Summer Reading Program: Congratulations, Dorothy S.

Congratulations to Dorothy S. for winning gift bags in our first drawing of the summer for the Adult Summer Reading program. There is still time to win! Pick up an entry at the front desk on the first floor.

FOSL Funds High School Required Summer Reading Titles

Are you a Campbell High School student? Thanks to the Friends of Smyrna Library, the Library has multiple copies on the shelf of all the Required Summer Reading titles. Ask at the Front Desk for assistance if you can't find what you need.

Thank You, Keep Smyrna Beautiful

A big thank you to Keep Smyrna Beautiful for these fabulous conservation books. We had more but they've already been checked out, so hurry in to pick up one of these great titles before they are checked out, too!

First Sunday Lecture: Atlanta's Historic Westview Cemetery

First Sunday Lecture
Atlanta's Historic Westview Cemetery

Sunday, June 3, 2018
3:00-4:00 p.m.
Smyrna Library, Meeting Room

Speaker: Jeff Clemmons, Historian and Author of Atlanta's Historic Westview Cemetery and Rich’s: A Southern Institution

Mr. Clemmons will speak on his second book, “Atlanta's Historic Westview Cemetery” which presents the history of the largest non-profit cemetery in the Southeast where more than more than 108,000 interments have taken place since 1884.

Speaker Bio: Jeff Clemmons curates and guides walking tours of Atlanta's Midtown and SoNo districts and Westview Cemetery for the Atlanta Preservation Center. He also serves on the board of the Atlanta Preservation Center's auxiliary group, CIRCA, which offers its members private tours of some of metropolitan Atlanta's most interesting historic structures. Atlanta's Historic Westview Cemetery is Clemmons's second book. All of his research for it is housed at the Atlanta History Center.

The First Sunday Lecture series is sponsored by the Friends of Smyrna Library and Smyrna Library.

FREE ADMISSION

Summer Reading Program Kick-Off at Smyrna Community Center

The Chattahoochee Nature Center taught young library patrons about the music of nature during today's Summer Reading Program Kick-Off. The kids learned to identify local bird and raptor calls and frog sounds, and also learned how bats use echolocation to find prey. 

We also met a tiny Eastern Screech Owl who lives at the Center. (see below)

Today's event was sponsored by The Friends of Smyrna Library.

Thank you, Colonial Dames XVII Century

What a nice surprise! Maryanne McCurdy of the Nicholas Wallingford Chapter of the Colonial Dames XVII Century popped by the library today to drop off a check. They selected some titles from the library's "Wish List" for us to purchase for the genealogy collection. We'll post pictures of the new books when they come in. Thank you, Colonial Dames XVII Century!

New Music Makers Collection

The Smyrna Public Library launched the "Music Makers" collection today. These are percussion and string instruments that you can check out. 

This new collection was sponsored by the Charyn Darby Foundation. Let's make some noise this summer!