March 19, 2010

For Immediate Release: Due to state budget reductions the Wood County District Public Library (Bowling Green and Bookmobile) will be closed April 5 through April 11.

In a measure taken to help the library meet ongoing funding shortfalls, Wood County District Public Library’s Board of Trustees announced that the library (Bowling Green and Bookmobile) will be closed Monday, April 5 through Sunday, April 11. Library staff will be furloughed during this week; no materials will be due during this week.

The Walbridge Branch Library will be closed and its staff furloughed Monday, March 29 - Saturday, April 3.

Please call WCDPL at 419-352-5104 for more information.

March 26, 2010

For Immediate Release:

     Wood County District Public Library's (251 North Main Street, Bowling Green) fiction book club, Coffee Talk, meets Wednesday, March 31 at 10:30 AM in the library meeting room. Join us to discuss One for the Money by Janet Evanovich.
     Out-of-work Stephanie Plum blackmails her bail bondsman cousin into giving her a job.  Her first case involves tracking down a former vice cop on the run from a charge of murder one, a man who also happens to be her former lover.
     Copies of the book are available for checkout at the library. 

March 2, 2010  For Immediate Release: Monday Mysteries at WCDPL Partners with the Toledo Museum of Art in March To Explore Elizabeth Peters' Egypt

Monday Mysteries meets March 8 at 7:00 pm at the Wood County District Public Library (Bowling Green) to discuss Night Train to Memphis by Elizabeth Peters.  Peters, best known for her historical fiction featuring Egyptologist Amelia Peabody, brings her trademark wit and humor to this contemporary mystery. Art thieves and missing cultural treasures, lost love and country music, and a luxury cruise down the Nile all have a role to play as Peters' thriller unfolds against the backdrop of modern day Egypt.

The Monday Mysteries group's discussion of Night Train to Memphis also marks the return of last fall's popular "Pen to Palette" program to WCDPL. This program partners a library book club with a free tour of the Toledo Museum Art especially designed to complement a book from the groups' reading list. Elizabeth Peters fans, art and antiquities lovers, and all amateur-sleuth Egyptologists are invited to tour the TMA Friday, March 12 at 7:00 pm with members of Monday Mysteries. Registration for the TMA tour is required by March 8. Those interested may register in 3 ways: through the library's website (wcdpl.org); by calling (419-352-5104); or stopping by the 2nd Floor Information Desk.

February 22, 2010
For Immediate Release: Read for Inspiration Book Group Meets Wednesday, March 3

Wood County District Public Library's popular book club, Read for Inspiration, meets Wednesday March 3 at 10:30 in the library meeting room. The group, led by Deb Born, will discuss Jim Stovall's novel, The Ultimate Gift. Everyone is invited; light refreshments will be served.

Stovall's main character, Jason Steven's assumes that he's about to land on easy street by inheriting a lot of money from his late Great Uncle Red's estate. But Red had something else in store for Jason. Jason, and Stovall's readers, must first answer this question: "What would you do in order to inherit one billion dollars?"