September News and Events

September is Library Card Sign-Up month and this year’s theme is “Create Your Adventure at the Library.” Signing up for a library card is the first step to creating your adventure, be it a road toward learning a photography or coding course or a journey into crafts and hobbies. A library card unlocks the full potential of your local library, in person and online.

In celebration of Library Card Sign-Up Month, Food for Fines will be held all month long! For every (1) item donated, $1 of late fines or lost item fees will be waived. (No credit for future fines)

The Library will be accepting nonperishable food items that will be donated to local food banks across the parish.

The Library will also accept canned and dry pet food as items to be used for Food for Fines. These items will be donated to the St. Tammany Parish Government Department for Animal Services’s Pet Food Pantry. This pantry has assisted owners in tough times, helping to prevent pet surrender to the shelter.

Animal Services, in partnership with the Library, will discount $10 off non-waived pet adoption fees for anyone who shows a STPL Library card when adopting in September.

Contact STPG Dept. of Animal Services if you are interested in adopting Honey, Flip, George, Jillian or any of the precious shelter pets they have available.

Visit them at 31078 Highway 36 Lacombe, LA 70445 or call 985-809-0183. Learn more about Animal Services at their website, stpgov.org/pets

Children’s Author and Illustrator, Matthew Cordell, will be visiting the Slidell Branch on Friday, September 13th, at 6:30 p.m. Families and kids of all ages are invited to attend the author visit to meet and hear from the award-winning author and illustrator.

Refreshments will be provided 30 minutes before the event along with a StoryWalk® featuring one of Cordell’s books.

This author visit is sponsored by the Friends of the Slidell Library.

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The Friends of the Slidell Library are sponsoring the upcoming fall concert series at the east St. Tammany Parish library branches. Each concert will start at 6 p.m. and is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will also be served for each concert.

The Spring Chickens, a bluegrass band will perform on Wednesday, September 18th in the backyard of the Pearl River Branch, 64580 Hwy. 41, Pearl River (with a rain date of September 25th).
The Jump Hounds, a jazz-based rhythm and blues band, will perform on Wednesday, October 2nd in the side yard of the Lacombe Branch, 28027 Hwy. 190, Lacombe (with a rain date of October 9th).
Samuel Wheelock will play modern electric folk music on Tuesday, October 15th in the South Slidell Branch meeting room, 3901 Pontchartrain Drive.
Callie Hines, an Americana/folk artist, will play on Tuesday, October 22nd in the meeting room of the Slidell Branch, 555 Robert Blvd

Find the next concert near you

The STPG GIS (Geographic Information Systems) District is coming to the Covington Branch starting September 4th to lead patrons in learning about GIS mapping, GIS careers and education paths, how to use ESRI software and develop web maps using GIS.

The course is a 4-part workshop series, held every Wednesday in September, for teens aged 16 and up and adults.

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The Friends of the Library of West St. Tammany will hold their monthly Used Book Sale on September 20th and 21st, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at their building located at 1301 N. Florida St. in Covington, near the St. Tammany Parish Fairgrounds.

Some items start as low as 25 cents. Find books, DVDs, music and audio CDs, and puzzles, with a large selection of homeschool items and children's books. All proceeds support St. Tammany Parish Libraries.

Each month the Friends hold a silent auction at the Covington Library with an array of interesting titles. Check the Covington Library for the auction list and starting bids.

Click here to view the Friend's webpage, which includes all future sale dates and the monthly auction list.

The Friends of the Slidell Library (FSL) will hold an SSSSale on Saturday, September 14th, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. inside the Slidell Branch, 555 Robert Blvd.

Second Saturday Special Sales are themed sales featuring specially selected books in excellent condition. The contents of this sale will include over a hundred specially selected pre-owned books related to Louisiana and the South. Topics will include gardening in our climate, history, culture, cookbooks/cuisine, large format books, fiction by Louisiana authors, etc.

Sale items will have standard prices ranging from $1 to $3 each.

Cash and checks are accepted for all purchases.

The Friends of the Slidell Library also hold a silent auction each month. Auction items are on display at the Slidell Branch during bidding dates. Bids can be placed at the Slidell Branch circulation desk. Each item has a minimum bid and all subsequent bids require a minimum $1 bid increment advance. High bidders will be notified by telephone or email and must pick up items within 7 days or the item will default to the next highest bidder. August's auction will take last bids on Civil War materials on September 4th at 6 p.m. Coffee Table (Large Format) Books will be the auction subject for September 5th - October 2nd.

The Friends of the Slidell Library, an all-volunteer non-profit organization founded in 1976, raises funds using used book sales and silent auctions to help support the Slidell, Pearl River, South Slidell, and Lacombe libraries. For more information on FSL and its activities, send an email to fsl70458@yahoo.com.

In observance of Labor Day, all St. Tammany Parish Library offices and branches will be closed on Monday, September 2nd and reopen at their normal business hours on Tuesday, September 3rd.

Looking for what's new in our collection?
See up to 180 days' worth of newly purchased books at this link: bit.ly/STPLNewItems.

We are very grateful for our support organizations. Learn more about them at the links below.
St. Tammany Library Foundation
Friends of the Slidell Library — Friends of the Library of West St. Tammany

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