Scrapbooking Workshop

Do you need space and time to start or continue a scrapbooking project?

Join us at the Watertown Free Public Library on January 16, 2008 from 7 – 8:30 p.m. for our new monthly scrapbooking workshops! A free beginner’s lesson led by an experienced scrapbooker will start promptly at 7:15. Bring 3-5 pictures to make your first page—everything else will be supplied!

We will meet on the third Wednesday of every month in the second floor large meeting room. All levels are welcome—expert help, scrapbooking equipment and new ideas will be available at each session! If you already scrapbook, bring your supplies and work on your current project. Older teens and adults only, please.

For more information, contact Pauli at 617-969-1036 or pstern@watertown-ma.gov. The Watertown Library is located at 123 Main Street, Watertown, MA and is handicapped accessible.

Bookstore Buys

Eclectic is the word for our Cafe Bookstore collection. We’re dependent on donations from library patrons who clean out their book shelves and offer us good quality, interesting titles with real sale potential.

Among the Grisham paperbacks, children’s books and popular non-fiction, some specialty items show up. Those are culled out and specially priced.

Recently a number of art and architecture books have come in. Their “coffee table” format and pristine condition make them perfect gift items.

Popular treatments include:

Jonathan Glancey’s ARCHITECTURE (part of the DK Eyewitness Companions series), a global view of important historical structures spanning thousands of years of building. 2006. $15

TIME’s GREAT BUILDINGS OF THE WORLD, a picture essay of “The World’s Most Influential, Inspiring and Astonishing Structures”. 2004. $5

Steve Dunwell’s EXTRAORDINARY BOSTON, beautiful photographs from all parts of the city, in all seasons and at all times of day. 2005. $15

George Cushing’s GREAT BUILDINGS OF BOSTON, a black and white photographic guide, arranged by neighborhoods. 1982. $5

Edward Hoak’s MASTERPIECES OF AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE, first published in 1930 and a Dover reprint, contains photographs and architectural drawings. 2002. $10

Then there are the funky and unusual gift books.

Eight books of drawings and pictures of the 20th. century Dutch graphic artist M.C. Escher cover all aspects of his life and art. Titles in this collection include THE MAGIC MIRROR OF M.C. ESCHER, THE GRAPHIC WORK (2 volumes), VISIONS OF SYMMETRY (hard and softcover), IMPOSSIBLE WORLDS, and Al Seckel’s MASTERS OF DECEPTION. Prices vary from $5 to $20.

All the titles (and more for future postings) have a home in my office and are waiting for the right buyer. Email me at bshank@watertown-ma.gov Proceeds go to the library Building Committee and their efforts to support the new library’s programs and services.