Thursday, June 20 @ 6 pm
Do you want to support your community and the Hastings Branch Library? Become a Friend of the Library! Friends help with special events, raise funds for crafts, refreshments, books, special guests, and other items needed for library programming, and they staff the book store. You'll meet some nice people, too. Be a Friend!
Saturday, June 29 @ 1 pm
Join us for gaming on the Xbox, PlayStation or Wii, use the computers, play board games, or just hang out with your friends in a fun, friendly environment. Guitars, a keyboard, and a violin are available if you feeling like getting musical!
Friday, June 28 @ 10:30 am
No need to rush out after storytime! Stay and relax with other adults as your child plays. It’ll be fun for the both of you.
Friday, June 28 @ 10:30
Bring your flashlights because the theme this week is camping! We’ll read Kathryn Lasky’s Lucille Camps In and other stories. We’ll also do shadow puppets, sing, and do a craft.
Thursday, June 27 @10 am
Use iPod Touches and Mac hard- and software to put together an amazing creation. Instructional Technology Coordinators of SJC Rose Kebe and Jesse Gates will lead this fun-filled workshop. Teen Tech Camp is aimed at students grades 5 – 9.
Wednesday, June 26 @ 10 am
Join us for an exciting Viva 500 event! The Florida Public Archeology Network presents Timucuan Pyrotechnology. In this hands-on program, children will learn about tools and uses of fire in by the Timucuans, a Native American tribe who lived in the Northeast and North Central Florida. All of our FLYP events this summer will have a Florida flavor in honor of Viva Florida 500. Please note: This event will take place in the Hastings Recreation Center gym located at 400 E. Harris Street. Please ensure all guests wear rubber-soled shoes.
Saturday, June 22 @ 1 pm
Join us for gaming on the Xbox, PlayStation or Wii, use the computers, play board games, or just hang out with your friends in a fun, friendly environment. Guitars, a keyboard, and a violin are available if you feeling like getting musical!
Friday, June 21 @ 10:30 am
No need to rush out after storytime! Stay and relax with other adults as your child plays. It’ll be fun for the both of you.
Friday, June 21 @ 10 am
Join us as we celebrate the first day of summer. We’ll read stories such as A Couple of Boys Have the Best Week Ever by Marla Frazee. There will be dancing and a craft, too.
Thursday, June 20 @ 10 am
The Hastings Book Club progresses through the history of detective fiction by reading a book written by one of three masters of the genre from the mid-nineteenth century: Wilke Collins (The Woman in White and Moonstone); Victor Hugo (Les Miserables); or Charles Dickens (The Mystery of Erin Drood). We will discuss the development of the fictional detectives since its introduction by American story writer Edgar Allen Poe.