November 2011 Art Wall

  Get ready for the new baseball season & brush-up your library skills by Stepping Up to the Plate @ Your Library.  Step Up to the Plate @ your library encourages people of all ages to use the print and electronic resources available at their library to answer a series of trivia questions designed for…

The GFJ Library, in conjunction with the Four County Library System, will be offering downloadable e-books and audio books starting in early 2011.  The service will be through our relationship with Overdrive, a leading provider of digital content to libraries.  If you’re thinking of buying (or receiving!) an e-reader for the holidays, you may want …

First Investors will be presenting a series of financial programs at GFJ over the coming months.  The series will debut on Tuesday, May 19 with “Financial Literacy 101.”  Topics to be covered include setting financial goals; budgeting & controlling debt; saving & investing; and assets vs. liabilities.  The program begins at 7 PM and should…

From GFJ’s Digital Archives: “The Great Wilno” aka “The Human Cannonball” is fired from a cannon 250 feet into the air (and thankfully into his net) during the annual E-J Workers Labor Day celebrations. The event took place in front of an estimated 50,000 spectators at En-Joie Park (behind U-E High School) on Sept,. 2,…

Last night’s hockey storytime was a huge success! Check out the video from Fox 40 and the pictures in our photo gallery.Thank you to the B-Sens and everyone who came to this fun program!

Today is the library’s hundredth birthday! Help us celebrate! Visit the library to enjoy a piece of cake while you watch a slideshow from our first hundred years. Visit the library on Tuesdays, March 24 & 31 at 7:00 PM for Tim Main’s two-part history of the library. We’ll have more cake! Click here to…