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One Island One Book 2010

Join the 1st "One Island One Book" group at the Monroe County Public Library by reading Ernest Hemingway's To Have and Have Not. The Book Bites Reading Group discussion will be held in our library on March 8 @ 3pm with guest Professor Pat Silcox. Copies of the book are available at both libraries.

Also a showing of the documentary, Soul of a People will be previewed on Friday, March 12 @5pm in our seminar room.

For more information contact our library @ 305-809-3194 or visit the Monroe County Public Library's "One Island One Book" blog http://www.oneislandonebook.blogspot.com/

2nd Annual Ask a Librarian Day

Tuesday, February 23 is the 2nd Annual Ask a Librarian Day.

FKCC Library celebrates Black History Month

Our library is celebrating Black History Month with a book display located in our reading area by the circulation desk. These books may be checked out with a library card.

Author Jane Dawkins speaks at FKCC Library

Please join us on Friday, February 12 at 4pm in the library's seminar room as we welcome author Jane Dawkins. Mud Pi and the Florida Keys Educational Foundation will be sponsoring Jay Gogin's famous paella.

Island Sting

Author Bonnie Doerr is in the Keys this month and is sharing her newly published book, Island Sting with students in Monroe County Schools, FKCC, members of the Key West Wildlife Center and the National Key Deer Refuge. Her new book is an eco-discovery teen reader focused in the Keys. Bonnie was in our library on Tuesday evening where she taught students about writing styles, formatting, and answered questions from the students of professor Pat Silcox's class and others attending the evening program. Students throughout our schools submitted their art work and selected pieces are on display at the FKCC Library.

Florida Keys Healthy Start Coalition

Have you used the "Touch of Wellness Kiosk" available in the library? The interactive kiosk provided by the Florida Keys Healthy Start Coalition identifies services in our community which promote a healthy life for all women. The touch screen is a self serve resource which will provide a confidential printed report. For more information please contact the library or Florida Keys Healthy Start Coalition by phone 305-293-8424 or email liaison@keyshealthystart.org