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The City of Lake Wales & the Lake Wales Public Library Welcomes Our New Library Director
Please join the City of Lake Wales, Lake Wales Library Board and LW Public Library staff in welcoming the new Lake Wales Library Director, Belle Reynoso.
Belle will begin in mid-August, replacing Tina Peak.
Belle comes to Lake Wales with 20+ years of public library experience in a variety positions.
Her credentials include law librarianship, Editorial Research Librarian for CNN Worldwide, as well as seven plus years of public library experience in Georgia, where she worked in the Clayton County Library System, Atlanta Fulton County Library System and, most recently, Live Oak Public Libraries, Savannah, Georgia.
Belle's commitment to excellent public library services is impressive. She is excited to work with the LW Public Library staff to continue to support our community's needs.
Please welcome Belle Reynoso with the support and hospitality that is a hallmark of this community.
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Tuesday, August 23, 2022, 6 p.m. Night Owls Book Discussion - Circe by Madeline Miller - LW Public Library, 678.4004
Thursday, August 25, 2022, 11 a.m. Thursday Morning Book Discussion - How Lucky - by Will Leitch - LW Public Library, 678.4004
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New Digital Content Tool Available on our website -
Value Line
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Value Line provides investment research on companies, industries, markets, and economies.
The Lake Wales Public Library's subscription includes coverage of 1,700 stocks in The Value Line Survey -- Library Elite edition.
The Lake Wales Public Library's license allows for three simultaneous users at a time. You must have a Polk Co. Library card to login. Sign in from any location at Value Line Library Edition and select Value Line from the list of digital resources.
Value Line Digital Edition is made possible by the Lake Wales Library Association's Jenkins Family Trust.
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READ Lake Wales 2022
The Lake Wales Public Library invites library patrons, 18 years of age and older to participate in the READ Lake Wales 2022 Challenge. READ Lake Wales 2022 is more than halfway through this year's challenge, but there's still time to join.
The READ Lake Wales 2022 Challenge requires that participants complete fifty books between January 1, 2022 and December 9, 2022. Print, electronic and audio books are all accepted for entries. We accept entries of anything you've read beginning January 1, 2022. We just want you to READ Lake Wales!
Download a reading log at READ Lake Wales 2022. READ Lake Wales 2022 is made possible by the generous sponsorships of the Lake Wales Library Association and Florida’s Natural Growers Foundation.
For information, to request the complete READ Lake Wales rules and Reading Log, call 863-678-4004 or email library@lakewalesfl.gov.
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PLUS Accounts Offline - August 1 - 6
The PLUS Account system will be off-line the first week of August.
If a child you know, and cherish, uses their Polk County Schools' or Lake Wales Charter Schools' Student ID number to access library services in the Polk County Library Cooperative's 16 city libraries, their access will not be available for one week.
It is a week-long process to update the student records - students who graduated from high school in 2022 are removed and amazing new kindergarteners are added.
It's quite an undertaking by the Polk County Library Cooperative's coordinator, Gladys Roberts, working through this process in one week, 100,000 records!
Your child/student can also apply for a regular PCLC library card, if they cannot miss a week without a library fix. Don't we love them?!?
The pause in service to PLUS accounts includes all PCLC member libraries
For more information on the PLUS account service to Polk County Public School students and Lake Wales Charter School Students click PLUS Student Accounts.
Questions? Call 863-678-4004, ext. 221
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Did you know the LW Public Library...
- ...has an Intelligent Locker System allowing you to pick up library materials, 24/7? Ask library staff how.
- ...has a Shredding Station that anyone can use, free of charge?
- ...provides a Seed Library? Hundreds of flower, vegetable, herbs, fruits and other seeds are available to pick up and plant.
- ...provides free public Wi-Fi inside and out of doors?
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...and the Polk Co. Library Cooperative provides a library membership to EVERY student in the Lake Wales Charter School System and the Polk County Public School System through our PLUS Account program. Click here for details.
- ...has a digital collection of local newspapers, databases, eContent and other important resources on our website?
- ...is an active, fun location for children, families and adults to enjoy time spent in craft classes, movement classes, jigsaw puzzle groups, book discussion gatherings and a summer packed with activities for all ages!
- ...does not charge overdue fines on our materials?
