April 2023
This April, we’re serving up new ways to participate, connect, and discover with your library! Get ready for Earth Day and Poetry Month with gardening and writing programs. Discover the fuller story of the library during National Library Week. Don’t forget to save the dates for the Friends of the Library Spring Book Sale April 22-26.

Get Ready for Earth Day

Grab your work gloves and trowels! The Alachua County Library District is celebrating our wonderful home with gardening programs. 

- Thursday, April 6, at 3:30 p.m. at Headquarters Library — Discover some of the science behind gardening and take seeds with you to plant for yourself. 

- Tuesday, April 11, at 3 p.m. at Hawthorne Branch — Make a soda bottle terrarium and learn easy ways to save water in everyday life and protect our precious springs.

- Thursday, April 13, at 3:30 p.m. at Headquarters Library — We're painting garden stones and making birdfeeders.

- Wednesday, April 19, at 11 a.m. at Tower Road Branch — Learn about the different kinds of plant pollinators and why they are important to our ecosystem and gardens.

- Thursday, April 20, at 3:30 p.m. at Headquarters Library — Celebrate Earth Day by making Earth keepsakes. 

- Saturday, April 22, at 2 p.m. at Micanopy Branch — We're learning how to create flower seed bombs!

- Saturday, April 29, at 10:30 a.m. at Tower Road Branch — Join the Gainesville Rose Society as we celebrate roses during this family-friendly event.

Dig In

A Month for Poetry Lovers

National Poetry Month reminds us that poets have an integral role to play in our culture and that poetry matters. Over the years, it has become the largest literary celebration in the world, with tens of millions of readers, students, K–12 teachers, librarians, booksellers, literary events curators, publishers, families, and, of course, poets, marking poetry's important place in our lives.

Join us in the celebration! The library offers poetry books for all ages for checkout with your library card. Don't have a card? Find out how to apply for one! We will also have events honoring National Poetry Month and we hope you will participate.

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