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Welcome to the
Lake Blackshear Regional Library!
VACATION READING PROGRAM 2012
DREAM BIG -- READ!
OWN THE NIGHT (for teen readers)
- Friday, June 1st: Kick-Off with FREE Popcorn 10am-2pm
- Thursday, June 7th, 10:30am: Todd Key, Comedic Juggler
- Tuesday, June 12th, 10:30am: Wendy Bennett, Musical Storyteller
- Tuesday, June 19th, 10:30am: Sumter Co. Humane Society: Proper Pet Care
- Thursday, June 28th, 10:30am: Wildlife Wonders “Creatures of the Night”
- Tuesday, July 3rd, 10:30am: Barry Stewart Mann, Theatrical Storyteller
- Tuesday, July 10th, 10:30am: Reptiles, Snakes and Lizards, OH MY! GSW Biology Department's Dr. Bob Herrington
Logs can be turned in for certificates and prizes July 10th-20th!
Anna Moates, in conjunction with the Americus Lions Club, is collecting eyeglasses for underdeveloped countries. Please show your support by dropping off your old eyeglasses at the Lake Blackshear Regional Library!
The History of the Americus Trolley
Click HERE to read about the history of the Americus Trolley, which is housed in the Lake Blackshear Regional Library.
Get Free Ebooks and Audiobooks from GADD!
The Lake Blackshear Regional Library System offers free ebooks and audiobooks for download. Check out the GADD website here for more information, or stop in and ask at any of our system libraries.
See if your device or computer is compatible with our eBooks:
Also download your free copy of The eBook Insider, from the authors and editors at Knopf Doubleday, to start or add to an incredible eBook reading list:
The eBook Insider
Other sites in which the eBook reader might be interested:
The Lake Blackshear Regional Library (Americus) holds a subscription to BookPage, courtesy of the Sumter County Friends of the Public Library, and keeps current copies at the front desk. These are free to the public. Click here to go to the online BookPage.
Our Mission
The Lake Blackshear Regional Library System's mission is to provide organized access to information through various formats and meet educational, informational, recreational and cultural needs of the citizens of Crisp, Dooly, Schley and Sumter Counties, and to improve efficiency in operations.
SUMTER COUNTY LIBRARY BOARD
- Brown, Luneda
- Bird, Bill
Collins, Tom
- Cotter, Ellen
- Curtis, Susan (Chair of the Sumter Board)
- Gurnack, Elizabeth
- Laster, Gabe
- Murray, Bill
- Patterson, Dorothy
- Sanders, Susie
- Strange, Elsie
- Tarver, Sharon
The Sumter County Library Board meets at 6:00 PM on the first Tuesday of January, April, July and October at the Lake Blackshear Regional Library.
Author Signing at Lake Blackshear Regional Library
Author Kevin A. Ewing will be at the Lake Blackshear Regional Library on Tuesday, November 29th, at 6:30pm to talk about his book “In the Midst of Heroes.” Mr. Ewing has been an educator teaching special needs middle and high school students for the last fifteen years. He currently resides in Georgia.
In the world we live in there has always been a need for heroes never more than now. We spend so much time waiting for heroes, never realizing we are in the midst of them. All we have to do is to look for them. We live and work with heroes everyday and never see them because we simply aren't looking for them. This book is about every day people who would never consider themselves heroes but they are just the same. They go about their lives being heroes but not being seen as the heroes they are. Every story in this book reminds us to look for the heroes in our midst. Every hero we notice makes our lives richer and better. In the frightening world we live in, where everywhere we turn we see so much that is wrong. It is easy to miss that things are not so bad. It is easy to miss that we are in the midst of heroes.
Kevin Ewing was Born August 5, 1958 in North Tonawanda New York Mr. Ewing lived in California & Washington State. He now currently lives in Georgia. Kevin has enjoyed many Careers such as production controller, salesman, financial planner, pest & weed controller, funeral insurance salesman, footwear assistant manager & manager, middle school special educator, high school special educator, writer He has been a special educator teaching life skills to Middle School and high School students have for the last fifteen years. His Education is as follows: Santa Barbara City College- AA Degree Washington State University - BA Education' Central Washington University M Ed His college Associations: Omicron Delta Kappa, Phi Delta Kappa Mr. Ewing has been married for 29 years to his lovely wife Reva. He has four children.
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