The Duluth Public Library will be showing award-winning, independent
international films once a month in the Main Library's Green Room.
The first film will be shown Saturday, January 14 at 2 pm.
THE HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGER is a film from Israel, in Hebrew,
Romanian and English, with English subtitles, and will run 104
minutes. "The largest bakery in Jerusalem is accused of indifference
when one of their foreign workers is killed in a suicide bombing.
To make amends, they send their Human Resources Manager to the
victim’s hometown in Romania, where he fights to regain his
company’s reputation and possibly his own humanity on this
mission to honor a woman he didn’t know but grows to admire."
The iFilm series is free and open to the public; films are not
recommended for children under age 17 without parental permission.
The next iFilm, NURSE, FIGHTER, BOY, is scheduled for Saturday,
February 18. For more information about the
iFilm series, call 730-4200/option 6 or 730-4236.
(January 5, 2012)
Free family movies are shown at the Duluth Public Library (520 W. Superior St.) on the first Saturday of each month this fall. The December 3rd movie will be Walt Disney's Gnomeo and Juliet (rated G, 84 minutes). The movie begins at 2:00 p.m. in the library Green Room. Children under age 8 must be accompanied by an adult. Seating is limited.
For more information, call the
library's Youth Services at 730-4200/option 4 or click
here.
(November 21, 2011)
Join us Saturday, December 3 at the Barnes & Noble bookstore in Miller Mall. We will be having a bookfair (Bookfair ID 10580280) to benefit the Friends of the Duluth Public Library, and, therefore, the Library, from 9:00 a.m. until 10:00 p.m. A percentage of all purchases made with our voucher will be contributed by B&N to the Friends.
In addition, we'll have Joy Dey, author of Agate: What Good is a Moose? doing a reading at 11 a.m., with illustrator Nikki Johnson painting up a picture. There will be crafts for kids starting at noon. A string quartet from Duluth East will play from 4:00 p.m. until 5:00 p.m., and more! Order cheesecakes or muffins for your holiday entertaining and pick them up at the store that day, too.
Think of your holiday shopping: books, CDs, DVDs, magazines, greeting cards - all of these, plus your Café purchases will go toward helping your favorite library. (Sorry, please note that gift cards and Nook-related purchases don't apply.)
Shop online if you cannot join us at the store that day.You can shop online from December 3-7 and the Friends will receive a portion. Just enter our Bookfair ID 10580280 at the end of your order process and your purchase will benefit the Friends. The same caveat applies (see above).
Please pass the word to all of your friends and family! If you forget your voucher at home, just mention the Library or the Friends at the cash register and we will get our percentage.
We hope to see you there!
(November 14, 2011, by the Friends of the Duluth Public Library)
Free family movies are shown at the Duluth Public Library (520 W. Superior St.) on the first Saturday of each month this fall. The November 5th movie will be Walt Disney's Beauty and the Beast (rated G, 84 minutes). The movie begins at 2:00 p.m. in the library Green Room. Children under age 8 must be accompanied by an adult. Seating is limited.
For more information, call the
library's Youth Services at 730-4200/option 4 or click
here.
(October 12, 2011)
For the second time in three years, a local reader has become a big winner by reading during the summer. 10-year-old Landon Dahl of Duluth was selected as a winner in this summer's "Destination College Savings" sweepstakes, sponsored by the Minnesota College Savings Plan. Deb Landon and John Dahl, Landon's parents, will be awarded a $1,000 cash prize that can be invested in the Minnesota College Savings Plan for Landon's education. In 2009, A.J. Harris of Hermantown won a similar prize during the first year of the sweepstakes.
The "Destination College Savings" Sweepstakes was part of this year's Summer Reading Program, held at participating public libraries throughout the state. The Duluth Public Library, where Landon participated in the Summer Reading Program at the Mt. Royal Branch Library, will also receive a $500 cash prize that will be used for future programming for kids and teens.
"We love to see kids having fun with reading in the summer," said Judy Sheriff, Youth Services manager at the Duluth Public Library. "And the chance to win $1,000 was definitely an incentive to anyone saving for their child's college education. We are also thrilled with the $500 prize for the Library, which will help support future programming."
The summer reading program is offered through local libraries to encourage children to read during the summer and has close to 100,000 children participating every year. "We appreciate the successful partnership between Minnesota's libraries and the Minnesota College Savings Plan", said Renee Hill, program manager of the Minnesota College Savings Plan. "Minnesota parents benefit by learning more about saving for college and we hope the prize money can help winning parents get a head start on saving for their child's future college education."
The Minnesota College Savings Plan is the state's official 529 college savings plan administered by the Minnesota Office of Higher Education and managed by TIAA-CREF Tuition Financing, Inc. The Plan offers tax advantages and flexible features for families saving for college including the ability to use the Plan at any eligible college, university or career school in the nation. To learn more about the Minnesota College Savings Plan, please visit www.mnsaves.org.
For a complete list of winners
or more information on the Sweepstakes, including the Official
Rules, visit www.mnsaves.org/library.
(October 12, 2011)
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Duluth Public Library, 520 W. Superior St., Duluth, MN 55802
