Music Club with Von Barlow's Jazz Journey!

We are starting a library program in June simply called Music Club.  It will be held every other Tuesday at 4pm and geared towards children 8-12, although any child 6-14 may attend.  We’ll explore different types of music, and learn about particular artists / composers, instruments and theory.

We're already getting musicians and performers for the classes! They’ll be talking about their personal history as a musician, what sort of places they play and record, going into depth about the instrument they play, is it the main source of income for them.. etc. The class is an hour long, and while they certainly don’t have to take up that entire time slot, they are being given free rein to do so. And hopefully at the end of class we can break the kids up into groups and have them go to instrument stations – getting to hold and play some of the instruments.
Our Music Club kicks off June 14th at 4pm with Von Barlow's Jazz Journey! He's played with Ray Charles, Etta James, Harry Connick Jr  and Bunky Green  (...just to name a few) and he'll be coming to play with his band and talk with kids at the Main Library in the auditorium. 

If you have any questions, give us a call at 630-2417.

Thanks!

-Josh

PS. For our second installment (June 28th) we'll be having Tony Steve, a Jacksonville University professor of world and contemporary music, with a specialization in percussion. He'll be sharing with us how percussion instruments can be used for soundtracks for silent films.(!!!)

Thank you Trad's Garden Center!

The Main Library Children's Department wishes to express a formal thank you to Trad's Garden Center for coming out last month to teach our young patrons about Butterfly Gardening!  This is the third year in a row that Trad's has donated their time and their plants to our library community.  We appreciate such generosity and hope our patrons get a chance to stop by Trad's Garden Center to see their new children's area!

Wanderful Wizardry

Calendar

Library Advocacy

We've heard from a lot of you that you are concerned about the proposed budget cuts at city and state level and how this will impact the service and materials at your library.

We know you want to help- and here's how. Let the decision makers know what is important to you. Advocate for us- and for the services that make up your library experience. Click on the banner above or go to: http://ilovejpl.com/ to get more information about the possible cuts, how this will affect us (and you!) and who to contact.

Easter Closing

The library will be closed on Sunday, April 24th in observance of Easter. We will reopen on Monday, April 25th at 9am.

Grossology

Magic Tree House Book Club

National Library Week

Welcome to National Library Week! Obviously, we love our libraries every day of the year but it is good to have an event to showcase our devotion!

Have you been into the library this week and seen the posters showing the library's worth? Check it out:

- Libraries produce $4 in value for each $1.

- Volunteers contributed 30,867 hours.

- 198,154 people attended library programs, including 163,324 children.

- Children spent 5.6 million minutes on library computers.

- Every 1.5 seconds, people use the library.

- Librarians answered 1 million questions.

- Three times more people visited libraries than attended live sports events.

Are you curious about what the library is worth to you? Click on the image below to calculate the library's value to you and your family.

Don't forget to stop by this week for all of our great programs:

4/13 

10:30- Portuguese Storytime

11- Preschool at the Library

11:45- Preschool Project

4/14

10:30- Toddler Power Hour

1:00- Parent and Child Playtime

3:00- Art Club

4:00- Dramarama

4/15

9:30- Mother Goose

10:00- Toddler Time

10:30- Toddler Art

11:00- Family Preschool Storytime

11:45- Family Art Time

4/16

9:30- Mother Goose

10:30- Toddler Art

11:00- Family Preschool Storytime

11:45- Family Art Time

2:00- Storybook Theatre

Riverside Arts Market

Jacksonville Public Library will be at the Children's Creativity Corner at the Arts Market this Saturday (April 9th).

Join us to make your very own bookmark out of old catalog cards. It is almost National Library Week and how better to celebrate than by having a piece of library history as your very own bookmark?

Check out the Arts Market website for more things you can see and do @: http://www.riversideartsmarket.com/

Don't forget all the fun things happening at your library this week- and every week. Check us out @:

http://jaxpubliclibrary.org/