Just in time for Memorial Day, your library card gives you access to Freegal’s vast (8 million songs and growing) music catalog. To put you in a patriotic frame of mind, consider adding some of these songs to your personal music collection. For free!
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ALA’s (American Library Association) Office for Intellectual Freedom recently announced last year’s list of the most challenged books from libraries across the country.
They say that you should beware of strangers bearing gifts, especially those that arrive in the form of huge horses on wheels. This Monday’s (April 8th) Craft Madness program will have you making a Trojan horse, a flaming phoenix, or other crafts inspired by Ancient Greece and its mythology. All […]
The newly organized Whitley County Public Library Book Club will reading “The Kite Runner” by Khaled Hosseini this month. Members or anyone wishing to join the book club may check out a copy of the novel starting on Tuesday April 9th at the library. The number of additional copies are […]
The server that hosts the library’s catalog will be undergoing software upgrades on Sunday April 7th, which may make the server unreachable for brief periods of time. These outages may also interfere with access to ebooks and digital audiobooks on Kentucky Libraries Unbound and free music downloads from Freegal Music […]
During the month of December there will be no fines charged on items returned to the library that are overdue. It’s a good time to return late items and come back to the library.
The family-friendly scary movie scheduled for October 13th has been rescheduled and relocated. The movie will now be shown on October 27th at 7pm inside the Williamsburg Convention Center. The movie is still free to the public and offered jointly by Operation Unite, the City of Williamsburg, and the library. […]
On Saturday October 13th, the library in partnership with Operation Unite and the City of Williamsburg will be showing a family friendly Halloween movie about an animated home. The movie will begin at dark (approximately 7:30pm). Bring a chair and possibly a blanket to bundle up with. Free refreshments will […]
On this day in 1620, the Mayflower left from Plymouth, England en route to Virginia with 102 passengers on board. Due to stormy weather and navigational problems, the Mayflower and her passengers ended up in Massachusetts just over a month later on November 21st.