Gainesville Celebrates its 28th Year as a Tree City USA with an Arbor Day Celebration
In 1983 Gainesville received the Tree City USA designation because of the combined efforts of the City Beautification Board, the City Parks Division, and the Florida Division of Forestry. Each year the CBB renews its designation. This month the city of Gainesville will celebrate its 28th year as a Tree City USA by planting 56 shade trees, four 300-gallon southern magnolia trees by the water fountain at the Thomas Center, six bluff oak along University Avenue, and 46 shade trees at the Historic Evergreen Cemetery.
There will also be a free celebration of Arbor Day 2012 on the Historic Thomas Center grounds Thursday, Jan. 26, 2012 from 12 noon-1pm. Come for a free tour of the Thomas Center Gardens from 11:30-11:50am and enjoy music and light refreshments. For additional information, please contact Earline Luhrman at 352-393-8188, or visit the City Beautification Board website.
Become a Florida tree aficionado and check out these books to learn more about our beautiful Florida trees:
Big trees: the Florida register
Florida Champion Tree Survey lists the largest trees of various kinds, their common and Latin names, their size and location.
System status
A new library system and online catalog will debut on May 30. Here's the current status of:
- Checkouts: May 24-29 you must have your physical library card in hand to check out materials.
- Due dates: All checkouts will have a due date of June 22, except DVDs and GRU watt meters, which still have 7-day limit.
- Holds and requests: New holds and purchase requests cannot be placed until May 30, but those placed previously will continue to be processed.
- Returns: Please "Babysit Our Books" — keep them until the new system is running smoothly (mid-June).
- Registration: Continues as usual today, but cannot be done May 24-29, as our entire system will be down.
- Interlibrary loan: Continues as usual throughout the transition.
- Digital checkouts: OverDrive checkouts and holds will work normally throughout the transition.
- My Discoveries: Will be retired with the AquaBrowser catalog on May 24. Please retrieve any saved book lists before then.
- Website: The Library District website (www.aclib.us) will be up as normal throughout the transition.
- My Account: Account info will be available through May 24. Your account will appear on the new system on May 30.
- Bill payment: All payments including PayPal are working today. No payments can be accepted May 24-29
- New catalog: Watch for its debut on May 30, with new features.
More about the transition.
More about the new online catalog.
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