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CT State Librarian to Speak on Role of Libraries at Darien Library Annual Meeting Oct 19

Halloween Programs for Kids at Darien Library: Register Soon

Darien Library Announces HVAC Work Project, Trading Some Discomfort Now for Less, Later

Invest in Your Child’s ‘Executive Functioning’ Skills: Psychologist’s Presentation Thursday

Brighten Your Children’s Future: Author to Speak Oct 21 on New Book: ‘How to Raise a Reader’

New Book Club Formed in Darien for Parents About Parenting

Classical and Contemporary Guitar Concert at Darien Library, 5 PM, Sunday

You Can Register Now for Darien Children’s Library October ‘Fall Into Art’ Programs

More Library Parking Available at Thorndal Circle, and to Make It Easier, Some Sidewalks Coming

Register Your Children, Up to Age 5, for Fall Storytime at Darien Library by MONDAY, Sept 2

Register Soon: Five-Week Coding Class for Adults at Darien Library Starts Sept 4

Fiona Davis, Author of ‘Chelsea Girls,’ Visits Darien Library on Thursday, Aug 8

Darien Library Hosts an ‘Escape Room’ Game for Kids, Teens, Families: Register Soon

Learn About Johan Sebastian Bach in a Four-Part Lecture Series at Darien Library

Teen Events in July at Darien Library: Adulting 101, Making Stuff, Reading, Eating Terrariums

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Friends of the Darien Library cordially invite you to their annual meeting from 5 to 6 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 19. Ken Wiggin, the Connecticut state librarian, will speak at the event, providing his unique perspective on the important role of libraries in a changing world. — an announcement from Darien Library

Before Ken’s presentation, learn about the year’s developments from Kevin Gasvoda, president of the board. Election of officers and new trustee nominations for the 2019-2020 year will be held.

These programs for kids at Darien Library all require registration, and some (as noted) are already full or nearly full, so you’d have to sign up for the waiting list:

— an announcement from the Darien Library newsletter
Graphic Novel Book Club for ‘The Okay Witch’
Thursday, Oct. 24 from 4 to 4:45 p.m.

Ages 9 to 12. Does your child love graphic novels? We do too! Graphic novels are great for young minds because they reinforce language with high quality images — it engages both sides of your child’s brain!

You may hear some noise in parts of Darien Library, starting this Friday, Oct. 11 and continuing into December, and feel some cooler temperatures for a month, starting this Tuesday, Oct. 15 as work is done on the building’s HVAC system, the library just announced. The project to improve the heating-ventilation-air conditioning system is meant to allow the library to stay a little warmer in the winter and cooler in the summer, according to the announcement. “Due to the nature of the work, we anticipate that there will be less heat on the Second Level and Mezzanine between Oct.

Practical strategies to help your children build executive functioning (EF) skills and improve focus, organization and self-regulation is the subject of a presentation Thursday at Darien Library by a psychologist who specializes in the subject. — an announcement from Darien SEPAC and Darien Library
Mary Murphy, Ph.D., will offer resources for mindfulness practice, stress management, and biofeedback, as well as explain the psychological assessment process for students with suspected ADHD/executive functioning symptoms.
Dr. Murphy is a licensed clinical psychologist who specializes in counseling, executive functioning/academic coaching, biofeedback, and psychological testing. Her clinical practice focuses on helping children and adults with ADHD, concussion, depression, anxiety, and trauma. Her testing practice focuses on educational assessments and 504/IEP planning. If You’re Going …

Darien Library hosts a public interview with Pamela Paul, editor of the New York Times Book Review and co-author of the new book How To Raise a Reader. There will be an author signing after the event. —an announcement from Darien Library and the YWCA Darien/Norwalk

The event takes place from 7 to 8:30 p.m., Monday, Oct. 21 in the Community Room at Darien Library. Books will be available for purchase courtesy of Barrett Bookstore.

The YWCA Darien/Norwalk Parenting Awareness and the Darien Library are partnering to create a Book Club for parents about parenting. The goal of the group is to offer parents a forum to read, learn and talk together about current parenting books targeted for specific age ranges including early childhood, elementary school ages and pre-teen to teenagers. — an announcement from the YWCA Darien/Norwalk

Each book will have its own daytime book group that will meet in the Darien Library Community Room and will be led by a librarian. The program is designed for parents who are eager to learn about new or different parenting topics and also want to have the opportunity to actively discuss what they’ve learned in the book. Books are selected by a team of librarians and YWCA Parent Awareness team members.

