United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Exhibit
Gainesville Sun Article - 04/09/10- Yom Hashoah will expand its focus this year
Independent Florida Alligator - 04/11/10 - Memorial program focuses on gay Holocaust victims
Jongleur Jugglers
Enjoy the entertainment and amazing juggling feats of the Jongleur Jugglers. This dynamic duo make audiences laugh with their humorous antics and amaze all with their masterful juggling using balls, rings, pins and watch out for the knives!
- Saturday, June 11, 2:00PM - Millhopper Branch
- Monday, June 13, 3:00PM - Headquarters
- Wednesday, June 15, 2:00PM - Newberry Branch
- Wednesday, June 22, 3:00PM - The Library Partnership
- Tuesday, June 28, 3:00PM - Waldo Branch
- Tuesday, July 5, 2:30PM - High Springs Branch
- Thursday, July 14, 3:30PM - Tower Road Branch
The Great Jodini
Jodini's Wonderful World of Magic presents a 40 minute fast-paced, magic performance where youngsters learn about the fascinating countries and cultures on our planet. Jodini reaches into her bag of tricks to take children on a fun filled tour of Africa, Australia, India, Italy and other countries. Her show is filled with magic, music, live animals and lots of audience participation. Grab your passport and be prepared to be amazed!
2011-2012 Voluntary Pre-K Enrollment
VPK programs offer free childcare to 4-year-old children throughout the State of Florida. Each program must provide developmentally appropriate instruction with activities to help your child get ready for Kindergarten. VPK programs can be found in a variety of settings including the Alachua County Schools, private childcare centers, faith-based providers and home childcare providers who have been approved as VPK providers through the State. Click here for a list of VPK providers for the 2011-2012 school year. Some providers will also have a summer 2011 VPK program, registration for summer is going on at the ELCAC office throughout March.
Friends Spring 2011 Book Sale
The Friends of the Library, serving the Alachua County Library District, will hold its annual spring book sale from Saturday, April 16, to Wednesday, April 20, 2011.
Workshop for interested vendors
See the complete press release at the County website: http://www.alachuacounty.us/Depts/Communications/Pages/Detail.aspx?itemID=1368
Teen Tech Week: March 6th - 12th
The Library District is celebrating Teen Tech Week with several interactive programs:
March's Featured Database: Reference USA
Offering a full-service platform, ReferenceUSA helps users create marketing plans, conduct competitive analysis, raise funds and locate people. Our database selections and real-time access to more than 20 Million Businesses, 222 Million Consumers, U.S. New Businesses, U.S. New Homeowners and Movers, make research easy and fast! ReferenceUSA™s quality information helps researchers, students and job-seekers answer a wide variety of questions, and saves them valuable time and money.
Sacred Steel: Inside an African-American steel guitar tradition
Saturday February 26th, 2:00PM - Tower Road Branch
Eastside Community Redevelopment Workshop
You are invited to attend a workshop on Feburary 17th to discuss the Eastside Community Redevelopment Area (CRA).
A CRA is a defined sub-area of a city or county that is targeted for revitalization and economic development by a Community Redevelopment Agency, whose objective is to provide a foundation and mechanism for stimulating investment and fostering job and income growth in the com-munity.
Thursday - February 17, 2011 @ 5:30 P.M. - Compassionate Outreach Ministries, 320 SE 43rd Street, Gainesville, Florida
Schedule changes for the Mobile Health Clinic
There are some major changes to the Mobile Clinic schedule during the month of February and several things in the works for the near future.
1. The Mobile Clinic has extended the hours in High Springs to 10AM to 4PM on Mondays.
Legislative Delegation Hearing on January 31st
To all Citizens,
The Alachua County Legislative Delegation will be holding a hearing on Monday, January 31st from 10 a.m. – 12 noon at The Thomas Center in Gainesville. The purpose of this hearing is to discuss and take public testimony on whether to file legislation that seeks to create a commission to determine the merits of having a citizen referendum to merge the Gainesville Police Department and the Alachua County Sheriff’s Office.
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Micanopy Library reopens January 18th
It is true; the Micanopy Library will be reopening on Tuesday, January 18th. You will notice some fairly significant changes in the library including a new layout, more computers, laptop stations, and most noticeably a new paint color! While there have been a lot of changes to the building you will also notice that we're not quite done with the finishing touches. The Library District wanted to ensure that patrons were not deprived of the use of the facility while we were waiting on some of the new furniture items to arrive, so please pardon our dust as we continue to make improvements over the next few weeks.
