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Meet Our Local Heroes!

6/17/2022

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The entire family can come meet Kosciusko County’s heroes at 3 p.m. Tuesday, June 28.
This Syracuse Public Library event will occur at the Syracuse Community Center, 1013 N. Long Dr., Syracuse.

The Kosciusko County Sheriff's Office will demonstrate their K-9 units. Additionally, officers with the Syracuse Police Department and an Indiana State trooper will answer questions about their jobs. The Turkey Creek Fire Territory will also bring a fire truck and ambulance, with its members sharing what it’s like being a firefighter or EMS technician.

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Help Name The Lot!

6/16/2022

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The Lot really doesn't have a ring to it, does it? So let's name it something better!
Library staff brainstormed four potential names: Novel Place, Plot Twist, Community Roots, and Booklandia! Tell us which one you like by filling out our online survey or visit the library to fill out our paper survey.

Do you have a better name for the lot? Share it under "Other."

SPL is excited for the lot to transform into a relaxing outdoor community space!
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Help SPL Transform The Lot, Support Our Facebook Auction

6/15/2022

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The empty lot behind the Syracuse Public Library shall remain empty no longer! SPL aims to transform it into a community outdoor space for everyone to enjoy while also creating a new location for programs. With a pavilion and storage barn already purchased, the library is looking to add more features to truly make this space a place to gather and relax.
Each summer, community members have enjoyed chilling in our existing seating areas in front of the library. This library improvement project offers yet another avenue for patrons to enjoy the library and access its free Wi-Fi. As part of the transformation, SPL envisions introducing play structures, outdoor seating, little sitting "rooms," a garden area and a story walk, among other amenities. The library also hopes to include an electric hookup -- something many people who use our existing outdoor spaces have asked for in order to charge electronic devices.

To bring this project fully to fruition, the Syracuse Public Library will host an online basket auction on our Facebook page. Library staff has pulled out all stops, creating twelve themed baskets that feature local items donated by Syracuse's many fantastic businesses, nonprofits and individual donors. The estimated value of these baskets spans from $50 to $158.

Basket supporters include Absolutely Apparel & Gifts, Brew City, Brook Pointe Resort, The Channel Marker, Coffee Depot, Dynamic Floral, Friends of the Syracuse Public Library, Karen Cumings, Kiyomi Japanese Cuisine, library staff, Los Toritos, Maxwelton Golf Club, My Red Moon, Neighborhood Fresh, The Papers Inc., Peterson's Fish, Pickwick Theatre,
Pizza King, The Sleepy Owl, Syracuse Hardware, Teghtmeyer Ace Hardware, A Touch of Beauty, and Warrior's Energy & Nutrition.

How It Works

Join us for the basket auction on the Syracuse Public Library's Facebook page. We'll auction the first basket from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Friday, July 1, with the other baskets following throughout the rest of July through Aug. 5. on Tuesdays and Fridays. So, keep your eyes peeled for your perfect basket!

Under your desired basket's photo, place your bid in the Facebook comments between the allotted hours. Each basket will have a starting bid. The highest bid received by the auction's closing (8 p.m.) wins the basket. We will announce the winner the next day on Facebook and will also send the winner a Facebook message; check your other folder in case Facebook sends it to spam.

​Baskets will then be paid for and picked up at the Syracuse Public Library. Auction winners can pay with check (payable to Syracuse Public Library), cash or credit card. While picking up your basket, tell us whether you would like your name included in our recognition of project donors or prefer to remain anonymous.

Make A Splash Basket

A bonus basket features summer vacation fun items, such as children's books, Girl Scout cookies and Brook Pointe Resort swim passes will be bid on in the library itself from July 1-15. Check it out downstairs in the children's department and place your bid.

