#Invite the Library to Your Location
Jacksonville Public Library offers monthly outreach visits to Early Childhood Learning Centers and school-age Afterschool Programs. Please complete the appropriate form to request outreach for your location. If selected, we will reach out to confirm the date and time of our visit.
Schedules will be reviewed regularly to ensure that we are serving the community maximally. If we cannot serve your site immediately, you will be placed on a waiting list.
Early Childhood
Our Early Childhood Outreach Program includes a storytime for up to 25 children at a time. Priority will be given to Head Starts, sites that serve a high percentage of students receiving School Readiness Services, and registered VPK classrooms. Priority will also be based on the number of students participating in Library outreach services.
Afterschool
Our interactive Afterschool Program is designed to foster a love of reading in participants. We can accommodate up to 25 children in each program. As a member of READ JAX, we focus on increasing the number of youth reading on grade level by third grade, and we prioritize sites serving elementary students in areas with low reading level scores.
#Americans and the Holocaust Traveling Exhibition
Jacksonville Public Library is one of 50 U.S. libraries selected to host Americans and the Holocaust, a traveling exhibition from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum that examines the motives, pressures and fears that shaped Americans’ responses to Nazism, war and genocide in Europe during the 1930s and 1940s. The exhibition runs September 6 - October 12 at the Main Library. During that time, will offer several timeslots for field trips for teachers and their students (8th grade and up).
Note: This is not a docent-led tour, but there are teaching materials available for educators as well as additional Lesson Plans from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Pick a timeslot to bring your class to the Americans and the Holocaust Exhibition at the Main Library.
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