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What’s Happening at the Grand Rapids Area Library

October 25,  2011

 

What do you want to see at the Library?

The Arrowhead Library System has received a grant from the Minnesota Legacy Amendment Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund. This grant will be used to provide art, arts education and arts access, and preserve Minnesota's history and cultural heritage for your region this fall, winter and spring.
  We would like to know what type of events and programs you would like in your community! Please click on the link and take this short survey to provide your recommendations. The survey is only eight questions and takes less than five minutes to complete.   http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/PXVFFYN
Your feedback will help to bring the programs you desire to your community. Thank you!
Last year this grant funded the museum and event passes, photography and art workshops, authors, musicians, poets and other performers at libraries around the region, including many programs here in Grand Rapids.

 

Genealogy Workshop Handouts available

If you missed the Genealogy workshops last week, the handouts are posted on the Library’s web site on the “Reading Lists” page: http://www.grandrapids.lib.mn.us/reading.htm

The presentation was full of very useful information and the participants raved about it!  Thanks to the Itasca Genealogy Society and the Itasca Historical Society for providing lots of information, and snacks!

Coming Soon:

The Schoolmarm as Feminist: How Schoolteachers Helped Women win the Vote and Other Rights   Thursday, November 3,   7 pm

Teresa Alto, instructor at Itasca Community College, explores the undersung role of schoolteachers in women's history in the U.S.
While most of us have a stereotype of early women teachers as sour disciplinarians and dour, retiring figures, in reality schoolteachers can be credited with opening up the professional world and higher education to women. They were pioneers who fought relentlessly for women's right to have a voice as citizens and as workers.
Using a distant relative as a focal point, Alto shows the central role of schoolteachers in winning women's rights.

 

Paula Poundstone, coming to the Reif on November 5, is a national spokesperson for the Association of Library Trustees, Advocates, Foundations and Friends.  See the ALA web site below for more details, and a short PSA. 

http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/altaff/about/news/poundstone/index.cfm

Check the Reif Web site for more information on the event: http://www.reifcenter.org/pages/11_12_Paula_Poundstone.html

 

Story times!  Bring the little ones for a fun morning with stories, songs, rhymes, a snack and craft.

Saturdays at 10:30  and Mondays 9:30 and 10:30. 

  

Find more upcoming events on our Event Calendar

A direct link to the Library’s online event calendar is here.  A link to just the events for children is available by clicking on the “kids” button on the Library's web site

 

You can renew or request material online through our web site at www.grandrapids.lib.mn.us.  You can also call the automated renewal line at 218-741-9085

 

For more details on any of the programs, go to the Library’s Web Site: www.grandrapids.lib.mn.us  You can also find a calendar on the left side of the page.   Click on “Calendar” for a link to the complete list of events at the library.

 

 

 

Marcia L. Anderson
Director
Grand Rapids Area Library
Grand Rapids, MN 55744
218-326-7640

www.grandrapids.lib.mn.us