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Make a winter gnome buddy this month
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Greetings from the Great Bend Public Library, and Happy New Year!

We’re excited to announce that our first in-person program of the year for teens grades 6-12 and adults age 18 and up is next Saturday, Jan. 9, at 11 a.m. Join us in the Lower Level Meeting Room to craft your own gnome friend to keep you company this winter! Supplies are limited; first come, first served.

Our next Online Teen Anime Night for teens ages 13-18 is Thursday, Jan. 7, at 6:30 p.m. via the Teen Spot Discord. We’ll also be having our first in-person Teen Manga & Anime Club meeting of the year for teens grades 6-12 later this month on Thursday, Jan. 21. We’ll be reading the first volume of “A Silent Voice” by Yoshitoki Ōima in preparation for the meeting. Use the code @gbmanga in the Remind app or on remind.com to sign up for reminders of when copies of manga are available for pickup at the front desk and for online and in-person meeting times. If you are interested in joining us for Online Teen Anime Night, use the code and send us a message with the words “anime night” to get the link to watch with us.

Since we have gotten a lot of questions about it, we would like to remind our community that we are not currently able to accept donations of library items at this time. Our paperback swap, located inside the library near the Information Desk, is still open for business, though!

We are maintaining our current hours with the new year: Monday through Friday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Saturday 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., and closed on Sunday. Please remember that the county mask mandate applies to visits to the library. At this time, the library does not provide masks, so be sure to come prepared when you want to browse, attend in-person programs, or use any of our in-house services. Thank you for your continued cooperation.

Keep an eye on our Facebook and our website, greatbendpl.info, for upcoming programs and updates. You can also message us on Facebook or email us at gbcirc@gmail.com.


Haylee Huddleston is the Teen Services director at the Great Bend Public Library.