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The library will not be open on this day.
Read More >>The library will open at 1:30 p.m. on this day.
Read More >>The library will not be open on this day.
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Celebrate Christmas, Kwanzaa, and Chanukah with stories and songs presented virtually by our special guest: storyteller and vocalist Shana Banana and her dog puppets, Hal and Henson! You’ll also be able to visit and talk with Santa Claus! PRE-REGISTRATION REQUIRED: www.placitaslibrary.com (click Programs). A recording of the program will remain on our website until Sat, […]
Read More >>The library will not be open on this day.
Read More >>The library will close at 1:30 p.m. on this day.
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The volunteers from the Children’s Committee love reading to your kids! We have stories recorded and are recording more, so check back again, too! The stories are on a wide variety of topics. The books are pre-k to elementary level. Click on “Programs” then “Children’s Virtual Programs” and pick your story!
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Think of this exhibition as lemonade. You know, like when life gives you lemons and you make something delicious out of them. In the “before-times,” Placitans frequently gathered at the library en masse to hear marvelous lectures on myriad topics, chairs set up front to back and side to side in the Collin Meeting Room […]
Read More >>“Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth,” wrote John Gillespie Magee, Jr. in his oft-quoted poem High Flight, “and danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings…put out my hand, and touched the face of God.” The entire poem appears on the back of the Space Shuttle Challenger Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery proving yet […]
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