Community Issues

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COVID-19 Update – Moline Public Library still offering some phone and online services while closed!

COVID-19 INFO SLIDESHOW

Closing Alert from for duration of the governor’s stay-at-home order.

In line with the decisions made in our community to minimize the spread of COVID-19, the Moline Public Library is closed through the end of April.

The health and safety of our library patrons and staff is our biggest concern and the decision to close was made in accordance with the local, state, and national recommendations.

All items currently checked out will have their due date extended to May 1. No late fees will be assessed during our closure. If you wish to return items before then, the drive up book return will be available.

Moline cardholders whose accounts are set to expire in March and April will have their expiration dates extended.

Due to the suspension of delivery services between libraries, cardholders will not be able to place holds in the PrairieCat Catalog at this time. Patrons with any current pending holds will be handled after that service resumes. Holds that have arrived, but have not been picked up, will be available when the library reopens.

We invite you to visit our web site frequently for updates and to use many of our online services with your Moline Public Library Card:

Many of these services can also accessed by downloading our app MPLToGo.

Beginning Thursday, April 2 the Library’s Information and Reference desk will be available to answer questions by phone. This service will be available Monday through Friday, from 9am to 3pm. Please be aware that, due to limited resources and staff, responses to more complex or in depth questions may take up to 48 hours.

Updates on library services will continue to be sent through our social media outlets.

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Java with Johnny Law

Or, if you prefer what it is really called, Coffee with a Cop

Coffee with a Cop logo

Friday, November 8th, 2019

9:30am – 10:30am

 

 

Want to learn more about what our MPD does?  Have ideas to share with our MPD?

Coffee with a Cop is a national program that brings police officers and community members together over coffee to discuss issues and learn more about each other.

Join us in the Java Lab Grind and Dine Cafe at the Moline Public Library to share questions, concerns and suggestions with our police officers.

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AUTUMN IS HERE! You know what that means…

BANNED BOOKS WEEK 2019!

If you are new to Banned Books Week, it is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read whatever you want, the freedom to encounter, express and discuss new or different ideas, even (maybe even especially) ideas that some consider unorthodox or unpopular.

Banned Books 2019

Usually held during the last week of September, Banned Books Week brings together the entire book community — librarians, booksellers, publishers, journalists, teachers, and readers of all types to recognize current and historical attempts to censor books in libraries and schools.

Stand up for your rights and read a banned or challenged book today!

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“The Public” is out in select theaters now!

Unfortunately the closest “select theaters” are in the Chicago suburbs, but still, we’re excited about it and you should be too. Addressing the issues of homelessness and mental health, public libraries, Emilio Estevez! How could we not be interested?

If you can’t make it to a theater showing it just keep it in mind for when it gets a wider release or, more likely, is out on DVD. In the meantime, check it out and, if you think it looks promising, pass it along.

Christian Slater, Alec Baldwin, Emilio Estevez, Gabrielle Union, Jacob Vargas, Michael Kenneth Williams, and Jeffrey Wright in The Public (2018)

A particularly brutal Arctic blast (sounds familiar) has hit downtown Cincinnati, including the public library, where most of the film takes place. Library officials and some homeless patrons are at odds over how to handle the dangerous weather event. When the patrons turn the building into a shelter for the night by staging an “Occupy” sit in, what begins as an act of civil disobedience escalates to a stand-off with police with the rush-to-judgment media constantly speculating about what’s really happening (sounds familiar too). This story tackles some of our society’s most challenging issues, homelessness and mental illness, and is set in one of the last bastions of democracy-in-action: the public library.

So, not topical or relevant at all then.

Just kidding. Obviously.

Watch the trailer!

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A program series for all us

The story of our ancestors, our country and us.

Becoming American Slide

No registrations is required to attend any of the programs in this Quad Cities-wide film and discussion program series.

Becoming American: A Documentary Film and Discussion Series on Our Immigration Experience is a project of City Lore in collaboration with the Immigration and Ethnic History Society and the International Coalition of the Sites of Conscience.  The project has been made possible by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: “Exploring the Human Endeavor.”

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DITTO: Back-to-School Edition – “Small Great Things”

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I know the book doesn’t have anything to do with school, but it is still timely in a broader sense.