The Meadville Public Library will be offering free Internet classes. Improving Internet skills can be fun and easy and surfing the web this summer will be a breeze!
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Be Creative @ Your Library is the theme of this year’s Summer Reading club. All activities will have a “Creative“ theme and will bring out the budding artist in children.

The summer program is open to children from toddlers to those leaving 6th grade. This year’s Summer Reading club begins June 8th and lasts until August 7th. Incentives, activities and concerts will make this an inspiring nine weeks for the whole family.

Please visit our link for more information: Be Creative @ Your Library

Meadville Public Library to Offer Teen Summer Reading Program

Area teens, ages 18 and under, are invited to “Express Yourself @ Your Library” this summer by participating in the Meadville Public Library’s teen summer reading program from June 8th to August 7th. Teens are invited to come to the library and read for prizes as well as take part in special events offered throughout the summer.

Special events this summer will include crafts, booktalks, board games, a “Sing Your Own Song” program with Mary Lynne Peters, and a special end of the summer party with games, food and prizes. In addition to being able to enter the regular prize give-away each time a book is checked out (up to one entry per day), teens will have the opportunity to participate in three special drawings. To qualify for the special drawings, a teen may enter by writing a short book review or participating in the planned activities.

Schedule of Events:

July 6, 2009 – Create A Musical Instrument – 2:00 P.M.
July 13, 2009 – “Sing Your Own Song” with Mary Lynne Peters – 2:00 P.M.
July 15, 2009 – YA Drawing – Enter to Win Great Prizes
July 20, 2009 – Washi Bracelets, Keychains & Paper Beads – 2:00 P.M.
July 27, 2009 – Booktalk/Board Games – 2:00 P.M.
August 3, 2009 – Duct Tape Crafts – 2:00 P.M.
August 5, 2009 – YA Drawing – Enter to Win Great Prizes
August 7, 2009 – Last Day of SRC, Games, Activities, Prizes, Food & Fun – 2:00 P.M.

The Meadville Public Library’s “Express Yourself @ Your Library” teen summer reading program is sponsored by the Friends of the Meadville Public Library.

The Library will be closed on these following days in 2009:

• Independence Day: Saturday, July 4
• Labor Day: Saturday, September 5 and Monday, Sept. 7
• Veteran’s Day: Wednesday, November 11
• Thanksgiving Day: Close at 4pm on Wednesday, Nov. 25
  and closed Thursday, November 26
• Christmas: Close at 1pm on Thursday, December 24, and closed Friday, December 25 and Saturday, December 26
• New Year’s: Thursday, December 31

  First Summer Saturday is June 20, 2009.
  Last Summer Saturday is August 29, 2009.
  The Library will close at 2pm rather than 5pm on Summer Saturdays.

The 2009 Used Book Sale dates have been selected.

Thursday, November 5 from 4:00pm – 8:00pm
Friday, November 6 from 9:30am – 6:00pm
Saturday, November 7 from 9:30am – 2:30pm Bag Day all day

Book sales are held at the Helene Barco-Duratz Cultural Center at 411 Chestnut Street.