Fire is a natural part of California's environment.  Join Members of the California Native Plant Society Carol Rice, a fire ecologist, and Cheryl Miller, a landscape architect, as they discuss ways to use native plants, special pruning techniques and careful placement to achieve a beautiful and fire safe yard.  Sponsored by the California Native Plant Society.
For more information contact Heidi.Ontiveros@hayward-ca.gov or call 510-881-7975.

Saturday, September 11th
1:00 p.m.
Main Library

Have concerns about your ability to retire on your timeline?  Have an old 401K that you want to work harder for you?  A local financial advisor will be available to assist you with your questions at the Hayward Public Library.  Space is limited and registration is required for this free program.  Please arrive at 12:30 p.m. to register.  For more information contact Melesha.owen@hayward-ca.gov or call 510-293-5239.

Literacy Plus Tutor - provide free, confidential, one-to-one literacy tutoring to English-speaking adults who read below 8th-grade level.

Senior Outreach Volunteer - select and deliver library materials to the homebound Hayward residents, involving one to two hours every two to three weeks.

Friends of the Library - involves a variety of activities, principally book sales to raise funds for Library services, newsletter mailings, and promoting the Library in the community.

Homework Support Center - help students with their homework after school, Monday through Thursday.

Student Friends - in the spring and summer, students in Grade 7 and up help with the Summer Reading Game or other library programs and projects. Other projects for young volunteers may be available during the year.

Special Projects - include light clerical work, washing books, special library service projects.

Stories a Go Go - read stories to children at Hayward preschools.

Saturday, September 4th
12:00 noon - Main  Library

Monday, September 13th
6:00 p.m. - Main Library

Wednesday, September 15th
6:00 p.m.  - Weekes Branch Library

Need legal advice? Don't know where to begin?  Get 15 minutes of free legal advice with a licensed attorney. In person registration is required. Registration begins 30 minutes before the first session.  Space is limited.  Consultations may be assigned by lottery. Program sponsored by the Alameda County Bar Association.

Friends of the Hayward Library book sales are held at the downtown Farmers Market on the second and fourth Saturday of each month. In case of rain, the sale will be in front of the Main Library.

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books & DVDs late?
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Keep library books, DVDs, music, etc., as long as you want.  No due dates, no late fines - ever.

First month's subscription applies to existing fines.  All late items renewed at no charge.

 

Saturday, September 4th
3:00-5:00 p.m.
Main Library
Learn to reduce your stress level by laughing.

In Person: at the Hayward Public Library
By Email: amber.bell@hayward-ca.gov  
By Phone: (510) 881-7980
This session is part of a series on careers hosted by Tutor.com.

Wednesdays
September 8th & 22nd
6:45 p.m.
Main Library

Discover the joys of knitting! All skill levels welcome.  Please bring size 10 or 10 1/2 knitting needles and the yarn of your choice.

Mondays
September 13th, 20th, & 27th
11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Main Library

Come and practice speaking English with others who are learning.  All levels are welcome.  No registration is required. Contact Melesha.Owen@hayward-ca.gov or 510-293-5239 for more information.

Mystery & Suspense
Tuesday, September 7th @ 11:30 a.m., Le Paradis Bakery (D St. and Mission) and 6:30 - 7:45 p.m., Main Library
In Lisa Lutz's first mystery novel, The Spellman Files, we are introduced to the amazingly dysfunctional Spellman family of private investigators who live and work in San Francisco.  Isabel Spellman, the eldest daughter, narrates the increasingly bizarre and hysterically funny adventures of the various family members as they both investigate cases for their clients and equally enthusiastically investigate each other, for to be a Spellman is to snoop on a Spellman, tail a Spellman, dig up dirt on, blackmail and wiretap a Spellman.
 
Discussion facilitated by Heidi.Ontiveros@hayward-ca.gov, 510-881-7975.
 
Mostly Literary Fiction
Monday,  September 13th @ Noon, Peet's Coffee (B St. and Mission) and  6:30-7:45 p.m., Main Library
We will be discussing Old Filth by British novelist Jane Gardam, who has twice won the Whitbread Book Award and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Award. Filth is a lawyer with a practice in the Far East. A few remember that his nickname stands for Failed In London Try Hong Kong. But Old Filth is not as pompous as people imagine, and his past contains many secrets and dark hiding places. Described by The New Yorker as "mordantly funny," Old Filth, Gardam's 15th novel, was shortlisted in Britain for the Orange Prize.
 
Discussion facilitated by Sally.Thomas@hayward-ca.gov, 510-881-7700. Not able to attend meetings but want to discuss this book with others? Join GoodReads.com and participate in online discussions! You must have an account on GoodReads.com to participate. Contact Sally for more information.
 
Autobiography & Memoir
Wednesday, September 15th @ 6:30 - 7:30 p.m., Main Library
In When I Was Puerto Rican, Esmeralda Santiago tells of a childhood in Puerto Rico full of both tenderness and domestic strife, a childhood bursting with tropical sounds and sights. And mired in poverty. When her mother decides to take off for New York with her seven-soon to be eleven -children, Esmeralda, the oldest, must learn new rules, a new language, and eventually a new identity.
  
Discussion facilitated by Abbe.Kalos@hayward-ca.gov, 510-881-7941.

Hayward Public Library

MAIN LIBRARY	WEEKES BRANCH
835 C Street	27300 Patrick Avenue
Hayward, CA 94541	Hayward, CA 94544
510-293-8685	510-782-2155

 HOURS
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday 11-8
Thursday, Friday, Saturday, 10-5

 

Email us: library@hayward-ca.gov