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Crane Branch Library

633 Elmwood Avenue
Buffalo, NY 14222 Map
716-883-6651

VOTED 2nd BEST LIBRARY BRANCH BY BUFFALO SPREE MAGAZINE BEST OF WNY 2007.

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Located on the northeast corner of Elmwood and Highland Avenues (one block south of West Ferry). Wheelchair accessible except for auditorium and rest rooms.

Public Access Computers: 11 Gateways, networked (printing 10 cents per page) Microsoft Office Applications, Internet Access, Misc. "What can I do at a Public Access Computer?"

Meeting Room, capacity 75. Black and white copies are available at 15 cents each and color copies are available at 50 cents each.

The Mezzanine Book Shop
now open - 2nd Floor
Monday 12 - 7:30
Wednesday 12 - 7:30
Saturday 10 - 5:30

Saturdays • 10 am Registration is required ... Please call the library!   July 12 • What bug are you? Insects make your skin crawl? See where bugs fit into your family tree! You might be more closely related than you think! July 19 • Bugcycles Have fun exploring these living transformers! You won't believe how much a creepy crawler can change in one lifetime! July 26 • Insect Incognito Hide and seek is a game of survival in the world of bugs. Create camouflage for your own crawlers, and hope that the predators pass them by! August 2 • Communication Nation Did you ever wonder if bugs talk? Find out what senses bugs use to communicate with one another. Use your senses of smell, touch, and sound to "talk" with an insect from your clan. August 9 • Friend or Foe? Do bugs bug you? Find out which bugs are helpful and which bugs are harmful. You may think twice about squishing that ant on the sidewalk this summer! August 16 • Bug Jeopardy Show off your knowledge! Answer questions about the amazing world of bugs. Win prizes!

Wordflight

The new monthly poetry series, Wordflight, returns to the Crane Branch of the Buffalo and Erie County Library at 633 Elmwood Avenue.

• This series features local poets and slots for open readers. Writers from the community, whether novice, emerging, or established, are invited to participate. Light refreshments will be served after the reading.
• The upcoming reading, titled "Flaming June" (a reference to the redhead in the famous Frederic Leighton Pre-Raphaelite painting of the same name), will feature poets Jennifer Campbell and Nava Fader on Monday, June 9, 2008, from 7 - 8:30 (note new time.) Sign up for open readings begins at 6:45.

Jennifer Campbell received a Master of Arts degree in English Literature from Buffalo State and is currently an English Professor at Erie Community College North. Her poetry has been published in A Hudson View Poetry Digest, Earth's Daughters, Skyline Magazine, The Buffalo News, and Artvoice. Her work has also been featured on www.PoetExpress.com and www.poetz.com. In 2006, she won second place in ByLine Magazine's "New Talent Poetry Contest" and received an honorable mention in Skyline Magazine's "Winter Poetry Contest." Her chapbook, The Many Colors of Sound , was released in 2007. She has work forthcoming in two anthologies featuring Western New York writers and an anthology called Mourning Sickness. She recently joined the editorial collective of Earth's Daughters magazine.

Nava Fader, an elementary school librarian, attended SUNY at Buffalo's Poetics Program, writing her master's thesis on Adrienne Rich. She has been published in No Tell Motel, Nedge, Muse Apprentice Guild, FourSquare, The Seneca Review, Shampoo, Moria, Womb, sidereality, Bird Dog, and seconds. She also has a poem in Earth's Daughters Magazine issue #72, "Splinters and Fragments."

(The Wordflight reading series at The Crane is sponsored by the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library and hosted & curated by ryki zuckerman. Please contact The Crane Library at 883-6651 for further information.)

The next scheduled holiday for this location is Monday, September 01, 2008 (Labor Day).

*Summer hours run from Memorial Day Weekend UNTIL Labor Day.

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NOTE: Only events occurring within the next 90 days are listed above.

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