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Own a Day . . . in the Life of the James V. Brown Library

"The best gift of all is to share the love of books". Own a Day Calendar

Choose your favorite day - sponsor your own or loved one's birthday or practice a random act of of kindness and let us choose your day - and help the library meet the growing needs of our community.   (+) More information

Schedule of All Programs  (Register online) | Children's Programs - Jimmy's News (Winter)
Jimmy's News ( March, April, May 2010) - Children's Programs


Wednesday, February 10 –Market Street Matinees present - IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT- A spoiled heiress, running away from her family, is helped by a man who's actually a reporter looking for a story. But then he falls for her...   (+) more information)



Learn Something New: Class Acts at the James V. Brown Library
Class Acts
Want to explore a new skill or hobby? Expand your horizons? Class Acts, fee based classes held in meeting rooms at the library. A portion of the fee paid by the student will go to the library. Current offerings include:
Sketchbook Journaling | Calligraphy | Memoir Writing Workshop (March & April) | Equine Health & Anatomy    |  (+ more information)


Monday, February 8 -7pm
Comic Connection
Comic fans ages 10 to 18 years old come to the library and share our large collection of comics as well as bring your own from home to exchange with others for the evening. The next Comic Connection program will be held on Monday, February 8 at 7pm. The program is free and no registration is required. For more information contact Nina Edgerton, Youth Services Coordinator at 326-0536, ext. 145.

Monday, February 8 - 6:30-7:30pm
Puppy Love
Families with reading-age children are invited to come to the first floor of James V. Brown Library's Family Welch Children's Wing to read books with our story-loving canines.  These gentle therapy dogs are itching for a good read or two! For more information contact the library at 326-0536. Registration required. To register click here.

Wednesday, February 10, 6-7 pm,
Overdrive Bootcamp
Learn to download audiobooks and ebooks. Using our free online service Listen to Books. Have all your questions answered at an informative and interesting workshop. Gates Computer Lab, half hour demonstration, half hour practice. Please call the library at 326-0536 for required registration.
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Monday, February 15, 6pm
The Poetry forum
Will meet next and the poets of focus will be Gabriela Mistral and Pablo Neruda, two Chilean Nobel Prize winners. Mistral was the school teacher who recognized the talent of her shy young student Neruda and helped him realize that he was indeed a poet. The Poetry Forum meets in the New Fiction Café, lower level of the main library building. Browse the latest issue of POETRY magazine at the library's newsstand.  (+ more information)  | Poem of the Month - January

More Services

We are an official U.S. Passport Acceptance Facility. (+) More Information  Also purchase postage stamps and use the ATM. Birthday Parties - Celebrating at the library is super fun! Room and Facilities Rental - Hold your next meeting or even your Wedding at the Library. (+) More Information Free WiFi Zone. Bring in your laptop or other devices and use our internet connection. (+) More Information
Library Elf Reminder Service (+) More Information	POWER Library Find information on POWER Library resources with one search use Find it Fast on the eBranch
In Memory of Our Honored Dead -a permanent virtual monument to the 341 Lycoming County, fighting men and women who gave their lives in World War II.  Read more about this.  Please visit our Virtual Monument
The Brown Library offers VHS Video to DVD conversion service. Do you have tapes of weddings, birthdays, recitals, plays, ball games, family events and other memories that you would like to preserve for the future. We can convert those tapes to a DVD so that your memories will be preserved. $10 per videotape.