Skype-a-Docent -- "Tour" the Fairfield Museum from the Fairfield Public Library

Visit the Fairfield Museum and History Center and explore nearly 400 years of Fairfield history from a seat in the Library’s Rotary Room! A docent will lead us inside a Native American wigwam, help us climb into a fort from the American Revolution and step onto a 19th century trolley. Learn how people worked, lived, and built communities over time. Skype is a video phone call, but when projected onto the large screen in the Library’s Rotary Room, it allows us to view exhibits up close.  We are also able to converse with the docent and ask questions as we tour.  Join us for this museum “visit” on Wednesday, January 15 from 1:00-2:00 pm at the Main Library, 1080 Old Post Road.  Registration is requested.
 
The Skype-a-Docent series will feature a different regional attraction each month through June of 2014. A new tour will take place on the second Wednesday of each month at 10:30 am in the Rotary Room at the Main Library.  The next tour will take us to the Mattatuck Museum of Art and History in Waterbury, Connecticut on Wednesday, February 12. Upcoming tours include the Housatonic Gallery, the Beardsley Zoo and the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum.
 
Skype-a- Docent is an extension of the Library’s Homebound Service that delivers Library books and other materials to residents, and has for over 20 years.  Last year over 1,200 items were delivered by volunteers to five senior living facilities and to individuals living in their own homes.  Now we are able to “deliver” tours of cultural interest to seniors and others who may not be able to travel out of town.  Skype-a- Docent tours are also offered by the Library at several senior living facilities in town.

Tours aren’t just for seniors, they are open to all.  So take an early lunch hour or join us while the children are in school.

A $5,000 Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grant for the Skype-a-Docent program was awarded to the Fairfield Public Library by the Connecticut State Library and approved by the Connecticut State Library Board. LSTA funds are provided through the Institute of Museum and Library Services (http://www.imls.gov), the primary source of federal support for the nation’s 123,000 libraries and 17,500 museums. The Institute's mission is to create strong libraries and museums that connect people to information and ideas.

All programs at the Fairfield Public Library are free, and open to everyone, but seating is limited.  To register or for more information, visit our website at www.fairfieldpubliclibrary.org, or call 203-256-3160. Follow the Fairfield Public Library on Twitter: www.twitter.com/fairfieldpublib and Facebook: www.facebook.com/fairfieldlibrary.