Summer Book Sale Volunteers Needed

Our upcoming Summer Book Sale requires a lot of planning and volunteers.  We have 100 volunteer opportunities to prepare for, set up, conduct, and break down the Summer Book Sale between Saturday, August 3 and Sunday, August 11.  

Opportunities are available for adults and students (6th grade and up).  Light duty work is also available during each shift. 

Volunteer duties include sorting books, pricing books with colored price dots, organizing boxed books, sale set up, keeping sale area organized during the sale, assisting shoppers, and sale break down.   

Book Sale Duties  

We use Sign-Up Genius to manage volunteer participation.  It’s easy to use and will email you a reminder a couple of days before your volunteer shift.  If something comes up and you cannot make a shift all you have to do is remove your name from the shift so another volunteer can sign-up.        

Sign-up to Volunteer 

Thank you for volunteering!

WANTED DONATIONS: Gently Used Children’s Books, Magazines, and Puzzles

We are currently soliciting gently used Children’s Books (Board, Picture, EZ Reader, Early Chapter, etc.), Children’s Magazines (Highlights, Scholastic, etc.), Graphic Novels, Young Adult, and Puzzles.  

These donations will be used as reading challenge prizes, added to the library collection, or sold in our Summer Book Sale on Saturday, August 10 and Sunday, August 11.  The sale proceeds will benefit the library.  

Donations are accepted at the Circulation Desk in the Smyrna Public Library during business hours and are requested before August 9.  Thank you for supporting Smyrna Library Kids and Friends of Smyrna Library fundraising.

Save the Date! Upcoming Author Event

Save the Date! Upcoming Author Event An Afternoon with Michelle Braxton

This event is free and requires registration to secure your reservation.

Learn more and register at https://foslga.org/_awithm.htm

More details will be published soon.

 

Smyrna Library Kids Have Read Over 120,000 Minutes So Far This Summer!

Wow!  These are the metrics as of July 1 for Smyrna Library Kids participation in the Summer Reading Program.  The kids have almost 4 weeks left until the challenge ends.  Our Smyrna Library Kids summer reading goal is 200,000 minutes.

The Summer Reading Program is sponsored by the City of Smyrna, the Friends of Smyrna Library and Dairy Queen, Spring Rd.

Pâte de verre & Fritography (Fused Glass Art) by Ann Tewelow Opens In Display Gallery

The July/August 2024 Display Gallery exhibit has opened – Pâte de Verre & Fritography (Fused Glass Art) by Ann Tewelow.  Ms. Tewelow’s exhibit is on display through August 30. The Display Gallery is located on the 2nd floor of the Smyrna Public Library. 

Display Gallery exhibits are organized by the Friends of Smyrna Library.

Artist Statement:

“The beauty of glass with the depth of its reflective qualities and colors has always held a deep fascination for me.” Upon retirement she took up pate de verre and fritography  (methods of art using fused ground glass) and has since added mosaics, etching and sandblasting to her repertoire. She says, "All these mediums have allowed me a wide range of creativity."

Pâte de verre is a sophisticated glassmaking technique that involves creating intricate designs from a paste of crushed or powdered glass that is fired in a kiln to fuse the particles into a solid piece.

Fritography is a glass art technique that uses frit, which is finely crushed or powdered glass, to create vibrant and intricate patterns or images. It is also fired in a kiln. 

Collage Art by Atlanta Collage Society Exhibit Opens In Art Gallery

The July/August 2024 Art Gallery exhibit has opened – Collage Art by Atlanta Collage Society.  The Society’s exhibit is on display through August 30. The Art Gallery is located on the 2nd floor of the Smyrna Public Library.

Art Gallery exhibits are organized by the Friends of Smyrna Library.

Artist Statement:

Five artists representing the Atlanta Collage Society are now on display through August 30 in the Smyrna Public Library Art Gallery on the second floor.

Collage refers to both the artistic technique of arranging and gluing pieces of various materials onto a supporting surface and to the resulting artwork. Collage is one form of mixed media. It first became popular in 1912 when Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque were innovating Cubism in their painting. Some say Picasso was the first to use collage in his oil paintings.

Because it combines material elements and visual culture, collage creates an exploratory and evocative process for both the artist and the viewer.

Pictured L to R: Cynthia Frigon, Jane Kelley and Ellen Kierr Stein. Not pictured: Jeff Rackley and Aaron Whitmoyer.

www.AtlantaCollage.org

Summer Reading Program Event: Talewise presents Science Heroes and the Adventure of the Lost Treasure

Thank you, Talewise, for today’s interactive and adventurous science show for the Smyrna Public Library Summer Reading Program!

Science and stories collided in this all new, interactive STEM show. The attendees were led on a treasure-hunting adventure deep within the jungle!  The audience helped the performer act out the tale, as they used the events in the story to explore several exciting science concepts: air pressure, energy transfer, physical vs. chemical changes, and more. 

Everyone had fun experiencing the fusion of science and stories!

The 2024 Summer Reading Program is sponsored by the City of Smyrna, the Friends of Smyrna Library, and Dairy Queen, Spring Rd.