If you have never had time for a book club, maybe you have that time now. This month our Dade County Public Library Book Club will be discussing Malcom Gladwell’s Talking to Strangers. It’s a fascinating book, and it shows us we may not be doing as good a job communica...

Let me continue to remind those of you who have books checked out that you do not need to worry about getting any fines. There will be no late charges for books still out while the library is closed. You may drop books off in the book drop, but patrons may keep them un...

We just want to let everyone know that we know you are missing the library and the staff is missing you all being there, too. The staff did work for the first week of closure, but now they are working at home, taking some online classes and training and doing planning...

The Sixth Annual Read to Lead program will take place on Saturday, March 21, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Dade County Library and in Veteran’s Park. There will be free books, free haircuts, face painting and more. County and city leaders will be reading to children ab...

The Book Club will meet on Tuesday, March 17, at 7 p.m. to discuss The Guardians, a novel by John Grisham. The Guardians are a small group of people who take on cases of convicts whom they believe have been falsely incarcerated. It is loosely based on a real organizati...

We had to postpone our Kiss the Ground! program this week because of bad weather. It has been rescheduled for Thursday, March 12, at 6 p.m. We will have a reminder closer to time for the event.

There will be a family movie at the library on Tuesday, Feb. 25, at 4:30 p.m...

The Book Club will meet at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, February 18, to discuss Into Thin Air, a nonfiction book by Jon Krakauer. Krakauer was a member of an expedition that climbed Mount Everest in 1996. An experienced climber, Krakauer made it to the summit and returned to tel...

The Book Club met last week and we welcomed a new member. The book to be discussed in February is Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer. In this nonfiction book, Krakauer gives firsthand details of the events of the 1996 Mount Everest expedition where some members died and som...

Dade First/Family Connections is holding its first Parent Café of the year and it is on Teen Internet Safety. The Sexual Assault Victim’s Advocacy Center will present the program. 

Parents and Teens will be in separate rooms learning safety tips on cyber bullying, inter...

Our first Book Club meeting of 2020 will be Tuesday evening, January 21, at 7 p.m. at the library. We will be discussing The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer.

This book is historical fiction set in the Guernsey Islands. The islands are...