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East Baton Rouge Parish Library is proud to announce our partnership with Google Arts and Culture!  Google Arts and Culture is a platform that allows cultural heritage organizations to bring their art and cultural collections to the masses using their state of the art platform.

In honor of Black History Month, EBRPL has published its first ever online exhibit, “The Baton Rouge Swim-in” on Google Arts and Culture! The exhibit examines the attempted integration of City Park pool in 1963 by African-American activists and how that event along with others contributed to the desegregation of local recreational facilities in East Baton Rouge Parish.

Visit the Google Arts and Culture website to see our exhibit and explore the thousands of collections made available by cultural organizations from around the world.

Have a suggestion or comment? We would love to hear from you! Contact us at 225-231-3752 or email Emily Ward at eward at ebrpl.com.

Come make some steampunk art with us! Meet at the Fairwood Branch Library on February 27th at 6:30 PM to create art of your very own. Supplies will be provided. Want to be reminded of this program? Join our NEW text reminder service! Just text @20some to 81010 to be signed up for reminders about all of our great programs.

Join Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome and friends and neighbors all over the city at the first 2019 installment of Operation Fresh Start, the Mayor’s community-wide clean-up effort! We’ll start on Saturday, February 16, at 8 am. Operation Fresh Start begins with a Saturday of beautification and litter pickup by volunteers, followed by a week of concentrated and aggressive DPW cleanup focused on clearing litter and blight as well as improving landscapes throughout East Baton Rouge Parish.

With seven locations across the city, you can find one near you! Citizens and organizations interested in volunteering for Operation Fresh Start can sign up here.

Where will YOU get a fresh start?

• Baker: Meet at Baker Municipal Auditorium, 3325 Groom Rd, Baker, LA 70714
• Downtown: Meet at Repentance Park, 275 S River Rd, Baton Rouge, LA 70802
• Eden Park: Meet at Star Hill Baptist Church, 1400 N Foster Dr, Baton Rouge, LA 70806
• Gardere: Meet at Hartley/Vey Park at Gardere, 1702 Gardere Ln, Baton Rouge, LA 70820
• Mid City: Meet at Mid City Redevelopment Alliance, 419 N 19th St, Baton Rouge, LA 70802
• Scotlandville: Meet at Mane Attraction Barber Shop, 1808 Kaufman Street, Baton Rouge, LA 70807
• Woodshire Village/O’Neal Lane: Meet at Temple Baptist Church, 3650 O’Neal Ln, Baton Rouge, LA 70816

 

Are you an aspiring author? Are you an author who’s decided to take a less traditional publishing path? The library has truly fantastic resources for writers at all stages of content creation. Let’s check them out!

CREATE your ebook with Pressbooks! Pressbooks is an ebook design and formatting platform, so if your manuscript is already complete, all you have to do is copy and paste the text and it should identify all your chapter headings for you. If you’re not quite finished, you can even write your book right there in the program. Pressbooks makes sure that your book will be properly formatted and coded to be available to ebook readers everywhere, and they even have a cover design template you can use, with stock images and cover designs to choose from. It’s fully customizable, and your books will be ready to go just like that!

SHARE your ebooks with Self-e, the Library Journal’s platform for ebook submission! Ebooks submitted to Self-e go straight into a local collection of works by Louisiana authors. You retain all the rights, and if you’re selling your works on another platform, you can include a link to the sales page. Library Journal reviews all submissions, and some even get chosen as “Select” titles, included in Biblioboard collections all over the US and even Canada!

If you submit through Self-e, people can DISCOVER your books on Biblioboard! Biblioboard is always available, with no holds and no waiting on any titles, EVER. Share your books on social media with friends, family, and the rest of the world, and watch your audience grow!

The library is thrilled to support local indie authors – get started on creating and sharing your works today, and watch while you get discovered by all of Louisiana!

Recycled Reads is back! The library’s gently-used book sale will be held tomorrow from 9 AM-2 PM at 3434 North Boulevard. It’s not just books – you can find DVDs, CDs, LPs, and more! Most items are just one (1) dollar ($), so come see what you can find.

The Children’s Services Department of the East Baton Rouge Parish Library invites members of East Baton Rouge Parish to vote to discover the area’s favorite children’s picture book and chapter book suitable for children ages 1-11! Starting Tuesday, January 1, through Thursday, February 28, the community can share their favorite children’s title on the Library’s Kids’ page, or on Facebook. Once the first phase of the contest is completed, Library staff will assemble a list of the top 25 picture books and the top 25 chapter books. The second phase of voting begins Monday, April 1, through Wednesday, May 15. Join us for the Reveal Party at the Main Library at Goodwood at 3 p.m. Sunday, May 26, to find out the favorite picture book and favorite chapter book titles!

All branches of the library are closed today to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day. The Digital Library is always open.

If you would like to learn more about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., we particularly recommend the library’s streaming video service, Kanopy. You will find several documentaries on Dr. King’s life, his work in the civil rights movement, and the lives of some of the other leaders of that movement. Kanopy is free with your library card, and you will find it in the digital library.

Public use fax machines are available at every library branch! Sending a fax costs $1.75 for the first page, and $1.00 for every page after that. Payments can only be made with a credit or debit card. Fax machines can generally be found next to the printers, and may look like phones – just lift the receiver and follow along with the prompts to send your fax!