GIRLS ONLY!  HANDS ON PROGRAM!!!!

Girls in Grades 2-5 are invited to Operation Smart! (Science, Math and Relevant Technology) at 3:30 p.m. starting on Thursdays, February 25-April 2. , This six week program from Girls, Inc. offers each girl:

*     The opportunity to dismantle machines, care for and study insects and small animals, and solve logic puzzles.

Tuesday, Feb 16th at 6:00 p.m.  Terrific Tuesdays! Surprise Program! (Pssst. It involves a movie.)

Tuesday, Feb 23rd at 6:00 p.m. Terrific Tuesdays! Family Game Night!!!!  We now have Bananagrams, Scrabble, Monopoly, Say Anything, Wits & Wagers, Chutes & Ladders, Uno, Skip-Bo, Old Maid, Crazy Eights, Twister and so many more!

ConsumerReports.org — the largest paid-publication subscription-based website in the world — is available at no charge to Bridgeport Public Library Card holders from EBSCO Publishing.

Job Search on the Internet is a tedious, time consuming and often a frustrating experience. SkillPROOF Inc., a leading job market research firm presents a streamlined, yet enhanced job search process that saves time while significantly improving the search experience. This job search process has three parts all of which will be discussed on Tuesday, February 9 from 5:30 PM  to 7 PM.  Please see attached flyer for more details.

Black Rock Branch Library

There will be a Mardi Gras celebration to benefit the Children’s Summer Reading Program:

Location:    Black Rock Library at 2705 Fairfield Avenue

When:       Saturday, February 13, 2010

Time:        6:00 pm to 9:00 pm

Tickets:     Advanced sales $25 per person/$40 for two

                 At the door $30 per person

For advance tickets:   Purchase them at any Bridgeport Library or reserve them by calling Dolores at 203-296-4039 and pick them up the door.

At the January 25th Black Rock NRZ meeting, the Black Rock Garden Club revealed plans to create outdoor reading areas in gardens behind the Black Rock Library.  Still in the design stage and in need of funding, the concept consists of ecologically friendly pavers flanked by a bamboo fence to screen off the chain link fence, a Shakespeare garden with boxwood hedges, a Garden Reading Room with golden privet and European hornbeams, and a second Garden Reading Room with emerald green arborvitae hedges.  There will also be hydranga bushes and ot

Tuesday February 2nd 6:30 - 8:00 PM

RFK in the Land of Apartheid: A Ripple of Hope

Black History Month Celebration

Kickoff Event

Join us for the second event in our Black History Month Celebration:  Civil Rights in America – A Historical Perspective with Dr. Derrick D. McKisick, Fairfield University Professor of History on Thursday, February 11 from 6:30 to 8:00 PM at the Black Rock Library.

THE BLACK ROCK BRANCH LIBRARY

2705 Fairfield Avenue

Please join us for the third event in our Black History Month Celebration:   “Little Liberia” Connecticut’s Oldest Surviving African American Settlement.  A look at this important part of Bridgeport history.  Presented by:  Maisa Tisdale, President of the Mary & Eliza Freeman Center for History and Community & Charles Brilvitch, author and noted authority on Bridgeport history.  Thursday February 18th  from 6:30 – 8:00 PM at the Black Rock Bra