Beanstack Outage
The platform that hosts the Beanstack website and app, along with thousands of other websites and apps worldwide, is suffering an outage. As a result, Beanstack may be unavailable or slow to load.
You can download and print a copy of our Paper Reading Log to track your reading until this issue is resolved. If you have any questions, please reach out to us! We are happy to help!
Level Up at Your Library is Here!
Our annual Summer Reading Program has officially begun! IPDPL offers three different summer reading challenges so readers can choose the challenge that best suits them:
- Read to Me: for beginning and emerging readers (reading goal = 50 books)
- Casual Readers: for busy readers without a lot of time (reading goal = 25 hours)
- Avid Readers: for passionate readers who are all in (reading goal = 50 hours)
Head to Beanstack online or the Beanstack Tracker app on your device to join the program and choose your challenge!
Makerspace - Cricut Station (GH)
Maximum Capacity
Library Branch
The Cricut Maker can cut many different types of material quickly and accurately. The fine-point blade is perfect for most paper or cardstock projects. Adding markers allows users to draw and then cut their designs, from gift tags to personalized cards. IPDPL maintains a subscription to the Cricut Design Space catalog of projects so patrons can recreate an existing design, or use the design tools to create an original project.
Equipment
IPDPL provides a variety of tools and accessories for patrons to use with the Cricut. We do not provide any consumable materials. Makerspace users are responsible for providing their own paper, cardstock, vinyl, or HTV.
Available Cutting Blades:
- Fine-Point Blade - for use with paper, cardstock, poster board, vinyl, iron-on, and other thin to medium-weight materials
- Rotary Blade - for use with fabrics and other soft, delicate, or less-dense materials, such as tissue paper and cork
Available Cutting Mats:
- Light Grip (Blue) - for use with lightweight materials - common office paper, light cardstock, vellum, and more
- Standard Grip (Green) - for use with most materials - cardstock, adhesive vinyl, standard HTV (iron-on), and more
- Strong Grip (Purple) - for securing heavyweight materials - specialty cardstock, glitter cardstock, specialty adhesive vinyl, specialty HTV (iron-on), chipboard, and fabric with stiffener
- Fabric Grip (Pink) - combines increased strength, density, and quality plus a light adhesive to create beautiful cuts with a wide variety of fabrics (use only with Rotary Blade)
- 2x2 Card Mat - specialty mat for greeting cards
Available Tools:
- Brayer - for secure application of materials to cutting mats
- Precision Tweezers
- Scoring Stylus - for making fold lines on paper and cardstock
- Small Scissors
- Small Scraper
- Weeding Tool
Pens and Markers:
- Cricut 0.4 mm tip pens (red, yellow, green, blue, black)
- Cricut 1.0 mm tip metallic pens (gold, silver, copper, blue, violet)