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Join our friends the Master Gardeners for these wildly popular webinars, and learn everything you need to get your garden growing!
This webinar will present ideas that will save you time and effort in getting the ground ready for a productive season, how to protect and maintain your beds in-season, and what to do at the end of the summer season.
Register at: https://tinyurl.com/AprilMG22
Join us on ZOOM tomorrow, Saturday, April 16, at 11 a.m. to celebrate bats! Guest speakers and animal ambassadors from the Lindsay Wildlife Experience will pay us a timely virtual visit the day before International Bat Appreciation Day. There will be a question-and-answer session at the end of the presentation.
Here's a link to register for this event! https://tinyurl.com/batsCCCLIB
Join us on ZOOM to celebrate bats! Guest speakers and animal ambassadors from the Lindsay Wildlife Experience will pay us a timely virtual visit the day before International Bat Appreciation Day. There will be a question-and-answer session at the end of the presentation. Register with your email on....
We know you've heard about the California State Parks passes - they have arrived! Fine print: please be aware we have a VERY limited number of passes. They are currently only available on a first-come, first-served basis. Ask your friendly Crockett librarian for more info.
And please visit www.parks.ca.gov for information about this and other State Park Pass programs.
This is a seed ball. This tiny little guy is stuffed with flower seeds, surrounded in soil, and thrown into your garden/green space/pot where it will soon bloom! Perfect for the beginner, and/or very young gardener.
Come get your free seed ball starter sample at Crockett Library (while supplies last!) and then tune in to our virtual program on April 20th to learn more about seed balls, with Seedballers!
Register here: https://tinyurl.com/seedballersCCCLIB
Learn all about seed bombs in this presentation from the Crockett-based Seedballers! Seed bombs, or seed balls are flower or plant seeds held together with natural materials. Fillpi and Martin, co-founders of Seedballers, are "fighting to leave behind a brighter future through the planting of trees....
Join us for a live Zoom visit with Karina Yan Glaser, author of The Vanderbeekers series, on April 13 at 4pm. This event is part of our annual Community Reads for Kids, which strives to get everyone in the County to read and discuss the same book.
To sign up for the author talk visit: https://tinyurl.com/yanglaser2022
Teens, join us for the next drawing workshop in our monthly series with Mr. Abe!
April's theme: Drawing Bodies - Proportions
Get some tips on how to draw full body characters and get around tricky things like arms and legs, body types, and of course, hands!
Register online at tinyurl.com/teendrawingCCCLIB
National Library Week has ended - but libraries are still here, open and welcoming!
These are some amazing fun facts about your California libraries. We hope to see you soon.
DIY Paint & Dye with Peopleologie!
Learn about the history of color making and how easy it is to use flowers, vegetables, fruit, and spices to make paint or dye. Make your own paint with us, and also learn how to make your own dye at home, too!
Come prepared with your own materials or pick up a starter kit from your branch (Crockett) after registering.
Register at https://tinyurl.com/DIYPaintDye
Seed Bombs With Seedballers!
Learn all about seed bombs in this presentation from the Crockett-based Seedballers! Seed bombs, or seed balls, are flower or plant seeds held together with natural materials. Seedballers Fillpi and Martin will show us how they create these magical gardening gems, and how you can use them in your garden, or green space.
Register online at https://tinyurl.com/seedballersCCCLIB
ps - after registering, come to Crockett Library for your free seed bomb sample! While supplies last. đ»
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Come get your Kindergarten Countdown bag, for little ones entering TK - 1st grade in Fall 2022. For more info, click here: https://tinyurl.com/ccclib-dia-blog
It's National Library Week!
And we're celebrating by sharing an update on libraries from the American Library Association - including the most challenged books of this year.
With a proud đ reminder that Contra Costa County Libraries are home to the Deloach and Troy LGBTQ+ collection (woot woot El Cerrito Library!) and a robust African American collection, right down the street at Hercules Library. â€
https://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2022/04/national-library-week-kicks-state-america-s-libraries-report-annual-top-10
We've got FIVE FREE copies of The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street, and now all we need is you to come by, color a 3D city or tree, and get your book! It's that simple. See you at Crockett Library.
Kindergarten Countdown!
Is your child entering TK - 1st grade in Fall 2022? Then, come pick up a Kindergarten Countdown Activity Kit beginning April 6. Kits are available for children ages 3-6, while supplies last! For more information visit ccclib.org/kindergarten-countdown.
Join our Youth Services Staff to unpack the fun and open-ended activities contained in each Kit designed to promote early literacy skills! Weâll demonstrate the materials and provide helpful early learning tips along the way. Register online for a Zoom event at : https://tinyurl.com/unpackkits
Kindergarten Countdown provides families with examples of fun and open-ended activities to support future school success. ActivitiesâŠ
Introducing the Seedballers, Crockett's very own green-gardening duo! Join us for an Earth Day virtual chat with Fillpi and Martin, who'll show us how they make seed bombs that you can throw out into the world to make it a little more beautiful, a little more bright.
https://ccclib.bibliocommons.com/events/search/q=garden/event/6244ac08deb0342f00b86ad7
Learn all about seed bombs in this presentation from the Crockett-based Seedballers! Seed bombs, or seed balls are flower or plant seeds held together with natural materials. Fillpi and Martin, co-founders of Seedballers, are "fighting to leave behind a brighter future through the planting of trees....
