WOODSTOCK – Jane Mills has been named a new trustee of the Whitman Memorial Library, filling the position left by Valerie Billings.

The library will have as a guest speaker at 10 a.m. Thursday, April 12, Pat Verrill of West Paris, who will discuss organic gardening. The program is free to all.

The week of April 16 is National Library Week, and the library is planning activities then.

Wendy Bertrand, a registered Maine Guide, will lead a program for children age 7 and older on Thursday afternoon, April 19. There will be hiking at the Maine Conservation Camp followed by crafts and refreshments at the library. The group will learn about Maine critters.

Information will be given out at the Woodstock Elementary School. It will also be available at the library. There will be a limit of 12 students, and adult chaperones are welcome.

That same evening there will be an open house at the library from 6 to 7 p.m., with a musical program featuring the Finnish lap harp, or Kantele. Three members of the Kantele group will perform.

Cross stitch-pictures, done by Mimi Gray of South Woodstock, will be on display until the end of April.

The library has the following new children’s books on hand: “Charlotte’s Webb,” E.B. White; “The Trumpet Swan,” Fred Marcellino.

Adult books: “Ever After,” Karen Kingsbury; “The Ravenscar Dynasty,” Barbara Taylor Bradford; “The Audacity of Hope,” Barak O’Bama; “The Gods of Newport,” John Jakes; “The Wild Girl,” Jim Fergus; “Lethal Justice,” Fern Michaels; “Step on a Crack,” James Patterson; “Looking for a Miracle,” Wanda Brunstetter; “The Edge of Winter,” Loanne Rice; “Nineteen Minutes,” Jodi Picoult.