kenneth Cadow (Sound recording book number: DB116996). We meet online and by phone. Please call or email us to find out how to get a copy of the book and sign up.

The topic for the Thursday, January 16, 2025, Smart Speaking to the Smart Speaker program will be Searching for Books with the Smart Speaker. The program will start with a presentation about ways to search and will include a demonstration.

Join Inclusive Arts Vermont (IAV) for a free remote tour highlighting works from CYCLES, a visual arts exhibition featuring 25 artists with disabilities. Each piece in CYCLES has verbal description. Audio and digital versions of all materials are available on the IAV webpage!

Join us for the ABLE Library book club! Our next meeting is on Wednesday, October 16, 2024, from 3:30 to 4:30 PM. We do not have a specific book for this meeting - this is a chance to come and talk about something you've read recently that you'd like to share with others. Did you love the book and want to spread the news? Did you hate a book and want to save your fellow ABLE Library patrons from a bad book? Come talk about it!

Our newsletter gives you the latest updates on what is going on at the library. We share some of our new books and book club information. We offer a PDF version and on audio version on YouTube.

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NLS Director Jason Broughton will kick off this year's summer reading program with a warm welcome and Librarian of Congress Dr. Carla Hayden will delight our young readers with a picture book reading of The Adventures of Marshmallow and Peter (BR25025, DBC30393) by Peter Heath.