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Celebrate the installation of the Little Free Library at the Parker Meadows Complex on 4199 Patton Road west of Franklin on Thursday, May 24th at 10:00am (weather permitting).   If you can’t make it, no problem – the Little Free Library will be there for you on your next visit to the Parker Meadows Complex!

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Library patrons can get a break on overdue fines during the week of March 19-24, 2018.   In honor of National Nutrition Month, all Fontana Regional Library locations in Macon, Jackson, and Swain Counties are participating in a “Food for Fines” amnesty week, when patrons can bring in a non-perishable food item during that week and have their overdue fines forgiven.

Would you rather… Duel Dumbledore or Voldemort?

Children at the Macon and Jackson County Public Libraries joined libraries and bookstores around the world to celebrate the fourth annual Harry Potter Book Night on February 1, 2018.  This unforgettable night was themed around Fantastic Beasts. 

April 8-14 is the 60th annual National Library Week, a celebration of the life-changing work of libraries, librarians and library workers. Libraries aren’t just places to borrow books or study — they’re also creative and engaging community centers where people can collaborate using new technologies and develop their skills and passions. Fontana will be marking this week by kicking off our annual survey of the library needs in our local communities. Please plan to take a few minutes in April to fill out our survey and let us know how we are doing and what we can do better.

Macon County Public Library will present Family Science Night: The Science of Food and Drink on Thursday, April 12^th from 5:30 - 7PM. Family Science Night is an official event of the 2018 North Carolina Science Festival presented by the Biogen Foundation.

Through funds from Fontana Regional Library Headquarters, the Marianna Black Library recently purchased an automated external defibrillator (AED). Here are staff receiving training on how to use the device from Brooks Wolfe of the Nantahala Outdoor Center’s SOLO Southeast. AEDs are also available at the FRL libraries in Jackson County.

As reported in the Winter Fontana Flyer, during a report to the Swain County Commissioners in October, a discussion ensued in which the New Library Planning Committee and the commissioners agreed that it was time to appoint a member of the commission to the planning team to act as a liaison between the two groups. We are happy to say that Swain native, Danny Burns, volunteered to join the team and was appointed last November.