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Welcome to your library news update!
Thank you to everyone who contributed to the Topside Cares fundraiser for the Friends of the Library. Donations totaled 5,195.67! The Friends' membership month has begun, and you'll want to join or renew in April to get special membership-month rewards. The Friends invite you to their annual meeting on April 15 at 6:30pm, featuring special guest author Debra Freeman, who will be speaking on African American culinary history. Refreshments will be served.
Experience the 4/8 solar eclipse with the library. We're meeting at Salem Church Branch for a viewing party with fun activities on the day of the event.
Audiobooks are a popular way to enjoy engaging writing, and we have a list of 2024 Audie Award finalists for adults that are perfect to download for working out, commuting, or just relaxing.
Spring holidays continue through April, and our Grow a Reader special, Eid al-Fitr, features stories and songs and will be held at Fredericksburg (4/9) and Howell (4/10) branches.
The library is the perfect place to learn new things! IdeaSpace offers free training (called badging) on its machines to help you design and create. This month, we're featuring the embroidery machine.
Blue Gray Therapy Dogs will be joining us this spring for two kinds of programs. PAWS for Reading is a chance for elementary school-aged students to practice their reading skills, while Time with a Therapy Dog gives teens and adults with disabilities the opportunity to relax with kind canines. Sign up for either program at your branch.
On 4/16, the online We the Readers Civic Book Club will discuss No Place, by Todd Strasser, a story about a teen and his family who experience homelessness, with special guest Meghann Cotter, Executive Servant-Leader for Micah Ecumenical Ministries.
At Fredericksburg Branch, we are hosting Memory Café on 4/19. Those experiencing early stage dementia and their caregivers are invited for a special gathering, held in partnership with the Alzheimer's Association. A similar program is offered quarterly at Salem Church Branch, as well.
April is National Poetry Month, and you can celebrate it by discovering poetry books and attending readings, including a Celebration of Poetry on 4/6 at Howell Branch. We have phenomenal picture book poetry for children, as well as eBook and eAudio editions of stories written in verse for teens. For creative teens, our annual Claudia Emerson Teen Poetry Contest is accepting entries online through 4/15 and offers cash prizes, courtesy of the Friends of the Library.
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