On Thursday, February 6, 2014 at 11:15am at the LaMott community center and designed for Children

Preschool Storytime

Stories, music and crafts for ages 1 to 4. At the Thursday, February 13 storytime the library/community center will be making a Valentine’s Day craft.

Saturday, December 14, 2013 at 2:00pm at La Mott

Family Movie Time

Bring your family to a

screening of a G-rated animated film.

Refreshments served.

2012 Income Tax Forms Are Now Available At The Library

I know that there is a big push by the IRS for people to file their taxes online but not everyone wants to do it that way - including myself!

The tax forms are now available at the LaMott Library. I can say this from personal experience because I just picked up some of them a few days ago. The 1040 forms are available as well as other tax forms that you may need such as Schedule C form. This is a form that I need because I work from home and am self-employed but there are other tax forms available if you need them.

I know that there are some that may consider filing their taxes online much more easier but there are just some cases where you may feel that you want to fill out and file your taxes using the paper forms and mailing it in and fortunately our local library has the forms available for you if you need them.

Better hurry though because April 16th (April 15th falls on a Sunday) will be here sooner than you think!

Event - Bessie Coleman, The First African American Woman To Become A Licensed Airline Pilot!

The LaMott Library and the LaMott Community Center will be celebrating Black History Month tonight with a performance by Dr. Daisy Century who will be portraying Bessie Coleman who was the first African American woman to become a licensed airplane pilot and the first American to hold an international pilot license!

This event is scheduled for tonight, February 22, 2012, at 7 pm at the LaMott Community Center Auditorium which is located inside the LaMott Community Center.

7420 Sycamore Ave.

LaMott, PA 19027

Light refreshments will be served following the program.

For more information you can call 215-635-4419 or 215-635-3255

Kill A Watt Electrical Meters Are Now Available At Library

Now you can manage your electric bill because Kill A Watt electrical meters are available at no charge from your public library. You can use these meters to caculate the cost of running appliances on a daily, weekly, monthy and annual basis.

You can find out more information about this by checking out the Cheltenham Township Library page and the LaMott Library page as well.

Pre-School StoryTime

Thursday, June 30, 2011

 at 11 am

 at the LaMott Library

(located in the LaMott Community Center)


Preschool Storytime

designed for Children


Stories, music and crafts for ages 2-4.

Now You Can Apply For A Library Card Online!

If you would like to apply online for a library card, just click here.

Once you receive your library card you will be able to use it at not only the LaMott library but you will also be able to use it at the other 3 libraries in the Cheltenham area as well.

Guitar Hero 5 Tournament!

On Monday, June 14, 2010 from 6 to 8 pm The LaMott Library will be having a designed for Children Gaming Day. Join us the LaMott Library for a 'Guitar Hero 5' Tournament and Video Game Showcase! REGISTRATION FOR 'Guitar Hero 5' BEGAN MAY 26 AND IS LIMITED TO THE FIRST 16 PEOPLE AGES 7 AND UP. A GameStop Gift Card will be awarded and light refreshments will be served. For more info please call 215-635-4419.

The LaMott Library is located inside the LaMott Community Center located at:

7420 Sycamore Ave. (La Mott Community Center)

La Mott, PA 19027

(215) 635-4419

An Afternoon Of Health And Wellness

The LaMott Library is proud to bring you an Afternoon of Health and Wellness. 2 Speakers Will Be Speaking Dr. Carole Simmons who will share an empowering story about her life as a 40 year vegetarian and how making Healthy Food Choces can positively impact the quality of your life. Ms. Sandra McAllister will be speaking in the area of Going Green with your household cleaning products. This even will be held at: May 22, 2010 from 1pm - 3pm at: The LaMott Library 7420 Sycamore Ave. Elkins Park, PA 19027

The Friends Of The LaMott Free Library

The Friends of the LaMott Free Library is a group of dedicated volunteers who believe the library is a vital part of the community. They work to champion the LaMott Free Library and its patrons by encouraging library awareness, sponsoring educational programs, fundraising and financing special purchases.

They welcome your membership and support.

For more information about the Friends, call the library at:

215-635-4419

You can also support the Friends of the LaMott Free Library by requesting and filling out a form and returning the form along with your contribution.

A Patron account is $50

A Contributing account is $25

However contributions of all amounts are welcomed.

Also please remember that your contribution is tax-deductible!

School Supply Drive!

The Cheltenham Township Library System will be holding a school supply drive from Sunday, April 18th through Saturday, April 24th.

The following items are needed:

• Pencils
  
  
• Paper
  
  
• Playdoh
  
  
• French/Spanish dictionaries
  
  
• Colored pencils
  
  
• Construction paper
  

• Children's memory games (without words or in Spanish)
  

• Glue
  
  
• Scissors
  

• Other school supplies (or small toys) appropriate for children ages 2-8

You can make a child's future brighter by dropping off these items at the LaMott Library.

Storytime For Children

On Thursday, April 29, 2010 at 11:15 am at the LaMott Library there will be a storytime hours designed for preschool children ages 3-5. Carolyn Turner-Harris, Branch Manager 7420 Sycamore Ave. (La Mott Community Center) LaMott, PA 19027 (215) 635-4419 LaMott is located just outside of Philadelphia and just inside Cheltenham Township

Please Participate In A Survey For Our Local Community Library

I was visiting our local LaMott library's website and I see that there is a link to a survey that they would like people to participate in. I took the survey myself. It is free and it won't cost you anything but a little bit of your time. It also has a suggestion / comment box at the end so that you can add your own comments and suggestions.

Personally I think that our local library is great and on a scale of one to ten it definitely ranks a ten!





