The Davenport Public Library will be implementing a new computer reserve and print release system on Sunday, March 1 – Tuesday, March 3. Here is what you need to know: 1.  All copies will be $0.10 per page once the system is complete.  (See schedule below)   The first 10 pages will no longer be free.        [...]

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Every parent should take their child to story time at the Davenport Public Library. Story times encourage a love of reading through interactive experiences, help develop early childhood language skills, provide an opportunity for social interaction with other children, and allow parents to become familiar with reading materials suited to their child’s age and needs. [...]

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Come on out to the Fairmount Street Library (3000 N. Fairmount Street) on Wednesday, February 18 at 6:00 P.M. to watch Il Postino (The Postman).  A shy postman strikes up an unlikely friendship with exiled Chilean poet Pablo Neruda. While learning to love poetry, the postman uses poetic methods to woo local beauty, Beatrice. Dreams [...]

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The library is a great resource when money is tight, because almost everything is free; Books, DVD’s, CD’s, Programs, Reference Help, Databases, Computer Use, Internet, and more.   According to the American Library Association’s 2008 State of the Libraries Report, “Americans visited their libraries nearly 1.3 billion times and checked out more than 2 billion items [...]

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The Library has added a new service at their Main Street location: mobile reference. Patrons walking the stacks and using computers will not need to go to the reference desk to ask a question, the reference librarians will come to them. By providing this service, the Reference Department intends to educate the public about finding [...]

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I know, all you want to do right now is forget about all of the cold weather of winter and bask in the warmth of the sun.  Not quite yet!  Before you do any basking, make sure to participate in the Davenport Public Library’s Winter Reading Program (WRP).  This year’s WRP, “Books Are Cool” is [...]

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As part of the Big Read series of events, the Davenport Public Library in partnership with the African American Museum of Iowa will be showing the film, Their Eyes Were Watching God, on Wednesday, February 4 at 6:30 p.m.  This adaptation of the book, written by Zora Neale Hurston in 1937 was produced by Oprah [...]

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