Other Ways To Help

SPL has donation boxes upstairs and downstairs for those wanting to support the project besides bidding on baskets. Every bit helps the Syracuse Public Library reach its goal of providing the Syracuse community with the best outdoor space we can. Those making donations can request to be included in our recognition of donors or can remain anonymous.
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Visit DeFries Gardens With "In the Garden" Group

6/10/2022

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 SPL's "In the Garden" group will hit the road to explore nature in person this coming week! Join the first field trip to DeFries Gardens, 17477 CR 46, just outside of New Paris. It is truly a remarkable sight, featuring a calendar garden.
"In the Garden" will meet at 11 a.m. next Thursday, June 16, in DeFries Gardens. Bring a lunch if you like. During this field trip, attendees will explore the gardens before finding some shade discuss natural elements seen in the gardens.

After DeFries Gardens, unless the humidity is too high, the group will go to the nearby Benton Hydro and walk in the woods sometime after noon.
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Check out copies of In the Garden's reference book, Nature's Best Hope by Douglas W. Tallamy, while at the gardens. Let Becky Brower know if you can't attend and want a copy of the book; her email is bbrower@syracuse.lib.in.us.

The group will decide on field trip locations and times so that a July calendar will be created.

Another Outdoor Opportunity

For those wanting to spend more time outdoors while helping the community, a volunteer opportunity exists!  SPL has told the Syracure-Wawasee Trail that it will maintain a trail section along Main Street -- from the library to where the segment ends near Brook Pointe Resort. Trash pickup will meet at 10 a.m. Wednesday, June 22, or at 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, June 29, (meet at the Syracuse Community Center) for those using the gator. Bring a pair of gloves and shoes to walk in. 
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June Teen Programming: Unleash Your Inner Hero

5/31/2022

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Teens sign up now to join the teen summer reading program and receive your S.H.I.E.L.D notebook to start tracking pages read to earn fantastic prizes. The earliest teens can come in to get prizes is Wednesday, June 8.

Programming

Shelly has planned so many fantastic craft programs this summer. Check upstairs at the library for registration information as supplies/space are limited. June projects include comic book-decorated boxes (5 p.m. Thursday, June 9) and superhero etched mugs (5 p.m. Wednesday, June 29) in the Rosalyn Jones Room/teen room.

Meet Our Local Heroes (All Ages Welcome)

The Kosciusko County Sheriff’s Office, Syracuse Police Department, Turkey Creek Fire Territory, and Indiana State Police will demonstrate and answer questions about what they do from 3-5 p.m. Tuesday, June 28, at the Syracuse Community Center.

Don’t miss out on this chance to meet our local heroes! All ages are welcome to attend this program.

Escape Room

Come solve our superhero-themed escape room on Thursday, June 23, and Tuesday, July 19. Both escape rooms will be from 2:30-6:15 p.m. in the teen room and feature four sessions. Each session accommodates 10-12 people. Sign up for the escape rooms at the library or online. Click here to register for the June Escape Room. Click here to register for the July Escape Room.
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Teen Book Club's June Pick: Wilder Girls by Rory Power

5/24/2022

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I think I’d been looking for it all my life
a storm in my body to match the one in my head.”

-Rory Power, "Wilder Girls"
The Syracuse Public Library is forming a new Teen Book Club during summer reading. Join the group and read June's pick, "Wilder Girls" by Rory Power.
The first five teens who sign up to join the Teen Book Club will receive free paperbacks of "Wilder Girls," a thrilling tale that blends survival with elements from the horror genre. SPL will also have copies from other libraries available for check out. Or teens can use the Libby app to access digital copies of the novel.
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The Teen Book Club will meet from 4-5 p.m. every fourth Wednesday of the month, with June's meeting slated for June 22. If you're interested in join the club, sign up at the main desk upstairs. For more information about our other summer reading offerings, 
click here.

"Wilder Girls" Synopsis

It's been eighteen months since the Raxter School for Girls was put under quarantine. Since the Tox hit and pulled Hetty's life out from under her.

It started slow. First the teachers died one by one. Then it began to infect the students, turning their bodies strange and foreign. Now, cut off from the rest of the world and left to fend for themselves on their island home, the girls don't dare wander outside the school's fence, where the Tox has made the woods wild and dangerous. They wait for the cure they were promised as the Tox seeps into everything.