John Lehmann-Haupt. will perform a mix of classical works and his own arrangements of popular and traditional songs, including works by Bach, Jobim, Albeniz, Stevie Wonder, and James Taylor, as Darien Library’s Music in the Stacks series returns for a fall performance, Sunday, Sept. 29. You’re invited to the performance from 5 to 6 p.m. in the Community Room. John Lehmann-Haupt, a New York-based guitarist, draws on the wide range of music he has explored over the years, from folk songs and blues, through popular standards new and old, and on to the varied expanses of the classical realm.

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During the months of October and November, the Children’s Library will run the “Fall Into Art” series featuring performances, unique art programs, and special author visits. — an announcement from the Children’s Library email Bulletin from Darien Library. You can subscribe to it here. Sign up now, for October registered classes. Registration for our November classes will begin on Monday, Oct.

New Sidewalks for parking at Darien Library Thorndal Circle

Darien Library and the company that owns the office park at Thorndal Circle have agreed on a plan where more parking will be provided to library users during weekdays when the library lot fills up. (When the library was moved from Leroy Avenue to its present location on the Post Road, library officials didn’t realize how much more popular the new building would be. More people came to use the library, which meant that when there were particularly popular events being held, the parking lot filled up to an extent that officials hadn’t predicted, library officials have said in the past.)

For about 10 years, since the library moved to its current location, there’s been an agreement that library users could park in lots at Thorndal Circle on evenings an weekends, library Director Alan Gray said at a recent Planning and Zoning Commission meeting. The commission approved the plan in a unanimous vote. The new agreement, he said, would allow for the use of 60 or so spaces at certain parking lots in the office park during the day on weekdays for those few times a week when library events become so popular that the library lot, with 181 parking spaces, gets filled up.

You can register your children, from infants to age 5, for Darien Library’s Storytime program, which is free (see eligibility rules, below) — registration is a lottery, so signing up early doesn’t help, but the deadline is on Monday, Sept. 2. — an announcement from Darien Library

Notification for those who won places will be Saturday, Sept. 7. Storytimes begin the week of Monday, Sept.

Darien Library is offering a five-week coding course for adults, meeting on Wednesdays from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., starting this coming Wednesday, Sept. 4. Registration is now open. As of Wednesday morning, there were 10 spaces left in the course, half of the total available. The class continues through Wednesday, Oct.2.

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Darien Library invites you to join them for an evening with best-selling author Fiona Davis on Thursday, Aug. 8 at 7 p.m.
Her latest novel, The Chelsea Girls, brings together the glamour and danger of 1950s New York, and the wild scene at the iconic Chelsea Hotel to tell a story about the twenty-year friendship that will irrevocably change two women’s lives. — an announcement from Darien Library

Hazel Ripley has spent her life on the sidelines. First, to her super-star actor brother Ben and later as a serial understudy on Broadway. That is until she meets, and eventually befriends, powerhouse actress Maxine Mead while on tour for the USO during World War II.

You and your flight team are stuck in a space shuttle in the depths of outer space. Something has gone terribly wrong with your ship’s engines! Can you work together and fix your spaceship in only 30 minutes? This special game, inspired by the Escape the Room challenges, requires creativity, teamwork, and curiosity to win. — an announcement from Darien Library

Learn about Johan Sebastian Bach, one of the world’s greatest composers from Gil Harel, a musicologist and music theorist, in a series of four Tuesday night talks starting July 9 at Darien Library. — This article adapts various Darien Library announcements and information from elsewhere, as noted. Harel’s lectures, meant for the general public, cover Bach from his early years to his quest for musical perfection. Though under appreciated in his own time, later generations would come to venerate his music in a way that Bach himself surely could never have fathomed. Each lecture starts at 7 p.m.

Darien Library will make each lecture available in an online video here, as it has with has with Harel’s past lectures, including his series on Beethoven, Mozart and liturgical music.

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Darien teenagers can both have fun in several programs and events this July at Darien Library and wind up a lot closer to adulthood by the end of it with these programs (with one important exception in the editorial noted below). — an announcement from Darien Library (except for the editorial)

Darienite.com editorial: The library is offering a workshop introducing kids to things like numerology and tarot readings. Darienite.com is offering no further information on it other than the previous sentence (well, along with another one, below). Kids should not be encouraged in things that may lead them to believe in superstitions that might bring them to make bad decisions now or later in life. Adults can be expected to have more prudence in figuring out how much of this is harmless fun — or a way of letting emotions overrule better judgment.