Alert

Westover Library Has Sunday Hours. More Info

Arlington Public Library

Collection

Library Honored in Fight Against Breast Cancer

Arlington Public Library is taking the fight against breast cancer to a higher level with the help of a new $800 award from the Virginia Breast Cancer Foundation.

The funds will go for new books on fighting and surviving the disease, ranging from preventative diet cook books to graphic novels. Each book will contain a special bookplate honoring the VBCF’s efforts. The Library will also display a variety of the foundation’s brochures on health maintenance and strategies for coping with cancer.

Breast cancer is the most common cancer among American women except for skin cancers. The chances of developing invasive breast cancer at some time in a woman’s life is a little less than one in eight.

Mini Reviews from Summer Readers

Two of the Glencarlyn Branch Library’s summer reading participants shared their reading logs with us last week. Here’s what they read, and what they had to say:

Chloe the Topaz Fairy by Daisy Meadows
“I like how Chloe didn’t give up on finding the topaz.”

King Arthur – A Marc Brown Arthur Chapter Book by Marc Brown
“It was good that Arthur kept trying to get the sword.”

The Orange Outlaw by Ron Roy
“I thought the Orange Outlaw would be a person not a orangutan.”

Wayside School Gets A Little Stranger by Louis Sachar
“Liked it because I like Wayside School.”

Mr. Putter and Tabby Stir the Soup by Arthur Howard
“It was a really happy ending because Mrs. Teaberry made dinner
for Mr. Putter and Tabby.”

If your child would like to register for Get Caught Reading, there is still plenty of time to do so – the final date to sign up is Wednesday, Aug. 31, and the final date to turn in reading logs / win a prize is Saturday, Sept. 10.

Central Goes Solar – You Can Too!

Once the panels are installed, they will produce approximately 60,000 – 70,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity per year (turning on a 100 watt light bulb for 10 hours uses 1 kilowatt-hour). That’s the same amount of electricity used by 7 houses in one year! And although it’s only a fraction of Central Library’sannual use, electricity generated by the solar panels will save approximately $14,000 in energy costs each year, and reduce the County’s annual CO2 emissions by about 100,000 pounds.
If you want to learn more about solar power, and how to use it in your home, check out these books:

You can also read the Solar Energy For You Home (pdf) fact sheet, from AIRE (Arlington Initiative to Reduce Emissions).

Watch our slideshow from the first day of the solar panel installation.

http://www.flickr.com/apps/slideshow/show.swf?v=104087

Check Out the Glencarlyn Scrapbooks

How is your Glencarlyn History?

Did you know that the history of the Glencarlyn neighborhood goes all the way back to when George Washington was originally surveying the land of Virginia? Or that the Glencarlyn Branch Library began as the Burdett Library in 1922, and was the first library in Arlington?

If you’re visiting the neighborhood for Glencarlyn Day on June 4, come into the Library and check out the 3 volume Glencarlyn Scrapbook. While you’re here, don’t miss the section of the huge oak tree on which George Washington left his surveyor’s marks, the original 1959 deed that gave the Glencarlyn Library to Arlington County, and a piece of original Smokey the Bear artwork which Rudy Wendelin created for the people of the Glencarlyn neighborhood.

You can also read more in Glencarlyn Remembered: the First 100 Years, which is a collection of photos from the Glencarlyn Scrapbooks:

http://www.flickr.com/apps/slideshow/show.swf?v=104087

Facebook. Twitter. Instagram. YouTube. Flickr. Newsletter.

download appDownload the Library App