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123 E. Green Clinton MO 64735 660-885-2612 or 866-CALLHCL |
115 E. Benton Windsor MO 65360 660-647-2298 |
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Pencils for Penalties
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Glue Pencils Pens Book Bags Paper Markers |
Notebooks Pencil cases Folders Kleenex Hand sanitizer Crayons Lunch boxes |
Colored pencils Erasers Rulers Compass Scissors Primary tablets |
For more information about Pencils for Penalites, please contact us at 660-885-2612 or toll free 1-866 CALL HCL.
Listeners, Readers, and
Young Adults programs.
Details available
here.
Henry County Library will once again offer an adult summer reading program, "BEE A READER", to individual ages 19 thru 109. Sign up for this fun program will begin on June 9. This sweet deal requires participants in the program to complete a ten book reading list to qualify for a drawing to be held August 9. All materials must be checked out from the HCL collection Each completed list sweetens your chance of winning a Henry County Library book bag filled with goodies. Don't delay, make a bee line to the library and start reading today.
The Lenora Blackmore Branch Library will offer computer classes on Tuesdays at 2:00 p.m. beginning April 29th. Classes will be approximately 1 hour long and be taught by Reference Clerk Mike Good. Pre-registration is required.
Classes are planned for Beginning Computer, the Internet, and Basic Laptops. Other topics may be scheduled if there is sufficient interest.
To reserve your spot and computer for these classes call the Lenora Blackmore Branch Library at 660-647-2298. The Library is open 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. There are extended hours of 11:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. on Tuesdays and 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. on Saturdays.
Computer Classes will be on vacation during the month of August and will resume on Tuesday, September 2 with a class on Beginning Computer.
Computer Class Schedule on the Reference and EMR Resources page
Several library patrons met with Sandra Fosnow and Liz Cashell of the Henry County Library on Monday morning, March 31 to discus possible fundraising projects to help finance shelving, equipment, chairs, benches, reading tables, desks, carpeting, and a phone system for the new Lenora Blackmore Extension of the Henry County Library. The new library will be located on Benton Street in Greg Frencken's new building.
Total equipment needs for the 4,000 sq. ft. space will be approximately $75,000. To date, a Cleo Whitworth Memorial and sale of extra books has raised $3,400. The group's goal is to raise $30,000 by September 1.
Fundraising projects discussed include: a Donor's tree, shelf sale, Naming opportunities for stacks and rooms, school organizations fundraisers, Memorials, a Skidmore Foundation Grant, Solicitation letters to community members and WHS Alumni, information in church bulletins, fundraisersers by local organizations and a Celebrity Waiter Banquet and Auction, to be held August 23rd at the Windsor High School Gymnasium.
The group invites all other library patrons and interested community members to contact Sandra Fosnow, Terri Kline, Karen Bullock, Virginia Hess or Jess Kellock for more information.
In the summer of 2007 the Board of Directors of the Lenora Blackmore Public Library at Windsor voted to request the inclusion of their district in the Henry County Library District and the Board of Directors of the Henry County Library District voted to accept their request.
As a result, on at 4:00 p.m. on Friday, December 28, 2007 the Lenora Blackmore Public Library closed as an independent library and reopened on Wednesday, January 2, 2008 as the Lenora Blackmore Branch of the Henry County Library.
Changes are underway at the new branch in Windsor, with new materials being provided from the Main branch at Clinton and older materials bar-coded and processed for the Elsie computerized circulation system which became operational at Windsor on January 2nd.
After January 1, 2008 any resident of Windsor who already has a Henry County Public Library cards no longer has to pay the Out of District User fee. Residents of Windsor who have a Lenora Blackmore Public Library card will have their cards converted to a Henry County Public Library card.
Henry County Public Library cards are valid for use at either the Lenora Blackmore Branch in Windsor or the Main Library in Clinton. The Online Public Access Catalog (OPAC) shows all the books and materials available at both libraries. Patrons at one branch are able to request materials to be sent from the other branch. In addition to the materials permanently at Windsor, there is a selection of books and other materials from the main library that is changed periodically so that Windsor may benefit from the full extent of the Henry County Library's collection of books and other materials.
The Lenora Blackmore Branch has received an internet connection from MOREnet (the Missouri Research and Education Network), which has provided internet service to the Henry County Library at Clinton since December of 1994. This gives patrons at the Windsor branch access to all the online reference resources available from MOREnet, including the EBSCOhost search system with its access to over 4,500 magazines and thousands of other sources of general, academic, school, business, health and government information, the Newsbank newspaper search, the Gale Discovering collection, the Learning Express Library practice tests, Annenberg Media and the Netsmartz Workshop.
Children's Specialist Peggy Kepner is now providing Storytime at the Lenora Blackmore Branch on Wednesdays at 11:00 a.m. Reference Clerk Mike Good will be teaching classes on Beginning Computers and the Internet on a schedule to be announced later.
Thanks to a generous donation and memorial gifts from the Cleo Whitworth estate, an account has been set up at UMB Bank. Anyone can make contributions to the "Lenora Blackmore Revitalization Fund." Donations of $25 or more are eligible for a receipt and are tax deductible. The money will be used to provide improvements to the facilities of the Lenora Blackmore Branch of the Henry County Library.
Both the Clinton facility and the Windsor facility are participating in the $1 book sale to build up the fund. Be sure to stop by for a visit.
The Henry County Library and the Lenora Blackmore Public Library are participating in a $1 book sale. Money raised will be used for the betterment of the Windsor site. The sale books are located in the gallery of the Henry County Library in Clinton and at the Lenora Blackmore Branch.
The last half of July and the first week of August the display case in the gallery of the Henry County Library's Main Branch at Clinton will house a display of 4-H and FFA projects. These are some of the best projects from the Henry County Fair, that will be headed for the Missouri State Fair after it opens August 7th.
If you have a collection you would like to show in the display case, contact Marsha Evans at the Henry County Library. Most displays will occupy the case for two months.