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Adult Services

The Adult Services Department provides fiction books, reader's advisory, audio books, movies, & adult programs.  Librarian-Carol Smith M. L. S.
   
Book Group:  
   

Attention all interested readers: Please join us for a monthly book discussion group.  We meet the third Thursday of every month at 7:00 p.m. at the Library annex (the mobile unit behind the Library).  Please read the book and be prepared to discuss the book over coffee and snacks.  Please call the library or email Nancy at hicks4@bellsouth.net for directions or answers to any other questions about the group.

 

Library Book Group: 

 Thursday, May 17, 2012. 7 pm – Join us in our discussion of Burning Bright by Tracy Chevalier. A sweeping and romantic tale set against the historical backdrop of William Blake's London. 

Meeting takes place in the mobile unit.

 

Library Book Group Calendar 
Dec. 15th  The Postmistress by Sarah Blake
Jan. 19th My Name is Mary Sutter by Robin Oliveira
Feb. 19th Night Road by Kristin Hannah
Mar. 15th Kaaterskill Falls by Allegra Goodman
April 19th The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barberry
March 15th Lamb, or the Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore
May 17th Burning Bright by Tracy Chevalier
June 21st Ahab's Wife by Sena Jeter Naslund
July 19th Swan by Frances Mayes
Aug. 16th Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
Sept. 20th The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl
Oct. 18th Caleb's Crossing by Geraldine Brooks
Nov. 15th Salvation on Sand Mountain by Dennis Covington
Dec. 20th The Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie R. King
   
Other Adult Programming:  
Crochet Crash Course  - Local author and designer Diane Stone will be teaching adults the basics of crochet.  Students will also learn to read and follow a beginner crochet pattern. Students will need to bring a size G or H aluminum crochet hook the night of the first class.
Monday evenings 6:00 pm — 7:30 pm
from April 16th through May 21st. Meeting takes place in the mobile unit.
 
Limited number of seats available.

Please call us at 664-6822 or come in to sign up. 

Cake and Culture Series:

Sunday, May 6, 2012. 2:00 pm – Join us as Dr. Marty Olliff, Ph.D., associate professor of history at Troy University, Dothan Campus presents The Art of War: Posters, Photographs and Postcards of World War I. Program made possible by the Alabama Humanities Foundation.
 
Meeting takes place in the mobile unit. 
   
Next Library Boardmeeting:  
 January 24th, 2012 6PM  
   

Special thanks to the Alabama Public Library Service and the City of Alabaster for providing the funds for the 2011 LSTA Collection Development grant used to expand and improve our audiovisual materials selection!

Not only have most of our audio books had their format migrated to CD from magnetic tape, but our non-fiction DVD selection was expanded. $9,500 of materials in DVD and CD formats were added. Keep in mind that materials we were unable to match in these formats have been retained as tapes so don't go throwing out that rewinder quite yet!