Win a Nook Color!

Enter for a chance to win a Nook Color!!! Chances are $2 each or 3 for $5! The Nook Color can be used to access books through C.L.A.M.S. The drawing will be held September 6, 2011. Sponsored by the Friends of the Hyannis Public Library.

Come to the library and enter to win today!!

Thank You to the following groups for supreme generosity!

The Main Event Fundraising Committee for a superb party and for throwing us a life
line by raising $18,000!

WQRC-FM for promoting our annual Hat & Mitten Tree giving project.

Friends of the Hyannis Public Library for its gift $2,500 to buy books.

Rotary Club of Hyannis for the gift of $500 to support the Children's Room.

Cape Cod 5 Cents Savings Bank for a gift of $400 to support e-reader technology.

The Patrick M. Butler Charitable Fund for a grant of $1,000 to continue our mission to promote
literacy in the Town of Barnstable and the Cape.

Michael Thiel of Center News for donating the Boston Globe and The New York Times.

Hyannis BID for watching over us on a regular basis.

AUTHOR'S LUNCH with NANCY RUBIN STEWART, Jan. 22

Author luncheon, to be held Sat Jan 22, 2011 at 12 noon, Alberto's Ristorante, 360 Main St. Hyannis. Tickets are $30. Our guest author will be Nancy Rubin Stewart, author of "American Empress; the Life and Times of Marjorie Merriweather Post " and "Muse of the Revolution; the Secret Pen of Mercy Otis Warren and the Founding of a Nation." A local author, she will speak on "The Challenge of Writing Women's Biographies." Tickets are available at the Library. This event sponsored by Friends of the Hyannis Library; please make out your ticket check to them, and thank you!

The Friends of the Hyannis Public Library Present

Cape Cod Author Series
Saturday October 30 at 12 noon
Alberto's Ristorante, 360 Main Street, Hyannis MA
Books will be available for sale & signing thanks to Barnes & Noble
Ticket price is $ 30 and includes the following buffet.
RSVP with a check made out to 
Friends of the Hyannis Public Library 401 Main Street, Hyannis MA 02601  before October 23.

Buffet Luncheon Menu
Salad (at table when guests are seated)

Then on the buffet tables:

Chicken Romano-rolled chicken with prosciutto and cheese
Penne with broccoli
Scrod Piccata
Sauted vegetables


Spumoni with rasberry sauce
Coffee and tea  
Other beverages will be available at a cash bar.

Giant Book Sale!

The books sale will be held Thursday August 5, under the tent at the Hyannis Public Library! The sale starts at 9 a.m. until 2 p.m. Early Bird admission is at 8:30 a.m. for $10. All proceeds benefit the Hyannis Public Library.

Sponsored by the Friends of The Hyannis Public Library and The Trustees Fundraising Committee.

Friends Author Series Features Poet Peter Saunders

Long-time Chatham resident Peter Saunders will put a spotlight on poetry -- his own and the subject itself -- at the next Friends of the Hyannis Public Library Cape Cod Author’s Series. The date is Sunday, February 28th at 2 p.m. in the Hyannis Public Library.
Peter wrote his first poetry when he was 59 and has authored ten books of poetry, including Ask Any Frog and Heartbeat of New England. His latest collection of poems is entitled My Father’s Shoes. A regular on WOMR-FM
Peter teaches “So You Want to Be a Poet” at Cape Cod Community College and has facilitated writing and poetry workshops in Chatham and Orleans for the past 15.
Each summer, Peter attends the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center and does frequent tapings on WOMR-FM’s Poetry Corner. For eleven years, he has been part of Chatham First Night’s Pinsky Favorite Poem Reading event.A $5 donation is suggested to benefit the library and some of Peter’s books will be available for purchase and signing.

Donation from The Friends of the Hyannis Public Library

The Library Trustees, Staff and Community would like to say "Thank You" to the Friends of the Hyannis Public Library group for their very generous donation of $ 1,500 to be used for the purchase of materials in the Children's and Adult collections. Be sure to notice the book plates in the front of the new purchase acknowledging this gift.

Become a friend of the library!

Join the new Friends of the Hyannis Public Library!

You can sign up at the circulation desk, or email reference@clamsnet.org. This is a great opportunity to support your Hyannis Library in fundraising and volunteering.