Quilt made by Carol. (Queen size quilt)
Friends of Marathon Public Library Quilt Drawing. Drawing will be 4th of July dance in Marathon, Texas at the Post Park. Ticket donations are $5.00 each or 3 for $12.00. Contact Carol at marathonlib@yahoo.com or 432-386-4136. Donations are a fund raiser for the Libri Foundation Books for Children Program Grant.
Marathon Public Library branch of Alpine Public Library.
BASIC COMPUTER CLASSES
Where: Marathon Public Library
This course consists of 12hours of instruction. Will have introduction to Computers, Internet & Email.
APPLICATIONS FOR CLASSES CAN BE PICKED UP AT THE LIBRARY.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CALL:
CAROL TOWNSEND AT 432-386-4136 (MARATHON PUBLIC LIBRARY) OR
NINFA RODRIGUEZ AT 432-837-9800 X2762
(WORKFORCE SOLUTIONS/UPPER RIO GRANDE)
Four Marathon residents attended the Texas Library Association Conference in Dallas April 14-18. Carol Townsend, librarian of the Marathon branch of the Alpine Public Library attended classes on library management and summer reading programs. Friends of Marathon Public Library president, Steve Griffis, who is also West Texas sales representative for University of Texas Press, manned an exhibit booth at the conference. Library volunteers Sky Townsend and Arlene Griffis worked in the UT Press booth and Arlene attended some classes, as well.
On Wednesday Carol and Arlene attended the Author’s Luncheon where Carol was recognized as one of eight recipients of a Tocker Foundation grant which issues stipends to librarians from small communities, thereby enabling them to attend conferences such as TLA. The two women also attended the Bluebonnet Award Luncheon on Thursday, which honored author Lucy Nolan whose book Down Girl and Sit: On the Road is the winner of the 2007-2008 Bluebonnet Award for children’s literature.
During the conference Carol and Arlene were able to purchase approximately 100 new books which will be added to the shelves of the Marathon Library. Carol would like to thank Carole Henthorne and Lynn Lindsay for keeping the Marathon Library open while she attended the conference.
Marathon Public Library has received “We the Peolple Bookshelf” from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Library Association. The collection contains the following books:
Abigail Adams: Witness to a Revolution
Abraham Lincoln the Writer
Amistad
Breaking Through
Elijah of Buxton
Flowers for Algernon
Freedom Walkers
The Gettysburg Address
Give Me Liberty
Lincoln: A Photobiography
Lincoln’s Virtues: An Ethical Biography
Lyddie
Many Thousand Gone
Pink and Say
Saturnalia
That all People May Be One People
The Ugly Duckling
Four Books in Spanish:
Pink y Say
Lyddie
Senderos Fronterizos
Flores Para Algernon
We wish to thank Arlene Griffis for applying for the grant for us. This is the third year Marathon Public Library has received this book grant. We also have new books recently donated so please come by the library to check them out. We are a great little library with wonderful community support.
Carol Townsend
Branch Manager
Marathon Public Library
Came Lujan our 1st place winner in the Marathon Public Library “Spring Break Poster Constest.
Came won an art kit with posters of dinosaurs and markers. His poster says “Giddy up! Let’s go to the library!”
Posters will be displayed around Marathon to view.
Other Posters: #1-#17
Thanks to Connie Springfield for being our judge this year and to all the children for their wonderful posters. All children will receive a “Certificate of Participation” for their posters. Please come by the Marathon Public Library to pick them up.
Carol
MPL
Kick up your heels and design a poster for the “Spring Break Poster Contest” at the Marathon Public Library this week. Poster boards, crayons and colored pencils available at the library to use.
Marathon Public Library will be closed on Friday March 21, 2008 for Good Friday. We wish everyone a Happy Easter week-end. Open regular hours on Monday March 24, 2008, from 11am-5pm.
Marathon Public Library
106 N. 3rd Street East
Marathon, Texas 79842 432-386-4136
Tocker Foundation Grant
The Marathon Public Library branch of Alpine’s Public Library received a grant from the Tocker Foundation so that Carol Townsend may attend the Texas Library Conference in Dallas. The Conference will be held April 14, 2008-April 19, 2008 at The Dallas Convention Center. The grant covers expense for TLA Conference Registration, Travel, Hotel, and meals.
Grant requirements include attending educational seminars and volunteer time to TLA. We thanks Arlene Griffis for the time she spent in preparing the grant application.
Carol Townsend
Branch Manager
Marathon Public Library,
Branch of Alpine Public Library
Marathon Public Library will be closed on March 7, 2008 for Carol to attend a class. The class is on Children’s Resources and Programming with Little Money. It is held at the Ft. Stockton Library. Carol Henthrone a volunteer at MPL and Mary Beth from APL will also be attending the class. We will reopen for regular hours on Monday March 10, 2008.
Thanks,
Carol
POSTER CONTEST AT MARATHON PUBLIC LIBRARY Area children are invited to design a poster for the Marathon Public Library’s Spring Break poster contest. The poster will be used to promote the Summer Reading Program, with a “Western/Rodeo” theme this year. This is part of the “Texas Reading Club Jubilee, 1958 to 2008.” Participants ranging in age from toddlers through the 12th grade are invited to come to the library to draw a poster or pick up poster board to bring home. There will be art supplies at the library. The Spring Break poster contest will be held March 17th to 20th. Poster boards will be available at the library beginning March 1st. The Marathon Public Library is a branch of Alpine Public Library in Brewster County, Texas. It is located at 106 N. 3rd Street East in Marathon . The telephone number is 432-386-4136.
Marathon Public Library a branch of Alpine Public Library will be closed for Presidents’ Day February 18, 2008.
We will reopen regular hours 11am-5pm on February 19, 2008.
Have a great day.
