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A column about NOPL appears each Thursday in the Times-Picayune:   Library Plans Lots of Fun Summer Activities
  NOPL Master Plan: Speaking Volumes for the Future
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        Look below for FEATURED EVENTS and NEWS
Summer Reading Program 2009 -- Children
Summer Reading Program 2009
Be Creative @ Your Library!
May 30 - August 8
Schedule & information on how to participate
KIDS: Sign up for and keep your reading log online!
Summer Reading Program 2009 -- Teens
Teen (Ages 11-17) Summer Reading Program 2009
Express Yourself @ Your Library!
May 30 - July 25
Schedule & information on how to participate
TEENS: Sign up for and keep your reading log online!
Gaming Survey
What Games Do You Play?
We want to know what games you would like to have available at your library
Take a few minutes to fill out our GAMING SURVEY
Copies are also available at all NOPL locations. Survey ends July 31
New ebooks, June 2009
New eBooks Have Arrived!
Link HERE to download audiobooks, ebooks, and music.
Page down to New Additions to see what's new!
Obituary Index is Complete Louisiana Biography & Obituary Index Goes Online
The Historic New Orleans Collection and NOPL are pleased to announce that the 10-year project to database the Louisiana Division's "Obituary Index" is now complete.
To search the completed index, LINK HERE
Play Chess at Alvar Play Chess at Alvar
with Bernard Parun, Jr., Expert Player, U.S. National Chess Association
Beginners and intermediate players welcome!
June 25, July 9 and July 23, 5 - 7 p.m.
Alvar Branch
AARC Summer Day Camp Programs Summer Day Camp Programs
Presented by the African American Resource Center
Tuesdays at 10:15
June 2 - July 21

Main Library Auditorium
Link here for the schedule of events
        Look below for ONGOING EVENTS
Reading to Rover Reading to Rover
Second Thursday of each month, 6:30 p.m.
Keller Branch
Sponsored by the Visiting Pet Program, the Reading to Rover literacy project is designed to allow childen to read aloud to one of the visiting dogs in a relaxed, comfortable atmosphere.
Link here to read more about Reading to Rover
For more information, call the Keller Branch at 596-2660.
Exhibit: Hidden From History Hidden From History: Unknown New Orleanians
An Exhibit
Beginning October 7
Louisiana Division, Main Library
View the Online Version

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