Martha Fairchild Scholarship
The Martha Fairchild Scholarship Fund provides an
annual scholarship award to a New Fairfield resident who has contributed to the
betterment of the community through volunteer service and who is presently
admitted and enrolled in a program leading to a degree in a field which
promotes reading (i.e., library science, teaching or the liberal arts).
Friends of Martha Fairchild, New Fairfield’s
long-time librarian, established the scholarship in 1995. Mrs. Fairchild, a life-long resident served
as a teacher, volunteer and librarian for more than 40 years. The scholarship endeavors to promote the
ideals of service to the community and the importance of reading in our
private, family and professional lives, which were the objectives of her life’s
work. This is a $1,000 one time award
with the name of the recipient placed on a permanent plaque in the library.
Applicant must be a resident of New
Fairfield or an employee of the town. They must have the ability to demonstrate
involvement in volunteer service to the community or New Fairfield. Enrollment in a college program (full or part
time) leading to a Masters degree in library science or a Bachelors degree in
education, liberal arts or technology is required. Student must be in good academic standing;
current students must maintain an overall 3.0 GPA. This scholarship is need-blind. Candidates do not have to demonstrate
financial need.
Complete application forms are available at
A committee of the Library Board of Trustees
will select the recipient from the NFHS and community candidates. The Award will be presented at the July
meeting of the Library Board or at the NFHS Scholar’s Night if the recipient is
a NFHS student. Please contact library
board director,
National Library Week
National Library Week is April 13-19. New Fairfield Library offers many services to
our patrons in addition to checking out books, magazines and movies. We have books on cassette/CD, children’s and
adult programs, color/black and white copiers, a web-based catalog so you can
access the catalog at home, public fax machine, genealogical resources,
interlibrary loans, internet workstations, large print books, local history
information, music cassettes/CD’s, newspapers, remote access databases, and
statewide privileges which means that you can use any library in the state of
Connecticut. You could go on vacation to
Mystic, use that town’s library to check out items, come home and return them
to our library! Come check out all the
materials and services we have to offer!
Shutting Off Computers
There are some patrons, children and adults,
who feel they are being helpful by shutting off our computers at closing. Sometimes patrons, children especially, just
click off the monitors making the staff initially think that the computers have
been turned off. Please, in this
instance, do us a big favor and just let the staff take care of turning off the
computers and printers at the end of the work day. We appreciate the thought, but it is up to
the staff to do that job. Thank you for your help in this matter.
New Adult Books
Girl Who Stopped Swimming by Joshilyn Jackson, Days of Atonement by Michael Gregorio,
Compulsion by Jonathan Kellerman, Barrington Street
Blues by Anne Emery, Guilty by Karen Robards,
Betrayal by John Lescroart, Down Into darkness by
David Lawrence, Where Are You Now? By Mary Higgins Clark, Deep by Claire Nouvian, Sundays in America by Suzanne Shea, Lavinia by Ursula LeGuin, Girl
With No Shadow by Joanne Harris, The Way We Will Be In 50 Years by Mike
Wallace, Miss Julia Paints the Town by Ann B. Ross, Everything But a Groom by
Holly Jacobs, The Wolf of Wall Street by Jordan Belfort, Alcohol Information
for Teens by Joyce Shannon, Suddenly by Barbara Delinsky,
English American by Alison Larkin, Person of Interest by Susan Choi, Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa
Lahiri, Zapped by Carol Higgins Clark, Devil’s Peak
by Deon Meyer, Christ the Lord:The Road to cana by Anne Rice, Winter Study by Nevada Barr, In the
Ring: The Trials of a Washington Lawyer by Robert Bennett, Finder by Colin
Harrison, Certain Girls by Jennifer Weiner, Crocheting for Dummies by Susan Brittain, Thigh High by Christina Dodd, One Night With a
Sweet Talking Man by Ana Leigh, Wild Jinx by Sandra Hill, Oscar Wilde and the
Death of No Importance by Gyles Brandreth,
Go Green, Live Rich by David Bach, Forgery of Venus by Michael Gruber, Home by
Julie Andrews, Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression by Amity Schlaes, Millennial Makeover by Morley Winograd,
The Ancient by R.A. Salvatore, Baby Care Book by Jeremy Friedman, How Your
House Works by Charlie Wing
New Adult DVDS
August Rush, Last Emperor, The Seeker:The
Dark is Rising, StepUp, Sweeney Todd:The
Demon Barber of Fleet Street
New Music CDS
Noel by Josh Groban