The three-level, 22,000-square-foot library, which features more than 40,000 materials for checkout and separate reading areas for adults, teens and children, will now be open six days a week, Monday through Saturday.
The DC Public Library has an excellent paperback picture book with vibrant colorful pictures that is a very informative Memorial Day read for young children.
With Memorial Day by Rebecca Rissman, children will learn facts and the meaning of holiday, on a child's level. (The book is part of the Holidays and Festivals series; all the titles are listed on the back cover of the book.)
Lisa McClatchy gives some traditional Mother's Day ideas in her Ready-To-Read Level 1 picture book titled Eloise's Mother's Day Surprise. This is a nice book to read with a young girl around six years old, partly because the main character, Eloise, is also six.
Washington Highlands has a new teen volunteer all the way from Phelps Vocational School.
Keino Lanier, who is in his last year at Phelps, is taking up Technology. He is great with our young teens.
Thursday night was "Jazz Night," where the teens came out to decorate cardboard musical instruments to their liking -- and did they do it up!
The instruments were drawn by Vanessa Phillips and cut-outs were done by Keino.
More of the teens' instruments can be seen below.
Your new library opens June 13! Join Mayor Gray and city officials for a ribbon cutting ceremony at 12:30 p.m.
The Interim Library closed permanently Saturday, May 19 at 5:30 p.m. During the move, library customers can return books to any DC Public Library and pick up holds at Parklands-Turner Library, 1547 Alabama Ave. SE.
The new three-level, 22,000-square-foot library features:
The Washington Highlands Interim Library's High Noon Book Club will meet April 9, 2012 at 12 p.m. We will discuss The Glass Castle, a Memoir by Jeannette Walls. This is a excellent read, and it proves that courage and intelligence can overcome the effects of severely dysfunctional upbringings. It also raise excellent questions about family priorities. Please come by and pick up your copy. For more information, call 202 243-1184.
Kids Can Read is the name of a beginner reading book series. The series covers various animal topics, and it has three different reading levels, from one to level three. This series can be checked out from your neighborhood library.
Screenings every Thursday in March at 6 p.m.
Celebrate St. Patrick's Day at the Washington Highlands Interim Library. Play a game of Bingo -- it's a board filled with fun and prizes.
March 17, from 4 to 5 p.m.
For all ages.
