Super 8 Photos
The West Virginia Film Office has notified us that they have added photos of the opening of the movie Super 8 to their website at www.wvfilm.com/super8. They now have photos from the red carpet screening on June 9 at Ft. Steuben Mall and the Celebr8 Weirton Summer Kick-off street fair on June 5 as well as photos from the filming and transformation of the town last fall.
Library Schedule Changes
Just a reminder - The library will be closed Monday, June 20th in honor of West Virginia Day.
Beginning this week, the library will be observing Summer Hours which are Monday through Thursday 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. and Friday and Saturday 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. This schedule will continue until Labor Day.
If you cannot get to the library before it closes, books may be returned through the book drop located on the Sarah Lane side of the library. Books returned through the book drop are credited with being returned on the day they are dropped off, even if they are returned after hours. All items in the book drop are checked in every morning before the library opens. Most days the book drop is emptied a second time in the late afternoon. If you have put your items in a bag, please take them out of the bag before feeding them into the book drop since multiple items wrapped together can jam the opening.
If your materials are not overdue and have not already been renewed, they may be renewed online through the MY ACCOUNT section of the online catalog. Video, DVD and Deposit materials may only be renewed once, but books may be renewed several times. However, once you have multiple items overdue, or the item has been overdue for a period of time, the computer system will block you from renewing those items. In that case, you may call the library during open hours to renew. You will still have a fine for the time from the due date until you renew the item, but once the item is renewed, the fine will stop accumulating for the two weeks of the renewal period.
Beginning this week, the library will be observing Summer Hours which are Monday through Thursday 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. and Friday and Saturday 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. This schedule will continue until Labor Day.
If you cannot get to the library before it closes, books may be returned through the book drop located on the Sarah Lane side of the library. Books returned through the book drop are credited with being returned on the day they are dropped off, even if they are returned after hours. All items in the book drop are checked in every morning before the library opens. Most days the book drop is emptied a second time in the late afternoon. If you have put your items in a bag, please take them out of the bag before feeding them into the book drop since multiple items wrapped together can jam the opening.
If your materials are not overdue and have not already been renewed, they may be renewed online through the MY ACCOUNT section of the online catalog. Video, DVD and Deposit materials may only be renewed once, but books may be renewed several times. However, once you have multiple items overdue, or the item has been overdue for a period of time, the computer system will block you from renewing those items. In that case, you may call the library during open hours to renew. You will still have a fine for the time from the due date until you renew the item, but once the item is renewed, the fine will stop accumulating for the two weeks of the renewal period.
Library will be closed Saturday, June 11
Due to the water emergency in the city of Weirton, the Mary H. Weir Library will be closed Saturday, June 11, 2011.
Civil War Speaker
The West Virginia Humanities Council is sponsoring a Sesquicentennial Speakers Bureau to help organizations across the state commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Civil War and birth of the Mountain State. On Monday, May 16 at 6:00 PM, West Virginia University history professor Connie Park Rice will speak at the Mary H. Weir Public Library. Dr. Rice will present “A Torch in their Souls: Slavery, Abolition, and the Underground Railroad in Western Virginia.” The talk is free and the public is cordially invited to attend. Dr. Rice is also Assistant Editor of West Virginia History: A Journal of Regional Studies, and a member of the West Virginia Sesquicentennial of the American Civil War Commission. She has a Ph.D. in American History and specializes in Appalachian Regional History with an emphasis on African Americans and women in the mountain south. Dr. Rice is the author of Our Monongalia: A History of African Americans in Monongalia County, West Virginia and has published articles in several books, journals, and encyclopedias including West Virginia History: A Journal of Regional Studies, The Journal of Appalachian Studies, West Virginia Encyclopedia, and African American National Biography.
Rice recently completed a biography of J. R. Clifford, West Virginia’s first black editor and practicing attorney, titled “Don’t Flinch nor Yield an Inch”: The Life and Legacy of Civil Rights Pioneer J. R. Clifford and is currently co-editing a collection of essays with Dr. Marie Tedesco of East Tennessee State University titled Daughters of Appalachia: A History of Women in the Mountain South.
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