The Edith B. Siegrist Vermillion Public Library seeks a creative, energetic individual with a genuine passion for working with youth to serve as Youth Services Librarian. Are you eager to share the love of reading and literature, develop capable users of information and technology, and encourage each child’s development to their fullest potential?  Can you design and provide engaging activities that help young people develop their creativity, interests, and talents? Is empowering and motivating younger community members important to you?

Job Summary

The Youth Services Librarian is responsible for planning, organizing, and coordinating all activities associated with Youth Services, which serves patrons from birth through twelfth grade.

For a complete position description, or to apply online, go to www.vermillion.us/careers.

The most recent selection in the 17-year history of the One Book South Dakota program is “Unfollow: A Memoir of Loving and Leaving the Westboro Baptist Church” by Megan Phelps-Roper. Learn about and discuss the book via Zoom during your lunch break! Friday, September 4th at 12:00 pm Central. Copies of the book are available for checkout from the Vermillion Public Library. Registration is required: bit.ly/onebookvpl. The first 30 people to register will each get a free Reader Guide and a South Dakota Humanities Council sticky pad!

About the book:

The activist and TED speaker Megan Phelps-Roper reveals her life growing up in the most hated family in America.

At the age of five, Megan Phelps-Roper began protesting homosexuality and other alleged vices alongside fellow members of the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas. Founded by her grandfather and consisting almost entirely of her extended family, the tiny group would gain worldwide notoriety for its pickets at military funerals and celebrations of death and tragedy. As Phelps-Roper grew up, she saw that church members were close companions and accomplished debaters, applying the logic of predestination and the language of the King James Bible to everyday life with aplomb―which, as the church’s Twitter spokeswoman, she learned to do with great skill. Soon, however, dialogue on Twitter caused her to begin doubting the church’s leaders and message: If humans were sinful and fallible, how could the church itself be so confident about its beliefs? As she digitally jousted with critics, she started to wonder if sometimes they had a point―and then she began exchanging messages with a man who would help change her life.

A gripping memoir of escaping extremism and falling in love, “Unfollow” relates Phelps-Roper’s moral awakening, her departure from the church, and how she exchanged the absolutes she grew up with for new forms of warmth and community. Rich with suspense and thoughtful reflection, Phelps-Roper’s life story exposes the dangers of black-and-white thinking and the need for true humility in a time of angry polarization.

Register below to access the Zoom session, hosted by the Edith B. Siegrist Vermillion Public Library, and lead by SDHC Scholar, Dr. Marilyn Carlson Aronson. Please register by September 3rd, 2020: bit.ly/onebookvpl.

This program was made possible by the South Dakota Humanities Council, an affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

During the pandemic, the Edith B. Siegrist Vermillion Public Library is offering a Pick-up Service for patrons.

How Pick-up Works:

1. Please request your materials by:

1. Placing reserves from the library catalog : (https://vermillionlibsd.booksys.net/opac/vermillionlibsd/index.html#menuHome)
   • You need to sign into your account. (Your username is your library card barcode, and your pin is your last name in lower case.) If you need assistance logging in, please call the library at 605-677-7060.
2. Emailing [email protected]. Please make sure to provide your first and last name, address, and (if possible) your library card number.
3. Calling 605-677-7060
   • Please note requests over the phone will be limited to five items.

* The preferred method of requesting materials is online via the library catalog. Please see the following video for a walk-through of how to do this. You can also 605-677-7060 and we will talk you through the process.

2. A staff member will call you when your items are ready for pick-up.

3. When you arrive at the library come to the southern parking lot entrance where the sliding doors are.

4. Please return your current items in the outside book drop. When you arrive to collect your materials, everything will be checked out and ready to go. You can either:

1. Come to the vestibule to collect your library materials.
2. Call 605-677-7060 and provide your name and we bring your materials out to the curb.

** If you request an item that is currently checked out, we will place a reserve for you and notify you when the materials are available for pick up.

*** Patrons can request a random selection of materials by providing a genre, topic or potential authors of interest. (Please note that while we will do our best to pick an excellence selection of random items, we cannot guarantee that the content will meet your expectations. Parents should review random items before providing them to their children to ensure they match their own family’s values.)

**** Puzzles will be temporarily unavailable for check out at this time.

***** Patrons who are home-bound or have limited or no transportation please contact the library for assistance getting materials to you.

TO COMPLY AS BEST AS POSSIBLE WITH CDC SOCIAL DISTANCING RECOMMENDATIONS WE WILL NOT BE ACCEPTING WALK-IN REQUESTS AT THE DOOR.

Miss Beth reads the last few chapters of “Junie B., First Grader: Boss of Lunch” by Barbara Park!

Make a cardboard, rubber band musical instrument with Miss Beth! This is the final Art @ Home video of the Summer Reading Program!

Miss Beth reads chapters 4 – 6 of “Junie B., First Grader: Boss of Lunch” by Barbara Park!

The series finale of Dollhouse Fairy Tales tells the tale of two lonely children abandoned in the forest and left to the devices of an evil witch!

Watch Hansel and Gretel, performed by the Dollhouse Theatre Players. Rated PG for attempted cannibalism and murder.

And enjoy the entire season streaming now on Facebook and YouTube!

The Eisner Awards are prizes given for creative achievement in American comic books. Check out some of the 2020 nominees from the Vermillion Public Library today!

2020 Eisner Awards Nominees Available at the Vermillion Public Library

Best Publications for Early Readers:

• The Pigeon HAS to Go to School! by Mo Willems (P W)
• Who Wet My Pants? by Bob Shea (EF SHE)

Best Publications for Kids:

• Dog Man: For Whom the Ball Rolls by Dav Pilkey (GR PIL)
• Guts by Raina Telgmeier (GR TEL)
• New Kid by Jerry Craft (GR CRA)
• The Wolf in Underpants by Wilfrid Lupano (EF LUP)

Best Publications for Teens:

• Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass by Mariko Tamaki & Steve Pugh (GRAPHIC Tamaki)
• Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me by Mariko Tamaki & Rosemary Valero-O’Connell (GRAPHIC Tamaki)

Best Reality-Based Work:

• They Called Us Enemy by George Takei, Justin Eisinger, Steven Scott, and Harmony Becker (GRAPHIC Takei)

Best Adaptation from Another Medium:

• The Giver by Lois Lowry, adapted by P. Craig Russell (GRAPHIC Lowry)
• The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood, adapted by Renee Nault (GRAPHIC Atwood)

It’s our final Chapter Story Time book for the Summer Reading Program!Listen to Miss Beth read chapters 1 – 3 of “Junie B., First Grader: Boss of Lunch” by Barbara Park.

Something very wonderful is happening to Junie B. And it’s called—hurray, hurray!—she’s getting to be a professional lunch lady! And that means hanging out with Mrs. Gutzman in the cafeteria. And standing behind the counter. And even wearing a real actual hair net! Who knows? Pretty soon she could be the boss of the whole entire lunch operation!

Miss Beth reads Chapters 7 – 8 of “Junie B., First Grader (at last!)” by Barbara Park.