Wow, it’s a new year, 2009 is gone and we are facing 2010. Actually we are well in to the new year with January over and February around the bend. With February there comes Valentines Day, what is more special then to curl up with that loved one and read a story to them or together. It makes the book come alive to share with others. We have lots of great books available from romance to mystery and fiction to science fiction, whatever your pleasure I’m sure you can locate a book to read.

The Eula Hunt Beck Florence Public Library is inviting everyone to attend our Spring Lecture Series starting February 9th at 6:30 p.m. The Lectures include:

February 9th   Bats in our Community    Glenna Teltow reveals the nighttime life of bats!

February 16th   Come listen to some toe-tappin’ Old Time Country Music    performed by Buddy Ferguson and Harold Harton  (Our community’s best polished musicians)

February 23rd     Wayne Rhoden, Past President of the Williamson County Master Gardeners will talk on Building a Raised Bed Garden, planning, building, selecting plants, irrigation, and maintenance.

March 2nd   Listen to the History of Country Music presented by the Country Combo,  musicians: Buddy Ferguson, Max Fry and Wayne Smith

Everyone is invited to attend this free series beginning at 6:30 p.m. Bring your family and friends and join us for four evenings of great stories, new insights, refreshments, and fun!

Christmas is upon us, the weather is cold, trees are lit and stores are bustling with shoppers finding that perfect gift. What about a Library Card as a gift? It’s free and it gives you the gift of reading. Come on in we have tons of books to read. We also have a sale table in the front of books for you to buy, so call it re-gifting, buy a books for that loved one.

We will be closed from December 21st to January 3rd. We resume our normal business hours of 8:30-12:00 & 1:00-5:30 Monday thru Friday on January 4th. You can return books in our big blue book drop outside the Library at anytime, I plan on checking it several times during the Holiday Season. You can also leave a message on the phone (254-793-2672) and I’ll recheck your books that way. Plus there’s the internet, our email address is fllib@vvm.com you can email me what you would like done, re checking your books, book request or any questions for that matter.

Wishing everyone a very Merry Christmas and a safe New Years. Look forward to seeing you in 2010!

Thank you, Charlotte Summers, Library Director

Unfortunately for the month of December, our story time will be cancelled due to an illness is Ms. Melody’s family.  Check in January to see the schedule. Happy Holidays!

It’s beginning to look and feel more like Christmas out there. The wind is cold and it may be raining, nothing on the television that interest you bet you could find a good book to read. Come on by! We have lots to choose from. From our children’s books like, “Santa’s Secret Helper” by Andrew Clements, “Dear Santa, Please Come to the 19th Floor” by Yin, “The Polar Express” by Chris Van Allsburg, “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” by Dr. Seuss, and lots more. From our junior fiction books like, “”Merry Christmas: Children At Christmastime Around the World” by Robina Wilson, ” A Gift from St. Nicholas: the Story of Saint Nicholas and a Special; Christmas Letter” by Christine B. Bolley, ” A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens,  “A Katie Kazoo Christmas” by Nancy E. Krulik, and lots more. From our adult fiction section, books like, “”Dewey” by Vicki Myron, “Timepiece” by Richard Paul Evans, “Ester’s Gift: A Mitford Christmas Story” by Jan Karon, “Tidings of Comfort and Joy” by T. Davis Bunn, “Christmas in Carol” by Sheila Robins, “The Christmas Train” by David Baldacci and lots more. From our adult mystery section, “Visions of Sugar Plums” by Janet Evanovich, “All through the Night” by Mary Higgins Clark, “Santa Cruise: a Holiday Mystery at Sea” and several more by Mary Higgins Clark. Plus lots of paperback romance books on Christmas. We have a rather large selection of Christmas VHS like “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer”, “A Christmas Tree”, “Snowden’s Christmas”, “Ernest Saves Christmas”, “Home Alone 2 Lost in New York”, and “Mickey’s Christmas Carol”. Browse our CD section, we have lots to offer in the way of Christmas Music. You never know what you can find. Just come on by!

The Library will be closed from December 21st to January 3rd. We will open up January 4th regular hours from 8:30-12:00 and 1:00-5:30.

To all of our patrons,

We at the Florence Public Library

Wish to thank you for a wonderful year of reading and researching.

If it wasn’t for you crossing our threshold

We wouldn’t be here.

You are very important to us.

We would like to wish each and every one of you a very Merry Christmas

and may your New Year

be full of good health, prosperity, and love.

