The Division of Libraries and Archives

Programs/Projects

Pre-School Story-Hour Time @ Florence Williams Public Library St. Croix
Storytelling and Book Writing @ your library St.Croix, St.Thomas, St.John
Summer activities @ Enid Baa Public Library, St. Thomas
"Team Read" @ Elaine Sprauve Public Library, St. John

Left-Right Nelson Class, The Thompson-Gale Group, Mona Charles, Executive Assistant, Trust Asset Management, Donald Sussman, Principal Partner, Trust Assets Management, Freida Webster, Office Manager, Trust Assets Management, Heather Lane, Children's Librarian, Enid Baa Public Library, Audrey Murial, Library Technician, Enid Baa Public Library.  More

Children at Story Hour...Reading Time @ your library Enid Baa Public Library.  A Friends of the St.Thomas Public Libraries summer program...

The Ginn Company and The Mahogany Run Golf Course announce their commitment to assist the public library with the Resort to Reading @ your library project. 



It was a special occasion at the Mahogany Run Golf Course recently at a press conference to present the St.Thomas Public Library with a check for $25,000 for the purchase of Scholastic books for the library collection.  Children, staff, volunteers from the Enid Baa Public Library and Territory library officials received the check from Rich Hohman, Vice-President of the  Ginn Company and Kristine Macken, General Manager of MRGC. 

                                                             IMLS photo

Edgar Lake, representing V.I. public libraries, joins a group from the Virgin Islands at the 5th Annual National Book Festival in Washington, DC in September. The  Virgin Islands group was featured on the IMLS website http://www.imls.gov/ pictured with Acting Director of IMLS Mary Chute (fourth from left) which hosted the Pavilion of States; Ingrid Bough (first from left), Library of Congress, is the coordinator for the Territories for the festival sponsored by the Library of Congress and hosted by First Lady Laura Bush.

                                                Associated Press Photo

..a great time for libraries and reading...The Honorable Charles W. Turnbull, Governor and Timmy Duncan Most Valuable Player in the NBA chat during Timmy's home visit with his team the San Antonio Spurs at training camp in the Virgin Islands...Timmy sports his "Read to Achieve" tee-shirt when he and some of his teammates visited the Lockhart Elementary School in St.Thomas...Governor Turnbull made known his administration's support for libraries by recently appropriating an unprecedented $5,000,000.00 to Virgin Islands public libraries for construction of new facilities and upgrading of resources...

TEEN READ MONTH @ your library...

The Study Hall
     The Best Resources for Your Homework!
Life Issues
     Places to turn for help with drugs, depression, health and more.
Fun on the 'Net
     Games and more to pass the time.
Entertainment & Recreation
     Sites on sports, music and reading.
College, Jobs & Volunteering
     Plan your future and make a difference in your world!

Celebrate KWANZAA December 26 to January 1
For information about KWANZAA click here...

Join in the celebration of National Library Week April 2-8, 2006
NLW list of Virgin Islands Public Library activities...click here...

Michael Winslow, "human sound-effects machine," signs autographs for students at St. Peter and Paul school, Dober and Jane E Tuitt Elementary Schools. following his performance where he read The Magically Mysterious Adventures of Noelle the Bulldog

 

This is the first celebrity reading in the "Resort to Reading" program sponsored by Mahogany Run Golf Course and Ginn Clubs & Resorts for the St. Thomas Public Libraries...
 


The Exploring Our Island Summer Camp visits
The Florence Williams Public Library
"World's Largest Write-On Map"
July 19, 2006