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Mondays - Lunch Hour Coloring for Grownups - 11:30 a.m. until 1 p.m. - Meeting Room
Tuesdays - Chair Yoga - 12 until 1 p.m. - Summer months - walk-ins welcome - $5 per class - Meeting Room
Wednesdays - Chair Yoga - 12 until 1 p.m. - Summer months - walk-ins welcome - $5 per class - Meeting Room
Fridays - Needlework Group - 9:00 a.m. - Meeting Room
Fridays - Knitting & Crochet Group - 1:30 p.m. - Meeting Room
1st Friday Monthly - Genealogy Group - July 1, 11:30 a.m. (bring your own device if available) - Meeting Room
Friday - Twice Monthly - Jigsaw Puzzle Group - August 5 and August 19 - 11:00 a.m. - Library's Quiet Study Area
Friday, August 5 - Blood Drive - 1 until 4 p.m. - Library's Main Parking Log
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Coloring isn't for kids only. Join us on Mondays, during lunch hour.
This drop-in artistic outlet is a wonderful way to make new friends and relax.
All supplies are provided.
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Join us in our first Tiny Art Show.
We are pleased to partner with the Nalcrest Art Club. Their generous donation to the LW Library Association provides all supplies for this fun program.
We invite anyone age 5 through adults to pick up supplies beginning August 8, while art supplies last.
Finished artwork must be turned in by Friday, September 2. The Tiny Art Show will be displayed in the LWPL through the month of September, 2022.
For more information call 863-678-4004.
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Library Staff Reading Recommendations
Located in the Lake Wales Public Library's front lobby is a table filled with books that our library staff have read, loved and now recommend to you.
Recent additions to the Staff Recommendation table include:
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Burnt Mountain by Anne Rivers Siddons
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The Investigator by John Sandford
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Freezing Order by Bill Browder
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The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix
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Finlay Donovan Is Killing It by Elle Cosimano
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The Vanity Fair Diaries by Tina Brown
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The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
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Download the Polk County Library Cooperative's Mobile App!
- Place your own holds
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Check out your materials with the built in Self Checkout option
- Download eBooks & eAudio
- View our digital content
- Keep track of multiple library card users in your household.
Download from the Google Play Store or Apple Store - it's free!
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Lake Wales' Charter Schools Superintendent Challenges - "Students Should Read or Be Read to 20 minutes everyday"
Thank you Dr. Wayne Rodolfich, Superintendent of Lake Wales Charter Schools, for encouraging anyone who loves a child of any age to read, or be read to everyday!
The Lake Wales Public Library supports Superintendent Rodolfich's important READ 20 initiative.
If you are a parent/grandparent or anyone who loves a public or charter school student in the greater Lake Wales area please read Dr. Rodolfich's newsletters, particularly the first newsletter.
Thank you, Dr. Rodolfich, for recommending public libraries in your first newsletter.
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Support the organization that makes so much possible at the Lake Wales Public Library. Consider a membership or donation to the Lake Wales Library Association.
For over 60 years the Lake Wales Library Association has provided financial support, volunteer assistance and political advocacy for the LW Public Library.
Join the LW Library Association by visiting their website and clicking the Join Us button.
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Wonderful friends of the Lake Wales Public Library,
I sincerely have treasured my career as the Library Director of our amazing Lake Wales Public Library.
I worked as a teenage Library Page at this library while attending Lake Wales High School and then, Polk Community College.
In 1982 I moved back home with my baby boy and family, after working in the private sector, to become the very young, Lake Wales Public Library Director.
Successes or failures the community of Lake Wales has supported me, and through that, supported the most amazing library staff.
After 40 years I'm retiring. making way for a new director, the fourth in the LW Public Library's history.
I am humbled at the sentiments that have been expressed to me. I share all the compliments and praise with the LW Public Library staff, Lake Wales Library Board and the Lake Wales Library Association. Without them, this amazing library wouldn't be the customer focused gem that it is.
I will move into service with the LWPL's non-profit, the Lake Wales Library Association. I have the opportunity to assist with their Development efforts - membership development, fund raising efforts, grant writing and technical writing.
The seed was planted for my 40-year career and my love of libraries in the early 1960s when my parents took me to the new LW Public Library as a child. I suppose their desire to expose my brothers and me to libraries and reading created something they never imagined, a bit of a bookish girl library nerd who would make a magical place a career.
Thank you for supporting our library's growth in many directions and services. Thank you for your smiles, many laughs, sharing your joys and losses, thank you for bringing your children and grandchildren to our library. Your kindness and support means more than you realize.
To everyone, See you at the Library,
Tina A. Peak
Library Director, 1982 - 2022
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