Have you met Libby yet? Libby is the Overdrive eBook app built for readers to easily borrow eBooks and eAudio books from the library. The app offers interactive options to enhance your reading experience.
All the options within the app feature Libby guiding you to the answers or items you’re looking for faster. Libby will help you with setting up your preferred method of downloading materials and then help you get started with browsing and borrowing eBooks. When you download the free Libby app you’ll find search preferences that are much more prominent, including a filter by format option. You will be able to easily place and monitor holds, adjust the text size and lighting options, and return a book you have finished prior to the due date. Everywhere you turn Libby will be there to guide you.
To get started with using the Libby app for Overdrive eBooks all you need is your Sarasota County Library card. If you don’t have a library card, visit any Sarasota County Library to register.
Here are the library events for this week:
Saturday
- Suncoast Writers Guild meets at 10 a.m.
- LEGO Club 1:30 p.m. Children ages 5 to 12 will have fun getting together with others and sharing ideas, working together, and making new friends. LEGO bricks will be provided – bring your imagination. LEGO creations will be on display in the library until the next meeting date.
Monday
- Forty Carrots Partners in Play 10:15 a.m. OR 11:45 a.m. For children, up to age 5 with a parent or caregiver. A free class for you and your child to enjoy together. Experience new educational activities, join in circle-time fun, meet other families and receive valuable parenting and child development information. Attendance is limited to 12 families per session.
- Great Decisions meets at 10:15 a.m. Discussion topic: “Global Health: Progress and Challenges”
- AARP Tax Aide at 10:30 a.m. Free assistance for federal returns. By appointment only. You must schedule your appointment in person at Elsie Quirk Library’s front desk.
- Monday Night Movies at 5 p.m. In tonight’s film, after a rich Edwardian widow impulsively marries a handsome, but poor Tuscan dentist and dies in childbirth, her English in-laws try to gain custody of the baby. (PG, 1 hr. 56 mins.) Contact the library for movie titles.
- English for Spanish Speakers/Gratis Clase de Ingles para Hispanohablantes meets at 5:30 p.m. This class is for Spanish speakers, who want to improve their English skills in speaking, and understanding English, with emphasis on correct pronunciation. Students must be able to speak some basic English.
Tuesday
- Master Gardener Plant Clinic 10 a.m. – Noon. Stop in to get free answers to your Florida gardening and landscape questions. This is made possible through a partnership with UF/IFAS Extension Sarasota County. For more information, call 941-861-9807 or online at sarasota.ifas.ufl.edu/hort/plantclinic.shtml.
- Englewood Genealogical Society – DNA SIG meets at 10 a.m.
- Englewood Computer Club meets at 1 p.m.
- Wireless Windows Laptops for Beginners at 2 p.m. Bring your Windows laptop and learn hands-on how to navigate to Internet addresses, what the left and right mouse click/touch pad does, how to save to a memory stick/flash drive, how to make and save a document, how to organize files and photos into folders. Registration is required and limited to 12 participants.
Wednesday
- French Conversation Group meets at 10 a.m.
- AARP Tax Aide at 10:30 a.m. Free assistance for federal returns. By appointment only. You must schedule your appointment in person at Elsie Quirk Library’s front desk.
- Mongolia at 2 p.m. Join Dave Bernheisel and Tom Swepston as they speak on Mongolia’s history, transition and tourism. Sponsored by the Friends of Elsie Quirk Library.
- Teen Advisory Board (T.A.B.) meets at 5:30 p.m. For ages 11-18. Come join the group and provide input and help with library programs.
- Eckankar meets at 6 p.m.
- Teen Game Night at 6:30 p.m. For ages 9-18. This is an open invitation for teens and tweens to play video games on our Wii and Xbox 360.
Thursday
- iPads for Beginners Part 1 at 10 a.m. Learn hands on iPad basics, internet browsing, downloading apps, how to take a photo and more! Registration is required and limited to 10 participants.
- Family Storytime at 10:30 a.m. For ages 0-5. Interact and participate with your child in a variety of early literacy activities that include music, stories, movement, crafts and school readiness activities. Today’s theme is “Bunnies”
- Quirky Knitters meets at 1 p.m.
- Englewood Peace Initiative Coalition (E.P.I.C.) meets at 3:30 p.m.
Friday
- Grupo de Estudio Espanol (Spanish Study Group) meets at 10 a.m.
- AARP Tax Aide at 10:30 a.m. Free assistance for federal returns. By appointment only. You must schedule your appointment in person at Elsie Quirk Library’s front desk.
- Basic Conversational Spanish Class at 11:30 a.m. This is a beginner’s class, for developing basic communication skills in the language.
- Spanish Reading Group at 3 p.m. This class is for those who have taken the beginner’s class, as well as any others who can read/speak basic Spanish. To attend, please contact Señor Dan by email at spanishfaculty@gmail.com
For more information on library programs, services, and resources visit us at 100 West Dearborn Street, call the Sarasota County Contact Center at 941-861-5000, or visit our website at scgov.net.
