Gilbertown SponsorsChristmas Backpacks Program

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Gilbertown BCM & SGA collaborate to support
Christmas Backpacks for Children and Teens.

Cybersecurity Awareness!

October is
Cybersecurity Awareness Month

Library Display by DeeDee Baggett
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National Cybersecurity Awareness Campaign

Hispanic-Latino Heritage

Please join us in celebrating

HISPANIC-LATINO HERITAGE MONTH!
(SEP 15th through OCT 15th)

Hispanic Biographies Hispanic Heritage Month Hispanic Heritage Month - PBS Hispanic Heritage Stamps Mi historia / My story videos Smithsonian Latino Center Spanish: Correcting the Myths Spanish Language Resources Spanish Place Names Spanish-Speaking Countries Quiz

Flags of countries  where Spanish is spoken.

Today is the First Day of Autumn

Richard Burton reads 'Autumn'

by John Clare (1793-1864)

International Day of Peace

September 21st is
the International Day of Peace

Prayer of the Mothers

Gilbertown Celebrates Constitution Day!

Since both SGA and Baptist Campus Ministries meet in Gilbertown Library, service opportunities  for the students are often combined with library or community promotions. The pictures below are from their Constitution Day observance.

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CONSTITUTION DAY!!

September 17th is Constitution Day

 
Constitution Day Display in
Leigh Library (click to enlarge)

For the full-text of the U.S. Constitution,
as well as related videos and podcasts,
please visit the National Constitution Center.

September is Library Card Sign-up Month!

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Reading books is the most glorious pastime 

that humankind has yet devised. 

-Wisława Szymborska

John Dennis Forte Library adds Smart TV

 

ADA Anniversary

The Americans with Disabilities Act
was signed into law on July 26, 1990
by President George H.W. Bush. 

New Smart TV in Leigh Library

Independence Day

Happy Independence Day!

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 On July 4th, 1776, the Continental Congress
formally adopted the Declaration of Independence.
History of July 4th at the History Channel

July is Park & Recreation Month

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Park & Recreation Month

display by DeeDee Baggett

June 19 is Juneteenth

BREAKING NEWS:Juneteenth to become a federal holiday!(see AP News story)

Official JUNETEENTH Flag

In 1863, during the American Civil War, Pres. Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which declared more than three million slaves living in the Confederate states to be free. More than two years would pass, however, before the news reached African Americans living in Texas. It was not until Union soldiers arrived in Galveston, Texas, on June 19, 1865, that the state’s residents finally learned that slavery had been abolished. The former slaves immediately began to celebrate with prayer, feasting, song, and dance. 

Juneteenth Celebration

The following year, on June 19, the first official Juneteenth celebrations took place in Texas. The original observances included prayer meetings and the singing of spirituals, and celebrants wore new clothes as a way of representing their new-found freedom. Within a few years, African Americans in other states were celebrating the day as well, making it an annual tradition. Celebrations have continued across the United States into the 21st century and typically include prayer and religious services, speeches, educational events, family gatherings and picnics, and festivals with music, food, and dancing.

Britannica, The Editors of Encyclopaedia. "Juneteenth". Encyclopedia Britannica, 25 May. 2021, https://www.britannica.com/topic/Juneteenth. Accessed 17 June 2021.

June 14 is Flag Day

On August 3, 1949, to commemorate the
adoption of the U.S. national flag, Congress
designated June 14 of each year as Flag Day.

June is Adopt a Shelter Cat Month

 

National Nurses Month

 

CHAMPIONS OF HOPE:
Celebrating National Nurses Month

May in the Library

Get Caught Reading Month

National Inventors Month

Displays by DeeDee Baggett (click photos to enlarge)

Today is Poem in Your Pocket Day!

"The Soldier"
by Rupert Booke

If I should die, think only this of me:

      That there’s some corner of a foreign field

That is for ever England. There shall be

      In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;

A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,

      Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam;

A body of England’s, breathing English air,

      Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.

And think, this heart, all evil shed away,

      A pulse in the eternal mind, no less

            Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given;

Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day;

      And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness,

            In hearts at peace, under an English heaven.

 

Recitation of "The Soldier" by Sophie Okonedo

April 22nd is Earth Day!

Mobile Bay at Fairhope
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Alabama State Parks

Alabama's Anti-Litter Site

Clean Water Future

Earth Charter Initiative

Earth Day Network

Earth Island Institute

Ebsco's GreenFile

Keep Alabama Beautiful

Mobile Baykeeper

National Park Week

Nature Conservancy

National Haiku Poetry Day

April 17th is National Haiku Poetry Day The traditional form for Haiku is as follows: a 3-line poem with 5, 7, and 5 syllables per line. An old silent pond; A frog jumps into the pond. Splash! Silence again. -Basho Haiku Foundation Haiku Generator Haiku Syllable Counter History & Artistry of Haiku

(click to enlarge) Matsuo Basho Greatest Master of Haiku

National Library Week, April 4th-10th

In honor of National Library Week,
Coastal Alabama Libraries will forgive
all fines for overdue books or videos
returned during the month of April.

April is National Poetry Month

display by DeeDee Baggett (click to enlarge)

Academy of American Poets Bartleby Great Books Online Modern American Poetry National Poetry Month Poem Generator Poetry Center Poetry Daily Poetry Foundation Poetry Society Poetry Society of America Rhyme Zone Sonnet Project

The Purple Butterfly

 

When visiting a hospital maternity or neonatal ward, if you see a
purple butterfly on a baby's crib, it represents a baby that was part 
of a multiple pregnancy from which not all of the babies survived. 

For more information, please visit the Skye High Foundation.

