PICKFORD COMMUNITY LIBRARY

"Don’t Go into the Library" by Alberto Rios
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April is National Poetry Month. We can't think of a more fitting way to launch it than with this engaging and thought-provoking video from Alberto Rios. Please take two minutes and 17 seconds to appreciate the poet at his ironic best by clicking HERE. 
Alberto Ríos reads his poem "Don't Go Into the Library" as part of Dear Poet, the Academy of American Poets' educational project for National Poetry Month 2018.  You can read the poem HERE. 

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​Tuesday and Thursday:
1:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Wednesday and Friday:
10:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Saturday: 10:00 AM – 3:00 PM
Sunday and Monday: CLOSED

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MICHIGAN NOTABLE BOOK TOUR
​AUTHOR CINDY HUNTER MORGAN, "HARBORLESS"
TUESDAY, JUNE 26 AT 6:30 PM

Mark your calendars! We are thrilled and honored to announce that the Pickford Community Library has been selected to host poet Cindy Hunter Morgan as part of the Library of Michigan 2018 Michigan Notable Books Tour.

Professor Morgan's book, "Harborless" was one of 20 books selected from over 300 submissions in 2017. Her work "is a collection of poems informed by Great Lakes shipwrecks. Part history and part reinvention, most of the poems are titled after the name of a ship, the year of the wreck, and the lake in which the ship met disaster. The book’s time frame spans from wrecks that precede the Civil War to those involving modern ore carriers."*

Cindy Hunter Morgan is an assistant professor of creative writing and book arts at Michigan State University. She is also the author of two chapbooks: "The Sultan, The Skater, The Bicycle Maker," which won The Ledge Press 2011 Poetry Chapbook Competition, and "Apple Season," which won the Midwest Writing Center’s 2012 Chapbook Contest. To learn more about her work, please visit her website at cindyhuntermorgan.com.

​Be on the lookout for more information on this page in the weeks to come. Questions? Please contact us at amsmith@uproc.lib.mi.us or 906-647-1288.

*Excerpt from Library of Michigan press release

PICKFORD COMMUNITY LIBRARY HONOREDIN TOP TEN OF
​"BEST MICHIGAN LIBRARIES"

We were surprised and honored to learn from the Library of Michigan that the Pickford Community Library was listed as one of the 10 best libraries in Michigan, according to Best Things Michigan.
"The little town of Pickford, in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, has to get a nod on this list thanks to its sheer achievement as a library." 
Our thanks go to our staff, volunteers, and patrons for making this such an adventurous and joyous place of learning.

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PICKFORD COMMUNITY LIBRARY HONORED AS A TOP LIBRARY IN THE 2017 SCHOLASTIC SUMMER READING CHALLENGE

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The Pickford Community Library has reason to celebrate!  It was designated as a “Top Library” in the United States in the 2017 Scholastic Summer Reading Challenge. 
 
This is the first year Scholastic is recognizing the contributions of libraries and community partners along with schools in the challenge. The Pickford Community Library coordinated and administrated the challenge for Pickford Public Schools, area homeschoolers, and participants from other Eastern Upper Peninsula schools. These students read more than 235,764 minutes from May 8 to September 8 this summer. In addition, the local community provided outstanding support for the library’s “piggyback rewards program” in which students earned prizes all summer long.
 
 The Pickford Community Library will be featured in 2018 Scholastic Book of World Records and will receive a commemorative plaque and a celebration kit to recognize student reading achievements.
 
This summer, children in all 50 states, Washington, D.C., two U.S. territories and 14 countries read 138,399,392 million minutes in the 2017 Scholastic Summer Reading Challenge. The complete list of Top Libraries, Top Community Partners, and “Best in State” schools is available at www.scholastic.com/summer.
 
The Scholastic Summer Reading Challenge is designed to help kids turn the “summer slide”—the learning loss which can occur over the summer months—into a “summer leap” by discovering the power and joy of reading for fun.  For more information, contact Ann Marie Smith, Pickford Community Library Manager, at 906-647-1288 or amsmith@uproc.lib.mi.us.