Music Under The Dome
Popular Series Resumes
The Jacksonville Public Library is happy to bring to you the next installment of our popular "Music Under the Dome" series. David Tell, flutist, will perform and demonstrate Native American flutes on Sunday, September 12 from 4:00 -- 5:00 PM in the rotunda of the Jacksonville Public Library.
Welcome to our brand new web site!
We hope you like it!
We hope you enjoy our new website! It is very user friendly. Please let us know if you have any questions about the new site.
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Last month we began posting events and pictures to the Jacksonville Public Library Facebook page.
With over 160 people "liking" the site, we think we are on the way to becoming a popular site for anyone interested in all the events and activities the library has to offer.
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Summer Reading Results
Scare Up A Good Book
"Scare Up A Good Book" Summer Reading Program has come to an end for this year! We had a very successful program with 391 participants in the Pre-K, K-6th and Teen programs.
The Pre-K program had 69 participants who ranged in age from 2 weeks to 5 years old. We had a five way tie for the top reader with Elaina Salcido, Evan Gillespie, Drew Gillespie, Olivia Cook and Elijah Cook. The Grand Prize winner was Sophia Magnuson who won a family pass to the Henson-Robinson Zoo and zoo bucks!
The K-6th grade program had 249 participants with the majority of the participants being fourth graders. The top reader was Joshua Nunes who read a whopping 400 hours! Second place reader was Marisa Thompson and we had a tie for third place between Emily Evans and Lauren Leischner. The Grand Prize winner was Will Gibson who won a trip for four to Chicago and passes to the Field Museum.
The Teen program had 30 participants, most of whom were from Turner. Toni Gomer won the top reader prize with 48 books and our McDonald's prize winners were Joe Brannon and Erin Beauchamp.
It was a great summer! We want to thank everyone for taking part and for all of your reading!
Adult Summer Reading Results
Adult Summer Reading had a great year! We had 139 participants who entered 490 logs! If you do the math, that works out to 2,450 books read over eight weeks! That is a lot of reading going on! We wanted to give more people a chance at winning the grand prize, so we took the top 10 names and drew the three winners. The 2010 winners were: Aunalicia Shaw, June Fairfield and Samantha Merritt. Thanks for a great year!