The Ina Pullen Smallwood Memorial Library

Chickasaw Library News

The Ina Pullen Smallwood Memorial Library announces its Summer Reading Program scheduled for June 10-July 15. Sandy Christian will
direct the program which will be held from 2:00-3:00pm on Thursdays
in the Chickasaw Civic Center. The theme this year is the “Big Splash.”
Craft sessions will include shell bracelets and shark tooth necklaces.
refreshments will be provided and prizes will be awarded to those who
read the most books. Puppet and magic shows will also be part of the
entertainment, as well as great story times.

Teresa Goolsby
Library Director

Chickasaw library plans 'Big Read' on Oct. 1
Posted by Jo Anne McKnight, Correspondent
September 13, 2009 1:40 PM

Chickasaw Public Library has a big event coming up:
The Alabama Big Read, an initiative of the National Endowment for the
Arts in partnership with the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

The event is designed to restore reading to the center of American culture, according to the NEA Web site, www.NEABigRead.org. The goal, said library director Teresa Goolsby, is to encourage people to read for pleasure and enlightenment.

The title selected for those in the Chickasaw and north Mobile
County area to read is "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" by Mark Twain.
Kickoff for the Big Read at Chickasaw Library, 224 Grant St., is Oct. 1
at 4 p.m. The staff plans to dress in costumes of the period and
refreshments will be served.

The library has ordered extra copies of the Twain classic and is
sponsoring a costume contest with judging and prizes on Oct. 30, a most
appropriate date in that "this would enable children to use their
costume the next night for Halloween," Goolsby said.

The City of Chickasaw is proud to have a very active and successful library.

Located in the Chickasaw Civic Center complex on Grant Street (just north of Lee Street), the library offers thousands of book titles from all literary genres.

Due to the generosity of the Gates Foundation, the library also offers several computers for public internet access.

Library hours are as follows:
Monday - Friday - 12:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Saturdays - 1:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Library Phone Number:
(251) 452-6465

Tom Hayward pointing to the wall sculpture donated by Jim Hayward
to the Chamber Of Commerce who has placed them with the Ina Pullen Library. Carved entirely of wood with skillfully attached artifacts, then hand painted by the nationally known artist, makes this series of letters a treasure for our city.

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