But when Byatt goes missing, Hetty will do anything to find her, even if it means breaking quarantine and braving the horrors that lie beyond the fence. And when she does, Hetty learns that there's more to their story, to their life at Raxter, than she could have ever thought true.
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Memorial Day Closure and Evergreen Server Update

5/18/2022

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The Syracuse Public Library will close Monday, May 30, in observation of Memorial Day. During Memorial Day weekend, Evergreen Indiana will also perform maintenance, and here is what you need to know so you aren't without the materials you desire over the long weekend.
The maintenance being performed requires actual server downtime. This will affect everyone's ability to borrow from Overdrive and Libby. Plan ahead and have your materials checked out and downloaded prior to the Saturday, May 28, to  Monday, May 30,  work window.

New registrations for Hoopla and the ability to place holds through the Evergreen Indiana app will also be affected during the maintenance period.
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Wildflowers Arrive At SPL

5/14/2022

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The Syracuse Public Library has received several one-square-foot seed packets, featuring Midwest wildflowers, to give away. Up to three packets are given to each family either at the library or during the native plant sale from 9-11 a.m. Saturday, June 4, at the WACF property on SR 13. The purpose of planting the seeds is not just to be a food resource for local pollinators but to offer a habitat in the soil for the native bees.
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The seed sponsors, Tangled Bank Studios and PBS-Nature, have made a movie that shows the amount of activity a bee-friendly area provides in, “My Garden of a Thousand Bees.” Come for a showing at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, June 9. The Syracuse Public Library is facilitating a series of meetings called “In the Garden.” Contact Becky Brower, bbrower@syracuse.lib.in.us, to receive emails with “In the Garden” notifications for field trips, book discussion topics, walks and trail maintenance. Make a point this summer to meet our local pollinators.

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New DVDs to Binge in May

5/13/2022

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Ready to for a movie night? Or are you looking for a new series to binge? Check out some of the new DVDs available in May. Some titles will release later in the month.

New Movies

  • The Batman​ (5/24)
  • Creation Stories
  • The Cursed
  • Dog
  • Father Stu (6/14)
  • Gold (6/14)
  • The Incarnation
  • ​Jump Darling
  • The Other Me
  • ​The Outfit
  • The Sinners​
  • Slasher: Flesh and Blood (5/17)
  • ​Studio 666 (5/24)
  • Umma (5/24)
  • Uncharted
  • X (5/24)
  • You Are Not My Mother (6/21)

Documentaries

  • Attica
  • ​No Ordinary Man (6/21)

TV Series

  • The Sinner, Season 1
  • ​The Sinner, Season 2
  • ​Succession, Season 3 (5/17)

Children's

  • Sing 2
  • Turning Red
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New Adult Book Titles For May

5/13/2022

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We're entering the peak publishing season, meaning several popular books are arriving at the Syracuse Public Library! Below are most of the new titles that will be available at SPL. They are currently housed on our blue carts as we await the arrival of our new display!
  • Fiction Titles
  • Nonfiction Titles
  • Large Print
  • Audiobooks

