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Museum Adventure Pass Program extended

The popular Museum Adventure Pass Program, which allows patrons to check out passes for free admission to the Southeast Michigan area's cultrual attractions, has been extended until October 2010. Read more about museums involved.

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Get the Smartest Card at the Sterling Heights Public Library

Get the Smartest Card @ the Sterling Heights Public Library! September is National Library Card Month and a great time to celebrate libraries. To celebrate this special month, the library has several promotions to encourage residents to get a card and use it. Thanks to the Friends for its sponsorship of this month’s activities.

•Exchange your library card. During September only, patrons will be allowed to exchange their old library card for one of the new cards (shown on the right) that come with a key fob for a nominal fee of $1.

•Join the drawing for prize packages including a portable DVD player or MP3 player by getting a library card or by using the card you already have. There will be three prize categories: new card holders, adults, and children. When you receive a new card you will get a white entry card. Fill it out and drop it in the entry box on the counter across from the circulation desk. Adults who use their card to check out material will get a blue entry card and children who use their card will get a green entry card. The prize winning entries will be drawn on Oct. 1.

•Enter as often as you want - the more times you visit the library and use your card, the more chances you’ll have to win a prize.

 

The Sterling Heights Public Library has opened its Children's Art Garden! Thanks to the support of our sponsors, including Title Sponsor The O'Reilly Family, in memory of Paul J. O'Reilly. The garden is located behind the Youth Services Department and is open to everyone. Check out the plantings, special statues and garden stones, which were created by children as a fundraiser. Different levels of giving are still available. Click HERE for an informational brochure about the project. Call (586) 446-2640 with questions.
 

Museum Adventure Pass, Presented by Macy's

Visit the Sterling Heights Public Library and Check Out a Museum! In a first-of-its-kind partnership in the Greater Detroit Region, Macy's, Detroit metro area libraries (through the Library of Michigan Foundation) and the Cultural Alliance of Southeastern Michigan have launched The Museum Adventure Pass, presented by Macy's.

The third part of this series launched in October and will run through October 2010. This program - a partnership between 162 metro area libraries and more than 20 local arts and cultural organizations - provides area library card holders free passes to participating local museums, cultural centers, and historical sites. The program is designed to enhance the learning experience for people of all ages through books and other library materials, and to provide access to arts and cultural organizations.

Library users can check out a Museum Adventure Pass at the Sterling Heights Public Library. Users will then receive a museum admission pass for the organization they plan to visit. The museum admission pass is handed in at the box office of the participating organization for free admission for two or four people. Each museum adventure pass expires within one week of the checkout date.

For continuing updates on the Museum Adventure Pass Program, sign up for the eNewsletter by clicking HERE!

Locations that admit 4:
Anton Art Center
Arts and Scraps
Automotive Hall of Fame
Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center
Detroit Artists Market
Detroit Children’s Museum
Dossin Great Lakes Museum
Grosse Pointe Historical Society
Howell Nature Center
Lorenzo Cultural Center
Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit
Pewabic Pottery
University of Michigan Exhibit Museum of Natural History
Wyandotte Historical Museum
Ypsilanti Historical Museum
Locations that admit 2:
Arab American National Museum
Birmingham Historical Museum and Park
Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History
Cranbrook Art Museum
Cranbrook House & Gardens
Cranbrook Institute of Science
Detroit Historical Museum
Detroit Institute of Arts
Edsel & Eleanor Ford House
Ford Rouge Factory Tour
Henry Ford Estate, Fair Lane
Rochester Hills Museum at Van Hoosen Farm

Important! Please visit the Museum Adventure Pass website at www.detroitadventurepass.org before you begin your adventure. Enjoy a family outing or have a cheap date!

REMINDERS
1. Check out a Museum Adventure Pass using your valid library card. We have a limited number of passes for each participating organization. Passes are available on a first-come, first-served basis and cannot be reserved, renewed or requested through interlibrary loan.

2. One Museum Adventure Pass may be checked out per person, per loan period. The loan period is SEVEN DAYS. Up to two or four people may be admitted on each pass. (See the list above for which organizations admit 2 and which admit 4.)

3. Choose the museum you would like to visit and bring the card for that museum to the circulation desk. We will give you a date-due slip that admits you into the museum through the date printed on the slip. After this date, the pass expires. You do not need to return the slip to the library.

4. Visit the Museum Pass website for more details on each organization. You can also find out the most current hours and exhibition information.

5. Passes may be limited to general admission only. Special exhibitions may not be covered, and other restrictions may apply.

 

Briefs

The Sterling Heights Public Library is proud to provide downloadable digital audio books in our collection. Browse or search for your favorite titles in OverDrive Audio Book format. Without leaving the comfort of your home, you can choose, checkout, download, and enjoy audio books on your computer. For listening-on-the-go, you can transfer the audio book to your portable MP3 device. To use the new service, simply click on the link on the library’s homepage. You will then use the MLC’s digital library. You will need your library card number. For more information, pick up a flyer at any library service desk.

Every day millions of old cell phones are thrown away and end up in landfills. Good News from the Friends! We are now accepting used cell phones and cell phone batteries for recycling. Just leave them in the box across from the Circulation Desk. We no longer can accept used ink cartridges. All proceeds from the recycling program will be used by the Friends to support library programs.

Public computers at the Sterling Heights Public Library are equipped with EnvisionWare, a computer software management system. Nonresidents or users who do not have their library card with them will be logged in by staff with a guest card. For more details on the system, click here.

The library no longer mails notices for holds, overdues, and bills due to the high cost of postage. The library is now using an automated telephone calling system that leaves a courtesy message. This system will leave a message on an answering machine or with any person (including a child) that answers the phone. If the person answering hangs up, the system will still log the call as successful. The quickest, most efficient means for the library to send notices is via e-mail. If you have e-mail that you check regularly, please inform the library by giving your address to the circulation staff.

Do you need tax forms? Go online for federal, state, and Detroit forms. You can also check the Michigan Library tax page for other city tax forms as they become available.

 

Board Meetings

Library Board of Trustees meets the third Monday of the month, from September to June, at 5:30 p.m. in the Library Conference Room. 

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Click here to see 52 Ways to Use Your Library Card.

Don't have a library card? Click here or on the library card to get an online application form. You can also get one from the Circulation Desk, signup is quick and simple.

 

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