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Summer Reading Club & Cultural Pass

It’s June and that means it’s time for the Summer Reading Club AND the Cultural Pass! Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, all of these challenges will be held 100% online this year through Beanstack.

Summer Reading Club

Adults and kids have the same Summer Reading goals this year: read 4 books to complete the challenge and be entered into the grand prize drawings! Audiobooks and ebooks count as well as physical books, so be sure to check out what’s available on Hoopla and OverDrive/Libby to find your next read. Both the Adult and Youth Summer Reading Clubs run from June 1 – August 1, 2020 on Beanstack.

Cultural Pass

The Cultural Pass is available again this summer for kids ages 0-21, from June 1 – August 8, and this year it’s virtual! That means instead of coming to the library to pick up a physical pass and going to the museum in person, you use Beanstack to go to the museum’s website and do fun activities from home. Here’s how you can participate:

  1. Log in to your Beanstack account and register for the 2020 Virtual Cultural Pass challenge
  2. Click on the grey badge icon for the venue you want to “visit”
  3. On the venue’s badge description, click on the link to go to a special Cultural Pass page on their website
  4. Do whatever fun activity is on the venue’s website!
  5. Come back to Beanstack and go to the venue’s badge again
  6. Write a short sentence about what you learned or thought about the activity
  7. Click the check boxes to say you did the activity and wrote the sentence

That’s it! Your badge for that venue will then automatically “light up” with color to show you’ve earned that badge!

Ribbon Cutting & Grand Opening

Join us for the grand opening of our newly remodeled main library and the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new Tom & Mary Frances Koetter Makerspace:

Thursday, February 6, 2020
Ceremony  4:00 – 4:30 p.m.
Open House  4:30 – 6:00 p.m.

Light refreshments will be served; however, we ask that guests refrain from eating and drinking in the makerspace.

View of the makerspace

View of the new Makerspace

We appreciate your patience throughout this renovation and can’t wait to share all of the exciting changes with you!

Summer Reading is almost over!

Ready to take the next giant leap for mankind? We’re celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon Landing with the 2019 Summer Reading Club, which runs Monday, May 20th through Saturday, August 3rd! There are loads of great prizes for kids and adults who complete the program.

You can sign up online using our Beanstack site, or you can sign up in person at the Clarksville or Jeffersonville locations. Be sure to check out our online calendar to see all of the fun events we have planned this summer, too.

Join us in exploring a Universe of Stories!

Clarksville Branch Ribbon Cutting Ceremony

Join us on Thursday, January 24 at 4:00 p.m. at the Clarksville Branch for our ribbon cutting ceremony and open house to celebrate the completion of our expansion and renovation project!

A brief program will take place from 4:00 – 4:30 p.m., followed by the open house which will go until 7:00 p.m. Light refreshments will be served. All members of the community are invited to come see the fabulous changes that have taken place through the partnership between Kovert Hawkins Architects and Koetter Construction.

With the expansion, the Clarksville Branch now has three rooms that can be used by the community for meetings, two of which have a kitchenette, as well as the addition of three private study rooms. The Town of Clarksville Redevelopment Commission donated $75,000 which was used to purchase new technology equipment for the Clarksville Branch. The Duke Energy Foundation donated $15,000 to establish a rain garden, and Stemler Plumbing also made a donation. The new technology equipment includes the addition of new computers for adults, teens, and children, new self-check kiosks, and a mobile technology lab so that computer classes can be presented at the Clarksville Branch. The interior decorating at the Clarksville Branch Library gives it a fresh and vibrant look that our patrons will enjoy.