PICKFORD COMMUNITY LIBRARY

2018 SCHOLASTIC SUMMER READING CHALLENGE 
May 7 - September 7, 2018  for Preschool through Grade 12​

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The Pickford Community Library is partnering with area public schools and homeschoolers to offer the 2018 Scholastic Summer Reading Challenge for grades pre-K through 12. There will be fun prizes awarded at the library throughout the summer along with online awards. You can start any time after May 7, and the more you read, the more you earn! We've had a great time with the challenge the past four summers, and we hope you and your family will participate this year. Last year our group read 235,765 minutes and Pickford was named a TOP LIBRARY nationwide!  Our community goal is to read 250,000 minutes this summer.
Be sure to stop by the Pickford Community Library to sign up -- or request forms by email at amsmith@uproc.lib.mi.us. IMPORTANT NOTE:  Please don't register independently; in order to qualify for incentive prizes from the library you need to be registered by us to be part of our group.  Incidentally, incentive prizes are an important motivational part of our program, and we are very grateful for donations from the community.  We really appreciate your support!

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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

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2018 SCHOLASTIC SUMMER
​READING CHALLENGE 

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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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