The 2021 Winter/Spring Session of Lifetime Learning will begin on Feb. 1 and run through April 30. There are 24 courses to choose from. You will have the opportunity to enjoy some of your favorite presenters and also meet some exciting new ones, all of whom planned courses especially for you. You might find it hard to choose, and it will hopefully help you get through the winter as we eagerly anticipate the end of the pandemic. As in the fall, all courses will still be held via Zoom. Most courses will be recorded.

Brochures have been mailed to Friends of Snow Library members who can begin registering on Jan. 4. On Monday, Jan. 11, registration will be open to the general public. Course information and registration will then be available online at www.friendsofsnowlibrary.org/lifetime-learning-program. Brochures and registration sheets will be available at Snow Library.

As a gesture of appreciation for all the parents and care-givers out there who have been working so hard to keep everything together in these difficult times, the library is handing out free “self-care” packages this week through Thursday (Christmas Eve) at 12:30 p.m. Come by the library to pick up your goodie bag. Each contains a tea bag for a soothing cuppa, some dark chocolate, a recipe for a face mask, a luscious soap from the amazing Anya of Anya’s Herbals, and more! Supplies are limited, so stop by early.

The library will be closed on Friday, Dec. 25 and Saturday, Dec. 26 for the Christmas holiday.

On Christmas Eve, Thursday, Dec. 24, we will close early. Our Christmas Eve hours are 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Our New Year’s Eve hours (Thursday, Dec. 31) are also 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

The library will be closed on New Year’s Day, Friday, Jan. 1, 2021.

We wish you all a merry and bright (and safe and healthy) holiday season, and a Happy New Year.

Due to the rising cases of COVID-19 both throughout the country and locally, the anticipated increase of coronavirus during the winter holidays, and the expected increase of visitors to the area despite travel warnings and restrictions, Snow Library, in the interest of community health and safety, will be phasing back to providing curbside service only. The library is taking this action in line with other area libraries that have returned to curbside-service-only access in recent days.

As of Saturday, Dec. 12 until further notice, Snow Library will temporarily suspend in-library browsing hours and provide curbside service from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays through Fridays and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturdays.

Book donations will not be accepted at the library until further notice.

Outdoor book sales, which were held throughout the fall, have been suspended until the arrival of more comfortable weather. Once they resume, donations will begin again, most likely by appointment.

The Friends of Snow Library thank you for your continued support of the library. Stay safe and well!

Due to the anticipated influx of out-of-state visitors for the Thanksgiving holiday, in the interest of public safety, limited browsing hours will not be offered on Saturday, Nov. 28. The library will be open for curbside service only on Saturday. Browsing hours are expected to resume on Tuesday, Dec. 2.

Thank you from Lifetime Learning. We’ll see you in 2021.

Thank you very much to all of you who went on our Zoom adventure and enjoyed the Fall 2020 Session with us. It was quite a trip. The recordings from most of our courses will be available to you (via the links we provided) through the end of this year. We are grateful that we could bring Lifetime Learning to our community.

We wish you happy holidays and we will see you in 2021. Our 2021 Winter/Spring Session will begin on Feb. 1 and run through April 30. It will be three months and 13 weeks long. The Winter/Spring 2021 Session will again be via Zoom. Course information will be available after the first of the year.

They’re both featured in the final week of the Friends of Snow Library’s fall Lifetime Learning session. On Tuesday, Nov. 17 from 10:30 a.m. to noon, Beth Stein presents presents a course on the life and art of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, the painter and printmaker whose immersion in the theatrical life of Belle Epoque Paris enabled him to produce elegant and provocative images of that era.

Beginning Thursday, Nov. 5, the library will open for limited browsing on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Our curbside pickup hours have been adjusted accordingly; please click here for the new schedule.

During browsing hours, we welcome quick, grab-and-go visits to borrow books, DVDs and CDs from our collection. Visits are limited to 30 minutes.

Beginning Thursday, Nov. 5, 2020, Snow Library’s hours for curbside service will be as follows:

Monday, Wednesday and Friday: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Tuesday and Thursday: 2:30 to 5 p.m.

