JRML will be CLOSED on Saturday, May 25 and Monday, May 27 for Memorial Day.  The drive thru book return will be open for dropping materials off.  Regular hours resume on Tuesday, May 23 at 10am.  Have a nice first weekend of summer 2019. Friends of the Hartford Library and JRML are pleased to announce we are hosting a Book Launch Event for local Hartford Author Holly Quinn on Tuesday, June 11, 2019 at 7pm. The second book in her Hand Crafted Mystery Series, A Crafter Hooks A Killer is being released at JRML.  Come join us for cake and taste the lasagna recipe featured in the book.  And there will be door themed doors prizes.  It's exciting because the library along with downtown Hartford are used as settings in her series.  The first book in the series is called A Crafter Knits a Clue and will be discussed by our book discussion group on Monday, June 10 at 6:30pm.   We've been hearing from patrons they are not receiving email notifications for holds and reminders of items coming due.  For some reason, especially with gmail, emails from the library are going to spam and/or the junk folder. To avoid missing out on emails from us, please add the following address to your email contacts list: [email protected] . Our Youth Summer Learning Challenge Program is available now! Sign-Up for the Summer Learning Challenge will start Monday, June 3. Our storytimes along will all our other Summer activities will begin the week of June 10. We hope you can join us as we read, discover, and create our way through Summer! Join us this summer for Movies for Grownups. JRML staff picked titles for this season.  We hope you enjoy some of our favorites. Movies are shown on Thursday evenings at 5:30pm and Friday afternoons at 12:30pm in the Community Room. Thanks to the Hartford Lioness for their support of our movie programs. June 6 & 7 - Coming Home June 20 & 21 - A League of Their Own July 5 - Grease July 18 & 19 - Slumdog Millionaire August 1 & 2 - Dead Poet's Society September 5 & 6 - Juliet, Naked September 19 & 20 - The Blind Side Starting July 1, 2019 library hours are changing.  We will be open at 9am Monday thru Saturday. Monday 9am-8pm Tuesday 9am-8pm Wednesday 9am-8pm Thursday 9am-8pm Friday 9am-5:30pm Saturday 9am-2pm Sunday CLOSED   Crafts for Grown-ups has returned. We hope you can join us on the following days from 6-7:30pm in the Community Room for a fun evening crafting.  Projects and supply lists for each date will be announced a month prior. June 17 September 16 December 16 In partnership with the Alzheimer's Association and the Aging and Disability Resource Center of Washington County the library is pleased to offer a monthly Memory Cafe.  This is a time and place where persons with Alzheimer's or a related dementia can go with their care partners to socialize and have fun with other people going through similar things. Our cafe is held on the second Monday of each month from 1:30pm-3pm. Please call Tammy Dickman at 262-335-4497 to register.