System-Wide Library Events
Our Monthly Events!HOLIDAY CLOSING - Labor Day
Date: 09/06/2010 Time: 9:00 AM
Location: ALL Brevard County Libraries
Picturing America: Every Picture Tells a Story
Date: 09/08/2010 Time: 3:30 PM
Location: Franklin T. DeGroodt Memorial Library
Youth Program:
After School Craft – Create a Tiffany Tissue paper jar
Picturing America: Every Picture Tells a Story
Date: 09/12/2010 Time: 2:00 PM
Location: Franklin T. DeGroodt Memorial Library
Mary Fears, Storyteller and re-enactor will portray African American characters from the Civil War and tell the Underground Quilt Story.
Quilts: 19th through 20th Centuries
Brevard County Library Advisory Board meeting
Date: 09/15/2010 Time: 4:30 PM
Location: Cocoa Beach Public Library
Contact phone: 636-1801
The next meeting of the Brevard County Library System Advisory Board is scheduled for September 15, 2010, beginning at 4:30pm, at the Cocoa Beach Public Library, 550 North Brevard Avenue, Cocoa Beach, FL.
Picturing America: Every Picture Tells a Story
Date: 10/10/2010 Time: 2:00 PM
Location: Franklin T. DeGroodt Memorial Library
Ursula Dubrick, wildlife photographer, will discuss American wildlife as art, through illustration and photography with an emphasis on local flora and fauna.
American Flamingo, by John James Audubon
Picturing America: Every Picture Tells a Story
Date: 10/16/2010 Time: 3:00 PM
Location: Franklin T. DeGroodt Memorial Library
Teen Program:
Paper basket Weaving
Picturing America: Every Picture Tells a Story
Date: 10/17/2010 Time: 2:00 PM
Location: Franklin T. DeGroodt Memorial Library
Jeanine Taylor, owner of the Taylor Art Gallery, will discuss quilts and folk art from the 19th – 20th century
Quilts: 19th through 20th Centuries
Picturing America: Every Picture Tells a Story
Date: 10/26/2010 Time: 6:45 PM
Location: Franklin T. DeGroodt Memorial Library
Book Discussion of “Angel City” by Patrick Smith
Picturing America: Every Picture Tells a Story
Date: 10/30/2010 Time: 1:00 PM
Location: Franklin T. DeGroodt Memorial Library
Performance by the TALAKO INDIAN DANCERS
HOLIDAY CLOSING - Veteran's Day
Date: 11/11/2010 Time: 9:00 AM
Location: ALL Brevard County Libraries
Picturing America: Every Picture Tells a Story
Date: 11/14/2010 Time: 2:00 PM
Location: Franklin T. DeGroodt Memorial Library
Teen Program:
Book Discussion - Secret Soldier: The Story of Deborah Sampson by Ann McGovern
Brevard County Library Advisory Board meeting
Date: 11/17/2010 Time: 4:30 PM
Location: Eau Gallie Public Library
Contact phone: 636-1801
The Next regular meeting of the Brevard County Library System Board is scheduled for November 17, 2010, at the Eau Gallie Public Library, 1521 Pineapple Avenue, Melbourne, FL.
Picturing America: Every Picture Tells a Story
Date: 11/23/2010 Time: 6:45 PM
Location: Franklin T. DeGroodt Memorial Library
Book Discussion of “Plainsong” by Kent Haruf
HOLIDAY CLOSING - Thanksgiving Day
Date: 11/25/2010 Time: 9:00 AM
Location: ALL Brevard County Libraries
HOLIDAY CLOSING - Day after Thanksgiving
Date: 11/26/2010 Time: 9:00 AM
Location: ALL Brevard County Libraries
HOLIDAY CLOSING - Christmas Eve Holiday
Date: 12/24/2010 Time: 9:00 AM
Location: ALL Brevard County Libraries
HOLIDAY CLOSING-Christmas Day
Date: 12/25/2010 Time: 8:00 AM
Location: ALL Brevard County Libraries
HOLIDAY CLOSING - Christmas Holidays
Date: 12/26/2010 Time: 8:00 AM
Location: ALL Brevard County Libraries
HOLIDAY CLOSING - Christmas Holidays
Date: 12/27/2010 Time: 9:00 AM
Location: ALL Brevard County Libraries
Picturing America: Every Picture Tells a Story
Date: 01/09/2011 Time: 2:00 PM
Location: Franklin T. DeGroodt Memorial Library
Robert Taylor, PhD, Professor of History and the Humanities, FIT, will discuss the Revolutionary war and how it shaped our country
Washington Crossing the Delaware by Emanuel Leutze
Picturing America: Every Picture Tells a Story
Date: 01/12/2011 Time: 3:30 PM
Location: Franklin T. DeGroodt Memorial Library
Youth Program:
After School Craft – Paul Revere “Foil Rubbing”
Picturing America: Every Picture Tells a Story
Date: 01/13/2011 Time: 6:00 PM
Location: Franklin T. DeGroodt Memorial Library
Teen Program:
Book Discussion – Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
Picturing America: Every Picture Tells a Story
Date: 01/23/2011 Time: 2:00 PM
Location: Franklin T. DeGroodt Memorial Library
Andrew Frank, PhD, Professor of History, FSU, will discuss the early Florida History, specifically the Seminole Indians, their colonization and settlement
Picturing America: Every Picture Tells a Story
Date: 01/25/2011 Time: 6:45 PM
Location: Franklin T. DeGroodt Memorial Library
Book Discussion of “Brothers and Keepers” by John Edgar Wideman
Picturing America: Every Picture Tells a Story
Date: 01/30/2011 Time: 2:00 PM
Location: Franklin T. DeGroodt Memorial Library
Architect Jack Rood will present a short biography of Frank Lloyd Wright and discuss his work at Florida Southern College
Fallingwater, Frank Lloyd Wright