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8th Annual Opportunities Job Fair
March 28 
Our 8th Annual Opportunities Job Fair will be Thursday, March 28 from 9:00 am to noon at the Main Library. Co-sponsors Stark County Department of Job and Family Services, Stark Metro Housing Authority, SARTA, Mature Services and Turnaround Community Outreach are expecting 30 employers with open positions to be at the library and ready to hire. |
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Have you found Zinio yet?
 This new online magazine service allows you to read the latest issues of 129 magazines. From Consumer Reports, to Us Weekly, to popular food and gaming titles, Zinio puts full-color magazines in your hands at the touch of a screen. |
Grants for Individuals in the Arts
Get help funding your project
On March 19 at 6:00 pm, meet representatives of groups helping artists in Stark County.
Grantseeking Basics for Individuals in the Arts will show you how to:
- Identify funders supporting individual artists
- Explore the option of fiscal sponsorship
- Create a step-by-step plan to find funding
Following the class, meet and learn from a panel of representatives from organizations helping artists in Stark County, including Tricia Ostertag, Community Arts Manager, Arts in Stark. Please register. |
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Enter our Annual Poetry Contest
The library's 14th Annual Poetry Contest kicks off March 1. Entries will be accepted until April 30, 2013. Original poems by authors in 2nd Grade through Adult may be submitted. Here's a link to rules and entry forms. |
 Meet Author Patrick Hartory
Your Ageless Mind Author Patrick Hartory will help us find our way to great brain health throughout our lives on March 11. Also we have several other workshops on aging, including help with cognitive function and tips to help you stay in your own home longer. Visit any one of these valuable events.
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March is Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month
See the display at Main and Branches
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Library Foundation Elects New Officers
The Stark County District Library Foundation officers for 2013 are:
David Waikem - President
Jeanne Freitag - Treasurer
Paula Mastroianni - Secretary
Board members:
Maureen Ater Janet Baker
Rich Brian Mary Byrne
Mary Calnon Barb Cockroft
Scott Gwin Audrey Lavin
Michael Marvin Denise Scala
Leslie K. Schneider Kevin Smith
Rob Vail Darlene Violet
Marcie Williams Tena Wilson
Candy Ziegler |
Harvest for Hunger
The library will be collecting non-perishable food for Harvest for Hunger in March. Please feel free to drop off your donation. Monetary donations can be made directly at this link. |
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History Making Titles |
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Darkroom: a Memoir in Black and White |
by Lila Quintero Weaver
In 1961, when Lila was five, she and her family emigrated from Buenos Aires, Argentina, to Marion, Alabama, in the heart of Alabama's Black Belt. As educated, middle-class Latino immigrants in a region that was defined by segregation, the Quinteros occupied a privileged vantage from which to view the racially charged culture they inhabited. Weaver and her family were firsthand witnesses to key moments in the civil rights movement.
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The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks |
by Jeanne Theoharis
Presenting a corrective to the popular notion of Rosa Parks as the quiet seamstress who, with a single act, birthed the modern civil rights movement, Theoharis provides a revealing window into Parks' politics and years of activism. She shows readers how this civil rights movement radical sought--for more than half a century--to expose and eradicate the American racial-caste system in jobs, schools, public services, and criminal justice.
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Through the Lens of Allen E. Cole: a History of African Americans in Cleveland, Ohio |
by Samuel W. Black
Allen Eugene Cole, a businessman and photographer, chronicled African American life in Cleveland for decades. His work appeared regularly in Call & Post, the weekly African American newspaper, and he had his own photography studio that produced thousands of photographs of the doings of Cleveland's black community. |
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For the third year, we have artwork from the Stark Board of Developmental Disabilities on display at the Main Library. This year there will also be canvases at some of the branches. Stop by and see how the artists are "Looking Beyond" their disabilities to a creative life.