
{"id":16959,"date":"2023-05-31T14:35:19","date_gmt":"2023-05-31T19:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/?p=16959"},"modified":"2023-06-06T17:18:11","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T22:18:11","slug":"special-collections-closed-may-27-june-3-2023-exciting-events-at-our-eastern-and-fairmount-branches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/2023\/05\/31\/special-collections-closed-may-27-june-3-2023-exciting-events-at-our-eastern-and-fairmount-branches\/","title":{"rendered":"Special Collections Closed Until Further Notice &#8211; Exciting events at our Eastern and Fairmount branches!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>For the safety of our staff and patrons, the Davenport Public Library &#8211; Main Street Branch will be closed until further notice as the City of Davenport deals with the unexpected partial collapse of the Davenport Apartments located across the street.*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A previous blog about the history of the Hotel Davenport, now the Davenport Apartments, is located <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/2020\/08\/29\/the-hotel-davenport\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you are looking for some exciting things to do, we have some events happening on Saturday, June 3rd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/davenportlibrary.libcal.com\/event\/10350649\" target=\"_blank\">Summer Reading Kick Off: Touch-A-Truck<\/a> will be held from 10:00 am &#8211; 12:00 pm at our Fairmount Branch. Signing up for summer reading and being able to see and touch trucks sounds like a wonderful way to start summer! Get a leg up and sign-up for summer reading early by following this link: <a href=\"https:\/\/davenportlibrary.beanstack.com\/reader365\">https:\/\/davenportlibrary.beanstack.com\/reader365<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Q-C History Hop: Center for Belgian Culture will be held from 9:30 &#8211; 11:30 am off-site at the Belgian Museum &amp; Gift Shop, 1608 Seventh Street, Moline, IL 61265. This program does require registration which may be found on our Calendar of Events under Programs and Events or click <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/davenportlibrary.libcal.com\/event\/6584668\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> for more information or to register.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Scott County Iowa Genealogical Society: Inspiration for Discovering and Writing Your Family&#8217;s History will be held at Eastern Branch in Meeting Room A from 1:00 &#8211; 3:00 pm. This program has an in-person or virtual option. Please click <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/davenportlibrary.libcal.com\/event\/9470696\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> for more information or the link to the virtual program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more events, please click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davenportlibrary.com\/programs-events\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>*Originally posted May 31, 2023. Updated June 2, 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(<em>posted by Amy D.<\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the safety of our staff and patrons, the Davenport Public Library &#8211; Main Street Branch will be closed until further notice as the City of Davenport deals with the unexpected partial collapse of the Davenport Apartments located across the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/2023\/05\/31\/special-collections-closed-may-27-june-3-2023-exciting-events-at-our-eastern-and-fairmount-branches\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,6,5],"tags":[1554,2500,75,2499,2498],"class_list":["post-16959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genealogy","category-library","category-local-history","tag-hotel-davenport","tag-q-c-history-hop","tag-scott-county-iowa-genealogical-society","tag-summer-reading-program-2023","tag-the-davenport-apartments"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXc-4px","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16959"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16968,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16959\/revisions\/16968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}