Tuesday 2/9: Make a Valentine for someone you love @ 4:30pm in Hopewell

Don’t forget we have evening Story Times every Tuesday at 7:00 pm and Game Day the first Saturday of every month! For more information call 804-458-6329.

The Hopewell/Prince George Friends of the Library invite you to the Library Lovers' Book Sale on Saturday, February 6, 2010. The Book Sale starts at 10am and lasts through 5pm.

There will be a special preview for H/PG Friends of the library on Friday, February 5th, 2010 from 6pm to 8pm.

For more infromation, please call 804.861.0322 ext. 2001

The Hopewell Library joins area nonprofit knitting and crocheting group, From the Heart, to teach knitting and crocheting, and to provide blankets, chemo caps, and other items to area hospitals, nursing homes, and veterans’ homes. Everything produced during the knitting/crocheting sessions will be donated to these organizations so they may make them available for their patients and residents. Materials are provided free of charge for those who need them but donations of yarn and needles are welcome. All ages and levels of experience are invited to participate. Whether you have never stitched before or are a pro, we encourage you to join us!

February 4 & 18
6pm to 8pm

And

February 10 & 24
10am to 12pm

@ the Hopewell Library Cafe To RSVP, call (804) 458-6329, ext 1005 or visit the Information Desk at the Hopewell Library. Also, check us out on Ravelry.com!After creating your free account, go to “groups” and search “Southside from the Heart.”

Snuggle up and join the Appomattox Regional Library System for our Story Time series beginning January 11th and ending March 5th.
**Remember: books you hear at Story Time can be included on your Winter Reading book log!**

Winter Story Time Hours

• Hopewell: Monday & Thursday @ 10:30am
AND Tuesday @ 7:00 pm (new time)
• Dinwiddie: Wednesday @ 10:30am
• Carson: Friday @ 10:30am
• McKenney: January 12th, February 2nd & March 2nd @ 6pm

For more information, please visit our Children's Page

Clever Canines Therapy & Obedience Club has teamed with the Appomattox Regional Library to enhance children's love of reading through the use of registered therapy dogs.

Children participating in the program have the opportunity to come to the library to read to dogs (and their owners). All dog and owner teams have successfully completed training and testing and regularly visit nursing homes and assisted living facilities.

Research shows that children who are learning to read feel more relaxed and less self-conscious when reading to dogs. The program aims to improve reading skills, nurture a lifelong love of reading, and help children build bonds with dogs.

You must sign up in advance at the Appomattox Regional Library. Children must be in grades 2, 3, or 4 to participate. You can sign your child up to read to a therapy dog during a 15 minute individual session from 4:30 – 5:30pm on January 13, February 10, or March 10, 2010

In addition to our Clever Canines’ Book Buddies Program, the library will be showing the movie MY DOG SKIP on Thursday, January 14th at 4:30 in Hopewell and Friday, January 15th at 4:30 in McKenney.

To wrap up our wild, canine events the local SPCA will be providing two programs:

Love animals? Looking for a job? The library has the perfect programs for you! Several dogs and cats will be on site to pet, hold, and adopt.

SPCA’s director, Pat Kline, will present two programs:

Careers with Animals addresses the many ways teens and adults can find meaningful work and earn an income working with animals. Saturday, January 16, 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. Hopewell.

Ms. Kline of SPCA will also share her knowledge about the Benefits of Animals. Come learn how animals are used in the lives of veterans, the elderly, children, and others, and hear about what they can do to improve your health and enrich your life.

Thursday, January 21, 6:00 – 7:00 p.m. Hopewell.

For more information, call us @ 458-6329

Thursday, December 3rd from 6:00 pm until 8:00 pm at our Hopewell library.

The Appomattox Regional Library System, along with the Hopewell Parks and Recreation Department, invite you to start the holidays at the Hopewell library. In conjunction with the Hopewell Tree-Lighting ceremony, the library will be hosting a variety of family-friendly events including:

• Holiday craft-making
• Screening of the classic animated movie How the Grinch Stole Christmas
• Hot chocolate, cookies and Starbucks Coffee

We will also have a visit from Santa so bring your Christmas wish list! Photos with Santa will be taken from 7:30 - 8:30 and each family will be able to get one FREE picture to take home.

The Friends of the Library Book Store will also be open for anyone looking to do a little Christmas shopping. So stop by and enjoy some fun while we help you get in the holiday spirit!

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The Appomattox Regional Library welcomes donations of gently used books and new books. All donations will be evaluated according to the Library’s collection development policy. Items that cannot be added to the collection will be handled by the Friends of the library for redistribution to the community, sale, recycling or discard. All proceeds from the sale of donated materials will be used by the Friends to support the library.

We can only accept items in good condition. We cannot take moldy, discolored, stained, or malodorous items. Items that are donated are irrevocable.

The following are items we Cannot accept:

• Magazines (please recycle at community recycling locations)
• Audio cassettes, video cassettes, record albums
• Reader’s Digest Editions
• Encyclopedias
• Software
• Textbooks
• Non-Fiction items older than 5 years
• Paperback older than 5 years

HOWEVER the Friends of the Library Bookstore, The Reader’s Friend, will accept the following items on the days the bookstore is open:

• Magazines for distribution or recycling
• Books older than 5 years
• Books on cassette tape
• Paperbacks older than 5 years

The branch library located in Rohoic will changing their hours, starting May 1st.

The new hours will be:

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday 3:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

Thursday 12:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

The library will be closed on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays.

The change became necessary due to a change in the hours at the Eastside Community Enhancement Center.

Welcome to the Appomattox Regional Library System webpage. If you have been here before, you will have noticed a change. The overall design has changed drastically, but the core function remains the same. Also, as an added bonus, you can now search our catalog right from our homepage.
Even though we've done so much work thus far, there's still a lot more to do. All areas of the new site are fuctional, but some are not fully complete, so check back often and see what we've done! We hope you enjoy the new site.

*Note - The new site is designed for Mozilla Firefox or IE7+. If you are using Internet Explorer 6 or older, some things will not work properly.

Looking for a career? If you've been laid-off or if you're looking for something more secure, please check out the resources that we've put together here at the library.

Here you will find national job search sites, resume building information and local job openings.

For More Information, Click Here

How about a fun new way to view new headlines from around the world! Mapped Up is an application that aggregates RSS news feeds from multiple sources and displays their latest items on a world map. For a quick look, check out our Mapped Up page

Flickr is a website, developed by Ludicorp in 2004, that allows its members to share photos and video. With Flickr, the Appomattox Regional Library System can make more images available to its patrons than ever before.
To view the ARLS photostream, Click on the "Flickr" icon located at the top of our page or visit http://www.flickr.com/photos/appomattoxregional