Saturday: 2:30 to 4 p.m.

The sixth week of the 2020 Fall Session of Lifetime Learning at Snow Library features an array of new and ongoing online courses, beginning at 10:30 a.m. on Monday, Nov. 9 with Barbara Semple’s stories of “Women At Sea,” drawn from the journals of Semple’s sea-going great aunt and depicting life aboard a sailing vessel in the late 1800s.

The Friends of Snow Library will begin to accept book donations on Wednesday, Sept. 9. Due to COVID-19 restrictions, donations will be accepted by appointment only on Wednesdays and Saturdays, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Please call (508) 240-4565 or (508) 317-7493 to make an appointment to donate. Donors are asked to bring only two boxes of books to donate.

There will be no book sale on Saturday, Oct. 31. Please attend Town Meeting at Nauset Beach instead. We will see you Saturday, Nov. 7, weather permitting.

The Friends of Snow Library will hold an outdoor book sale on Saturday, October 24, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the back parking lot of the library. The sale will be held weather permitting - look for the red and yellow sign on the library lawn indicating it’s a go. Come and browse fiction, mysteries, biographies, history, art books, children’s books, DVDs and more. Social distancing will be observed, and masks must be worn. Hand sanitizer and gloves will be available. Cash or checks only.

Would you like to meet via Zoom with some other home learners? Lower and outer Cape librarians, led by Brewster Ladies Library, are taking turns offering online STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art and math) activities for children ages 10 and up every Thursday at 3 p.m. through Nov. 19. If you’d like to register, please email fullsteamaheadcc@gmail.com.

Due to the rain and wind predicted for Saturday, Oct. 17, the Friends of Snow Library’s Outdoor Book Sale has been cancelled.

Week three of the 2020 Fall Session of Lifetime Learning at Snow Library brings a variety of new courses as well as continuing ones. Join Susan Hockfield in a discussion of the “The Age of Living Machines: How Biology Will Build the Next Technology Revolution.” Watch and discuss film musicals from the 1930s to the ‘70s with Marc Strauss. Escape with Peggy Kelleher to “The World of Classical Mythology Through Art.” And more.

The second week of the 2020 fall session of Lifetime Learning at Snow Library includes the following new and ongoing courses: an in-depth look at the Electoral College with Richard Stewart on Tuesday, Oct. 13 from 1030 a.m. to noon; part two of Joseph Marchio’s course on Beethoven, focusing on his ninth symphony, from 1:30 to 3 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 14; and part two of Michael Berlin’s course on The News Media Crisis and the Election from 10:30 to noon on Thursday, Oct. 15. Also next week: Scott Harshbarger, former Attorney-General of Massachusetts, talks about “Major Challenges for Democracy and its Institutions, Norms and Values in the Covid-19 Era,” from 1:30 to 3 p.m. on Thursday the 15th. And on Friday, Oct. 16 from 1:30 to 3 p.m., John Ward presents the second in his four-class course called the “Chemistry of Life and the World Around Us.”

Learn about the library’s creative approaches to programming and other services during the COVID-19 pandemic. Find out about fun things happening this fall - from Lifetime Learning to Halloween crafts. And read wise words from library director Tavi Prugno. It’s all in the latest edition of our quarterly newsletter, “The Snow Globe.” Copies available to download here, or pick one up in the front lobby.

The Friends of Snow Library 2020 Fall Lifetime Learning Session is scheduled to run from Monday, Oct. 5 through Friday, Nov. 20. Due to Covid -19 all the courses will be presented via Zoom. All courses will be recorded unless indicated otherwise. The LTL staff may be able to assist anyone not familiar with Zoom. In the first week’s session: Jung-Ho Pak and Dr. Michael Albaugh present their one-class course discussing the evolving environment and exciting new future for the Cape Symphony; Steve and Jeff Bornemeier begin their Novels and Ideas course on “Adventures” with studies of Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; Joseph Marchio presents the first of a two-class course called “Celebrating Beethoven” - and more!