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April 19th, 2013

Marfa celebrates library week

By RENEE MICK

Next week, April 14-20, the Marfa Public Library joins libraries in schools, campuses and communities nationwide in celebrating National Library Week, a time to highlight the value of libraries.

Libraries today are more than repositories for books and other resources. Libraries are deeply committed to their communities and are trusted places …

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February 21st, 2013

Old & rare book sale report

By RENEE MICK, Marfa Public Library director

MARFA – The Marfa Library Old & Rare Book Sale was great fun, and a great success. Thank you to all of the generous shoppers who came to our sale and helped support the Community Room/Courtyard Project. We had a crew of excellent volunteers …

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February 14th, 2013

Thanks to Jett’s, capital campaign progress, book sale, GED

By RENEE MICK

the Marfa Public Library Director

I’d like to thank Jett’s Grill once more for their support of our Community Room & Courtyard Project. This Thursday, February 14, Jett’s will once again contribute a percentage of their proceeds to the project. Treat your sweetie to dinner and …

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January 19th, 2013

Community room, courtyard projects moving forward

By RENEE MICK

The capital campaign for the Marfa Public Library Community Room/Courtyard Project is moving forward!
To date there is just under $152,000 in the bank. To satisfy requirements of grant pledges from the Abell-Hanger Foundation and the Permian Basin Foundation we must raise another $63,000 by mid-May. Many generous donations …

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December 20th, 2012

“SEASON’S READINGS” FROM THE MARFA PUBLIC LIBRARY!

By RENEE MICK

The Marfa Public Library would like to wish everyone a very happy holiday season.

Hurry in for your holiday reading as we will be closed Saturday, December 22nd through Wednesday, December 26th.  In addition, we’ll be closed Saturday, December 29th and Tuesday, January 1st.

We hope everybody’s wishes come …

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September 27th, 2012

The dropout issue, banned books week, teen read week

By RENEE MICK

This week is American Graduate Week; all week KRTS has been airing programming dealing with high school dropout rates and plans of action.  Find out more on the Marfa Public Radio website: www.marfapublicradio.org.

Over the summer, Marfa kids were busy reading …

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August 16th, 2012

Sentinel archives now online

By RENEE MICK

Have you ever wished you could search for articles in The Big Bend Sentinel from your home, or from wherever you are in the world? This is possible, at least for issues from the 1920s through 2004, thanks to Don Dowdey, dean of library and information technologies at the …

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August 4th, 2012

Read books, win a bike

By RENEE MICK

Summer Reading is almost over! Kids should get their completed reading logs (30 books logged) to the library by August 10th and get their names into the drawing for the Summer Reading prize. It’s a bike!

The library is hosting a very special story time today, August 2nd at …

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June 21st, 2012

Thanks to all our library supporters

By RENEE MICK

A lot of people have been supporting the library in many ways lately, and I’d like to take the opportunity to say thank you!

If you’ve been by the library you’ve seen our new garden under the tree. Well, right now it’s practically buried in wood chips, but if …

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May 24th, 2012

Summer is the time for reading

By RENEE MICK

Summer is just around the corner, which means more time for reading. We have tons of good books; come by, check some out!  Have a suggestion? Tell us, you just might get what you want!

Summer Reading 2012 for kids is from June 4th to August 10th.  Parents, bring …