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Photo Gallery
  | Longwood School Homework Center (left). Hayward Fault Walking Tour (right)
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 Join the Conversation
We've read and discussed - now it's time to meet and act. California Reads continues with Personal Emergency Preparedness training and Constitution Café.
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DISASTER KNOWLEDGE & PREPAREDNESS
Personal Emergency Preparedness (PEP) Training
Saturday, May 12th
1-4 p.m., Main Library
This could be the most important workshop of your life! Develop vital strategies that help you and your family to prepare for and respond to emergencies and disasters. Led by Capt. Thor Paulsen of the Hayward Fire Department.
Constitution Café with Christopher Phillips
Wednesday, May 2nd
6 - 7:30 p.m., Main Library
Called the "Johnny Appleseed of Philosophy," Christopher Phillips has set out to engage Americans in discussions surrounding our most fundamental rights and freedoms. His latest book,
Constitution Café: Jefferson's Brew for a True Revolution
, illustrates the power and promise of democracy, using the extra-ordinary conversations of ordinary citizens to re-animate the founding ideas and documents of this country. Americans of all stripes are encouraged to grapple with how they would sculpt the United States Constitution if they could start from scratch. Phillips' bestselling book, Socrates Café, has helped form Socrates Café groups around the world.
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 Taste of Hayward Wednesday, June 6 5:30-8:30 p.m., City Hall Rotunda Sample wines from over 20 wineries and taste food from the area's best restaurants, caterers, and
retailers.100% of proceeds benefit Hayward Public Library's After School Homework Support Center. Tickets: $30 in advance | $40 at the door Tickets are available at the Hayward Main Library at 835 C Street or contact contact Alma Cadena at alma.cadena@hayward-ca.gov, or Sean Brooks at sean.brooks@hayward-ca.gov. For more information call 510-881-7700. |
 Encourage Literacy for
World Book Day
Saturday, May 5
9 a.m. - 1 p.m., Main Library Lawn
Spread your love for a great book in our local community. Get involved with the World Book Day distribution of free books to new or returning readers. Bring a used copy of a book you have read and loved to pass on to someone who isn't a regular reader.
For more information call 510-881-7700.
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Resume & Interviewing Skills Workshop
 Wednesday, May 9
11 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Main Library
Eden Area One Stop Career Center staff will present an important workshop about understanding the essentials of resume development and effective interviewing skills to help you secure your next job. Bring your resume for a professional resume critique. No registration required.
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Lawyer in the Library 
Saturday, May 5
12 noon-2 p.m. - Main Library
Monday, May 7
6 p.m.-7:45 p.m. - Main Library
Wednesday, May 16 6 p.m.-7:45 p.m. - Weekes Branch
Do you need free legal advice? Don't know where to begin? Get 15 minutes of free legal advice at the Hayward Public Library with a licensed attorney. Registration in person is required. Registration begins 30 minutes before the first session. Space is limited. Consultation is assigned by lottery. Lawyer in the Library is sponsored by the Alameda County Bar Association. Call 510-881-7980 for more information.
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Legal Assistance for Seniors Presents
Stepping Up to the Plate:
Guardianship & Custody Options Tuesday, May 8, Main Library Wednesday, May 9, Weekes Branch 1-3 p.m.
- Discusses various custody options and their advantages and disadvantages
- Explains the details of the guardianship process
- Covers services available to help grandparent & relative caregivers through the Kinship Support Services program (KSSP)
- Discusses CalWORKS and other government benefits available to kin caregivers.
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Knitting Circle
Wednesdays
May 9 & 23
6:15 p.m.
Main Library
All levels of knitters, be they beginners or experts, and other yarn crafters are invited to join Hayward Public Library's Knitting Circle. On May 9th, we will be making felted soap covers. This simple craft becomes an elegant gift. If you have any finished handmade projects, bring them along to share.
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Clean-Up Day - Spring Volunteers Needed
 Saturday, May 19
8 a.m.-12 noon, Weekes Park
Come out and help Keep Hayward Clean and Green. Free BBQ lunch and complimentary thank you gift for all volunteers. Don't delay! Register by May 9.
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Need Help with Reading, Writing, or Spelling?