Fiction

  • "22 Seconds" by James Patterson
  • "Adult Assembly Required" by Abbi Waxman (5/17)
  • "Aunt Dimity and the Enchanted Cottage" by Nancy Atherton
  • "The Boardwalk Bookshop" by Susan Mallery (5/31)
  • "Book of Night" by Holly Black
  • "The Book Woman's Daughter" by Kim Michele Richardson
  • "By the Book" by Jasmine Guillory
  • ​"Clive Cussler's Dark Vector" by Graham Brown (5/24)
  • "Countdown to Midnight" by Dale Brown (5/17)
  • "The Element of Love" by Mary Connealy
  • "Ever Constant" by Tracie Peterson
  • ​"Every Cloak Rolled in Blood" by James Lee Burke (5/24)
  • "Grey Bees" by Andrey Kurkov
  • "The Heart of a Cowboy" by Jody Hedlund
  • "Hidden Pictures" by Jason Rekulak
  • "High Stakes" by Danielle Steel
  • "The Homewreckers" by Mary Kay Andrews
  • "The Honeymoon Cottage" by Lori Foster
  • "In the Blood" by Jack Carr (5/17)​
  • ​"Island of Time" by Davis Bunn
  • "The Lioness" by Christopher A. Bohjalian
  • "The Lost Summers of Newport" by Beatriz Williams (5/17)
  • "Love on the Range" by Mary Connealy​
  • "Meant to Be" by Emily Giffin (5/31)
  • ​"Mustique Island" by Sarah McCoy
  • "My Wife is Missing" by D. J. Palmer 
  • "Never Been Kissed" by Timothy Janovsky
  • "Nightwork" by Nora Roberts (5/24)
  • "Overboard" by Sara Paretsky
  • ​"A Rip Through Time" by Kelley Armstrong (5/31)
  • "Robert B. Parker's Revenge Tour" by Mike Lupica
  • "Seasonal Fears" by Seanan McGuire
  • "The Shop on Royal Street" by Karen White
  • "Something Wilder" by Christina Lauren (5/17)
  • "Sparring Partners" by John Grisham (5/31)
  • "Summer Love" by Nancy Thayer
  • "The Summer Place" by Jennifer Weiner
  • "The Sweet Life" by Suzanna Woods Fisher
  • "Take Your Breath Away" Linwood Barclay (5/17)
  • "This Time Tomorrow" by Emma Straub (5/17)
  • "To Tame a Cowboy" by Jody Hedlund
  • ​"The Verifers" by Jane Pek
  • "Verity" by Colleen Hoover
  • "War of Dragons" by Jessica Cluess
  • "The Wedding Season" by Katy Birchall
  • "When She Dreams" by Amanda Quick
  • "When the Day Comes" by Gabrielle Meyer
  • "When the Meadow Blooms" by Ann H. Gabhart

Nonfiction

  • "Ancestor Trouble" by Maud Newton
  • "Born to Be Hanged: The Epic Story of the Gentlemen  Pirates Who Raided the South Seas, Rescued a Princess, and Stole a Fortune" by Keith Thomson
  • "The Complete Guide to Food Allergies in Adults and Children" by Scott H. Sicherer, M.D.
  • ​"The Creative Gardener" by Adam Frost (5/24)
  • "The Garden Refresh" by Kier Holmes (5/24)
  • "Ghosted!: Exploring the Haunting Reality of Paranormal Encounters" by Brian Laythe (6/14)
  • "Gun Barons" by John Bainbridge Jr. (5/24)
  • "Happy-Go-Lucky" by David Sedaris (5/31)
  • ​"The High Sierra: A Love Story" by Kim Stanley Robinson
  • "Hometown Victory" by Keanon Lowe
  • "I'll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood" by Jessi Klein
  • "Killing the Killers" by Bill O'Reilly 
  • "Let There Be Light" by Liana Finck
  • "My Moment: 106 Women on Fighting for Themselves" by Kristin Chenoweth (5/24)
  • "Pandemic, Inc.: Chasing the Capitalists and Thieves Who Got Rich While We Got Sick" by J. David McSwane
  • "Plant Grow Harvest Repeat" by Meg McAndrews Cowden (3/15)
  • "The Presidency of Donald J. Trump" by Julian E. Zelizer
  • "Queen Victoria and the Romanovs" by Coryne Hall (5/15)
  • "The Truth About Crypto" by Ric Edelman

Biographies/Memoirs

  • "Finding Me" by Viola Davis
  • "Hello, Molly!" by Molly Shannon

Large Print

  • "Clive Cussler's Dark Vector" by Graham Brown (5/31)

Audiobooks

  • "Clive Cussler's Dark Vector" by Graham Brown (5/24)
  • ​"Happy-Go-Lucky" by David Sedaris (5/31)
  • "The Investigator" by John Sandford
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