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Jill Thatcher’s Ventriloquist and Puppet Show
Enjoy a fantastically fun family show on July 14 at one of two shows.
You have never laughed so much as at one of Jill’s shows. She is an amazing ventriloquist with an array of puppets. Come enjoy her family-friendly and summer reading-themed puppet show at either 2:30 or 4:00 pm in the meeting room.
This program is part of our children’s summer reading program, Oceans of Possibilities. The summer reading program encourages reading to children and by children. Reading over the summer helps maintain their learning progress when area schools are out.
Learn more and register your child by visiting the summer reading program webpage or visiting your local Library Branch. There are summer reading programs for all ages, children, teens, and adults. Everyone can read and win fun prizes.
The WCPL 2022 summer reading program is made possible due to the support of our Williamson County Library Foundation.
All library programs are free and open to the public. Find more information about this event or other library programs and services by calling the library at 615-595-1244 x1 or visiting the library’s website.
Please be aware that photos and videos may be taken at library events and activities for library use and publicity. Anyone not wanting to have their photo taken should notify library staff at the time of the event or activity.
Spend Your Tickets! – Beanstack Instructions
As we’re nearing the end of Summer Reading, don’t forget to spend your Summer Reading prize tickets! You earned them. Put them toward drawings for fabulous prizes.
Several prizes for adults are based on tickets only. Put your tickets toward anything you want to win! Prizes include an hammock, camping lanterns, and multiple book sets that you can choose to put your tickets toward.
Here’s how to spend those tickets!
Mobile App
First, find the word Discover at the bottom of the app and push that. Then in the Challenges Tab find the description for the Summer 2021 Challenge you’re enrolled in and push View Challenge.
Next, push Drawings, to see what drawings are available.
Here, you can view available ticket prizes. You can distribute your tickets to any of the prizes you want. When you see a prize you like in the list, like this Camping Hammock, just push it.
Now we Add Tickets.
A little box will pop up showing you how many tickets you have available, and you can add as many as you like. Then push Add Tickets again.
You’ll know when you’ve spent all your tickets, when it says Max Entered. You can still remove tickets to put them toward another prize. Just make sure all your tickets are used by the end of the challenge.
Desktop Browser
Finding the Ticket Drawings is a little easier on a computer than it is on the mobile app. First select the Summer 2021 Challenge you’re working on in the Challenges tab.
Next, click on the Ticket Drawings tab below the Challenge title to see what prizes are available for drawings.
Just click on the prize you want to add tickets to. Here’s an example with that cool Camping Lantern. Then click on Add/Remove Tickets.
Like on mobile devices, you can add as many as you have to whichever prizes you want, so you can spread it out, or put all your eggs in one basket! When you see 0 Tickets Available, you know you’ve spent them all.
At the end of the Challenge, we’ll draw from these tickets for these prizes. Don’t forget to spend all the free tickets you’ve been earning while completing Activities, and Logging your Reading. If you’ve signed up for the Challenge, you have a few tickets to use!
If you haven’t been involved in our 2021 Summer Reading Challenges this year, now’s your chance to enter the reading you’ve done, do some fun Activities, and win fabulous prizes. Head on over to our Beanstack Virtual Challenges, but hurry. The Challenge ends August 8th.
Cuddly Friend Meet and Greet
Partnering with Williamson County Animal Center, we’re bring in fluffy adoptable friends to play and interact with from the Animal Center! Come to the Meeting Room on the first floor to see what friends are available for adoption. Pet some cute friendly animals, and ask any burning questions you have for the Animal Center staff about adoptions, fostering, volunteering, or anything else you’d like to know about our furriest community neighbors!
Thursday, July 22, 2021 at 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Click here to register!
Spotlight: INGRAM Library Services🔦
The Williamson County Public Library Systems offers an annual summer reading program that is open to Williamson County citizens of all ages. The program is made possible due to the generous support of many local sponsors. In appreciation of their efforts, we would like to share with you a little bit of information about each sponsor.
From the Williamson County Library Foundation Blog:
“Ingram Content Group is dedicated to enriching the communities where we live and work and empowering associates to be educated, active citizens. Ingram Gives Back, Ingram’s corporate giving and community services initiative, regularly provides opportunities for associates to donate either dollars, time, or talent. To increase our community impact, our monetary giving focuses on Education & Literacy and Arts Access. Ingram is one of the top five employers in Rutherford County and many of our associates live in Rutherford, Williamson, and Davidson counties. Thriving communities draw talented people and talented people help Ingram thrive. Whether it is our support of United Way; our volunteers for various community projects; or our work with local libraries and schools, Ingram strives to make our communities stronger.”
We are incredibly thankful for the support to our Summer Reading Program!
Spotlight: Nissan Foundation🔦
Today we are focusing our spotlight on the Nissan Foundation.
The mission of the Nissan Foundation is to build community by valuing culture diversity.
Awarding more than $12 million to nearly 150 organizations centered on promoting respect and understanding among cultural and ethnic groups, the 28-year history, this mission of the Nissan Foundation remains as strong and as relevant as it ever was.
Nissan Neighbors, a community-focused initiative that is dedicated to improving communities through charitable contributions and in-kind donations to nonprofit organizations works mainly within three focus areas: education, the environment, and humanitarian aid.
Their contribution to the Williamson County Public Library fits within the education component of their giving initiative.