High School Intern Program
High School Juniors and Seniors: Check Out Great Careers @ Your Library!
Find out about the library's 9 week paid internship each semester: 10 hours per week; 10 students maximum per semester. 
Applications due Friday at 5PM
The Alachua County Library District Governing Board encourages all interested citizens to apply for three vacancies, effective March 31, 2011, on the Alachua County Library District Board of Trustees. Applications must be signed and mailed or delivered to Headquarters Library Administration by 5:00 pm, Friday, January 14, 2011.
The Library Board of Trustees is a citizen volunteer board which is part of the Library District governing structure. The seven citizens who serve as Board of Trustees members are appointed by the Governing Board. The Board of Trustees is made up of three Alachua County representatives, three City of Gainesville representatives and one Alachua County League of Cities representative.
Rebuilding Haiti
Communities across the country and throughout the world take a moment to pause and reflect on the impact caused by the January 2010 earthquake in Haiti.
Find recent articles online by entering "Haiti" in the search bar at the top of the page, then select "Arcicles" from the dropdown menu.
Recent articles include:
"Abbott, PIH join forces to fight malnutrition in Haiti." M2 Pharma 10 Jan. 2011.
think...Jobs
The program calendar for January, February and March is now available online.
For the most up to date information about Library District programs please visit the Events page of the eBranch where you can create a customized calendar list by selecting one or more locations, event types, or age groups. Then print, email, automatically add events to your Outlook calendar, or send yourself email reminders.
With LearningExpress Library,™ you can: 2010 National Film Registry Announced
The year 2010 will mark yet another December to remember in film preservation. Librarian of Congress James H. Billington named 25 motion pictures this week—Hollywood classics, documentaries and innovative shorts reflecting genres from every era of American filmmaking—to the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress.
Holiday closings
Remember, if you are going away for the holidays, you can suspend your holds without losing your place in the queue by logging into your account. If you need help please watch the online Enhanced Holds tutorial.
Florida author Paul Reyes: Exiles in Eden
*This event is made possible through the support of the Alachua County Friends of the Library www.folacld.org
Join us for an afternoon reading with Floridian Paul Reyes in celebration of his newly-published book Exiles in Eden: Life Among the Ruins of Florida’s Great Recession. December 11th at 1:00PM.
November 2nd is Election Day
Millhopper and Tower Road branches host early voting for the November 2nd election.
Gainesville Sun article - published 10/29/10 - Today is last chance to vote early
The Tweet about your library today!
Follow a library on Twitter on Oct. 1
What would happen if each person on Twitter would tweet about a favorite library? Millions of people worldwide would learn about the great things libraries do. October 1 has been declared the Follow a Library on Twitter day. Libraries worldwide are participating, and Alachua County Library District is no exception.
How does it work?
Participating is very simple: Tweet on October 1st about favorite twittering libraries and include the hashtag #followalibrary. If you’re new to Twitter, hashtags are keywords that help people find tweets on favorite topics.
Revisiting ‘Unseen America'
Gainesville Sun article - published 09/19/2010 - Revisiting "Unseen America"
"Two years ago, Mohamed-Eslam Mohamed joined a large group of his fellow Muslims at Kanapaha Park to celebrate Eid, the three-day holiday that marks the end of the month-long fast Ramadan.
Men and women talked and laughed. Children played. And Mohamed captured it all on his camera for a national photography project called "Unseen America," which aims to shows the lives of people and groups misrepresented, ignored or stereotyped by mass society.
'100 Best' places fighting dropout crisis
CNN Opinions- published 09/21/2010 - '100 Best' places fighting dropout crisis
The efforts of Alachua County civic and community leaders were honored today when America’s Promise Alliance (the Alliance), the nation’s largest partnership organization dedicated to youth and children, announced Alachua County had been named a winner of the Alliance’s 100 Best Communities for Young People (100 Best) competition. Its 2010 recognition marks the first win for Alachua County in the competition.
Imagining the Library: Books in Public Life from Late Antiquity to the Digital Age
In light of the enormous impact of digitized texts (eBooks) and other forms of electronic media on the ways in which we today collect, organize, and circulate knowledge, it is in our general welfare to understand the role that written culture has historically played. To help spread awareness of the long-term repercussions of the forces affecting the future of books and the public’s access to them, this speaker series approaches the subject of libraries, print culture, and digitization from a variety of historical, geographical, and disciplinary perspectives.
