FOLEY PUBLIC LIBRARY
Opening More Than Books
319 East Laurel Avenue
Foley, Alabama 36535
251-943-7665
NORMAL OPERATING HOURS
Monday - 9:00 AM until 8:00 PM.
Tuesday - 9:00 AM until 8:00 PM.
Wednesday - 9:00 AM until 8:00 PM.
Thursday - 1:00 PM until 8:00 PM. (Note opening time)
Friday - 9:00 AM until 5:00 PM.
Saturday - 9:00 AM until 5:00 PM.
Sunday - Closed.
FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY BOOKSTORE
We now have a wonderful new bookstore in the library! The Friends of the Library have a great selection of used books for sale. Stop by and check it out!
Hours:
Mondays 10:00 AM until 1:00 PM
Tuesdays 10:00 AM until 1:00 PM
Saturdays 10:00 AM until 12:00 Noon.
NOTARY PUBLIC SERVICE
We have two Notaries Public for your convenience.
The service is FREE!
MILITARY WEB CAM
We now have a computer equipped with a web cam that is available for you to visually and verbally communicate with your military family and friends. This computer is also available to the public for video conferencing, but military families will have first priority. The computer is located in the second floor meeting room.
RECYCLING
Bring your cell phones (no cords), ink jet cartridges and compact fluorescent lightbulbs (CFL's) to the library for recycling!
WIRELESS HOTSPOT
Bring in your laptop computer and connect anytime. No passwords, registration or cost involved.
EMAIL PRINTER SERVICE
Don't have a printer with you? Send your documents to foleylibraryprint@gmail.com, then stop by the library to print them! No need to sign in to the computer lab or bring your computer with you. Printed documents are .15 cents per page for black and white copies; .50 cents per page for color. We will keep a document in our email archive for one week only. No confirmation will be sent. You are welcome to call 251-943-7665 to check on your email. We will not print prior to your arrival at the library. Do not use this email as a contact point as they will not be read regularly.
LIBRARY ART SHOW
Art Currently on Display Throughout the Library
JULY - SEPTEMBER 2009
Glinda Schafer
Pastel Landscapes
and
Mary Ann Schaff
(Commissioned to do the official poster
for the 37th annual Art in the Park!)
Sponsored in cooperation with the
Foley Performing Arts Association
CALLING ALL "BIBLIOPHILES" (Book Lovers)
Steve needs YOUR help! If there are books, DVD's, CD's or other material you would like to see in our collection, please stop by the library and fill out a REQUEST FOR PURCHASE slip!
OR
Click below to fill one out online!
Our goal is to better serve our patrons by responding to the needs YOU express! Let us know what you want to see in YOUR library.
During these tough economic times, your library can be a great source of free entertainment and information!
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Free access for Alabama residents to millions of dollars worth of research databases, for all your reference needs.
This service offers free online homework help from tutors in Math, Science, Social Studies and English, for grades 4 - 12 and College Intro. These tutors are available everyday from 3 p.m. until Midnight.
This service offers free online genealogy services to patrons who have a Foley Library Card.
Bookmobile Schedule for Baldwin County
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"TABLES OF CONTENT"
High Tea with the Queen!
Our annual Friends of the Library event will
be held Sunday, July 26, 2009 at 2:00 PM at
the Civic Center next door to the library.
Jill Conner Browne, author of the
popular "Sweet Potato Queens" series
will be our guest speaker.
"Tablescapes", prizes and lots of fun!
Please support our Friends of the Library Fundraiser!
NEW ESILL CLASSES!
The Eastern Shore Institute for Lifelong Learning is scheduling a variety of classes to be held at the Foley Public Library. Look at our Meeting Calendar for Fall classes as they appear.
Offered in Foley:
The Short Stories of Mary Ward Brown (July 14-28)
My Story, My Book (July 16-August 6)
Estate Planning (August 4)
Introduction to Home Computing (October 1-29)
Beginning Acrylics (October 1-29)
Rated in the top 98th percentile of Public Libraries our size in the United States by the Hennen's American Public Library Ratings 2009!
Why Librarians Hate Genealogy!
July 11, 2009 10:00 AM
Jeanette Bornholt, genealogist by hobby and librarian by employment, will give a light-hearted presentation of “Why Librarians Hate Genealogy” for July 11th program of the Baldwin County Genealogical Society’s meeting. The humorous look at why librarians tend to shiver with dread seeing a family history researcher walk in the door of a library will begin at 10 a.m. in the Meeting Room of the Foley Public Library. The meeting is open to the interested public.
Bornholt has been doing family research for nearly forty years and has been a librarian with the Foley Public Library nearly twenty. Her past years’ responsibilities have been centered on the Alabama, Local History and Genealogy Collections of the Library, the County’s largest, which receives world wide requests and bequests. Genealogy is ranked as one of the top ‘hobbies’ internationally, but has other far reaching benefits which Bornholt will present in her program. She credits farsighted directors with Foley Public Library with the phenomenal growth of the Library’s Genealogy collections which includes public access to Ancestry.Com and HeritageQuest online.
The Foley Public Library is located at 319 East Laurel Ave, Foley, Alabama.
The Baldwin County Genealogical Society is a non-profit organization, major supporter of the Alabama, Local History & Genealogy Collections in the Foley Public Library. Meetings are open to interested public.
