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This Saturday! Join the crew from SciExcite to make shaving cream tie-dye bookmarks and elephant toothpaste! Ages 5 and up. SciExcite

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Bubblemania hit White Branch today with a fun “Indiana Jones” themed program in 2024: you know, because Adventure Begins at Your Library! Mr. Doug was hilarious and lots of smiles and laughter this afternoon.

Due to unforeseen heat issues, Paine Branch is closed until July 8th.

This week at the Farmer’s Market: Cucumbers are the produce item of the week, and we have a series of Cuke buttons… for FREE!

We're getting excited! Got some HOT ROCK n ROLL coming up this Wed 7/17 from 6-7pm with The Elderly Brothers! What was going to be an acoustic trio will now be a fully powered 5-piece rock band! You might be dancing in the aisles!

We are getting the word out about Summer Reading to the various media entities all over Onondaga County! Ted and Amy of 93Q had us on this morning and we talked about cool events at Solvay, an event with Disney's Belle at Tully Free, a T-Swift party at Northern Onondaga Public Library (NOPL) North Syracuse, and a whole host of other cool events planned over the next 6 weeks or so.

Onondaga County Public Library News - 93 Q Don't let the kids stagnate this summer. Send them to the library! Tom Walters from the Onondaga County Public Library fills us in on the summer fun! www.onlib.org

What a great time we had last night with Annie Ol' Thyme! Thank you Annies, we hope to see you again next year! ❤️

You don't want to miss this one! Annie Ol' Thyme is guaranteed to be a great good time, rain or shine in our Community Room. Free concert this Wednesday, June 26, from 6-7pm!

This is so true!! Thank you to our patron Jean Caraccilo for sharing this with us! ❤️

Donate blood this Monday, May 6 from 2pm-6pm at Betts Branch Library - Onondaga County Public Libraries

Make your appointment online at RedCrossBlood.org
Use sponsor code: Betts

or call 1-800-RED-CROSS

American Red Cross Blood Donors

We are very grateful to Marcie Rendon and Laurel Goodluck, who shared their works with the Betts community this past Sunday at the Native Authors Read Aloud event. It was a special event that would not have been possible without the hard work of a dedicated community member and Onondaga Writer Michelle Cronin, who brought this event to Betts Branch Library to share with our community. Thank you for sharing your stories with us!

Where will it be? Here is the best map I've found to help pinpoint the location of the eclipse's totality.

Regrettably we have no more eclipse glasses available.

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Quillan Cappello is a nine year old animal rights activist and artist whose paintings center around a love of nature, science, creepy-crawly creatures, and mythology. Quillan’s Betts Branch Library show will run through the month of April and is titled “Things I’ve Learned When Reading''.

A reception with snacks plus the stories behind each painting will be held at the library on Sunday April 21st from 2-4pm.

Happy International Women’s Day! We’re celebrating with this list of recent and forthcoming books written and translated by women. Compiled by Alexander Aguayo, this reading list takes us from Arabic to Vietnamese to Norwegian, featuring memoir, novels, short stories, and poetry. Click to see the full list: https://buff.ly/4310Odc

Restless Books Milkweed Editions Other Press Columbia University Press Seagull Books Open Letter Books The Feminist Press New Directions University of Wisconsin Press Charco Press Yale University Press

Everyone is invited to our 2024 Cabin Fever Quilt Show Open House on Tuesday, March 12 from 10-2pm. Meet real quilters. Stay for interesting demonstrations. Light refreshments will be served. We hope to see you there!

This year, one of the quilts on display was submitted by Betts' very own library staff member Joann, who has spent the last few months restoring the wedding quilt that her Grandmother made for her many years ago. Joann, as was her Grandmother, is Onondaga Nation Beaver Clan, and the quilt is a beautiful piece of Onondaga Artwork.

One of our patrons, Donald O'Brien, was talking to Joann about her Grandmother's quilt. After seeing her Grandmother's name on the placard, he realized he knew her. It turns out that Joann's Grandmother, Mary, was one of Donald's Native American Class teachers while he was a student at Van Duyn Elementary - Syracuseand Clary Middle School

Donald, who graduated from Corcoran High School in 1984, recalled that he and the other students called it "Native American Class" back then. It was a class devoted to The Syracuse City School District Students who were Haudenosaunee. These classes were created to ensure the students learned about their culture's customs and traditions. Joann's Grandmother, along with other Haudenosaunee teachers, would teach their students about their language, beadwork, foods, and many other important traditions and customs. Throughout the school year, each student would create their own ceremonial regalia which they would then present to their fellow classmates.

Artwork and Libraries bring stories and people together!

The 43rd annual Cabin Fever Quilt Show is now up and will run from February through March 2024. Thank you to everybody who contributed to making this year's show a success. It's truly stunning!

Yes, yes and yes!! Everyone should know of Cecilia Payne.

