Summer Reading Wrap-Up

• We thank everyone who made this year’s summer reading program a huge success! Submit your challenge cards, booklets, and reading tickets by August 8 to enter your submissions to our grand prize drawings for all age groups!

Program Schedule

Adults

• Unearthing Soil: Composting and Soil Testing Talk | August 6 @ 5:30
• Trivia Night | August 11 @ 6:00
  • Pre-Registration Required
  • 2-6 players ages 16+ per team

Teens

• Join us on Wednesdays at 3:00, all summer long!
  • 08/05- Paper Flowers

Children

• Weekly Story Times:
  • Tues. & Wed. – Preschool @ 11:00
  • Thurs. – Baby & Toddler @ 11:00
• Weekly ALL Age Program:
  • Thursday, August 6 & Thursday, August 13 @ 1:00

Erie Gives

• Tuesday, August 11
  • Online: Midnight to Midnight or Phone: 8:00 am- 8:00pm
• Consider donating on Erie Gives Day! McCord Library, along with several other non-profits, rely on the generosity of our community. Your donation will go directly to the library. Every gift makes a difference! Your generosity makes all of this – and so much more – possible! Thank you!
• Give online at: eriegives.org

McCord Fun Facts

In 2025 at McCord:

• 37,784 items were borrowed
• Patrons saved over $900,000 by checking out materials
• The library hosted 250 in-person programs
• 20,800 people visited
• The library was open 2,214 hours

Dial-A-Story

• New story every week! Call 814-347-8318. Listen to stories on Line 1 and chapter books on line 3

August Stories:

• 08/02: Dinosaur Lady
• 08/09: Make Way for Ducklings
• 08/16: Queen of France
• 08/23: Kindergarten Gets Ready
• 08/30: On the Night Before Kindergarten

Chapter Books:

• Beezus and Ramona by Beverly Cleary, Final Chapter
• Stuart Little by E.B. White