Choose Privacy Week, celebrated this year May 1-7, is an education and awareness campaign that invites citizens into a national conversation about the right of privacy in the digital age. The campaign by the American Library Association gives libraries the tools they need to educate and engage users, and gives citizens the resources to think critically and make more informed choices about their privacy.
Join us at Macon County Public Library in Franklin on Thursday, April 28 for "Stones and Bones" (grades K-6) at 3:30pm and our adult program "Decorus calx immortalis- Beautiful Stone Immortals" at 6:00pm. Richard Hightower will bring fossil specimens and minerals and provide details of how they were found and formed. Hightower and his wife have worked in the field as collectors, preparers, and commercial paleontologists for 25 years.
In advance of National Library Week, Fontana Regional Library conducted a survey of library users and non-users, asking them to name their top priorities for the community’s future. Library staff surveyed 1,001 people in Jackson, Macon and Swain Counties and learned that there are 5 important areas on people’s minds: education, employment and the economy, health and mental health, diversity, and connectivity.
The Macon County Public Library, a member of the Fontana Regional Library, and the Friends of the Library are pleased to be installing their third Little Free Library at the Holly Springs Community Building. The Holly Springs Community Building is located at 2720 Cat Creek Road in Franklin. The first Little Free Library was installed at the Franklin Town Hall in October 2014, and has been a great place for people of all ages to find good things to read. The second Little Free Library was installed at Iotla Methodist Church in May 2015.
Find out more about STEAM programming at your Library, including Macon County Public Library's upcoming "Get on the Path to Math" all-day event on April 21st as a part of the North Carolina Science Festival, a multi-day celebration showcasing science & technology.
We’ve received word this morning that NONE of NC's 15 national legislators have signed letters of support for appropriations for LSTA (Library Services and Technology Act) and IAL (Innovative Approaches to Literacy) as of last Friday.
Just in time for spring planting, the New Library Campaign Committee is selling seed packets of selected vegetables, flowers and herbs from Sow True Seed of Asheville. Seed packets are on sale at the Marianna Black Library, corner Academy and Rector, and at the Friends of the Library Used Book Store, 35 Everett Street.
Olga Pader will share a presentation called "Camino Primitivo" in the Community Room of the Jackson County Public Library Complex in Sylva on Thursday, January 28th, at 7 PM.
