You have access to the Lake Wales Public Library 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. |
|
READ Lake Wales 2022
The Lake Wales Public Library invites library patrons, 18 years of age and older to participate in the READ Lake Wales 2022 Challenge. Participants must be a library card holder from the Polk County Library Cooperative.
The READ Lake Wales 2022 Challenge requires that participants complete fifty books between January 1, 2022 and December 9, 2022. Print, electronic and audio books are all accepted for entries.
Participants may request an official READ Lake Wales 2022 reading log and rules from the Lake Wales Public Library. Participants may also request a fillable book log via email. Each entry must include a brief comment, review or overview of the book.
Once fifty books are read and entered in the reading log, return the completed reading log to the Lake Wales Public Library. Additional logs may be completed and returned for additional drawing entries. One entry for each completed 50 title log.
Logs must be returned to the Lake Wales Public Library, with 50 entries no later than 4 p.m., December 9, 2022 to be eligible for the prize drawings.
Books read prior to January 1, 2022 are not eligible for READ Lake Wales 2022.
A drawing will be held at 5:00 p.m., December 9, 2022. Several prizes will be awarded, including the grand prize of a $200 Visa Gift Card.
READ Lake Wales 2022 is made possible by the generous sponsorships of the Lake Wales Library Association and Florida’s Natural Growers Foundation.
For information, to request the complete READ Lake Wales rules and Reading Log, call 863-678-4004 or email library@lakewalesfl.gov.
|
|
Upcoming Classes & Programs |
|
Class sizes are limited, pre-registration is required. Walk-ins will not be accepted in any of these classes. Register by calling, 863-678-4004, ext. 221. Classes with fees must be paid prior to the class.
-
Chair Yoga Class - Tuesdays, 12 until 1 p.m. - Class is limited to 10 students. Fee = $5 per class (January's Tuesday classes 4 seats open. No class Tuesday, January 18.)
-
Chair Yoga Class - Wednesdays, 1 until 2 p.m. - Class is limited to 10 students. Fee = $5 per class (January's Wednesday classes 2 seats open. No class Wednesday, January 12.)
-
Jigsaw Puzzle Group - Bi-Monthly - January Meet-Ups - Friday, January 7 and Friday, January 21 - 11 a.m. until 12 p.m. - Each person will be given a section of a puzzle to work on and then attach all the sections together for a completed puzzle. - Free
-
Spanish for Beginners - Saturdays, 10:30 a.m. until 12 p.m.- January 15 through February 19. Class is limited to 10 pre-registered students. Fee = $5 for six-class series - one seat available.
This series is sponsored by the Lake Wales Library Association and Florida’s Natural Growers Foundation. For details call 863-678-4004 or email library@lakewalesfl.gov.
|
|
|
|
Tuesday, January 25, 2022, 6 p.m. Night Owls Book Discussion - Everything Beautiful in Its Time by Jenna Bush Hager - LW Public Library, 678.4004
Thursday, January 27, 2022 11 a.m. Thursday Morning Book Discussion - My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry - by Fredrik Backman - LW Public Library, 678.4004
|
|
Ancestry.com Free Remote Access is Ending
Since the spring of 2020 Ancestry.com generously provided access to their library edition from remote locations. Ancestry's Library Edition is available within libraries only, but with the onset of the Covid19 pandemic they provided the genealogy database to users outside library walls.
This extended service will end on December 31, 2021. Users will be required to visit a Polk County Library Cooperative site to use Ancestry.com's free Library Edition.
The Lake Wales Public Library provides HeritageQuest, an excellent genealogy database to our library patrons. HeritageQuest is comparable to Ancestry.com and is available for usage outside the library.
To access HeritageQuest visit Lake Wales Public Library's Databases and select the H tab, then HeritageQuest. You must have your Polk Co. Library Card available, and your home library must be Lake Wales. For information call 863-678-4004.
|
|
LW Public Library's Intelligent Locker System
The Lake Wales Public Library's Intelligent Locker System is is located at our Main Entrance, this locker system allows safe access to their requested items 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Here are the four basic steps to use the system.
Select Lake Wales Lockers as your Pick-up Location when placing a hold.
Receive notification via text or email when your hold is available.
Pick-up your materials by entering your library card number at the monitor, the locker door will open.
Check out is complete when the locker door opens.
|
|
|
|
Fridays - Needlework Group - 9:00 a.m. - Meeting Room
Fridays - Knitting & Crochet Group - 2:00 p.m. - Meeting Room
1st Friday Monthly - Genealogy Group - 11:30 a.m. (bring your own device if available) - Meeting Room
Friday - Twice Monthly - Jigsaw Puzzle Group - Jan. 7 & Jan. 21 - 11:00 a.m. - Library's Quiet Study Area
Friday, January 7 - Blood Banks of MidFlorida Bloodmobile - 1 - 4 p.m. - Library Parking Lot
Saturday, February 5 - DIY Craft Class - Create Your Own Illuminated Bottle - 1:30 - 3:30 p.m. - Register by calling 863-678-4004
|
|
Garden Lane Pass Program
Bok Tower Gardens and the Lake Wales Library Association have partnered to create a unique program that allows library patrons to check out passes to Bok Tower Gardens for up to four adults and up to six children.
The Garden Lane Pass provides a one week gate pass to adult card holders, in good standing. Restrictions on some services apply.
For details on additional discounts, or restrictions that apply to the Garden Lane Pass call 863.678.4004 or email library@lakewalesfl.gov.
|
|
Lake Wales Public Library's Local Artist Gallery - January 2022
The Lake Wales Public Library is honored to exhibit the works of Lake Wales photographer, Karen Pickles. Karen's photography will be displayed in the Local Artist Gallery January 3 - January 31.
Karen's photographs focus on scenes from nature, particularly butterflies.
The Lake Wales Public Library's Local Artist Gallery is the oldest, continuous public art gallery in Lake Wales. Beginning with the opening of the Cypress Garden Lane library in 1960, there's been monthly art exhibits focusing on local talent since.
View Karen Pickle's photography exhibit six days a week, during regular hours of operation.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
