UPCOMING EVENTS
Denton Public Library Fall 2023 Staff Visits
Mark Your Calendars!
Friday, September 22, 10:00 AM to Noon
Denton Public Library Cards & E-Reader and Digital Audio Books Assistance Program
Denton Public Library (DPL) librarians will be in the Robson Ranch Library to sign up residents for DPL cards and to answer questions about using e-readers to download DPL’s e-books, audio books, movies, and other digital materials. To obtain a DPL card, you’ll need to show a photo ID (Driver’s License, State ID, Passport, etc.) and proof of residency (if your ID does not contain your current Denton address). Expiring library cards can also be renewed. If you have e-reader questions, bring your e-reader for hands-on help.
The Denton Public Library Website presentation has been cancelled due to Voting taking place in the Robson Ranch Library!
Friday, October 27, 10:00 AM to Noon
Presentation on the Denton Public Library Website
The Denton Public Library’s Outreach Librarian, Haley Phillips, will be in our Robson Ranch Library to offer a detailed and informative program on using the DPL website--www.library.cityofdenton.com.
Friday, September 22, 10:00 AM to Noon
Denton Public Library Cards & E-Reader and Digital Audio Books Assistance Program
Denton Public Library (DPL) librarians will be in the Robson Ranch Library to sign up residents for DPL cards and to answer questions about using e-readers to download DPL’s e-books, audio books, movies, and other digital materials. To obtain a DPL card, you’ll need to show a photo ID (Driver’s License, State ID, Passport, etc.) and proof of residency (if your ID does not contain your current Denton address). Expiring library cards can also be renewed. If you have e-reader questions, bring your e-reader for hands-on help.
The Denton Public Library Website presentation has been cancelled due to Voting taking place in the Robson Ranch Library!
Friday, October 27, 10:00 AM to Noon
Presentation on the Denton Public Library Website
The Denton Public Library’s Outreach Librarian, Haley Phillips, will be in our Robson Ranch Library to offer a detailed and informative program on using the DPL website--www.library.cityofdenton.com.
FOL throws new and improved Puzzle Palooza '23.
Robson photographer and tech guy Steve Simpson shows off one of his pictures (not the one in the puzzle competition!) and his drone. Photo by Steve Simpson.
By Jane Scholz
Robson Friends of the Library plans its second picture puzzle competition in the library on Nov. 10 and 11. There Robson residents will compete for a trophy and nice cash prizes by speed solving a Robson landscape jigsaw puzzle.
The team that finishes the puzzle in the shortest time will win a trophy and $225. Second place team gets $150 and third place $75. Winners also will get their picture in the November Pioneer Press.
All teams will work the same puzzle: a 16x20 500-piece custom puzzle created from the work of Robson resident Steve Simpson, a talented and technologically skilled photographer who's been shooting aerial images of our neighborhood from a drone for several years.
Steve moved here in 2007 and soon started to develop his retirement passions: drones, photography, and technology. He's president of the Tech and Drone clubs and on the board of the Photo Club.
Puzzle solvers will work in teams of up to three people in four-hour puzzling segments from 9 am to 1 pm and 1:30 pm to 5:30 pm each day. Each segment will start promptly, and play will be monitored. The winning team will be the one that, in the opinion of the organizing committee, finishes the puzzle in the shortest time.
Signups will be required to enter. Sign-up sheets and complete rules will be available at the checkout desk in the library starting Monday, Oct. 16. On Oct. 23, signup will move to the Activity Director's desk in the Clubhouse because the library will become a voting location. You can also see the rules at palooza_rules.pdf (robsonlibrary.org)
Sign-ups will close at noon on Nov. 8. Winners will be announced the following week.
FOL committee members organizing the event are Ed Whelan, Gary Koenig, Joan Pursley and Jane Scholz
So round up your puzzle-loving neighbors and sign up for the fun and competition in the Robson Library starting Oct. 16.
Robson Friends of the Library plans its second picture puzzle competition in the library on Nov. 10 and 11. There Robson residents will compete for a trophy and nice cash prizes by speed solving a Robson landscape jigsaw puzzle.
The team that finishes the puzzle in the shortest time will win a trophy and $225. Second place team gets $150 and third place $75. Winners also will get their picture in the November Pioneer Press.
All teams will work the same puzzle: a 16x20 500-piece custom puzzle created from the work of Robson resident Steve Simpson, a talented and technologically skilled photographer who's been shooting aerial images of our neighborhood from a drone for several years.
Steve moved here in 2007 and soon started to develop his retirement passions: drones, photography, and technology. He's president of the Tech and Drone clubs and on the board of the Photo Club.
Puzzle solvers will work in teams of up to three people in four-hour puzzling segments from 9 am to 1 pm and 1:30 pm to 5:30 pm each day. Each segment will start promptly, and play will be monitored. The winning team will be the one that, in the opinion of the organizing committee, finishes the puzzle in the shortest time.
Signups will be required to enter. Sign-up sheets and complete rules will be available at the checkout desk in the library starting Monday, Oct. 16. On Oct. 23, signup will move to the Activity Director's desk in the Clubhouse because the library will become a voting location. You can also see the rules at palooza_rules.pdf (robsonlibrary.org)
Sign-ups will close at noon on Nov. 8. Winners will be announced the following week.
FOL committee members organizing the event are Ed Whelan, Gary Koenig, Joan Pursley and Jane Scholz
So round up your puzzle-loving neighbors and sign up for the fun and competition in the Robson Library starting Oct. 16.
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FOL Book Discussions
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Thursday, September 14, 2:30 p.m., in the library FOL Book Discussion: George Orwell, "1984" and Aldous Huxley, "Brave New World" Elaine Kushmaul and Klaus Dannenberg will lead the discussion. |
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Thursday, November 16, 2:30 p.m., in the library
FOL Book Discussion: The Pioneers,
by David McCullough
Check the library’s FOL shelves for copies of the book
Lewis Toland will be the discussion leader.
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