Stamford Carnegie Library

02/22/2023

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08/02/2019

Here's some info on the Better Stamford School Supply Drive. Check this list to see what is needed. Cash or check donations are much appreciated as well!

08/02/2019

Don't forget the library is a drop off spot for the Better Stamford School Supply Drive! The deadline for donations is fast approaching next Wednesday, August 7. Help out the kids of our community!

Did you know school supplies average $73 per student in Stamford? For many students and families, this can be a huge burden. If you’d like to help, our school supply drive runs through Wednesday, August 7, so drop off your school supplies or monetary donation by the 7th or contact us for information or to make other arrangements!

07/23/2019

Hello everybody, I just want to take a moment to thank everyone who helped make our 2019 Summer Reading Club such a wild success for our Stamford area children, we couldn’t have done it without you! Your support helps instill a lifelong love of reading for our local kids and keeps them engaged with books in the summertime.

First off, many thanks to the ladies of the Stamford VIP Center for opening your doors to host our annual program. Your large, clean space allowed for more fun and play for the kids. We were joined by 133 children last week, that’s more than we could fit at the library last year!

I’d like to thank our readers, Mrs. Anita Marquez, Mrs. Sandy Taber, and Mr. Ed Stafford for joining this librarian in taking the time to excite these young minds and lead us through an adventure each day during our story time. You educated, entertained, and inspired!

My most heartfelt thanks goes to those who worked each day behind the scenes, helping with our set up, crafts, snacks, and clean up. Lupie Gonzales, Rosa Robles, Clara Carter, Peggy Campbell, Venise Carter, and Esmeralda Carter were my heroes all week, helping out each day to make the magic happen! Many thanks to you, ladies!!!

Thanks to our teen helpers, Ben Mettler (who is our hot potato and game master), Madison Garcia, and Hailee Richardson who helped the kids with their craft projects and made me feel cool. Y’all were a big help to the younger ones and they really look up to you!

And last but not least (as these folks helped with most of the kids’ favorite part), many thanks to our cookie bakers! Whether you baked them or bought them, we definitely felt the love! Thanks Dorothy Doan, Veronica Moreno, Jayme Kinney and Nina, Vanessa, and Krissy McClintock for your sweet treats. They really stood out as something special this year!

07/19/2019

On Friday, July 19 we read Aliens Love Underpants by Claire Freedman and Ben Cort. Then the kids made their own aliens out of pom poms, googley eyes, and pipe cleaners. We finished the week off with an cute alien cookie snack!

07/18/2019

On Thursday, July 18 we learned about the constellations while Mr. Ed Stafford read Zoo in the Sky by Jacqueline Mitton. Then the kids made the Big Dipper at the tail end of Ursa Major. We shared our birth signs and colored in the zodiac. Then made delicious constellations out of pretzel sticks and marshmallows for our snack. We finished off the day with duck duck goose and Simon says!

07/18/2019

On Wednesday, July 17 we learned about astronauts as Mrs. Sandy Taber read Mae Among the Stars by Roda Ahraed, then we made paper straw rockets and had rocket races!

07/18/2019

On Tuesday, July 16 Librarian Wedeking read A Big Mooncake for Little Star by Grace Lin, then the kids made moon mobiles and had a mooncake snack!

07/15/2019

Summer Reading Club 2019: A Universe of Stories

On Monday, July 15th Mrs. Anita Marquez read Simon and the Solar System by Derek Taylor Kent, then the kids' imagination took flight, filling the solar system with all kinds of cool outer space stuff!

04/19/2019

We hosted a special visitor today! Will keep y'all posted...😎

04/16/2019

HIGH SPEED BROADBAND GRANT AWARDED!

The Stamford Carnegie Library is pleased to announce we have received an E-rate grant from Texas State Library to make high speed broadband internet publicly available here in Stamford!

The grant will pay for the installation of new lines to the library that will provide speeds of 250mbps and cover at least one full year of service, valued at $16,036.92. (For those of you who don’t know what 250mbps is, it means it is CRAZY FAST internet! Right now we are at 24mbps, which is OK, but not all that great.)

Having been approved for E-rate insures the library will receive an 80% discounted rate for service after the grant cycle, well into the foreseeable future. Texas State Library hopes to continue their support, and are looking into possibly covering monthly service costs for the following year as well. The new line is scheduled to be installed at the end of June, 2019, and high speed broadband service will be accessible free of charge to anyone with a library card.

We’d like to note that in the last 9 years the library has received a total of $81,585.92 in grant funding! That is not a typo. Over eighty thousand dollars in grants have provided for early literacy programs, several new computers, our Apollo online automation system and website (2014), the TAME Traveling Science Bus (2016), the digitization of the Stamford American Newspaper archives (2017), archival shelving in partnership with the Cowboy Country Museum (2018), a computer programming “Code Club” for kids (2018), and now fiber installation and free public access to high speed broadband internet in Stamford (2019).

We are here to serve the public and help better our community, come in and visit us and see what all the library can do for you!