Unemployment filing on Sundays

Many people use the main library computers to file their unemployment claims on Sundays.  Because we are closed on Sundays now until after Labor Day, we wanted to let people know about another option they have.

Lincolnshire Church of the Brethren (6404 South Calhoun Street) will be opening their computer lab on Sundays – starting June 7 – from noon to 3 pm for unemployment filing.

~Sara
General Reference Librarian

Wayne Street open!

Wayne Street, which had been closed near the library for several weeks during city sewer work, has been reopened! Ewing Street is still closed (currently north of Jefferson, to Wayne Street). This should make it a bit easier getting to the library.

~Sara
General Reference Librarian

Memorial Day closings in Allen County

Via the News-Sentinel:

Closed Monday for Memorial Day:

♦Allen County Courthouse

♦Allen County Public Library and branches

♦Allen County’s various license bureaus

♦City-County Building

♦Workforce Development

♦City Utilities

♦Check with your individual financial institution

♦Fort Wayne Newspapers’ business offices will be closed, but the newsrooms remain open.

♦Fort Wayne Community Schools

♦East Allen County Schools

♦Southwest Allen County Schools

♦Northwest Allen County Schools

♦Fort Wayne area Lutheran Schools

♦Blackhawk Christian School

♦Canterbury schools
Services

♦No mail delivery. U.S. Postal Service branches will be closed.

♦No trash pickup for National Serv-All customers. Residential garbage and curbside recycling will be delayed one day.

-Melissa, Technology Librarian

Tickets for To Kill a Mockingbird Still Available

Next Tuesday evening, we will be showing the classic film To Kill a Mockingbird, based on the novel by Harper Lee. Free tickets for the movie are available in Art, Music & Media at the Main Library.

To Kill a Mockingbird
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
6:30 PM
Main Library Theater
Ticket Required.

Six-year-old Jean Louise “Scout” Finch (Mary Badham) is growing up in the Depression era of the early 1930s in a small Southern town in this highly acclaimed motion picture based on Harper Lee’s semi-autobiographical novel. Jean’s father (Gregory Peck), the town lawyer, is a wise, quiet man with a great sense of justice who defends a poor, black man accused of rape.

129 minutes; Not rated; 1962; Black and White.

C-SPAN’s Civics Bus to visit downtown library May 12

The C-SPAN Civics Bus will be at the main library on Tuesday, May 12, 2009, from 1:30 to 3:30 PM.

Read more here: http://www.wane.com/dpp/news/local_wane_fw_cspan_civics_bus_200905101251

Been curious about the model at the Main Library?

“Ball State University’s College of Architecture and Planning (in conjunction with AIA-Fort Wayne, the City of Fort Wayne, and the Downtown Improvement District) will be giving a presentation in the Auditorium at the downtown Allen County Public Library on May 6th at 6:00 pm.

Come see the potential of the Harrison Street Corridor and conceptual ideas and projects from BSU’s Community Based Project and over 120 students!”

There is currently a scale model of the Harrison Street area at the downtown branch of the Allen County Public Library. The buildings in white are conceptual and everything else is extant.

Thanks to http://www.whatsgoingdowntown.com/ for the information and images.