Here is a link to the survey website:

Cheltenham Township Library System Survey

A Message From The Cheltenham Library System

It costs money to run free public libraries.


While we are busier than ever in this economic downturn, our state funding would be cut under both Governor Rendell's proposed budget and Senate Bill (SB) 850 proposed by the Senate Republicans. SB 850 would result in a 50% cut in state aid to public libraries and would eliminate programs such as the POWER Library. Its adoption would mean a loss of almost $200,000 for CTLS and severe cuts in programs that are provided by our library partners at the county and state levels. Cuts in state funding would also result in the loss of millions of dollars in federal library grants. There is a domino effect when budgets get cut.


We are a safety net for people who have lost their jobs and for families who are struggling to make ends meet. The bad news for Cheltenham Township residents is that cuts in funding translate to cuts in services.


Some rollbacks in services that we pass on will not be of our own making but will be a result of cuts to District Center and State library budgets. For example, delivery services that provide easy access to over 2 million items in library collections to all Montgomery County residents, are funded through our District Center in Norristown. The Philadelphia Inquirer, Tumblebooks, Reference USA, Learning Express and downloadable audiobooks are online resources that are provided at the county level.


The public library is a truly democratic institution. There is no fee to walk through the door or visit us online. Information and entertainment are readily available regardless of one's economic status.


If you believe libraries are more important than ever, we need your help. Please contact elected officials and request level funding for public libraries.


More information is available from the Pennsylvania Library Association. A comparison of the budget proposals is also available on their website along with an explanation of the issues. It is so important that people who use and love libraries speak up!

Thank you.


Link to Budget Comparisons:
Link to Budget Comparison .pdf file

* Please be advised that this is a link to a .pdf file.

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Link to find your Legislator:
http://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/legis/home/session.cfm

Link to Pennsylvania Library Association: http://www.palibraries.org

The Cheltenham Township Library System's Facebook Page

The LaMott Library Will Be Closed This Labor Day Weekend

Thought that I would just give you a friendly reminder that our LaMott library will be closed this Labor Day weekend. It will be open tomorrow - Friday - but it won't be open on Saturday.

If you have one of the community calendars then you will see this noted for the Labor Day weekend. (And since I'm blogging about this I should also mention that since it will be a holiday weekend - including Monday - that the trash pickups will be a day later.)

If you don't have one of the community calendars for our area you should be able to pick one up at the community center. They are free and they list all the events and happenings in the LaMott / Cheltenham area.

If you think that everyone would already know that our library would be closed this holiday weekend then you would be wrong! I, myself remember going to the library on one beautiful Saturday afternoon to return some library books and found out that the library was closed for the weekend. And as I walked down the steps to start walking back home, up came a van with 2 women who were also returning some library books and they didn't know that the library was closed either.

I guess that's just a sign of how much we love our local library - we always think that it will be open - LOL!

But the staff that works there deserve to have some time off to enjoy the holiday weekend because they do work hard and I think they love the library about just as much as we the residents do!

I Just Renewed My Library Books Online!

With things going on I haven't been able to get to our local LaMott library. Actually I found out that its been some years since I have been there! But you have to face the fact that when things are going on in your life you can only do what you can do! Besides this gave me the most pleasant experience of re-visiting our local community library!

Of course our library is located inside the community center.

The LaMott Library

7420 Sycamore Ave.

La Mott, PA 19027

(215) 635-4419

Hours of Operation

Monday, Wednesday: 3-8:30pm

Tuesday: 2-6pm

Thursday: 10am-6pm

Friday: 3-6pm

Saturday: 12-4pm

I have to admit that even though the LaMott library is smaller than the other libraries I would never go anywhere else unless I really HAD to! The library is packed and filled to the brims with books, tapes, newspapers and other kinds of publications! I just LOVE it there!

There are also computers that the residents can use during the library hours. You must sign in before you can use the computers but even that you can do via the computer!

On my last visit there I checked out some books and I didn't realize that the due date was coming so soon! They sent me an email to remind me that the due date was coming up and in the email it mentioned that I could renew my books online so I decided to try it out! It was quite fun and quite convenient to be able to renew my library books from home which at the time just happened to be on a Sunday (when the library is closed) and a very hot Sunday at that!

If you have not been to our local library then you do not know what you are missing!

The LaMott Free Library Website

It's Still Winter!

The weather is oh-so-cold, the wind is blowing and yesterday we had a lot of heavy rain! But perhaps this picture will remind us of what we have to look forward to as far as warmer weather is concerned.

This is the area just past the LaMott Community Center. I took it some time ago and it was probably during one of my excursions to the LaMott library. The community center kind of takes up a whole block - sort of. In LaMott, Cheltenham its located on Willow Avenue, but also on Sycamore and I guess you could say that the back of it is on Graham Lane. I believe Graham Lane stretches from the LaMott Firehouse #1 all the way down to Sycamore and this picture was taken near Sycamore and Graham Lane - which is probably about 3 or 4 blocks long. All the houses on Graham Lane don't look like these houses. The houses in this picture are located on only one side of the street. As you go further down Graham Lane there are houses on both sides of the street.

But it does look quite peaceful doesn't it?

Our Little Local Library - The LaMott Library

I got the cutest little email from someone that works at our local library - The LaMott Library. He expressed his thanks for me putting the library hours on my LaMott Page.

Actually its called The LaMott Free Library

also included is The LaMott Community Center (in the same building)

7420 Sycamore Avenue
LaMott, PA 19027
215-635-4419

lamott@mclinc.org

Our library may not be the biggest but it is definitely the most friendly!