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Monsoon Wedding will be shown on Monday, February 8 at 6:30 p.m.

One Winchester, Many Traditions will present Monsoon Wedding, the second film in its International Film Series, on Monday, Feb. 8 at 6:30 p.m. in the Library Meeting Room.

Directed by Mira Nair, this award-winning film is “one of those joyous films that leaps over national boundaries and celebrates universal human nature …" (more about this event)

Friends of the Library Spring Lecture Series presents Of the People: Faces of the Civil War

Join Jim Kiely and Barbara Kerr of the Medford Historical Society in the Library’s Meeting Room on Tuesday, Feb. 9 at 7 p.m. for the first lecture in the Friends’ spring series New England Writes!

View the Medford Historical Society’s amazing photographs of soldiers, civilians, freed slaves, immigrants, women and children who were part of the Civil War.

Learn about the fascinating origin of the photographs, how they were discovered, and what they reveal about the people who faced the reality of the Civil War. Mr. Kiely is a five-year member of the Medford Historical Society's Board of Directors, and Ms. Kerr is the Society's Director of Collections. The program is presented in cooperation with the Winchester Historical Society. more about the spring lecture series

Free online help for students! Try it and then enter a raffle for a prize!!

HelpNow!, powered by Brainfuse, provides online tutoring offered through the Winchester Public Library. Go to our Databases page and scroll down to HelpNow! Students in grades 3-12 can receive LIVE help in English/Language Arts, Math, Science, and Social Studies. The online classroom uses Instant Messenger and a whiteboard to share the messages.

HelpNow! also has a Writing Lab. Send your paper to a tutor and receive a constructive response within 24 hours!

There are no session limits and the hours are Monday – Sunday, 2:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. Take advantage of this special service for homework help or specific skills building. Give it a try, fill out a brief survey form in the Children’s Room at the Library, and you will be entered in a raffle for Book Ends gift certificates! Deadline: February 19th!

Four Book Groups at the Library

Afternoon Book Club: First meeting will be on Tuesday, February 16 at 1 p.m.

Library Book Discussion Group: will meet on Tuesday, Feb. 16 at 7 p.m. to discuss The Soloist by Steve Lopez.

Parenting Book Discussion Group: meets next on Thursday, Feb. 25 at 7 p.m.

Second Tuesday Women's Reading Group: will meet on Tuesday, Feb. 9

Friends’ Corner

Our subscription to HeritageQuest Online, a genealogy database, is paid for by the Friends of the Library. Using HeritageQuest, either in the library or from your home computer, gives you access to over four billion names from the federal census, thousands of family and local history books, and two million genealogy and local history articles.

Art Exhibit in February: "Faces of Bhutan," photographs by Gunther Winkler.

An artist's reception will be held on Sunday February 21, 2:30PM - 4:30PM

The EnKa Society grant to the Friends of the Library

The EnKa Society gave a grant of $2,025 to the Friends of the Winchester Public Library for the partial funding of the library museum pass program. The Friends of the Library sponsor the program that provides discounted passes to many different area museums. To use a pass, you must be a Winchester resident with a Minuteman Library Network card. Passes may be reserved online, by phone: 781-721-7171 x20 or in person at the Reference Desk.

Photos of snowflakes

In the slide show in the upper left-hand corner, the photos are courtesy of SnowCrystals.com

Events:

THE LIBRARY WILL BE CLOSED ON Monday, February 15, Presidents’ Day.

STORMY WEATHER? In addition to announcements on our calendar below, we are using Cancellations.com to notify you of library closings and delayed openings. You can check the Cancellations.com website and/or request email notifications.

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February Computer Classes

Mastering the Online Job Search – Wed., Feb. 10 at 7 p.m.

More About Email: Folders, Address Books and Group Messages – Thurs., Feb. 11 at noon.

Still More About Email – Sending and Receiving Attachments – Thurs., Feb. 18 at noon

more about these and additional classes