Morse Institute Library Bookmobile Visits Tonight

The bookmobile will be making three stops tonight.

The Morse Insititute Library is proud of their bookmobile, and tonight they will be showing off the bookmobile as it makes three stops out in the neighborhood. The bookmobile carries books, audiobooks, DVDs and more throughout the spring and summer, according to the library's website. You simply need your library card to check things out. Tonight the bookmobile will stop at three locations: The Morse Institute Library bookmobile makes these stops on the second and fourth Monday of each month.

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Library Resources Can Help You Find Your Next Car

The Morse Institute Library has many resources that the public can use to help find a new car.

It's Campbell, Blanchard and Laurent for School Committee

School Committee and Morse Institute Library Trustee each had a race, but the contested races have been decided.

Only 1,787 (8.91 percent) of registered voters cast a ballot today, but those who did selected a new School Committee member while re-electing two others. Tom Campbell, who has lived in Natick for 11 years and has three children in the Natick Public Schools, received 28.4 percent of the vote, second only to current Vice Chair Anne Blanchard's 28.79 percent (just 16 votes separated them), to get elected to the School Committee in his first attempt at running for public office. "I'm really gratified that so many people helped and supported me," an ecstatic Campbell said about 15 minutes after learning that he had been elected. "I'm really looking forward to working with the other volunteers on the School Committee, the parents, the schools, …

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What is a Library Trustee?

In tomorrow's Annual Town Election, voters will be asked to cast their vote for as many as five Morse Institute Library Trustees.

Tomorrow is the Annual Town Election here in Natick. As part of the election, voters are asked to vote for no more than five Morse Institute Library Trustees. But what is a Library Trustee? Many people have been asking this question because they don't know what the duties and responsibilities of a Library Trustee is, so we set out to find out. We spoke to Jane Finlay, Assistant Director of the Morse Institute Library, and this is what she told us in an email: The will of Mary Ann Morse contained the language which established the Board of Trustees of the institution. The five persons who comprise the Board are elected for simultaneously to serve five year terms. The Board has been functioning since the 1850s. Pursuant to the language of …

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Children's Librarian Shares 30 Years of Smiles

Dale Smith has been helping children learn to love reading at the Morse Institute Library for decades.

  Dale Smith has spent her entire career making children smile. Smith, the Supervisor of the Children’s Department at the Morse Institute Library, has always been a children’s librarian and will always love it. “Prior to coming to [the Morse Institute Library], I worked on a book mobile in upstate New York,” Smith said. “ I came here 30 years ago, and I’ve never looked back.” Smith said she loves everything about being a librarian from running programs, to helping people find whatever it is they may be seeking. “Nowadays, everyone has access to a computer,” Smith said. “But I believe libraries will always exist because we have access to information that you cannot find on the Internet. Libraries purchase and provide data bases that are not…

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Occupy Natick Decides on Proposal for Change

Occupy Natick will approach Town Meeting in the spring.

Occupy Natick wants to end corporate personhood and the ability for corporations to spend money on political campaigns. And it wants Town Meeting to help. Betsy Boggia, an Occupy Natick group organizer, said the hope is if enough towns in Massachusetts voice a view against corporate personhood, the state will adopt the position as well. "It's a real grassroots effort to make some change," said Boggia, who has spent several Saturdays standing on Natick Common protesting with others from the group. Members met last weekend at the Morse Institute Library and decided to propose a resolution to spring Town Meeting to solidify the belief that the U.S. government is a "government of the people, by the people, for the people—not for corporations…

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Library Leanings

The Marriage Plot Stays on Top

A look at the top ten books at the Morse Institute Library.

It's a great time of year to curl up with a good book. Happily, the Morse Institute Library weekly publishes a list of their top ten most requested titles. A big help for those who don't know where to start. Here is this week's top ten list: 1. The Marriage Plot - Jeffrey Eugenides 2.Steve Jobs - Walter Isaacson 3. The Drop - Michael Connelly 4. "V" is for Vengeance - Sue Grafton 5. The Sense of an Ending - Julian Barnes 6. The Litigators - John Grisham 7. Explosive Eighteen - Janet Evanovich 8. The Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern 9. Kill Alex Cross - John Patterson 10. The Son of Neptune - Rick Riordan

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Library Suggestions & Trends

Ebooks for Kindle Available

What's tops in Ebooks at the Morse Institute Library.

Each week the Natick Patch looks at the top ten most requested titles at the Bacon Free Library or the Morse Institute Library. This week we look at the most popular reads at the Morse Institute Library available as ebooks. With Kindle and Kindle Fire topping the holiday buying charts, it's great to know that eborrowing is here.  Here are the top ten ebooks available for Kindle: 1. The Senator's Wife - Sue Miller 2. Saint Maybe - Anne Tyler 3. Suffer the Children - John Saul 4. Changeling Moon - Dani Harper 5. Lucky Break - Esther Freud 6. Local Girls - Alice Hoffman 7. Digging to America - Anne Tyler 8. The Grand Inquisitor - Fyodor Dostoyevsky 9. Demon Hunting in Dixie - Lexi George 10. The World Below - Sue Miller

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Library Leanings

The Marriage Plot is Number One

A look at the top ten most requested titles at the Bacon Free Library.

Each week the Natick Patch looks at the top ten most requested titles at the Bacon Free Library or the Morse Institute Library. This week we look at the most popular reads at the Bacon Free Library. Here is this week's list: 1. The Marriage Plot - Jeffrey Eugenides 2. State of Wonder - Ann Patchett 3. The Affair: A Reacher Novel - Lee Child 4. The Night Circus -Erin Morgenstern 5. The Son of Neptune - Rick Riordan 6. V is for Vengeance - Sue Grafton 7. Steve Jobs - Walter Isaacson 8. Explosive Eighteen - Janet Evanovich 9. The Litigators - John Grisham 10. Drop - Michael Connelly If you have read any of these books, tell us about them in the comments section. Wish to start a book group ? Let the library know.

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Feeling Bookish? Check Out These Top Titles

A look at these top ten new titles at the library.

Each week we take a look at what's new at one of two Natick libraries, and available for your reading pleasure. This week we look at the top ten in new fiction at Morse Institute Library. Here is the list: 1. The Marriage Plot - Jeffrey Eugenides 2. State of Wonder - Ann Patchett 3. The Affair: A Reacher Novel - Lee Child 4. The Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern 5. The Son of Neptune - Rick Riordan 6. "V" in for Vengeance - Sue Grafton 7. Steve Jobs - Walter Isaacson 8. Explosive Eighteen - Janet Evanovich 9. The Litigators - John Grisham 10. Drop - Michael Connelly Have you read any of these books? If so, tell us about them in the comments? Feel free to post a brief review. Start a book club and get others talking.

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