Learn How to Download eBooks, October 5

Join us on October 5 for a class on how to download the library's selection of eBooks and audiobooks. Instruction will be given on how to download these materials for each available format. The class will be held from 6:30 to 7:45 in the computer lab at the Visalia Library.

Friday, Sept. 30th 2-5pm: Family Fun Fridays @ the Visalia Library!!!

Family Fun @ the Visalia Library!!!
Join us every Friday for free Kinect gaming, movies and over 15 board games that families can enjoy playing together!

When: Every Friday 2pm-5pm
Movie starts @ 2pm & 4pm
This week's movie: The Incredibles
(children might want to bring pillows or something comfortable to rest on during the movie.)
Kinect Adventures! 3-5pm
(Kinect is for ages 6-13)
Board Games available to play in Children's Wing:
Candy Land, Chess, Checkers and Backgammon, Chutes and Ladders, Clue, Connect 4, Dominoes, Go Fish card game, Hi Ho Cherry-O, Memory, Regular playing cards, Scrabble, Sorry!, Uno

Cost: Free!!!
Where: The Children's Wing of the Tulare County Library Visalia Branch
Who: Children, teens and parents (adults must be with a child in order to attend this program)
*Parents must stay with children under the age of 14. *No group or daycare visits are allowed during our program times.Please call in advance to schedule a group visit.For further information or to schedule a group visit, call the Children's Dept. 713.2731

Ivanhoe & Earlimart Branches to Reopen Soon

The Ivanhoe branch library will reopen on September 29, and the Earlimart branch library will reopen on October 4th. We hope you enjoy both of these newly-remodeled libraries

Friday, Sept. 23rd 2-5pm: Family Fun Fridays @ the Visalia Library!!!

Family Fun @ the Visalia Library!!!
Join us every Friday for free Kinect gaming, movies and over 15 board games that families can enjoy playing together!

When: Every Friday 2pm-5pm

Movie starts @ 2pm & 4pm
This week's movie: THE TALE OF DESPEREAUX
(children might want to bring pillows or something comfortable to rest on during the movie.)

THE TALE OF DESPEREAUX
Rated G; 93 minutes; 2008

Little Despereaux the mouse is born tiny, wheezy and with comically oversized ears and is very different from his family. His love for a princess leads him on adventures which involve him with an unhappy rat who schemes to leave the darkness of his dungeon and a bumbling servant girl with cauliflower ears in this beautifully crafted animated film.

Kinect Adventures! 3-5pm
(Kinect is for ages 6-13)
Board Games available to play in Children's Wing:

Candy Land, Chess, Checkers and Backgammon, Chutes and Ladders, Clue, Connect 4, Dominoes, Go Fish card game, Hi Ho Cherry-O, Memory, Regular playing cards, Scrabble, Sorry!, Uno

Cost: Free!!!
Where: The Children's Wing of the Tulare County Library Visalia Branch
Who: Children, teens and parents (adults must be with a child in order to attend this program)
*Parents must stay with children under the age of 14. *No group or daycare visits are allowed during our program times.Please call in advance to schedule a group visit.For further information or to schedule a group visit, call the Children's Dept. 713.2731

Spaces Available for Grant Writing Seminar

The Professional Grant Writing Class, facilitated by Changing Career Concepts on October 1, 2011, has a few spaces still available. Cost of the course is $79.00, and all proceeds will be donated to the Tulare County Library Literacy Programs by the facilitator. The workshop will be held from 8 am until 3 pm, with a 30-minute lunch recess. Only two more participants will be accepted, and payment is required in advance at the time of sign up. Call Pat at 713-2745 for more information.

Friends of the Library Meeting, October 13

The Friends of the Tulare County Library will hold their monthly meeting on Thursday, October 13, at 7 PM, in the library's upstairs (blue) meeting room. Everyone is welcome to attend! Please contact Sheryll Strachan at 713-2709 for more information.

Tickets For Literacy Center's Walking Tour Available at the Event

Tickets will be available at the Practically Preposterous Walking Tour of scenes from the flood of 1862 on September 23. Tours will be held at 4, 5 and 6 pm, and cost of the tickets is $15.


For further information, call the Literacy Center at 713-2745.

Library Branches Opening Late, September 16

All Tulare County library branches (that are normally open on Fridays) will be closed until 2:00 PM on September 16th due to a mandatory staff meeting in Visalia. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Friday, Sept. 16th 2-5pm: Family Fun Fridays @ the Visalia Library! Movies! XBox 360 Kinect Fun! Games!!!

Family Fun @ the Visalia Library!!!
Join us every Friday for free Kinect gaming, movies and over 15 board games that families can enjoy playing together!

When: Every Friday 2pm-5pm

Movie starts @ 2pm & 4pm in homework room This week's movie: The Rescuers
(children might want to bring pillows or something comfortable to rest on during the movie.)

Rescuers
Walt Disney
Rated G; 77 minutes

Walt Disney's full-length animated feature, THE RESCUERS, combines comedy, drama and sheer excitement into one grand movie-going experience for the whole family. Two mice, Bernard and Bianca, members of the world's only international mice squad, set out to save a kidnapped orphan named Penny from the clutches of the villainous Madame Medusa, who needs the little girl to help find a priceless diamond. There's alligators, swamp critters and evil villains to overcome in this spellbinding tale of treasures and escapes and near misses and ultimately, of rescues."