Spring into Reading!

Book Nook display
by DeeDee Baggett

 

March 20th is World Storytelling Day!

Kathryn Tucker Windham
Alabama's Favorite Storyteller

Art of Storytelling Kathryn Tucker Windham Kathryn Tucker Windham (ADAH) Kathryn Tucker Windham Audio Clips Kathryn Tucker Windham - In Memory Kathryn Tucker Windham Museum National Storytelling Network Southern Order of Storytellers Story Corps TED Talks on Storytelling Tell-A-Tale View from the Porch: Southwest Alabama World Storytelling Cafe Special thanks to Patsy Bennett and Deborah Robinson at the Kathryn Tucker Windham Museum & Library for their valuable suggestions and assistance!

Brewton Campus Blood Drive

Donate Blood and get a 

Tie-Dye T-shirt & a $10 eGift Card!

Brewton Campus on the Big Red Bus

March 18 - 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM

To schedule an appointment: 

https://donor.oneblood.org/donor/schedules/drive_schedule/1060946.

Women's History Month

Convention on Women's Rights Female Nobel Laureates Gifts of Speech International Women's Day  National Women’s Hall of Fame Women in Science Women Working Women’s History Women's History Month Women's History Sourcebook

(click to enlarge) One Woman: a song honoring Women

March is National Reading Month

Read an E-Book Week (1st-7th)

Read Across America Day (2nd)

World Storytelling Day (20th)

World Folktales & Fables Week (21st-27th)

Towns of Coastal Alabama

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Gilbertown Blood Drive

 Wednesday, April 7th

9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. on the Bloodmobile

at Calvary Baptist Church
(113 Pickens Ave, Butler, AL)

To schedule your appointment visit:

www.bloodhero.com
(Sponsor Code: CoastalAlabama)

Happy Valentine's Day!

Book Nook in Leigh Library
designed by DeeDee Baggett

 

Black History Links

African American Life & History African American Literature Book Club African Americans at War Black Facts Online Black History Biographies Black History Pages Black History Poems Black Past Guide to Black History History Makers Museum of the African Diaspora National Museum of African American History & Culture Quilts of Gee's Bend

Quilters of Gee's Bend

Black History Month

Leigh Library displays by DeeDee Baggett

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February is Black History Month

Lincoln Normal School  established in 1867 in Perry County :   moved to Montgomery in 1887 :  renamed Alabama State University in 1969.

Alabama's  Historically Black Colleges & Universities Alabama A&M University Alabama State University Concordia College (closed) Miles College Oakwood University Selma University Stillman College Talladega College Tuskegee University

Happy Birthday Dr. King!

“I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.”

Civil Rights Memorial Dr. King on Biography.com Encyclopedia of Alabama Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence I Have a Dream speech King Center (Atlanta) Letter from a Birmingham Jail Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial  National Historical Park Selma to Montgomery March

January in the Library

January 2nd is National Science Fiction Day January 23rd is National Handwriting Day
(display by DeeDee Baggett in Leigh Library)

Welcome to Spring Term!

Book Nook

(displays by DeeDee Baggett)

New Year's Resolutions

Merry Christmas from Coastal Alabama Libraries!

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Christmas Corner in Leigh Library
(display by DeeDee Baggett)

Have a Happy Thanksgiving!!!

Library display by DeeDee Baggett
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November 11th is Veterans Day

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By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation

Whereas the 11th of November, 1918, marked the cessation of the most destructive, sanguinary, and far-reaching war in human annals; and

Whereas it is fitting that the recurring anniversary of this date should be commemorated with thanksgiving and prayer and exercises designed to perpetuate peace through good will and mutual understanding between nations; and

Whereas, by a concurrent resolution, passed by the Senate on May 25, 1926, and by the House of Representatives on June 4, 1926, the President was requested to issue a proclamation "calling upon the officials to display the flag of the United States on all Government buildings on November 11th, and inviting the people of the United States to observe the day in schools and churches or other places, with appropriate ceremonies expressive of our gratitude for peace and our desire for the continuance of friendly relations with all other peoples":

Now, Therefore, I, Calvin Coolidge, President of the United States of America, in pursuance of the said concurrent resolution, do hereby order that the flag of the United States be displayed on all Government buildings on November 11,1926, and do invite the people of the United States to observe the day in schools and churches, or other suitable places, with appropriate ceremonies expressive of our gratitude for peace and our desire for the continuance of friendly relations with all other peoples.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused to be affixed the great seal of the United States.

Done at the city of Washington this 3d day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twenty-six, and of the Independence of the United States, the one hundred and fifty-first.

 

 

CALVIN COOLIDGE

By the President:
FRANK B. KELLOGG, Secretary of State.

Calvin Coolidge, Proclamation—Armistice Day, 1926 Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/328733

Native American History Month

By official proclamation, November is set aside as a time to celebrate First Nations cultures, traditions, and contributions to our national story. It also serves as a reminder of the rich diversity of Native tribes and the ongoing challenges faced by Native peoples in the present day.

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Eiteljorg Museum Faces of Poarch Moundville Park National Congress of American Indians

National Museum of the American Indian Poarch Band of Creek Indians Tribal Nations Maps Vision Maker DVDs

Pulitzer Prize Winners

All Pultizer Prize winning works in the categories of Novels (1917-1947) and Fiction (1948-2020) are owned by at least one branch of Coastal Alabama Libraries. For the complete list of all 93 winning titles, please refer to the drop down menu in Koha, our online catalog.

Joseph Pulitzer

November 3rd - ELECTION DAY!

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Norman Rockwell's "Spirit of America"

Let your voice be heard…GO VOTE!!!