To learn more about the summer reading sponsors, visit our Library Foundation’s website at: Sponsors — Williamson County Library Foundation (wilcolibraryfoundation.org,
Spotlight: CoreCivic Foundation 🔦
The Williamson County Public Library Systems offers an annual summer reading program that is open to Williamson County citizens of all ages. The program is made possible due to the generous support of many local sponsors. In appreciation of their efforts, we would like to share with you a little bit of information about each sponsor.
Today we are focusing our spotlight on CoreCivic Foundation.
As the philanthropic arm of CoreCivic, a portion of our mission of the CoreCivic Foundation is to support underserved youth. We accomplish this by providing time, resources, and service to nonprofit organizations working with these groups.
The Foundation aids nonprofit organizations that have a well-defined sense of purpose, a demonstrated commitment to maximizing available resources and a history of delivering quality services.
Over the past decade, the CoreCivic Foundation has raised more than $11 Million and given thousands of service hours to charities making a real impact in the lives of others.
To learn more about the summer reading sponsors, visit our Library Foundation’s website at: Sponsors — Williamson County Library Foundation (wilcolibraryfoundation.org)
Spotlight: Middle Tennessee Electric’s SharingChange Foundation🔦
The Williamson County Public Library Systems offers an annual summer reading program that is open to Williamson County citizens of all ages. The program is made possible due to the generous support of many local sponsors. In appreciation of their efforts, we would like to share with you a little bit of information about each sponsor.
Today we are focusing our spotlight on MTE’s SharingChange.
SharingChange is the name of Middle Tennessee Electric’s charitable foundation. The funds for this foundation are collected from Middle Tennessee Electric Cooperative’s members that choose to have their electric bills rounded up to the nearest dollar. Some members choose to donate a fixed amount as another giving option. Fitting with the principles of a cooperative of benefits of the enterprise return to the members rather than as profits for investors. The results are that all of the small individual contributions pooled together become enough to positively impact our communities.
One hundred percent of the donations made to SharingChange goes to local nonprofit organizations. Since its inception in 2003, MTE’s foundation has distributed more that $10 million to over 500 local nonprofits.
A small sample of the types of programs that have benefited from SharingChange are volunteer fire departments, ambulance and rescue squads, hospice programs, food shelves, youth programs, and storm emergencies that can include clothing, shelter, or medical needs. While donations are not limited to these kinds of organizations, they may not be used for political purposes.
We greatly appreciate MTE’s SharingChange sponsorship of our 2021 Summer Reading Program!
To learn more about the summer reading sponsors, visit our Library Foundation’s website at: Sponsors — Williamson County Library Foundation (wilcolibraryfoundation.org,
2021 Summer Reading Program Partner
As part of our Tails & Tales Summer Reading Challenge we’re partnering with Williamson County Animal Center to help animals in need in our community!
Starting June 1st Williamson County Public Library will have a secondary donation collection location for the Animal Center. It will be located at the first floor display, along with a fun, interacted Animal Bio Challenge highlighting local animals that need homes.
Stay tuned in your Beanstack account and the WCPL Calendar of Events for more partnership programs, opportunities, and activities!
To find out more about the needs of Williamson County Animal Center, please visit their site or Beanstack to complete one of the Animal Center challenges.
Summer Reading Program Tails and Tales 2021
We will have three different groups for Summer Reading Challenges :
Children ages birth-7th grade,
Teens ages 7th-12th grade, and
Adults 19+!
Registration went live online, June 1, using Beanstack for all Summer Reading Challenges https://williamsoncounty.beanstack.org
Login in using your established account from previous challenges you participated in or, if you are new to Beanstack, sign up for an account using these instructions: Beanstack Instructions
Once you have reached your reading milestones in your summer challenges you are welcome to stop in your home branch to pick up your prizes. Prizes will need to be picked up in person from your home library branch. Ticket drawings for the Children and Teen activity side prizes will take place after summer reading has ended and winners will be notified directly by library staff. Please note that all prizes are for local pick-up only and will not be mailed.
More Performer details are coming soon! We will have a mixed variety of performers this year some will virtually be recorded by WC-TV and others will be Zoom calls with Chattanooga Zoo and the Elephant Sanctuary. Some classic performers like Bob Tarter, Jacob Johnson, Bruce Amato’s Magic show and Magic class, …
Ventriloquist Jill Thatcher will bring us a fun animal-themed puppet video show with an additional video craft show.
A special Thank You to our wonderful Sponsors for our Summer Reading Program. You make these performers, programs, and prizes possible for our wonderful community!
2021 Summer Reading Program
JUNE 1 TO AUGUST 8
Children, Teens, and Adults
The Summer Reading Challenge is beginning next week and information about challenges, badges, and awards will be on the library website: wcpltn.org
Using Beanstack:
If you are a returning reading challenge patron, log in to your beanstack account at http://williamsoncounty.beanstack.org.
If you are new to the reading challenges –
The beanstack homepage will show you the available reading programs at the library. You may choose from the Children’s program, the Teen program, or the Adult program.
The Account Creator is the person whose log in information will be used to access all accounts registered. Multiple readers can be added to the same account, even if they are registered for different programs.
*Example* A parent may sign up for the Adult program as the Account Creator and add children as Readers, or vice versa. Both the Account Creator and Reader will use the same sign-in information.
Following the prompts, register both the Account Creator and Readers, if any. A green band at the bottom of the screen will alert you that you are successfully registered.
Now you’re ready start exploring beanstack!
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