Social Media and Web 2.0 Program

This Wednesday, April 2 at 7:30 p.m., we’ll be welcoming local blogger and all-around techie Gregg Eldred for a program on social media and web 2.0.

 Want to know what the buzz is all about? Blogs, wikis, Facebook, MySpace? Want to join in the conversation or just know what your kids are up to online? Are you concerned about your company’s presence on the web or looking for ways to promote your business?

Gregg will lead us into the thicket and onto the World Wide Web.

Mugs for Rachael’s Library

Rachael is a Peace Corp volunteer in Benin, Africa. Sandy Miller is a potter from Painesville. Avon Lake Public Library is helping to build a library across the ocean. What do all three of these things have in common? The Library has monthly art exhibits, and during the month of March, Sandy Miller’s work is on exhibit. Her pottery is stunning, but there is also a very special exhibit of Sandy’s work on display. “Mugs for Rachael’s Library” are hand made mugs and each one is unique. Rachael is Sandy’s daughter, a Kent State University graduate who has spent the last two years in Benin. All proceeds (mugs are $20 each) go towards building and furnishing a library in a small village in Benin, Africa. The village has dreamed of one day having a library. They know that knowledge is empowering, and being empowered can bring great improvements to their lives. Rachael, Sandy and Avon Lake Public Library thank you, the community, for embracing this project with such generous support. If you haven’t purchased a mug yet, stop by, there a still a handful left!

Hayden’s Creation in Avon Lake

Our friends at TrueNorth Cultural Arts will be presenting The Creation by Joseph Haydn on Friday, March 14 at Avon Lake United Church of Christ and Saturday, March 15 at French Creek Nature Center, both at 7:30 p.m.

Tickets are $10 and can be purchased online at www.TNCArts.org or from any TrueNorth musician.

Teen Tech Week 2008

Tune In @ Your Library® during Teen Tech Week 2008

Local teens will be tuning in as Avon Lake Public Library celebrates the second annual Teen Tech Week March 2-8, 2008. They join thousands of other libraries and schools across the country who are celebrating this year’s theme, “Tune In @ Your Library®.” Teen Tech Week is a national initiative of the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) aimed at teens, their parents, educators and other concerned adults. The purpose of the initiative is to ensure that teens are competent and ethical users of technologies, especially those that are offered through libraries. Teen Tech Week encourages teens to use libraries’ non-print resources for education and recreation, and to recognize that librarians are qualified, trusted professionals in the field of information technology.

Teens between the ages of 11 and 18 are encouraged to stop by the YA Stop and fill out a Teen Tech Quiz for a chance to win a prize.  The contest runs through March 8, 2008.

March is Women’s History Month

Each year, March is designated as National Women’s History Month to ensure that the history of American women will be recognized and celebrated in schools, workplaces, and communities throughout the country.  The stories of women’s historic achievements present an expanded view of the complexity and contradiction of living a full and purposeful life.

The knowledge of women’s history provides a more expansive vision of what a woman can do. This perspective can encourage girls and women to think larger and bolder and can give boys and men a fuller understanding of the female experience.

To honor the originality, beauty, imagination, and multiple dimensions of women’s lives, Women’s Art: Women’s Vision has been chosen as the 2008 theme for National Women’s History Month.

The history of women and art is quintessential women’s history.  It is the story of amazing women’s accomplishments acclaimed at the time but written out of history. Join us in ensuring that their accomplishments are never forgotten.

This year’s theme provides a special opportunity to discover and celebrate women’s visual arts in a variety of forms and mediums that help expand our perceptions of ourselves and each other.

Be sure to check out our Women’s History Month display at the library, featuring books both by and about women artists.