Check It Out

This year we will celebrate Noel Night our annual holiday event on Thursday, Dec. 17.

After the entertainment we will have crafts for the kids. They will make a craft for Christmas, and Kwanzaa. Then they can play a Hanukah game and use their library skills to answer questions on the scavenger hunt. Food and prizes are also part of this fun filled evening.  Oh! I almost forgot, there may be a surprise visit from the jolly old guy. We hope you will join us for a fun filled evening. See you on the 17th. 

PROGRAMS

Lap Sit is scheduled Mondays and Tuesdays at 10:15 a.m., providing stories, songs and finger-plays for children under the age of 3.

Story time for children who are at least 3 years old will meet at 10:15 on Wednesdays or Thursdays.

Craft Time on early release Wednesdays for children ages 6 and up will offer crafts from 1 to 3 p.m. See our Web page for dates and themes of these children’s programs.

Teen Wii: Fridays at 4 p.m., join us for Nintendo Wii, ages 12-18 are welcome. Parents and family members are welcome to hang out and use the library, but the Wii activities will only be available to teens. 

Birthday Club: Participation in the birthday club is for children 10 and under. To sign up for the birthday club, the child and parent must go to the circulation desk. A librarian will write the child’s name and birth date in the birthday book. The child’s name will be placed on a shape and the shape will be displayed in the Story Room on the birthday club bulletin board.

STAFF PICKS 

“Nina Simone, The Biography,” David Brun-Lambert. (B Simone) This biography tells the whole story of Ms. Simone’s extraordinary life. She was truly a great artist who inspired audiences with her spiritually charged, high-drama performances. In an effort to understand Nina, the author begins the story with the birth of Eunice Kathleen Waymon, born in North Carolina, who grows up to become Nina Simone. Eunice was a gifted child and her parents dreamed of her becoming the first black classical concert pianist, but this dream was shattered when at the age of 20 her application to study at the Curtis Institute was rejected.  The author believes that “Eunice Waymon died on that day along with her dreams. But her anger never did – it persisted, swelled, grew, until another creature entirely came into being, belligerent, charismatic, resolute, gifted; Nina Simone. An artist with a mission.”

“Stormy Weather the Life of Lena Horne,” James Gavin. (B Horne) 

Ms. Horne, the regal and classy actress and singer gained recognition from the Cotton Club’s golden era and the back lots of Hollywood’s biggest studios to the glitz of Vegas. This biography is an account of her experiences as she broke the racial barriers in the entertainment industry.

Food for fines

Dec. 1 – Dec. 31. The OCPLC libraries will participate in a food drive to restock shelves of local food banks. If you have an overdue book, we will waive the fine for a donation of food; one can or one item will equal $1.  Maximum $1 waived per item donated. No limit at Crestview, Destin, Niceville or Mary Esther libraries. Maximum amount waived at the FWB Library is $25. Valparaiso Library will be accepting donations.

Give the Gift of Reading. Once again we are asking our customers to bring new or slightly used children’s books to the library and place them in our “Give the Gift of Reading” box.  We will collect the books between Dec.1 and Dec. 17th. The books will then be donated to the Okaloosa County Head Start.

Sharing and Caring

Food is needed for our local Sharing and Caring facility. The following items are recommended; rice, dried beans, can vegetables, can fruit, saltine crackers, tuna, cereal, peanut butter, jelly and powdered milk. We have a box for donations in front of our circulation desk here at the library. Your generosity is appreciated.

HINI information

As the pandemic expands, EBSCO continues to offer free flu information resources, located at www.ebscohost.com/flu. They are providing public support via continuously updated, evidence-based clinical information from DynaMed and Nursing Reference Center, EBSCO's clinical and nursing point-of-care databases, along with patient education information in 17 languages from Patient Education Reference Center. 

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“Censorship, like charity, should begin at home: but unlike charity, it should end there.”  Claire Booth Luce.

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How to contact us:  

On the web - www.cityofcrestview.org/library.htm

Phone - 682-4432

Address – 1445 Commerce Dr., Crestview (Behind the Crestview Post Office)