June is Internet Safety Month...

June is Internet Safety Month. We have a display in the children's department with free Net Cetera Chatting with Kids About Being Online brochures available for children and adults.

(DISPLAY) Bossier Parish Visual Arts Student

2010 Summer Reading Program

May 10-15th: Children's Book Week

Since 1919, Children's Book Week has been celebrated nationally in schools, libraries, bookstores, clubs, private homes -- any place where there are children and books. Educators, librarians, booksellers, and families have celebrated children's books and the love of reading with storytelling, parties, author and illustrator appearances, and other book-related events.

Also in 2008, the Children's Book Council created the Children's Choice Book Awards, the only national child-chosen book awards program, giving young readers a powerful voice in their own reading choices.

The need for Children’s Book Week today is as essential as it was in 1919, and the task remains the realization of Frederic Melcher’s fundamental declaration: “A great nation is a reading nation.” (more)

3/22/10 - Bossier Central Library Preschool Storytime

Patrons enjoyed the LSU AgCenter Character Critters program. The children listened to six short stories about the cute critters who learned lessons about personal character. They also had a great time making "respectacles" (eyeglasses).