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Free Audiobooks

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SYNC audiobooks

June 13th - June 19th, 2013

The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater

Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya

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JDHS yearbooks available online

JDHS

Springfield Public Library was the the grand prize winner of the EMC Corporation Heritage Trust contest. The money is being used to digitize local historical documents and make them available online.  Jonathan Dayton High School yearbooks, covering years 1940 through 1969 and 1980 through 2007, were chosen to be digitized first and are now available online for viewing and downloading. To view the yearbooks, go to the Springfield Free Public Library section of the Internet Archive's American Libraries site.

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Lincoln Exhibition

June 16 - July 24

Springfield Public Library presents Lincoln: The Constitution and the Civil War. Opening reception on Sunday, June 16th at 1:30 PM will feature Music of the Civil War, performed by Anne and Ridley Enslow.

Screenings of Lincoln (2012), directed by Steven Spielberg, will be held Monday June 17th 1:00 PM & 6:30 PM: starring Daniel Day-Lewis and Sally Field -- Rated PG-13 -- 150 minutes. 

Lincoln Reception Flyer

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Summer Reading

Bunnies reading

The library’s Board of Trustees has approved new policy to ensure that copies of the books on the Springfield public schools summer reading lists are available to the largest number of students possible during the summer months.  The new policy includes the following:
• all summer reading list titles will circulate for a two week period with no renewals
• limit of two summer list books checked out on a single library card at a time
• holds priority given to Springfield public school students
To further boost availability, the library will also be purchasing additional paperback copies of many of the titles on the list.
Summer Reading policy changes