Youth

Library to Host Lock-in for Genealogists

Friday, July 12th, gather your research materials and head for the Longview Public Library's Genealogy/Local History Department for a night of undisturbed research from 6:00 p.m. until 12:00 midnight. The doors will be locked at 6:00pm, so be sure to be in the library before then or you'll get locked out of all the fun!

The library computers will be available for free access to the Footnote database of millions of military records, Dawes Rolls and other important records. Use Ancestry and the Heritage Quest database of Census, Revolutionary War Pension Records, the Freedman's Bank, PERSI and thousands of family history books. Search Newsbank Historical Newspapers database that has complete newspapers dating back to the 1600's! The list goes on and on and on.

You may also bring your own laptop and use the library's WiFi. Regretfully, Footnote and Ancestry are only accessible on the library computers.

Snacks & drinks will be allowed.

For more information, please call Ms. Linda Laminack at 903-237-1359.

One of our Texas Teens Read (TTR) 2013 events this summer is the Gleektastic Movie Marathon!

Teens will gather in the Moeschle Room on Saturday, June 15th, at 10:30 AM for our Gleektastic Movie Marathon! We'll watch three famous & fun musicals! You're welcome to bring snacks and drinks to enjoy during the movies.

Due to copyright restrictions, we can't publish the names of the musicals, but you're welcome to swing by the Youth Department and ask!

Are you an animal lover? Do like to live life on the wild side and go to the zoo? If so, don't miss out on Zooniversity- it's the program for you! We'll learn all about wild animals and even get to see a few! Some of these animals are very rare and if we're very good listeners, we may even get to touch one!
 
*This is a Summer Reading Club (SRC) Event! Join us this summer for a collection of exciting programs on Wednesdays and Fridays!  Although the programs are geared toward children ages 5-12, all ages are welcome to attend if they can behave appropriately.  Adults who are not accompanied by a child may attend summer programs if space permits.  Seating is on a first-come, first-serve basis and attendance is limited to room capacity for all programs.

CBS 19 weatherman John Adams will be here on Friday, July 19th, to talk to us about the wonderful world of weather. From the sunshine to the rain, tornadoes & everything inbetween, John's got it covered. Come hear how he can predict what Mother Nature is going to do and be sure to ask lots of questions! 
 
*This is a Summer Reading Club (SRC) Event! Join us this summer for a collection of exciting programs on Wednesdays and Fridays!  Although the programs are geared toward children ages 5-12, all ages are welcome to attend if they can behave appropriately.  Adults who are not accompanied by a child may attend summer programs if space permits.  Seating is on a first-come, first-serve basis and attendance is limited to room capacity for all programs.

He's wild, he's crazy, he's BAD KITTY...and he's coming to the Longview Public Library!!!! Join us on Wednesday, July 17th for a very exciting meet and greet with author Nick Bruel! Creator of the Bad Kitty series of books about a little black kitty who is not nice but naughty!  Nick will tell us how Bad Kitty was created and how kids can grow with her as she stars in both easy readers and chapter books! Nick also illustrates the Bad Kitty books!
As a special treat, 10 lucky Summer Reading Club participants who are current on their reading will get to have lunch with Nick!
*This is a Summer Reading Club (SRC) Event! Join us this summer for a collection of exciting programs on Wednesdays and Fridays!  Although the programs are geared toward children ages 5-12, all ages are welcome to attend if they can behave appropriately.  Adults who are not accompanied by a child may attend summer programs if space permits.  Seating is on a first-come, first-serve basis and attendance is limited to room capacity for all programs.
 

Join us on Monday, July 8th for Cool School w/ Ms. Maria! No worries, this is not your typical school- this one is really fun! Ms. Maria is very entertaining and she won't be sending anyone to the principal's office!
Cool School is an interactive musical program where YOU get to be the star of the show! Filled with upbeat music and fun songs, Ms. Maria keeps everyone smiling and laughing. An exciting multicultural program, parents enjoy it as much as the kids! If Ms. Maria keeps your kids begging for more, she has CDs available!
(*Please note this is a MONDAY night program!)
 
*This is a Summer Reading Club (SRC) Event! Join us this summer for a collection of exciting programs on Wednesdays and Fridays!  Although the programs are geared toward children ages 5-12, all ages are welcome to attend if they can behave appropriately.  Adults who are not accompanied by a child may attend summer programs if space permits.  Seating is on a first-come, first-serve basis and attendance is limited to room capacity for all programs.

BUZZ! BUZZ! BUZZ! It's summer and that means flowers and bees! Most people are scared of bees but they are good for many reasons and not all of them sting!
Our friend Bobo the Bee Man will be here on Friday, July 5th to tell us all about them! He has a fun show-n-tell program all about bees and he'll bring along a real bee hive that you can see as well as many different products made by bees, such as beeswax and honey! So come on into the Moeschle Room and see what the buzz is all about! We'll start at 10:30 AM.
 
*This is a Summer Reading Club (SRC) Event! Join us this summer for a collection of exciting programs on Wednesdays and Fridays!  Although the programs are geared toward children ages 5-12, all ages are welcome to attend if they can behave appropriately.  Adults who are not accompanied by a child may attend summer programs if space permits.  Seating is on a first-come, first-serve basis and attendance is limited to room capacity for all programs.

Does sword fighting captivate you? Do you dream of being a knight and fighting battles with your sword? Join us on Friday, June 28th for a spectacular sword fighting demonstration by the Fellowship of the Christian Swordsmen! They'll be starting at 10:30 AM so don't be late!
 
*This is a Summer Reading Club (SRC) Event! Join us this summer for a collection of exciting programs on Wednesdays and Fridays!  Although the programs are geared toward children ages 5-12, all ages are welcome to attend if they can behave appropriately.  Adults who are not accompanied by a child may attend summer programs if space permits.  Seating is on a first-come, first-serve basis and attendance is limited to room capacity for all programs.

Between 1854 and 1929, over 250,000 orphans and unwanted children were taken out of New York City and given away at train stations across America. Children were sent to every state in the continental United States in order to rid the streets and overcrowded orphanages of homeless children and provide them with an opportunity to find new homes. The Longview Public Library will host a special program about this event called “Riders On The Orphan Train.” The program will take place in the Library’s Moeschle Room on Tuesday, May 21^st at 7:00 PM.

The one-hour multimedia program will combine live music, a video montage with archival photographs and interviews of survivors, and a dramatic reading from Alison Moore’s 2012 novel, Riders on the Orphan Train. Although the program is about children, it is designed to engage audiences of all ages and to inform, inspire and raise awareness about this little-known part of history. Local relatives and acquaintances of Orphan Train Riders are especially invited to attend and share their stories with the audience. The event is made possible in part with a grant from Humanities Texas, the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

We're crazy about camping! If you are too, come by the Library on Friday, July 26th because we have the perfect program for you! We'll meet a real Park Ranger from Tyler State Park and he's gonna teach us all about camping! We'll also learn about some of the plants and animals that we might see while camping in our local state park too!
 
*This is a Summer Reading Club (SRC) Event! Join us this summer for a collection of exciting programs on Wednesdays and Fridays!  Although the programs are geared toward children ages 5-12, all ages are welcome to attend if they can behave appropriately.  Adults who are not accompanied by a child may attend summer programs if space permits.  Seating is on a first-come, first-serve basis and attendance is limited to room capacity for all programs.