New opportunities await the quite young and the more mature types this month. It is also time for the annual meeting and vote for trustees and a budget for the upcoming fiscal year beginning July 1.

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Disney ticket drawing

Kids up to sixth grade have a chance to color their way into four prime, up-front tickets to the Disney Live Three Classic Fairy Tales coming to the Olympic Center on Saturday, May 23.

It’s easy. All they need do is come to the library, ask for a Disney sheet to color and get it back by Thursday, May 21. There are plenty of crayons at the library for anyone who wants to do his or her coloring in the children’s room. While at the library, children are encouraged to get a library card, if they do not already have one, and to take out a book.

The winner will not be chosen for keeping-inside-the-line skills as all the artistic works will be placed in a box for a drawing on Friday, May 22 at 4 p.m. Entrants do not have to be present to win, so they should make sure your contact information is written where indicated on the back. The winner, who will receive all four tickets, will be immediately notified.

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Large Print eReaders

For those a bit older, the library now has two Kindles to loan thanks to the Lake Placid Lions Club. The e-reading tablets allow users to change the size of text so that it is much easier to see. Anyone who has a difficult time with regular size type is welcome to sign one out.

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Spring voting

May is always the month for the Lake Placid Public Library vote for the annual budget and election of trustees. All residents who are qualified to vote in Lake Placid Central School District are also able to vote on both the annual library budget and for candidates for the library board of trustees.

The annual meeting and voting will open at 10 a.m. and extend to 6 p.m. on Tuesday, May 12 at the library on Main Street.

A copy of the budget will be available the week before the vote.

Due to the death of a trustee, the resignation of another and the increase of board seats from five to seven, there will be five trustees to be voted on.

All are incumbent as four new people: John DiGiacomo, Keela Rogers, Nancy Shurtleff and Martha Bullock have already joined the board on a provisional basis and one, Beverley Reid, is up for the board seat she has occupied for many years.

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Computer instruction

A third session of Excel, to be taught again by Chris Lawrence, will be offered on Wednesday, June 3.

The exact time as well as a second computer class, with the concentration as yet undecided, will soon be released and posted on our calendar, which can be found on our website.

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Free Magazines on Flipster!

Now we have free magazines you can read online. Just go to our www.lakeplacidpubliclibrary.org website, click “Online Resources” and then Flipster. There’s something there for everyone: Quilters’ World, Atlantic, Creative Knitting, Running, American Craft, This Old House, Fine Gardening, Men’s Health and many more. You will need your library card number. Call 518-523-3200 if you can’t find it.

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A Saturday knit-in

A knitting event to benefit chemo patients was held at the library on April 11. As her senior project, Lake Placid High School student Nina Armstrong chose Knots of Love, a national organization devoted to encouraging knitters, to make soft hats, blankets, lap robes and other gifts for men, women and children undergoing treatment. Several people stopped by to leave finished garments, chat, enjoy refreshments and, of course, knit.

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Lake Placid Institute Book Club

This month’s choice is very relevant to what is occurring in several areas of the world today. “The Destruction of Memory: Architecture at War,” by Robert Bevan, concentrates on the attempts of cultures to erase the achievements of others through the destruction of buildings, a fitting theme in the age of ISIS.

Because of Memorial Day, the group, which normally meets the last Monday of each month, will gather at the library at 7 p.m. on Monday, June 1. All are welcome to attend.

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New books

Here is a small sampling from this month’s new books:

-Fiction: “Falling in Love,” by Donna Leon; “One Mile Under,” by Andrew Gross; “The Dead Play On,” by Heather Graham; “The Edge of Dreams,” by Rhys Bowen; “Blood on Snow,” by Jo Nesbo; “Hot Pursuit,” by Stuart Woods; “The Lady from Zagreb,” by Phillip Kerr; and “Emma,” by Alexander McCall Smith.

-Non-fiction: “Spring Chicken: Stay Young Forever or Die Trying,” by Bill Gifford; and “A Life in Politics from the Great Society to Same-Sex Marriage,” by Barney Frank.

-Juvenile fiction: “Echo,” by Pam Munoz Ryan; “Princess Academy: The Forgotten Sisters,” by Shannon Hale; “Shadow of the War Machine,” by Kristen Bailey; and “The Island of Dr. Libris,” by Chris Grabenstein.

-Children: Among our new favorites in the children’s department is “The Crown Affair” (nursery rhyme mysteries), by Jeanie Franz Ransom. Hardboiled detective Joe Dumpty, brother of Humpty, wades through annoying yolks and puns to crack the case of Jack’s (from the hill with Jill) crown.

A couple others are “Wolfie the Bunny,” by Anne Dyckman; “The Adventures of Beekle: The Unimaginary Friend,” by Dan Santat; and “Winnie: The True Story of the Bear Who Inspired Winnie the Pooh,” by Sally Walker.