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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.

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. 
 

The New Library Campaign Committee is hosting a fundraiser at Pasqualino’s Italian Restaurant in Bryson City on Wednesday, March 16 at 6 p.m.

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. 

Cursive Writing Workshop

Saturday, January 23 at 1:00pm

Macon County Public Library