Tag Archives: Alachua County Library District

The Alachua County Library District recently expanded its collection of sensory toys, making them available at all 12 of its branches. These toys are designed to help children on the autism spectrum and others.

Now founding director of the Antiracist Research and Policy Center at American University in Washington, he visited Gainesville to promote his latest book “How to Be an Antiracist.”

The Alachua County Library Headquarters Branch hosted an event to educate on local sustainability to reduce plastic waste after the repeal of the plastic bag ban.

The Hawthorne library offers recreational classes to adults, such as a watercolor painting class, that help seniors stay active and involved in the community.

The city of Waldo welcomed locals to its newly renovated, 8100 square-foot branch library Saturday. The former Dollar General building was purchased four years ago and converted to replace the city's 23-year-old library.

The program this month began using a $10,000 grant from the American Library Association that would help it expand and offer tutoring services to more people.

The Alachua County Library District has put aside a 5,000 square-foot space for the new Waldo library. Residents will have access to study rooms, meeting rooms and even art exhibits in the new library.

At Alachua County libraries a person with no library card can use the computer for only two hours.

In the recent years Sweetwater Branch Creek along University Avenue and 4th Avenue has become a forgotten park and littered waterway. Now volunteers are trying to clean up the creek that flows through the downtown area of Gainesville, located between the Matheson History Museum Complex and the Alachua County Library District Headquarters.