Library News

Last Updated on Tuesday, 29 December 2015 02:32

The Monessen Public Library and Cultural center announces:

Children’s Coordinator Position Open

Monessen Public Library & Cultural Center is seeking an individual to fill the position of Children’s Coordinator. The position will be 20 hours per week at a pay rate of $12 per hour. Evening and Saturday hours are required.

Applicants must be highly motivated to work with children and teens. Applicants must also possess outstanding social and communication skills as well as some working knowledge of technological devices.

For a detailed job description and application please contact Dave at 724-684-4750. Applicant must provide on date of hire at own expense the following three required clearances: PA State Police Criminal Record Check; PA Child Abuse History Clearance; and FBI fingerprint-based background check. The deadline to apply is January 31, 2016.

Technology Classes

The Library will offer technology classes in the month of January, 2016. Gina McGrath, who is the Technology Director for the Westmoreland YWCA, will be teaching technology classes on the following date:

Saturday, January 16, 2016, 10-12 p.m. - “Keeping up with Technology”. Gina will provide updates in the world of technology and devices.
Saturday, January 16, 2016, 1-3 p.m. - “Smartphones”. Gin a will focus only on Smartphones.
Monday, January 25, 2016, 10-12 p.m. - “Q & A, Bring Your Own Devices”. Bring any technological device, and Gina will assist you in making it work!

Graphic Novel Collection Expanded

The Library has greatly expanded the graphic novel collection! A graphic novel is a work that tells a story using comic strips and is published as a book. Graphic novels can be enjoyed by all ages! Stop by and browse through the collection.

Other News…

Monessen Public Library & Cultural Center will be closed on January 1, 2 and 18.

If you need some good reading material during the winter season, please remember the Library has an ongoing book sale featuring fiction and nonfiction works. Hardbacks are fifty cents and paperbacks are twenty-five cents. What a bargain!

Weekly Preschool Storytime sessions are on winter break until February. In the meantime, the Children’s Room has many new Easy Reader or Juvenile books that can be checked out and read at home or in the Library.

Due to the Martin Luther King holiday on Monday, January 18, 2016, the Mon Valley Genealogy Forum will not meet.

The Monessen Veterans Council and Dave Zilka, Director of Monessen Public Library & Cultural Center, have announced that the Monessen Military Banner Tribute program will be ending on February 29, 2016. Applications for a banner will only be accepted through February 29, 2016. Any applications received after February 29, 2016 CANNOT and WILL NOT be accepted or filled. Please call the Library at 724-684-4750 for further information.