FLORENCE-The Florence-Lauderdale Public Library has a couple of events coming up and some that will end soon. Plus backpacks are ready for checkout….check them out. Hurry this exhibition will end soon…The Women of the Montgomery Bus Boycott exhibition continues through March 25.
Explore your world through our backpack program.
Two backpacks – Music and Gardening – are ready for checkout. Get the details at the circulation desk.
The Music Backpack will introduce you to the history of the “Muscle Shoals sound” through the acclaimed documentary, Muscle Shoals, and through the life of FAME Recording Studios founder Rick Hall in his book, The Man From Muscle Shoals.
Also included is a CD of some of the legendary music that was recorded at Hall’s studio.
Want to try your hand at a few easy sounds? The backpack contains a hand drum and a glockenspiel..
The Gardening Backpack will encourage you to try your hand at starting and establishing seedlings.
This backpack contains seeds and small peat pots, along with potting soil and gardening tools to get you started.
Also included is a simple plant press and a gardening guidebook.
It’s a backpack the entire family will want to use and enjoy.
Look for backpacks on Art, Architecture, Nature, Baking, The Tennessee River, and Native American History to be added this year.
Exploring 100 years of original children’s book illustration
Through March 24 at Kennedy-Douglass Center for the Arts and the Florence-Lauderdale Public Library. These events are Free.
The exhibit, Childhood Classics: 100 Years of Original Illustration from the Art Kandy Collection, continues this month at the library and Kennedy-Douglass Center for the Arts.
It features more than 140 original works from more than 75 children’s books, and explores the history of children’s book illustration for past 100 years, from pen-and-ink drawings common at the turn of the century, to today’s modern, digital creations.
This national traveling exhibit is one of the most extensive exhibitions on this subject ever organized.
The exhibit was made possible by The Alabama State Council on the Arts, The Florence-Lauderdale Public Library Foundation, and The Kennedy-Douglass Trust.
Don’t miss this special opportunity to see these incredible illustrations.
Exploring diversity
5:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 22 Library colonnade “Expanding Diversity” with UNA Professor Erin Piedmont and her students this event is Free.
In 1985, only 18 books for children and young adults (out of approximately 2,500 published) were written or illustrated by African-Americans. In the past few decades, that number has increased to include more diverse titles and relatable experiences for readers. Erin Piedmont and her students will share titles that paved the way for diversity, and allowed children to identify with characters who look and feel the way they do.
Celebrate Your Reader
On Monday, February 28 through Saturday April 9
If you would like to celebrate the reader in your life you can do so with just $1.00. You can proudly display your favorite readers with their names ona FLPL medallion.
These medallions will be on display in the windows of the library’s gallery area. Proceeds from this fundraiser will go towards library programs and services.
“You can find magic wherever you look, sit back and relax, all you need is a book” ~ Dr. Seuss
Media Release/Florence-Lauderdale Public Library
