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Ongoing Programs

 

Knitters

 Mondays, 3:30

 

Creative Writing
8/1, 5:45-7:45pm

8/17, 10-Noon

  

Scrabble

8/12 & 8/26, 5:45-7:45pm

 

Tech Corner

 

Smart Phone Users Group

8/5

iPhones 5:30-6:30

Droid, Windows

6:45-7:45pm

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Download Workshop for eBooks and eAudiobooks

8/20

6;15-7"45PM

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iPad Workshop

Every Wednesday
Aug 7, 14, 21, 28

5:30-7:30

Registration required
For more information 

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Social Media Users

8/12, 6:15pm

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PC Users Group
8/19, 6:15-7:45

 

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Museum Passes
to
WheatonArts
Millville, NJ
 
Free admission for 2 adults & all children under 18. Avalon property owners only.
  

Digital Photography with Harry Keyser

 

"Take Better photos at the Beach"

 

Tue, Aug 6, 5:30pm
registration requires


                  

Newsletter

August, 2013 

New eBook Download ServiceFreading

 

Freading, your new ebook download service,  has over 20,000 titles with new books being added weekly. Service is compatible with both Apple and most Android mobile devices as well as Kindle, Nook, Kobo and Sony Readers. All books allow for multi-user access, so there is never waiting for a title. Ebooks can be checked out for 14 days and renewed.  The Freading app is available on the Apple App store and on the Android Marketplace (Google Play). Freading supplements your Overdrive portal.

  
Mary Doria Russell

 Author Lecture - Mary Doria Russell

Best-selling novelist and award winning author of A Thread of Grace, Children of God, The Sparrow, Dreamers of the Day and Doc, will be speaking at the library on August 6 at 7pm. For more information about Dr. Russell, visit her website
. Short bio and list of Mary Doria Russell's books on Amazon.

  


Storytime with a slice of Cheese


Harlem Globetrotter Cheese Chisholm will perform some tricks with a basketball, read the book Jimmy Boa's and the Bungee Jump Slam Dunk, & sign autographs.

 

Thursday, Aug 1, 10am

Cheese Chisholm
  
TGIF - PC Tech Classes with Greg 

 

Intro to Windows  - Fridays, 10am-Noon

    8/2 - File management, updates & backup

    8/9 - Tweet It (Twitter)

    8/16 - Navigating Overdrive for Borrowing eBooks

 

PC Computer Classes - Fridays, 12:30-2:30pm

    8/2 - Creating marketing materials with Constant Contact
               and MS Publisher

    8/9 -  Sync your life for productivity - Apps and Online
                services

    8/16 - Apps vs. the Internet

This and that for the Kids   

Bits and Pieces - Archaeology for grade 6 and up.
    - Mon, 8/6, 10:30-11:30am

 

Turtlesinger - a musical interactive family program with
     songs readings, turtle lore and turtle races.
     - Wed, 8/7, 7pm

 
Adventure Stories with Don Dougherty - Pirate themed
     story and search-for-treasure activity.
     - Wed, Aug 14, 6:30pm 

  Turtle Singer
Bay-Atlantic Symphony

Presents
 
Life Dances

Stefan JackiwSalut d'amour (Love's Greeting), Op. 12 ... Elgar  

Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64 ... Mendelssohn

                             Stefan Jackiw, Violin  

Symphony No. 8 in F Major, Op. 93 ... Beethoven

 

August 17, 7pm, Avalon Elementary School, Free

Support

The Friends of the Library's
Children's Reading Room Mural Project

Donations accepted. Send inquiries to:

Friends of the AFPL
P.O. Box 218
Avalon, NJ 08202

 

friends@avalonfreelibrary.org  

  
  
            
History Center Programs .
At the History Center
 
4th Annual Norman Mackay Clamshell Tournament
Sat, August 10, 9:30am at 30 St. Beach
 
Soldiers Without Guns: The Role of Women in WWII
By History on the Hoof's Stacy Ross
Wed, August 14, 6pm

Surfing Exhibit
Through September 1

Smoke and Courage Exhibit
Highlighting the 100-year History of the Avalon Volunteer Fire Department - Through October 1