I did not know that!
“Since her death in 1979, the woman who discovered what the universe is made of has not so much as received a memorial plaque. Her newspaper obituaries do not mention her greatest discovery. […] Every high school student knows that Isaac Newton discovered gravity, that Charles Darwin discovered evolution, and that Albert Einstein discovered the relativity of time. But when it comes to the composition of our universe, the textbooks simply say that the most abundant atom in the universe is hydrogen. And no one ever wonders how we know.”
—
Jeremy Knowles, discussing the complete lack of recognition Cecilia Payne gets, even today, for her revolutionary discovery. (via alliterate)
OH WAIT LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT CECILIA PAYNE.
Cecilia Payne’s mother refused to spend money on her college education, so she won a scholarship to Cambridge.
Cecilia Payne completed her studies, but Cambridge wouldn’t give her a degree because at that time there's not much exposure for woman, so she said to heck with that and moved to the United States to work at Harvard.
Cecilia Payne was the first person ever to earn a Ph.D. in astronomy from Radcliffe College, with what Otto Strauve called “the most brilliant Ph.D. thesis ever written in astronomy.”
Not only did Cecilia Payne discover what the universe is made of, she also discovered what the sun is made of (Henry Norris Russell, a fellow astronomer, is usually given credit for discovering that the sun’s composition is different from the Earth’s, but he came to his conclusions four years later than Payne—after telling her not to publish).
Cecilia Payne is the reason we know basically anything about variable stars (stars whose brightness as seen from earth fluctuates). Literally every other study on variable stars is based on her work.
Cecilia Payne was the first woman to be promoted to full professor from within Harvard and is often credited with breaking the glass ceiling for women in the Harvard science department and in astronomy, as well as inspiring entire generations of women to take up science. Cecilia Payne is awesome and everyone should know her.

Photograph: Schlesinger Library.
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These kids are awesome. And a big thank you to their art teacher Andrea Buckvold. We are excited to display their quilt at our 43rd annual Cabin Fever Quilt Show! The quilts should be up by the end of next week.

Syracuse friends! We hope to see you in The Valley for this FREE concert next month! Betts Branch Library - Onondaga County Public Libraries

We want to thank everyone who contributed to this year's mitten tree and look forward to doing it again next year! The hats, scarves, mittens and gloves will be donated to the children of the Onondaga Nation School.

Sorry, the magic show at Betts Branch Library on Wednesday, December 27, at 2:30 pm has been cancelled.

Our second holiday whiparound visit takes us East….. to Fayetteville’s library.

They have a lot for everyone, and some wonderful charitable initiatives. A mitten tree to help those at Vera House and a toy drop off box.

You can also find some exquisite ornaments and books for holiday baking and cooking suggestions.

Special thank to KC at Baldwinsville Library for clearing some space at their children's area, and making a sizable donation to the SYR Reading Runway.

We are fully stocked as people begin to make their holiday journeys through the air.

Don't be the last one to know. It's time for Pantene's annual color of year announcement! "Peach fuzz!?"

The meaning behind Pantone’s Color of the Year 2024 | CNN If we could visualize the year ahead, what color would it be? The experts at the Pantone Color Institute have officially decided.

The holiday whiparound finds itself up near the University today.

Petit Branch has a very fun and festive window display, and there are holiday books for every palate.

And like the two for Tuesday, we will look at a second library on Thursdays as well…. So stay tuned!

The holiday whiparound brings us back into Syracuse today, as we look at Beauchamp Branch.

Not only the festive decorations, but the super cute kid creations are on display. And, this past Saturday there were some dignitaries on sight to help light the tree outside.

And if we are doing East Syracuse, chances are good we will post up Minoa Library as well.

They have a great tree, stockings for all the good librarians, and a cool little candy cane scavenger hunt for the little ones…. Where you can win: a candy cane!

Two for Tuesday on the whiparound: Massive festive decorations at the East Syracuse Free Library.

Love the decoration made from the book pages.

Alert: Today's (12/5) Emergency Preparedness program (from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m.) at Betts Branch Library has been cancelled.

Day 4 of the OCPL holiday whiparound and today we are showing off some moments from the Open House at Marcellus Free this past Friday night.

Captain Nick Claus had a storytime, plus there were cookies and cocoa, a family holiday craft and an awesome art show.

While many libraries not open on a Sunday, Solvay went so far as to have their holiday open house!

Brian Rowlands wasn’t sure: Santa, but with Grinch hands! Which way are you headed, BR?

Holiday music by Solvay high school, cookies, crafts and a Tree-brarian next to Brian!

Here it is.... today's More Than Just Books featuring Miss Nicole at Onondaga Free as she gives us a little taste of the extremely fascinating Papercrafting class.

Each Tuesday this December, so go check it out.

https://cnycentral.com/news/local/more-than-just-books-paper-crafting-for-teens-at-the-onondaga-free-library #

More than Just Books: Paper crafting for teens at the Onondaga Free Library The Onondaga Free Library will now be offering a paper crafting class. Throughout the library space you will find a number of paper-crafted figures that the lib