 You can get free tutoring if: - You read below the 8th grade level
- You can speak English
- You are 18+ and not in high school
- You never went to college
Call 510-881-7910 * Literacy Plus * Hayward Public Library |
 NEW! Hayward Mural Project Notecards You've seen them around town, now you can share your appreciation of them; they are the City's renowned murals. A limited supply of collector-quality note cards featuring images of twelve of the City's murals is now available - suitable for framing, sending or sharing. Proceeds directly support the mural arts program and the continued beautification of Hayward. Cost is $20.00 for a box containing a dozen 5" x 7" glossy cards (with textured envelopes). Cards are available for purchase at the library. |
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The library will be closed on
Monday, May 28  |
Get a Great Deal
on Books!
Saturdays
May 12 & 26 9 a.m.-1 p.m. C Street & Watkins
Friends of the Hayward Library book sales are held at the downtown Farmers Market. In case of rain, the sale will be in front of the Main Library. |
 English Conversation Groups
Practice speaking English with others who are learning. All levels are welcome. No registration is required.
Mondays-Thursdays
5-7 p.m.
Day Labor Center
680 Tennyson Rd.
Saturdays
10:15 a.m.-12 noon
Weekes Branch
Contact Jami.Hiller@hayward-ca.gov 510-583-5505 for more information. |
Laughter Yoga
Saturday, May 5 3:00 p.m. Main Library
Come and join in the laughter, reduce stress, and learn that silliness is great for your health. |
 Writers' Group
Monday, May 7
6:00 - 7:45 p.m.
Saturday, May 26
1:00-3:00 p.m.
Main Library
Get feedback on your original writing in a peer-supported writers' group facilitated by local writer Leticia Garcia Bradford. Get the support you need to help you stay on track with your writing, whether it's fiction, non-fiction, or poetry. Bring 5-10 copies of the piece you wish to share with the group.
Sponsored by the Friends of the Hayward Public Library.
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Recycle & Support the Literacy Plus Program 
The Literacy Plus program has recently partnered with Planet Green, a printer cartridge and cell phone remanufacturing and recycling company, to start an exciting new fundraiser that recycles mobile phones and used printer cartridges - and we want you to be part of it!
Taking part is easy - simply drop off your used inkjet cartridges and old cell phones with us - you can include cell phone batteries and even cell phone chargers. The drop-off location is the Hayward Public Library.
Your participation in this recycling campaign will raise greatly needed funds for the Literacy Plus program.Let's work together, one cartridge and cell phone at a time, to clean up the planet and raise money.
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Book Groups
Mystery Novels by Women - Started Early, Took My Dog
 Tuesday, May 1 @ 11:30 a.m., Le Paradis Bakery (D St. & Mission)
In Kate Atkinson's 4th book in her Jackson Brodie series, Jackson observes an outrageous exchange between two women, one an habitual offender, the other a retired security chief named Tracy, resulting in one of the women becoming an instant mother of a small, neglected little girl. Meanwhile, Jackson, the beloved detective of novels such as Case Histories, is embarking on a different sort of rescue-that of an abused dog. Dog in tow, Jackson is about to learn, along with Tracy, that no good deed goes unpunished.
Mostly Literary Fiction - The Vagrants
Monday, May 14 @ noon, Peets Coffee (B St. & Mission) &
6:30 p.m., Main Library
In the late 1970s, as morning dawns on the provincial city of Muddy River, a spirited young woman, Gu Shan, once a devoted follower of Chairman Mao, has renounced her faith in Communism. Now a political prisoner, she is to be executed for her dissent. In luminous prose, award-winning author Yiyun Li gives us a powerful and beautiful portrait of human courage and despair in dramatic times.
Autobiography - Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight
 Wednesday, May 16 @ 6:30 p.m, Main Library
In Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, Alexandra Fuller remembers her African childhood with candor and sensitivity. Though it is a diary of an unruly life in an often inhospitable place, this book is suffused with Fuller's endearing ability to find laughter, even when there is little to celebrate. Fuller's debut is unsentimental and unflinching but always captivating. In wry and sometimes hilarious prose, she stares down disaster and looks back with rage and love at the life of an extraordinary family in an extraordinary time.
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The Friends of the Library is a nonprofit organization that has been supporting Hayward Public Library since 1982. The purpose of the Friends is to stimulate continuing community interest in the Hayward California Public Library and to be supportive of the Library staff and activities. The organization encourages gifts of books, magazines, desirable collections, endowments, bequests, and membership in the Friends of the Library, and participates in fund-raising activities
Support the Friends by making a donation.
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