Social Security Saturday Online Filing
 Mar 3- Do you work during the week and are unable to get to the Social Security Office? Or are you unable to make it for some other reason? The Minden Social Security Office is partnering with the Webster Parish Library System to offer you convenient online services on Saturdays for a limited time only. The first event is scheduled for Saturday, March 20th. You will be able to file for Social Security disability and/or retirement benefits online with a local Social Security representative available to answer your questions. Additional details coming soon. For more information, please call 318-377-7387. Please click on image to enlarge.
New Cotton Valley branch opens, to host grand opening
 Feb 26- The Webster Parish Library is happy to announce the opening of the new Cotton Valley branch. This newly renovated facility is conveniently located on Highway 371 in Cotton Valley. The new branch has books, magazines, movies, high-speed Internet, fax and copy services and much more. Please stop by on Friday, March 5 from 2pm to 4pm to celebrate the grand opening of this new facility and meet your branch librarian, Nancy Windham, and library system director Beverly Hammett. For more information about hours and location, please visit our Hours and Location page here.
New Outreach schedule posted
 Jan 19- The Webster Parish Library has posted the new Minden area Outreach schedule. The Outreach Service is a free service of the public library which serves nursing home residents, the Arbor, and Minden Medical Center Senior Care. To better serve its patrons, the program specializes in offering regular print books, large print books, audio books, and books on CD. You may request specific authors or titles, or materials can be selected for you based on your reading preferences. The Outreach Service van visits are made every two weeks on Thursday. Click here to view the new 2010 schedule. If you feel that the Outreach Service might be right for you or a family member, please contact Chrystal Shaffer at 318-371-3080 x34. She will be glad to answer any questions that you may have for this service.
Scholarship program for area 7th graders
 Jan 15- The Jack Kent Cooke Young Scholars Program is a scholarship program that provides educational services for high-achieving, academically gifted youth with financial need in the 7th grade. Through the foundation Young Scholars receive advice and financial assistance for summer and out-of-school academic enrichment programs as well as access to computers, software or other learning technology. Young scholars also receive music, art or other talent lessons as well as mentoring or leadership programs and college admission advising and more. For more information, please visit the foundation's website at www.jkcf.org/scholarships/young-scholars-program
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Library honors African-American History Month
 Feb 18- African-American History month is a remembrance of important people and events in the history of the African diaspora. The United States historian Carter G. Woodson founded this remembrance in 1926 "Negro History Week".  Woodson chose the second week of February because it marked the birthdays of two Americans who greatly influenced the lives and social condition of African Americans: former President Abraham Lincoln and abolitionist and former slave Frederick Douglass. The Webster Parish Library was proud to honor this event by showcasing art and literature featuring African-Amercian subjects, artists and authors. Please click on images to enlarge.
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Classical guitarist, Peter Fletcher, performs free concert
 Feb 18- The Webster Parish Library offered a free concert of renowned classical guitarist Peter Fletcher. The concert was free to the public, but seating was limited. The concert was held in the newly renovated Stewart Center in Minden. Click the image to the left to view our Facebook photo gallery.
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Library was closed Monday, February 15
 Feb 3- The Minden and Springhill library branches were closed Monday, February 15 for in-service training. In-service training is an annual educational day for library staff to help develop skills and specific disciplines and to improve customer service. Training on new policies, procedures and software as well as a review of current disciplines are all covered. We look forward to better serving our patrons through this training.
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New Materials
Click a link for a list of new materials:
 New Books
 New Videos
 New Sound Recordings
 New Large Print |
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