The Buddies of the Library, a serious fund-raising physique for the Baxter County Library, is internet hosting their Silent Public sale by means of the tip of July within the Library lobby. There will probably be no Dwell Public sale this 12 months.

To position a bid within the Silent Public sale, cease by the Library to try the gadgets on show within the glass case close to the doorway, after which mark your bid within the Silent Public sale bidding e-book. All bids have to be within the bidding e-book by 1 p.m. on July 29. Successful bidders will probably be notified by cellphone or e mail in a well timed method. All gadgets must be paid for and picked up from the Library’s essential desk by Aug. 12.

With common donations down and a lower in state funding as a consequence of COVID-19, the Library wants your assist. Present your assist for the Baxter County Library and the Buddies of the Library by bidding on some distinctive, donated gadgets. Help from the Buddies of the Library and the Library Basis make the Library’s present and future programming doable.

Summer season meals for teenagers

Beginning July 2, the Baxter County Library is distributing summer season meals to children and teenagers, each Thursday from 10 a.m. to midday.

Summer season meals are supplied to college students 18 years and youthful for gratis, and may be picked up within the Library lobby. Youngsters will obtain 5, take-home meals as soon as per week, and have to be current the primary pick-up. Mother and father can then signal a waiver to select up subsequent meals with out a baby.

Employees are taking obligatory precautions carrying masks, gloves, and disinfecting surfaces earlier than and after distributing meals. This program is a neighborhood collaboration with the North Central Arkansas Meals Financial institution.

In the course of the college 12 months, greater than 288,000 Arkansas college students rely upon college lunches as a supply of meals, and a few college students proceed to rely upon neighborhood supplied meals all through the summer season. That is why the Baxter County Library has teamed up with the North Central Arkansas Meals Financial institution to assist present meals to college students this summer season. Summer season meal distribution on the Library will run by means of Aug. 13.

In accordance with Federal civil rights legislation and U.S. Division of Agriculture (USDA) civil rights rules and insurance policies, the USDA, its Companies, places of work, and staff, and establishments taking part in or administering USDA packages are prohibited from discriminating primarily based on race, colour, nationwide origin, intercourse, incapacity, age, or reprisal or retaliation for prior civil rights exercise in any program or exercise carried out or funded by USDA.

Individuals with disabilities who require various technique of communication for program info (e.g. Braille, massive print, audiotape, American Signal Language, and so on.), ought to contact the Company (State or native) the place they utilized for advantages. People who’re deaf, laborious of listening to or have speech disabilities might contact USDA by means of the Federal Relay Service at (800) 877-8339. Moreover, program info could also be made out there in languages aside from English.

To file a program grievance of discrimination, full the USDA Program Discrimination Criticism Type, (AD-3027) discovered on-line at: http://www.ascr.usda.gov/complaint_filing_cust.html, and at any USDA workplace, or write a letter addressed to USDA and supply within the letter all the info requested within the kind. To request a duplicate of the grievance kind, name (866) 632-9992. Submit your accomplished kind or letter to USDA by mailing  U.S. Division of Agriculture, Workplace of the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights, 1400 Independence Avenue SW, Washington, D.C. 20250-9410; faxing (202) 690-7442; or emailing [email protected]

Vacation closings

The Baxter County Library will probably be closed in observance of Independence Day on Friday, July three and Saturday, July four. Holds pick-up service won’t be out there throughout the closure.

The Library will resume enterprise hours on the next Monday, July 6. Library hours are Monday-Saturday, 10 a.m.–three p.m. Holds pick-up service within the lobby is on the market Monday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. When returning gadgets, please use the outside e-book return because the indoor e-book return is at the moment closed.

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