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To thank our community for 70 wonderful years, we are inviting our patrons to enjoy our week-long birthday party by offering Amnesty Week, exciting public programming, a library staff cookbook give-away, and cake!
When you return an overdue item—either in person or in the book drop—between Tuesday, May 27, and Saturday, May 31, enjoy fine forgiveness on those items.
Not sure if you have any overdue items? Need more information about amnesty rules? Come by the main desk with your library card.
During our regular 10:30 a.m. Tuesday morning preschool storytime, we will offer a topic of “Classic Tales.†This program will highlight bestsellers through the years and some titles that have been in our collection since the 1940s.
On Thursday, May 29, we will begin giving away copies of our 2014 Library Staff Cookbook and serving our birthday cake at 1 p.m. in the Library Auditorium. Come in, get a slice of cake, and stay for the adult programs we are offering afterward.
In the Library Auditorium at 3 p.m. on Thursday, Ray Smith will be our first presenter. Ray was selected to testify at the United States House of Representatives Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands on H. R. 5987, “A Bill to Establish the Manhattan Project National Historical Park in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, Los Alamos, New Mexico, and Hanford, Washington.” He will do a presentation about this effort, how it came about, and his involvement with it. With an almost 44-year history with the Y-12 National Security Complex, as the first recipient of the annual Bill Wilcox Bow Tie Award, an inductee into the Order of the Muddy Boot, and the co-producer of the film, “Secret City,” Ray has developed an extensive knowledge of and appreciation for Oak Ridge history. Come for the presentation and stay for his book signing.
In the Library Auditorium at 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, Beverly Connor will be our second presenter. Beverly is a prolific writer, a mystery lover, an archeologist, and an Oak Ridge resident. She has worked in both Georgia and South Carolina doing fieldwork and analyzing artifacts. She is the author of the Diane Fallon Forensic Investigation series and the Lindsay Chamberlain Archeology Mystery series and has been writing for over 30 years. In her novels, she combines her passion for forensics and archeology with her love of mysteries. She will be speaking in the Library Auditorium on the writing process. She will address how she creates her characters and story lines. Come for the presentation and stay for her book signing.
All of these events are free to the public. For more information, contact the Library by calling (865) 425-3455 or emailing [email protected].
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