Click here to learn more or  contact the Reference Department at 850.436.5063 for details!

Features:

• 11 Languages:  Spanish, French, German, Italian, Chinese, Arabic, Japanese, Korean, Hindi, Sign Language, English as a Second Language (ESL)
• Can add notes and custom build vocabulary list
• Interactive discussion board for questions and practice
• Self Quizzes
• Games
• Download audio to keep and use on computer, CD, or mobile device like Mp3
• Speech mapping for pronunciation comparison
• You may choose more than one language to learn

Also, on Saturday, June 22 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM, Blackburn will do an art demonstration of watercolor painting.  She will also have her book Exploring The Abstract for sale and she will be happy to sign it for you! Seating limited and reservations required by signing in at SWBL.

Click here for more information about Joan Blackburn and her art!

For information call the library at 850-453-7780.

Families with children age 7 and older are invited to join Price Legg as he dons his Confederate re-enactor’s uniform.  Phil Duryea, Volunteer Coordinator for the National Naval Aviation Museum, will share artifacts from his extensive personal collection of Civil War memorabilia and authentic maps of the era. There will be two opportunities to meet the solider!

The Civil War 150 Grant is in commemoration of the 150^th anniversary of the American Civil War made possible by The Library of America in partnership with The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History and is supported by a grant from The  National Endowment for the Humanities.

Thursday, May 2, 2013 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm at the Southwest Branch located at 12248 Gulf Beach Highway, Pensacola, FL 32507

And again,

Thursday, May 30, 2013 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm at the Main Library located at 239 North Spring Street, Pensacola, FL 32502

Cost: FREE

June 1, 2013 @ 2:30 PM

The Westside branch library presents The 2nd Annual Carver Hummingbirds Plant Giveaway in honor of  George Washington Carver. Carver Hummingbirds providing educational materials, demonstrations, exhibit, seeds, and plants.

Also, there will be Food, Hibiscus Tea, Entertainment & Exhibits!

Click here for more information!WESTSIDE BRANCH LIBRARY 2nd Annual Plant Give Away

The West Florida Public Library will have a reading camp this Summer. The camp is open to all children preschool and up!

Stories, weird noises, shadow puppets, magic, reptiles and more!

Click here to learn more! 

Starting on Memorial Day weekend,May 26th through Labor Day weekend, September 1st, the West Florida Public Library is closed on Sundays. The Main library will reopen on Sundays Noon to 4 PM on September 8th.

Click here to view locations and hours of a library near you!

To kick off this exciting program, Dave Ehlert, skilled Civil War History performer from Branson, Missouri, will be at the West Florida Genealogy Library, located on the PSC Main Campus at 5:30 pm Wednesday, May 1^st.  He will portray Lincoln and Twain with historical drama, humor and education in a live production of “Abe Lincoln, Mark Twain & the Civil War.”  Light refreshments will be served.

Meet community experts with a passion for history.  On Thursdays at 5:30, May 2 and May 30^th at Southwest and Main libraries respectively, Price Legg will share reenactment history of a civil war soldier.  Phil Duryea, Volunteer Coordinator for the National Naval Aviation Museum, will share artifacts of Civil War memorabilia and authentic maps of the era. Both programs are for families with children ages 7 and older. 

Interested in researching your family’s Civil War connections? Woody Barnes will share his wealth of genealogical knowledge in his presentation “War Between the States Military Records.”  He is a member of the Jamestown Society, Society of the War of 1812, Sons of the American Revolution (SAR) and Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV).  Participants are encouraged to bring their own family history notes and utilize the library’s computers for online genealogical research after the program.  Thursday, May 23rd at 5:30pm at Main Library.  Saturday, May 11 at 11:00am at Genealogy Branch.

Programs for children will include activities ranging from how to write with a quill pen to the questionably tasty experience of hardtack.  Program days and times are Main Library on Wednesday, May 15 at 4pm, at Tryon Library on Thursday, May 16 at 4pm, at Westside Library on Saturday, May 18 at 2pm, and at the Molino Library on Monday, May 20 at 4pm.    

The Civil War 150 Grant is in commemoration of the 150^th anniversary of the American Civil War made possible by The Library of America in partnership with The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History and is supported by a grant from The  National Endowment for the Humanities. 

In November 2007, Amanda Knox was twenty years old and had been studying abroad in Perugia, Italy, for only a few weeks when her friend and roommate, a young English student named Meredith Kercher, was brutally murdered. The investigation made headlines around the world, and Amanda’s arrest placed her at the center of a media firestorm.  Now, in Waiting to Be Heard, Amanda Knox shares for the very first time the truth about her terrifying ordeal.

Find Waiting to Be Heard at a library near you!

Saturday:  April 27th, 9 AM – 5 PM  FREE Admission

Sunday- “Bag Sale” Sunday:  April 28th, Noon – 3PM  FREE Admission

     BAG SALE – Pay one price, take home all the items you can fit in our bag!

Spring 2013 Newsletter