Thanks to Home Depot & the Pinole Garden Club for all the seeds! Come by Crockett Library for summer squash, cucumber, cilantro, eggplant, peppers, tomatoes, and some beautiful flower varieties.
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Join Contra Costa County Library in Celebrating DĂa de los libros, DĂa de los niños (Childrenâs Day, Book Day)!
Today, and throughout April, we've got crafts, virtual storytimes, and a big prize drawing! Come to Crockett library and ask your librarians for our excellent multicultural children's books, and read read read.
And click here for more on DĂa celebrations:
https://tinyurl.com/ccclib-dia-blog
PS - Crockett Library has more seeds. Come and get 'em.
Hey, gardeners! This is for you. Welcome. :)
https://ccclib.bibliocommons.com/events/search/q=garden/event/6243981adeb0342f00b856b2
This webinar will present ideas that will save you time and effort in getting the ground ready for a productive season, how to protect and maintain your beds in-season, and what to do at the end of the summer season.Greg Letts worked for more than 30 years in the specialty outdoor industry as a reta...
What to do in your garden in April/May - tips from our friends, the UC Master Gardeners of Contra Costa County. Complete with a handy when-to-plant guide, by Contra Costa region.
Check it out: https://ccmg.ucanr.edu/SeasonalChecklists/Spring/
Congratulations, Miles Morales! You're the March Madness bookish winner!
Copies available at ccclib.org, check it out!
Kindergarten Countdown!
Is your child entering TK - 1st grade in Fall 2022? Then, come pick up a Kindergarten Countdown Activity Kit beginning April 6. Kits are available for children ages 3-6, while supplies last! For more information visit ccclib.org/kindergarten-countdown.
Join our Youth Services Staff to unpack the fun and open-ended activities contained in each Kit designed to promote early literacy skills! Weâll demonstrate the materials and provide helpful early learning tips along the way. Register online for a Zoom event at : https://tinyurl.com/unpackkits
Kindergarten Countdown provides families with examples of fun and open-ended activities to support future school success. ActivitiesâŠ
Tell us your story, and show us your world!
Come to Crockett library for cityscape coloring pages, 3D castles and trees where you can create your own world, and a writing prompt to imagine your dream 3-day, California, getaway. Tell us Your Story or add to our growing village to get a chance to win a FREE copy of the The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street, the first in this series.
https://ccclib.org/blogs/post/the-second-annual-community-reads-for-kids/
Attention, teen poets!
The Future Voices Poetry Prize is named for Amanda Gorman, the youngest Inaugural Poet in American history and a Beyond Baroque alumna. As a teenager, Amanda began her development as a poet as a participant in the Beyond Baroque Student Poetsâ Program, and later credited Beyond Baroque as the place âwhere a young poet found the love of her life.â
The Future Voices Poetry Prize, which will provide a total of $10,000 in scholarship and prize money, is currently open from now until May 1 for all poets currently enrolled in grades 9-12 self-identifying as Black, Indigenous, or people-of-color. College-bound students in 12th grade can apply for a scholarship award, while students in 9th, 10th, and 11th grade are invited to submit to a separate poetry contest. Prize winners will be announced by July 1, 2022.
For more information and to view the application, please visit our website at www.beyondbaroque.org/AmandaGormanPrize.html
Tell us your story, and show us your world!
Come to Crockett library for cityscape coloring pages, 3D castles and trees where you can create your own world, and a writing prompt to imagine your dream 3-day, California, getaway. Tell us Your Story or add to our growing village to get a chance to win a FREE copy of the The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street, the first in this series.
https://ccclib.org/blogs/post/the-second-annual-community-reads-for-kids/
I am ugly. There's a mathematical equation to prove it.
At only eight months old, identical twin sisters Ariel and Zan were diagnosed with Crouzon syndrome â a rare condition where the bones in the head fuse prematurely. They were the first twins known to survive it.
Growing up in Alamo, Ariel and her sister endured numerous appearance-altering procedures. Surgeons would break the bones in their heads and faces to make room for their growing organs. While the physical aspect of their condition was painful, it was nothing compared to the emotional toll of navigating life with a facial disfigurement.
Ariel explores beauty and identity in her Schneider Family Book Award for "excellence of portrayal of the disability experience in literature for youth" honor memoir about resilience, sisterhood, and the strength it takes to put your life, and yourself, back together time and time again.
This event will feature automatic closed captioning in English. Register for the event at tinyurl.com/FaceForPicassoCCCLib.
991 Loring Avenue
Crockett, CA
94525
| Monday | 2pm - 8pm |
| Wednesday | 11am - 5pm |
| Friday | 11am - 5pm |
| Saturday | 10am - 4pm |
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Time travel to a library of the past with all the conveniences of today. The Crockett library is nestled in the picturesque town of Crockett on the southern side of the Carquinez Strait. The historic building built in 1914, is a quaint, cozy, brown-shingled structure with a view of the Carquinez Bridge, trains, and the C&H Sugar factory. The library houses all collections: Adult, Young Adult, and Children in all formats, including DVDs and audiobooks. Ongoing programs include all-ages story time and a writing club. The Crockett library also has an active Friends of the Library group who fundraise and present many programs of interest throughout the year.
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