The library will be closed on Saturday, May 28th and Monday, May 30th for the Memorial Day holiday.

The Friends of the Meadville Public Library and RSVP will be holding their annual Spring Used Book Sale From May 5 to May 7, 2011 at the Barco-Duratz Building at 411 Chestnut Street. Hours are:

• Thursday, May 5: 4 pm to 8 pm
• Friday, May 6: 9:30 am to 5 pm
• Saturday, May 7: 9:30 am to 2:30 pm

Saturday is Bag Day, where books are $2 per bag or $3 per box.

For more information, call 336-1773 extension 309.

Brenna Thummler, a senior at Meadville High School and author of From Alligators to Zippers, will be signing copies of her book on May 7, 2011 starting at 2 pm in the Fiction Department.

Brenna wrote and illustrated From Alligators to Zippers for her Senior Project. The book uses the alphabet to highlight cultural and historical elements of Meadville and the surrounding area. Stop by to meet the author!

Meadville Public Library invites all children, young adults and families ages 0 to 100 to attend “We the People”, a free program on the Civil War.  This program will include information on local members of our community who played a part in the Civil War presented by local historian, Tom Barrett, of the Crawford County Civil War Roundtable, and feature members of the 150th PVI Bucktails Civil War re-enactors group, Civil War era games for kids and more.

The program will be held at the Meadville Public Library, 848 N. Main Street, Meadville, PA., on April 2, 2011 from 9 a.m. to12 p.m., with a special presentation at 10 a.m., by Tom Barrett of the Crawford County Civil War Roundtable.

The program is made possible by a gift awarded to the library through the We the People Bookshelf grant, which provided free hardcover editions of 17 classic books on the theme of “A More Perfect Union.”  The library also received bonus materials, including a DVD edition of “the Civil War,” the award-winning documentary by Ken Burns.  The grant was awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) in cooperation with the American Library Association.

For more information, see our We the People page.

Contemporary Authors, a guide to modern writers of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, journalism, drama, motion pictures and television, is once again available through the POWER Library. It supports Author or Title searching, as well as filters based on birth year, birth place, death year, death place, gender, nationality, and publication year.

The POWER Library is a collection of online resources available to public & school libraries in Pennsylvania. To access it, click the POWER Library logo in the sidebar of our website. If you’re using the POWER Library from home, you’ll need to log in with the POWER Code from the sticker on your library card plus your eight-digit library card number. If you don’t have a POWER Code sticker on your card, stop by the main desk and ask for one.