Craigmont Community Library

HOURS
Tue.           9:30 - 2:30
Wed.      11:30 - 4:30
Thu.           9:30 - 2:30

(208) 924-5510
craigmont.library@prld.org

112 W. Main St.
PO Box 191, Craigmont, ID 83523

 TJ Breeze
Branch Manager

Come in and browse our books for all ages, audiobooks (CD and MP3), and movies (DVD and Blu-Ray).

We also offer two computer stations for public internet access and WiFi that can be used any time of day.

Interested in supporting the library through volunteering and fund raising?
Join our Friends of the Library Group!

We meet on the 3rd Thursday of the month at 2:30p in the library. We have one major fundraiser a year, our Books & Bites Sale on the 1st Saturday in May in conjunction with the City-Wide Yard Sale. Our goal is to install all new, cleverly designed book shelves in our library. We are always accepting gently used books for our annual sale.

Book Club
July 13 at 2:30p in the library

Underneath The Lintel
by Glen Berger

In this gripping ghost story an eccentric librarian discovers a weather-beaten book in a return bin - 113 years overdue. Sparked by a message left in its margins, he embarks on a magical quest that takes him around the world and 2,000 years into the past. With astonishing twists and turns, UNDERNEATH THE LINTEL draws us into an unforgettable odyssey. "... one of a handful of great plays written in the last five years ... it's an astonishingly beautiful piece of writing ..." -Steve Wiecking, Seattle Weekly "On an inauspicious morning at a Dutch library, a librarian makes an unexpected find in the overnight return box ... a much mistreated Baedeker's guidebook 123 years overdue. Even without compound interest, this tardiness merits a tidy fine, and in UNDERNEATH THE LINTEL, playwright Glen Berger's latest, our librarian hero determines to track down the miscreant. Berger's monologue, subtitled 'The Mystery of the Abandoned Trousers,' hardly slacks. Mailing a fine to the long-lived scofflaw in question proves difficult, as the borrower listed his name only as 'A.' In an effort to run him to earth, the librarian, who has never left his native town of Hoofddorp, zips to China, Australia, Germany, and America. He eats sweets, greases palms, sees Les Miserables in three languages, and fritters away all his accumulated vacation days. He has the time of his life, or perhaps for the first time actually has a life." -Alexis Soloski, The Village Voice "Berger has shown a penchant for men obsessively investigating truths that blind them to more ordinary pursuits of happiness. This one-man show is no exception. It's a satisfying mix of intelligent writing and quirky humor in a package that isn't neatly wrapped up with pat answers." -Jana J Monji, Los Angeles Times "Glen Berger's work feels like what an entire generation of playwrights have been struggling to write." -Bret Fetzer, The Stranger (Seattle)

Sponsored by Greater Craigmont Area Chamber of Commerce and the Friends of the Craigmont Library...

Summer Reading Program

Sign up at the library is now open!
FREE for kids in K-8. (Kids in K-6 got info packets at school.)

June 13 @ 2:30 p.m. - LEGOs with Edison Robots
June 20 @ 3:30 p.m. - Exploring Physics with Idaho PBS (levers, ramps, rolling objects)
July 19 @ 10 a.m. - Build a bird house @ TriCo
Aug. 21 @ 10:15 a.m. - view solar eclipse at Highland Elementary School (free glasses)
Aug. 21 @ 4 p.m. - Pizza and bowling party at Prairie Imperial Bowl

Teen and Adult Reading Bingo!  Bingo cards are available now at the Craigmont Library and participants can play them through August 31st.  Each bingo is good for one entry to our prize drawing and a blackout will get you 5 entries.  Prizes will be gift certificates to local businesses.  Hurry in to pick yours up now!