Thank you,

The Florence Public Library

Christmas 2009

Have you ever wanted to learn a language? We are having classes to learn English and Spanish. Come by and check it out!

Eula Hunt Beck Florence Public Library Presents

Fall Semester – Language For Living

Eight Weeks – Beginning Monday Oct. 26th, 2009 – 6:30 pm

New Beginning Spanish Class Mondays 6:30 pm

You can learn the Spanish language

Beginning Spanish

Mondays         6:30 pm

Intermediate Spanish

Thursdays       6:30 pm

 Spanish Study by Computer

Tuesdays         6:00 pm

The Florence Public Library announces the new class schedule for our community outreach language program.  Classes are offered FREE to all area residents through the town library. You do not have to attend every class.  Come to those class you can attend.  Computer instruction available during library hours. 

Contact our Library for information. (254-793-2672)

Puede aprender la lengua inglesa

 LECCIONES GRATIS

Los Jueves       6:30 pm

 Estudio Inglés por Computadora

                Los Martes      6:00 pm

La Biblioteca publica de Florence anuncia nuestro nuevo Lista de Clases de la lengua inglesa. Gratis para todos. Con la ayuda de nuestros maestros locales y el  programa llamado Rosetta Stone puede aprender el idioma Ingles.

 Para  información  contacta la biblioteca.

(254-793-2672)

The weather is changing, the skies are getting darker, it’s getting colder. The seasons are changing, fall is on us. Leaves start turning bright colors of orange, red, yellow and brown. The yards are full of these leaves. It’s time to come in from the cold. Come by the Library and check out some of the new books we have. Grab a good book and settle in a corner and go on an adventure. We have received recently some great books, classics and quite a few Spanish books are added.

BOOKS FOR SALE

We have a table in the front along with a shelf full of books for sale. Come by & see what we have, bet you’ll find a good book!

On Tuesday, October 27, 2009 at 6:30 in the evening there will be a presentation at the Library by the Florence Middle School students, it will be on Drug Awareness to celebrate Red Ribbon Week. Everyone is invited to come and see how hard the students worked.

Come check out our front window display.  A combination of students from the Middle School and High School decorated the window for Red Ribbon Week and Halloween.

On Friday, October 30, come trick-or-treat at the Library all day, I’ll be dressed for the occasion. Look forward to seeing you.

The kids are all back to school, football games are in full force, summers over officially, fall is here definitely. The weather’s changing. Outside it’s getting colder and wetter. What would make a day great is to find a great book to read. We have just “recieved a rather large assortment of books from the money granted from the Tocker Foundation. Our Spanish Section has grown, we received approx. 100 books to add to it. Some examples are “Un poco de magia” by Patricia Rice, the entire Twilight Series in Spanish, some recipe books in Spanish, and several children’s books. We also got other books like ”Alex Cross’s Trial” by James Patterson, “The Last Song” by Nicholas Sparks, Books 1 – 7 D Gray-man, and several Careers in Focus which are used by the students at the High School for research papers. We have tons more to look through.

Our annual Book Sale was a success, October 10. We still have a table set up in the front of the Library with plenty to choose from as well as books on our sale shelf. Please check back regularly as books are added daily.

Our Children’s Story Time is in full swing. Every Wednesday from 10:30 to 11:15 come visit with our newest volunteer, Melody Davis. She is very good with the children. She starts with singing, then they read a few books and ends with a craft. Parents, please bring your pre-schoolers to a super time at the Library on Wednesdays.

We are accepting any and all books whether it be paperback or hardback. We are accepting music and audio CD’s. If you have VHS or DVD’s you don’t want we’ll take them too. We want to have a  load of books for our annual Book Sale. This years Book Sale will be on Friendship days, October 10th. We will have tables set up on the sidewalk in front of the Library and a booth of children’s books set up in the City Park. Please bring your books the more the merrier!

Where did our summer go? Look around the corner, it’s school time again. Back to school and homework. Come to the Library for all kinds of resources. We have computers with internet services, plus tons of books on every subject from alligator’s to zebra’s. Need a book to read? We have just recieved a shipment of new books, like Books 1-8 Demonata series, Ranger Apprentice Books 1-5, some books by Tamora Pierce, Artemis Fowl books, Magyk Series 1-4, come check out our collection of great reads.

Our Summer Reading Program for Teens was a huge success. We had 17 teens participated and received up to 58 tickets or coupons from places over central Texas. We had a winner, her name is Elizabeth Combs, she won by reading the most books and receiving the most tickets. The grand prize was book donated by Hill Country Books out of Georgetown. Elizabeth received the book on July 22.