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This Week for Children @ the Bay View Library (6/29/14- 7/5/14)

We haiku, do you? @ the Bay View Library

In honor of April being National Poetry Month and National Library Week being right around the corner (April 13-19), the staff at the Bay View Library has been inspired to write our own library themed haikus. Haiku poems are a type of Japanese poetry that has 17 syllables arranged in three consecutive lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables respectively.  Try it, it's fun! Story Time…

What's "vending" @ Bay View Library!?

I bet you thought that vending machines were made only for snacks, sandwiches, and sodas.  Well you would be wrong!  Bay View Library now has a vending machine for, wait for it..., LAPTOP COMPUTERS.  You heard me right, computers from a vending machine.  The Bay View Library vending machine holds 18 laptops.  They are available to patrons, age 8 and up, with a valid library card…