LibraryAware

The Southwest Georgia Regional Library has begun curbside service in all of our libraries! This means that the library building will remain closed to the public for now, but you may request books, DVDs, and other materials and pick them up outside the library at an appointed time. You may request materials and schedule a pickup appointment by calling your library, by placing a hold through your PINES account, or by completing the online request form at swgrl.org/curbside. When you arrive at the library during the appointed time, you will call the library to let us know you’re ready for your items. A library staff member will then place your items on the table outside of the library entrance. Once the staff member is back inside the library, you may collect your items from the table. If you have any items to return, please place them in the book drop. If you need help picking which items to request, we are happy to provide suggestions over the phone or through email at librarian@swgrl.org. The library phone numbers and curbside service hours are:

Decatur County – Gilbert H. Gragg Library
229-248-2665
Monday - Friday:
9:30 am – 5:30 pm

Miller County – James W. Merritt, Jr. Memorial Library
229-758-3131
Monday – Thursday:
10:30 am – 5 pm

Seminole County Public Library
229-524-2665
Monday – Friday:
10 am – 5 pm

Goodbye to Kathy Hutchins and Luke Brown

We are bidding a fond farewell to two of our staff members. Join us in congratulating Kathy Hutchins on her retirement after 30 years of dedicated library service in our system! She has been such a wonderful ambassador for the Southwest Georgia Library for Accessible Services. We are also saying goodbye to Luke Brown, and we appreciate his contributions to to our library system during the last three years as the Marketing and Programming Librarian.

Summer Reading Program

The Summer Reading Program at the library is wrapping

up soon! Register now. For all ages, including adults.

Download the Beanstack app on your device.

Register for our Summer Reading Program

by searching "Southwest Georgia Regional Library."

Fill out the registration information.

OR

Go to swgrl.beanstack.org/. Fill out the registration information.

Go to swgrl.org/summer or ontact us at librarian@swgrl.org for help.

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Register for a Digital Library Card!

If you don’t have a library card, you can register for a digital card to access eBooks, eAudiobooks, and other online resources. Please include your phone number and email on the application, so that we can contact you to provide your library card number.

eBooks, eAudiobooks, and eMagazines

Your library card gives you free access to e-books, e-audiobooks, and e-magazines through RBdigital and eRead Kids! Learn more at swgrl.org/ebooks.

Online Resources

Your library card gives you free access to online learning resources through GALILEO! Learn a new language with Mango Languages, improve your math and reading skills or prepare for the GED through Learning Express, and access Gale Legal Forms. Learn more about the library's online resources on our website!

Wifi @ Your Library

Wifi will still be available at the library

during regular library operating hours.

Ancestry.com

Library users now have access to Ancestry

Library Edition at home! Get started at

https://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=zual.

Digital Library of Georgia

The Digital Library of Georgia is a publicly

available resource of Georgia’s history and culture found in digitized books, manuscripts, photographs, government documents, newspapers, maps, audio, video, and other resources.

New for Curbside Pickup!

The Persuasion
by Iris Johansen

Eve Duncan and Joe Quinn’s artistic daughter, Jane, teams up with former flame Seth Caleb and confronts their complicated dynamic while trying to escape a brilliant psychopath. By the best-selling author of the Kendra Michaels series.

The Summer Deal: A Novel
by Jill Shalvis

Returning to her Wildstone hometown in the aftermath of a latest heartbreak, Brynn discovers that her tough but chronically ill rival, Kinsey, is actually her half-sister, before agreeing to a summertime relationship with a childhood crush.

Credible Threat
by Judith A. Jance

Ali Reynolds and her team at High Noon Enterprises try to save an archbishop from a would-be killer who has been sending sinister death threats. By the New York Times best-selling author of the Joanna Brady series.

New Children's Books for Curbside Pickup!

The Dragon Egg Princess
by Ellen Oh

The We Need Diverse Books co-founder and author of the award-winning Spirit Hunters series draws on Asian culture in the story of a poor ranger and a lost princess who team up in a magical forest to save their worlds from a long-forgotten evil.

Mulan Read-along Storybook and CD
by Ann Braybrooks

Publishing just in time for the release of the live-action version of Disney’s Mulan in March 2020, stories based on the movie follow Mulan and her friends Mushu, Cri-Kee and others as they set out to save Mulan’s father and the Chinese empire from an enemy invasion.

Daring Dogs: 30 True Tales of Heroic Hounds
by Kimberlie Hamilton

A companion to Fearless Felines shares illustrated profiles of 30 amazing dogs from history, from Smoky, a four-pound Yorkie who served in World War II, to Laika, the first dog to launch into space.