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Elevate Your Year: Dive into a Learn it Live adventure!

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The best choice you can make for the New Year is joining Learn it Live! You’ll find live and recorded classes on topics such as health, wellness, spirituality, career and personal development. Joining for me was a no-brainer. And with a library card, it’s free!

Engaging classes

If your New Year’s resolution includes calming stress or relaxing more, then Learn it Live is for you. I greatly enjoyed the “De-Stress and Succeed” class, which was part of a seven-week workshop. I learned how my personal beliefs contribute to my stress and how I can choose to create change in my life. If you’re ready for change, I highly recommend taking this class!


Maybe your career needs a makeover. Consider enrolling in the “How to Get Promoted” course. Hosted by two career development experts, the course provides step-by-step advice for interviews. You can also complete a mock interview, discuss what you’ve learned, and plan your next steps for success. I found the course easily understandable and applicable for a variety of career paths.

Did I mention all the yoga classes? So many different types of yoga to choose from — restorative, yin, laughter yoga. I can’t wait to try laughter yoga!

Tips for using Learn it Live
It’s easy to find classes from your favorite presenters. Simply go to their profile to find a playlist of classes they’ve hosted. I found the “My Classes” tab incredibly helpful when using the app. By clicking this tab, I can access all of the classes I’ve registered for. I can also find classes I might be interested in through the suggestions provided. I’m looking forward to trying that yoga class next!

Try it yourself!
Joining Learn it Live is easy! Head to your Libby app, tap the library icon at the bottom, scroll down to extras, and there it is — Learn it Live, your gateway to mindfulness. Grab your library card to create your account and gain access to all the great classes. Try it now! It’s free!

Michelle
Outreach and Community Engagement Librarian

My December reads:
Land of Milk and Honey by C Pam Zhang
Roaming by Jillian Tamaki; Mariko Tamaki
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
Enola Holmes: The Graphic Novels by Serena Blasco

Staff Spotlight – Cathy

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Staff Spotlight: Cathy – Executive Director

This past October, UMFPL underwent an exciting staffing change. On November 12, Cathy, formerly our Public Services Director, officially stepped into her new role as the UMFPL Executive Director. Though you may recognize her from her 20 years of service with us, we thought it’s time for our friends, neighbors, and patrons throughout Upper Moreland to get to know her a little better. And there’s no better way to begin our new Staff Spotlight series on our new blog than with a spotlight of our new Executive Director!

Cathy is an avid gardener, cat lover, and (of course) reader. When she’s not at the library you can find her walking in the park, playing with her cats, or digging in the garden! Some of her other favorite hobbies include antiquing, swimming, vegan cooking, baking bread, and watching Instagram cat videos.
She’s also always happy to watch just about any nature program or documentary, as long as it’s about cats. If you’re in the same boat, then you should check out her recommendation, Kedi (get it through MCLINC here).

Contrary to what you might expect, Cathy doesn’t personally own very many books. Instead, she’s happy to borrow all of the books, movies, and media her heart desires through the library. Speaking of the library, one of Cathy’s favorite aspects of working in a library is “working in a place where anyone can come to explore what interests them”, and the feeling that we’re making at least one person’s day better every day!” Working for such an amazing and diverse community, Cathy is eager for people to learn all about everything our library can do! When asked to name something she wished more people knew about UMFPL, she had this to say:

 

“At UMFPL we love to respond to our community’s wants and needs! Our musical instruments, board games, and play-date-in-a-bag collections exist because we learned about these needs when talking to community members. Whether it’s gardening equipment, puzzles, or information about attracting birds to your yard, we want to know what YOU want to know about so we can be sure to provide that. Feel free to stop me 

in the library and tell me what you wish UMFPL would circulate or have more resources about!”

We hope you’ll join us in offering Cathy a huge and heartfelt congratulations in her new position!
Want to learn more about UMFPL? Check out our Who We Are page to find out more about our past and present within the Upper Moreland community!

Book recommendations –
Murder Past Due: A Cat in the Stacks Mystery by Miranda James
Practically vegan: more than 100 easy, delicious vegan dinners on a budget by Nisha Melvani
The regenerative garden: 80 practical projects for creating a self-sustaining garden ecosystem by Stephanie Rose
A good bake: the art and science of making perfect pastries, cakes, cookies, pies, and breads at home by Melissa Weller

Welcome to our NEW BLOG!

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Adventures Beyond Words

Let’s begin with an introduction! We are Upper Moreland Free Public Library (UMFPL), and we provide knowledge and adventure beyond words. We offer nearly 70,000 physical items, plus downloadable books, magazines, audiobooks, streaming audio, video, and author talks, and a variety of unique items for you, our patron, to borrow for free.

We have story times, take and make crafts, book discussions, and plenty of other programs you can find on our events page. We connect you with information you need, from seasonal tax assistance, to help navigating your (and our) technology, to ESL and adult learner tutoring. We even host your state representatives at the library so you can get information and support from them.

As a key component in what makes our community great we want to share who we are and what we can do for you. In our blog, you’ll find insight into the inner workings of the library, as well as highlights that connect you with information, programs, events, and (of course) books. We want to show you that UMFPL has something for everyone in our community, and we’d like to help you get to know the staff you see when you visit the library.

What are the types of things we’ll share? Coming soon, we’ll offer staff spotlights (we were serious when we said we want you to get to know us!). We’ll introduce you to the services we provide and some how-to… information for using library services and resources. Have you always wondered “why” about anything at the library? Let us know and we will provide an explanation here!

We are here for you, in person at the library or virtually. We are excited to show you what we have to offer through these blog posts!

See you at the library!
UMFPL

Recommendations:
• The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams (fiction)
• Find Your People by Jennie Allen (nonfiction)
• The Library Book by Susan Orlean (nonfiction)
• How to Read a Book by Kwame Alexander (fiction age 4-8)