Happy Holidays from the Staff of the Clinton Public Library

The Library will be Closed:
December 24th
December 25th
December 31st
January 1st

We hope to see everyone in the New Year!!

We would like to thank everyone who made our Summer Reading Program a huge success.

Now it is only a short time and the summer is over. The kids are already back in school and soon the library will be back to winter hours
(open until 6:00 pm on Friday and Saturday at Main and Friday at Lyons).

Don't forget that Lyons is now open all day on Fridays.

The Library (Main and Lyons) will be closed the following times:

All Day September 1, 2008 for the Labor Day Holiday

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9:00 am to noon September 10, 2008
for an In-Service Morning

Main Library will open at Noon
Lyons will open at 1:00

Summer Reading Program

Catch the Reading Bug!

The Summer Reading Program will be June 9th - August 2nd.
There will planned events for Preschool thru 12th Grade,
please call the library for details.

Special Storytimes
Every Wednesday and Thursdays @ 10:00 am

Movies Every Wednesday Afternoon @ 1:00 pm

Tween Crafts in the Root Cellar (3rd - 5th Grades)
Every Wednesday & Thursday during storytimes
@ 10:00 am

For the 6th to 12th Grade
Metamorphosis: Change
Friday, June 13th 1:30-3:00 pm

Metamorphosis: Thriller
Tuesday, July 8th 6-8:30 pm

Metamorphosis: Challenge

Friday, August 1st 5-9:30 pm

Clinton County Association of Public Libraries
Summer Events For all Ages:
"The Bee, the Tree, the Sea? and Thee"
Sky Schultz, Professor Oops
Ericksen Center, June 13th @ 10:00 am

"Bugging Out for Books"
Chris McBrien, the Magic Storyteller
Ericksen Center, June 20th @ 10:00 am

"Scurry to the Insect Zoo"
Insect zoo of the Iowa State University's Department of Entomology
Ericksen Center, July 18th @ 10:00 am

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Butterfly Program @ the Arboretum
July 23rd @ 10:00 am

Snow! Snow! Snow!

We have been wondering when it is going to stop snowing. We haven't seen this much snow in years. Since we have so much I thought it would be nice to know a little bit more about snow.

Interesting Snow Facts

• Guess what, it can get cold enough that it doesn't snow! Because snow is frozen water, if there are not enough water droplets in the air it can't snow.

• You probably know that it snows when water is lifted into the sky from rivers, lakes, and oceans as water vapor. You can not see water vapor but it is there. There is enough in the air to cover the earth with 3 feet of water. The warmer the air the more water vapor there is.

• You can make your own cloud by breathing in cold weather. Or, try breathing on a mirror; there will be a clear gray cloud on it!

• For it to snow the tops of the clouds must be below 0 degrees Celsius, or 32 degrees Fahrenheit.

• Snow can come from any cloud that is layered.

• Sometimes the snow can be feet deep in one place while it is bare in another because the wind has blown all the snow off that spot.

• As snow falls snowflakes connect to make bigger snowflakes.

• Snow at the North and South Pole reflect heat into space!! That happens because the ice acts like a mirror with the heat of the sun, and the heat bounces off the ice and into space.

Places I would rather be instead of here with all the beautiful snow.


Kaanapali Beach, Maui, Hawaii







Chippewa Flowage in Hayward, WI

Proposed Library Plans

The Library Board has been working with an architect to create plans about each of the proposed library sites. They have created plans for each site.
These are the plans for the current Carnegie Library with a new addition.

This is the plan for the Harding School site.