Library Name: Cissna Park Community Library District
Location: 511 N. Second Street, Cissna Park, IL 60924
Type: Public/School
Mission: Our primary mission is to support the curriculum.
Our secondary mission is to provide educational, entertainment, and
recreational materials to the community.
Eastern Illinois University students to receive awards for the 2010 Undergraduate All-Student Show and honors selected by the Art faculty will be announced at a public awards reception 2-4pm on Sunday, February 28, at the Tarble Arts Center. The awards presentation begins at 2:30pm. Admission is free and the public is invited. The All-Student Show will remain on exhibition at the Tarble through March 28.
Calling all local authors in the East Central Illinois to an opportunity to market your book at the 3rd Annual Local Author's Fair at Rantoul Public Library in Rantoul, IL. This event will take place on Saturday April 17th. For more information contact Violet at 217-893-3955 or check out our website at www.rantoul.lib.il.us under Local authors.
There is still time to participate in Marshall Public Library’s winter time “Cabin Fever Reading Program” for all readers ages 14 and older. Just come to the library and pick up a “Cabin Fever” bookmark, which you will use to record the books you read through February 27th. Readers can read any number of books, listing five books on each bookmark. Each completed bookmark serves as an entry in a weekly drawing for a variety of prizes. The reader with the highest number of bookmarks turned in by February 27th will win the grand prize—a basket filled with all sorts of wonderful treats that any reader would enjoy. The prizes are sponsored by the Friends of the Library.
Please call the library at 826-2535 for more information. Marshall Public Library is located at 612 Archer Avenue, in Marshall. The library is handicapped accessible. Visit the library on the web at www.marshallillibrary.com/.
Marshall Public Library, 612 Archer Avenue, Marshall, has vacancies in some upcoming free computer classes. The following classes are being offered:
"Introduction to the Internet" – Thursday, March 11, 6:00-7:30 PM This class will be an introduction to the basics of using the Internet, including searching, accessing a page on the web with a URL address, printing information from the Internet, and copying documents form the Internet to a word processing program.
“Introduction to E-Mail” – Saturday, March 27, 10:30 AM to Noon This workshop will provide a basic introduction to using generic e-mail accounts, which can be accessed from any computer that is connected to the Internet, including instruction on how to send attachments and photos, and more.
Because of space limitations, persons interested in attending a class are asked to come to the library and pay a $10 cash deposit to reserve a place in each of the classes. The deposit will be returned when the class is attended. Deposits may be refunded if cancellations are made three or more days in advance. Please call the library at (217) 826-2535 for more information.
Ogden Rose Public Library book sale will run all of February. Books included in the sale are hundreds of craft books and paperback fiction. hard-cover books are twenty five cents and soft-cover books are ten cents. The sale will run during normal library hours. Call with any questions at 582-2411.
Homer Library is holding a book sale. Paperbacks range from twenty five cents to one dollar and hardcover books are one dollar to five dollars. 2010 library calendars are still available at the library for only six dollars. If you want to be listed in the 2011 calendar, ask the librarian to add your name to this year's contact list. Proceeds of the sale of the calendars support the Reading is Fundamental program which gives three books to every child in the Heritage School District, kindergarten through fourth grade.
There is an intense realism to the new paintings by Maria Tomasula currently on view at Eastern Illinois University’s Tarble Arts Center.
Titled “Saturation: New Paintings,” the exhibition is on display through March 21 in the Tarble’s Brainard Gallery. Tomasula will present a public lecture about her art on February 25, 7pm, in the Tarble Atrium. Admission is free to the exhibition and lecture and everyone is invited to attend.
The first in an annual series of programs relating to the Silk Road will be held on Monday, March 1, with “Alexander the Great: Then and Now”, presented by Dr. Lee Brice. The free program will be held in the first floor Meeting Room of the Danville Public Library beginning at 6:30 p.m. Seating is limited, so people interested in attending should call 477-5220 to reserve a seat.
Dr. Brice holds a PhD in History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is currently an Assistant Professor of History at Western Illinois University. He has received several awards and grants for his teaching and research projects. He is a member of the Illinois Humanities Council’s Road Scholars Speakers Bureau.
The Friends of the Danville Public Library will hold its Spring Used Book Sale a month early, on Saturday, February 27, from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., to help clear out the storage areas in preparation for the Library’s carpet replacement project. The “Not-Quite-Spring” book sale will be held in the first floor Meeting Room.
Members of Danville’s Girl Scout Troop #2039 will be available to take cookie orders.
The “Not-Quite-Spring” Used Book Sale will include the usual paperbacks, hardbacks, videos, and tapes for children and adults, but the selection of used magazines will be quite a bit larger.
