The libraries will close at 6pm this Wednesday, then remain closed Thursday and Friday, November 24th & 25th for Thanksgiving.  Library staff will be joining the Keys community in giving thanks for life’s abundance.
Libraries will reopen Saturday, November 26th at our regular time.

 In observance of Veterans’ Day, the libraries will be closed on Friday, November 11th.
We will reopen Saturday, November 12th at our regular time.

The Monroe County Public Libraries are hiring! Do you enjoy working with the public? Have some library experience? Don’t mind working Saturdays and an occasional evening?

Are you visiting the Keys? Well, welcome, we’re glad you’re here! Following is a list of some of the services the libraries offer our guests:

Guest post by Wanda Urbanska
One of the unheralded media stories of the Great Recession has been the rapidity with which Americans have embraced simple living. We’re reclaiming frugality as a value while questioning the reckless consumption of the recent past. We’re eating more healthfully, taking up gardening and selecting smaller, more eco-friendly living spaces.

In observance of Columbus Day, the libraries will be closed on Tuesday, October 11th
We will reopen Wednesday, October 12th at our regular time. Click here to view our usual schedule.

In observance of Labor Day, the libraries will be closed on Tuesday, September 6th
We will reopen Wednesday, September 7th at our regular time.

Coming up, the libraries will be closed on our usual days: Sunday and Monday.  In observance of Independence Day, the libraries will also be closed on Tuesday, July 5.
We will reopen Wednesday, July 6th at our regular time. Click here to view our usual schedule.
We join with the Keys community in honoring the brave patriots who fought for our country’s independence. Hope to see you at the local parades, picnics, fireworks displays, and all the festivities that make this holiday so neighborly.
Jump over here to read Tom’s blog about his patriot ancestor, Col. Hambright. If you’d like to find …

Recommended by library staffer, Greg Vestal. Click here to check it out in our catalog.  Here’s the summary:
I Reach Over offers a sad but rewarding glimpse of a transformative process, in the deeply felt and highly imaginative poems of a successful physician-scientist diagnosed with ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease). Robbed of the future he’d worked so hard and long for and facing the horror of progressive paralysis, the author counters with an open-minded search for his soul, reflected in this candid and inspiring book. Brutally honest and probing poems layered in …

To commemorate the Memorial Day Holiday, all Monroe County libraries will be closed Tuesday May 31st, 2011.
Libraries will reopen at our regular hours on Wednesday June 1, 2010. Click here for our regular hours.
Our resident historian, Tom Hambright, has written this informative post on Memorial Day and the Battleship Maine burial plot.
Have a safe and wonderful weekend!