A full week of children’s, youth and adult programs has been scheduled in advance of the grand opening celebration March 8 at the expanded Charleston Carnegie Public Library.
In addition, a mobile museum exhibit developed by the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield is scheduled to stop at the library on March 9-10 to continue the celebration.
The grand opening is intended to celebrate the construction of a new library wing, which opened in January 2008, and the renovation of the old library complex, which reopened in September.
“We wanted to feature the different areas where we added on to or did not have at all to showcase those areas by having activities there,” said library Director Sheryl Snyder.
The celebration is scheduled to begin with “make and take” crafts from 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Monday in the KidSpace children’s area in the addition.
Snyder said children will be able to make St. Patrick’s Day crafts, such as leprechaun finger puppets, and other crafts during the event and take them home at no charge. Parents, grandparents and sitters are welcome to bring their children by anytime during the event.
Youths ages 13-17 are invited to play bowling, tennis and other sports on a Wii video game system in the addition’s The Zone youth area 4-7:30 p.m. Tuesday.
The library is borrowing the Wii but the program will give her a chance to see if one of these game systems should be added to the library’s collection, Snyder said.
Bob McElwee is scheduled to give a presentation on self-publishing in print and online 4-6 p.m. Wednesday in the Carnegie Reading Room, the main floor of the renovated 1904 library building.
A “Women of Valor” panel discussion about the military service of local women in World War II is slated for 7-8 p.m. March 5 in conjunction with the library hosting a related exhibit throughout the week.
Exhibit co-organizers Jeff Boshart and Dan Crews said the panel is so far set to include veterans Ethel Cline, Mary Farris, Florence Heyduck, and Connie Richardson, as well as Georgia Manes and her daughter Connie Manes, a Vietnam veteran.
A “Your Family Roots: Where to Start?” program is set for 2-3 p.m. March 6 in the genealogy area, which has tripled in size by moving into the former children/youth area in the renovated south wing. Snyder said the genealogy area has newspaper microfilm, school yearbooks and many other resources.
Snyder said the grand opening at 2 p.m. March 8 will include a ribbon cutting, guided tours and, weather permitting, the sealing of a time capsule on the northwest side of the addition.
The “Abraham Lincoln: Self Made in America” mobile exhibit on Lincoln’s life is scheduled to be open noon-8 p.m. March 9 and 10 a.m.-5 p.m. March 10 in the library’s new parking lot.
Snyder said the library was able to get a booking for the mobile exhibit not long after it returned from the inauguration and a series of public school programs in Washington.
“I think we lucked out in that really well,” Snyder said.
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