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Juniors have just lived a harrowing experience vicariously through their senior friends. Now it's time for high school juniors and their parents to embrace or guard against the onslaught of college applications. Depending upon one's view, this can be an exhilarating time or one of abject fear. The library is presenting a seminar tonight at 7:30 that may help calm some nerves. The College Application Year - How You and Your Teenager Can Survive Each Other presented by Janet Bertoldi, Ph.D. examines issues that parents and their college-bound teenagers face during senior year, especially as it relates to developmental tasks of late adolescence. Dr. Bertoldi, a licensed clinical psychologist, will address anxiety over the application process, teenage procrastination, balancing parental involvement, handling acceptance and rejection letters and the dreaded "senioritis." Parents and students are welcome. There is no charge for the program. Advance registration is suggested. Call 762-3950 or register online.

On Sunday, June 5 from 12 to 1, Jeanne Corrigan, former library trustee and author of The Wilton Library: The First Hundred Years will present a history of the library in the talk, One Hundred Years of the Wilton Library. With the library poised for its move into the new wing and with the renovation of the existing building primed for this summer, Ms. Corrigan's talk gives perspective on the first one hundred years as the library begins a new phase in its second one hundred years. Her presentation, which is open to the public, follows an 11:30 a.m. reception for library volunteers. There is no charge for the program. Call 762-3950 or register online.

Also this Sunday at 2 p.m., Ben Van Vechten leads the discussion of The Voice in the Poem. This seminar is an interactive session amongst all the participants who will be discussing poetry by Emily Dickinson, Thomas Hardy, Langston Hughes and others. The selected poems are available at the front desk in a packet prepared specifically for this gathering. Mr. Van Vechten is a popular guest lecturer at the library who provides a poetry seminar each year and who will be leading a lecture series entitled Five Poets starting in September. There is no charge for this program. Advance registration is suggested. Call 762-3950 or register online.

Audiobook narrator and actor George Guidall is the guest speaker for the Friends of the Wilton Library 110th annual meeting on Sunday, June 12 at 4 p.m. The annual meeting will have a brief business agenda including the election of officers, award presentations and a building expansion update. After Mr. Guidall's talk, hard hat tours will be available for those who want to see the new expansion. The annual meeting is open to the community. The library will close on Sunday, June 12 at 4 to accommodate the meeting.

Daryl Beyers, garden writer, lecturer and teacher at the New York Botanical Garden, provides an entertaining look at gardens in literature during the seminar Garden Literature on Tuesday, June 14 at 7 p.m. Mr. Beyers discusses authors such as Karel Kapek, Beverly Nichols and Jamaica Kincaid and how gardens and horticulture invariably inform, inspire and produce important works of literature. There is no charge for the program. Advance registration is suggested. Call 762-3950 or register online.

On Thursday, June 16 the library and St. Matthew's Church are co-sponsoring a bus trip to The Cloisters. The Cloisters is part of the Metropolitan Museum of Art dedicated to the art and architecture of medieval Europe. Joan Kaskell, Met lecturer, discusses The Cloisters at the library from 9 - 10 before the bus departs. The fee is $40 per person which includes the bus and admission to The Cloisters. Lunch is not included. Bus reservations are on a first-come, first-serve basis due to limited seating. Advance registration and payment is required. The bus leaves the library at 10 and departs New York by 4. For information, call 762-3950.