Kinect game of the day: Kinect Adventures! 3-5pm
(Kinect is for ages 6-13)
Board Games available to play in Children's Wing:

Candy Land, Chess, Checkers and Backgammon, Chutes and Ladders, Clue, Connect 4, Dominoes, Go Fish card game, Hi Ho Cherry-O, Memory, Regular playing cards, Scrabble, Sorry!, Uno

Cost: Free!!!
Where: The Children's Wing of the Tulare County Library Visalia Branch
Who: Children, teens and parents (adults must be with a child in order to attend this program)
*Parents must stay with children under the age of 14. *No group or daycare visits are allowed during our program times.Please call in advance to schedule a group visit.For further information or to schedule a group visit, call the Children's Dept. 713.2731

Why Are There No Adobe Buildings in Visalia?

Until 1862, Visalia, like many other California towns, had adobe buildings. In that year, however, Linkthe greatest flood in the state’s history washed them away.

An account by Paschal Bequette, a Visalia resident of the time, details the melting of the adobe structures and the cascading effects this had on Visalia’s citizens. One stop on a walking tour fundraiser sponsored by The Literacy Center on September 23 will feature volunteers taking on the roles of Paschal and other Visalians affected by the destruction of the adobes. Other stops on the tour highlight similar dramatic events caused by the flood.

Sessions of the ‘Practically Preposterous’ Walking Tour will begin at 4 pm, 5 pm and 6 pm on September 23. Tickets are $15 and can be purchased at The Literacy Center, 417 N. Locust Street, Visalia, CA. The deadline for ticket sales is September 16 and no tickets will be sold at the event. For further information, call The Literacy Center at 713-2745. Come take a walk and find out facts and fantasies about a major event in California history!

Friends of the Library Book Sale, September 24

The BIG Friends of the Library Book Sale will be held on September 24th from 9:30 a.m. to 3:00 pm on the north/east lawn, near Locust St. Come and see our great selection of fiction, non-fiction, and children's books. We will also have a large selection of videos and books-on-tape for sale.

For more information, please call Sheryll Strachan at 713-2709

A Flood In Visalia? Preposterous!

The Tulare County Library Literacy Center will feature historical events in old town Visalia that occurred during the 1862 flood for the Center’s annual fundraiser September 23.

‘Practically Preposterous’ hour-long walking tours will be held at 4 pm, 5 pm and 6 pm, with Center volunteers playing the roles of survivors of the catastrophe. The flood, the worst in California history, has been called the ‘Noachian Deluge’ because rain fell on the state for nearly forty days. The estimated 50 inches of precipitation turned the Central Valley into an inland sea and reached heights of three to four feet in Visalia. The newspaper of the day, the Visalia Weekly Delta, stated, “Blessed is he who lives in a wooden house, for he has the material for a boat.”

Tickets for the tours are $15 per person and can be purchased at The Literacy Center, 417 N. Locust Street in Visalia. Deadline for ticket purchase is September 16 and no tickets will be sold at the event. For more information, call 713-2745.

First Tuesday Book Club, October 4

The next "First Tuesday Book Club" will meet on October 4 at 6:30 pm in the blue meeting room.

This month we are reading The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo.

AND

Out of the Fields : My Journey from Farmworker Boy to Pediatrician by Ramon Resa.


For more information on this title and to see a list of other library events, please visit the library web site's Free Adult Programs page.

Professional Grant Writing Seminar Scheduled

The Tulare County Library Literacy Programs will again offer a Professional Grant Writing Class, facilitated by Changing Career Concepts, on October 1, 2011, from 8 am to 3 pm with a 30 minute lunch break. Cost of this training is $79.00 - all of which will be donated to the Tulare County Library Literacy Programs by the facilitator. Attendance is limited to 10 people and payment is required in advance at the time of sign up. Call Pat at 713-2745 for more information.

Friday, Sept. 9th 2-5pm: Family Fun Fridays @ the Visalia Library! Movies! XBox 360 Kinect Fun! Games!!!

Family Fun @ the Visalia Library!!!

Join us every Friday for free Kinect gaming, movies and over 15 board games that families can enjoy playing together!

When: Every Friday 2pm-5pm


Movie starts @ 2pm & 4pm in homework room This week's movie: A Bug's Life!
(children might want to bring pillows or something comfortable to rest on during the movie.)
Kinect game of the day: Kinect Adventures! 3-5pm
(Kinect is for ages 6-13)
Board Games available to play in Children's Wing:

Candy Land, Chess, Checkers and Backgammon, Chutes and Ladders, Clue, Connect 4, Dominoes, Go Fish card game, Hi Ho Cherry-O, Memory, Regular playing cards, Scrabble, Sorry!, Uno

Cost: Free!!!
Where: The Children's Wing of the Tulare County Library Visalia Branch
Who: Children, teens and parents (adults must be with a child in order to attend this program)
*Parents must stay with children under the age of 14. *No group or daycare visits are allowed during our program times.Please call in advance to schedule a group visit.For further information or to schedule a group visit, call the Children's Dept. 713.2731

Wednesday, September 7th @10am- Preschool Storytime is Back!

Preschool Storytime is back! woo-hoo!!!

Join us for stories, songs and fingerplays at our preschool story time every Wednesday @ 10AM.

Tuesday, September 6th @10am -Baby/Toddler Time is back!

Every Tuesday at 10AM, we will have a special time for babies (ages 0-2) to play and interact with one another while building early literacy skills!

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