Spring? It's Coming!

Check out our new Spring has Sprung book display! On the table in front of the quiet study room you will find numerous books to help you whip your garden into shape. Spring is just around the corner, (we hope!), and now is the perfect time to start planning your garden!

Expanded Request Service

We've made it even easier for you to get the material you want by expanding our online request service. Previously, your requests made in our online catalog applied only to Hooksett Library holdings. And, if we didn't have the item, you had to contact us and make an interlibrary loan request or drive to a GMILCS library which had the item and pick it up there. Now, your requests extend to holdings in all participating GMILCS libraries. In addition, if we don't have the item you're looking for, but a participating GMILCS library does, all you have to do is request it online in the "All GMILCS" catalog, and you'll even be able to choose the pick up location for the item. If you'd like to find out more about this expanded service, watch the short presentation here.

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Everyone had a blast during this year's Easter Egg Hunt and party. All 120+ participants. We held the event indoors, since the ground was snow-covered outside. Many thanks to everyone who helped out: Hooksett Kiwanis Builders Club of Cawley Middle School, the Hooksett-ites, the Friends of the Library, and many others!

Foyer Display by Massabesic Audubon Center

Stop by and check out the beautiful Spring display in our front foyer, courtesy of the Massabesic Audubon Center. When you see it you'll really think Spring. If only we could leave the display up year round! It's that impressive. Visit the Massabesic Audubon Center at 26 Audubon Way in Auburn and find out what programs they're offering to celebrate Spring. You can also visit them at www.nhaudubon.org.

Edible Book Contest on April 12th 2008

We’re “cooking” up a real treat to kick off National Library Week during the second week in April. Do the titles “The Cherry Cheesecake Murder,” “How to Eat Fried Worms,” and “Everything on a Waffle,” ring a bell? They were last year’s entries in our first-ever “Edible Book” contest. We’re hosting the contest once again this year on April 12th, since it was quite the hit. If you’d like to participate, please contact us no later than April 11th at 485-6092 or at hplbooks@hooksett.lib.nh.us to register. The rules are simple: (1) Everyone can participate: the young, the old, the professional and non-professional, residents and non-residents, and even groups. (2) Entries must be book-related. Examples of this can be found in our photos of last year’s contest here or in photos from the international contest here. (3) Entries can be made out of anything, as long as it is edible. (4) Entries must be family-friendly. (5) Participants can enter up to 3 entries. (6) Registration is free.

Scheduled activities for the day:

1. 9:00am-10:00am: Drop off entries.
2. 10:00am-3:00pm: Voting by public.
   
3. 2:00pm-4:00pm: Cake decorating demonstration and other crafts/activities/games.
4. 4:00pm: Awards.

If you don't feel inclined to submit an entry, but would like to volunteer your time to help out with the various activities and cake decorating demonstration, please let us know at 485-6092.

Won't you wear a sweater on March 20th?

In honor of what would have been Mister Rogers' 80th birthday we are asking that you join us and wear your favorite sweater on March 20th. It doesn't have to be a zipper sweater like Mr. Rogers wore, it just has to be special to you.

Computer Instruction at the HPL

Are you looking to improve your computer skills? Need help setting up or maintaining an email account? Would you like some extra tips and training? Well, you are in luck! Starting in April you will be able to sign up for FREE, one on one, half hour computer instruction!

Dr. Seuss Night

Thursday, March 27th is Dr. Seuss Night at the Library. Starting at 6:30 PM, we will have guest readers, activities and a Birthday cake for Dr. Seuss!! Come and enjoy a night of rhyming fun! For kids up to 10 years of age. Let's have a WUBULOUS Time!

Get Cooking at the HPL

Looking to try some new recipes? Want to impress friends and family with your culinary genius? Or are you just trying to boil a pot of water without burning it? Come to the Hooksett Public Library and browse our collection of cookbooks for inspiration and tips. Learn to cook food from all over the world- Thailand, Vietnam, and Indonesia with “Curry Cuisine”. Or, get some gluten-free baking recipes from “Great Gluten-Free Baking”. We have two new cupcake books: “Hey There, Cupcake” and Betty Crocker’s “Decorating Cakes and Cupcakes”. And for you Food Network people we have Rachel Ray, Alston Brown, Paula Deen cookbooks plus DVDs! And for you fancier folk we have Jacques Pepin’s “Fast Food My Way”.

In addition we have a large selection of books on wine, specialty diets, food allergies, and overall health. As always, if we don’t have what you’re looking for just ask at the desk and we’ll be happy to order it for you!