Posts in category Announcements

Battle of Swift Island – a Hist...

July 13, 2021 Written by Matthew Kelly

The Stanly County Historical Society Presents: the Battle of Swift Island Bridge. This event will take place on Thursday, July 29th, 2021 at 6:45 PM. The first part of this will be a dedication of the inert bomb in front of the Stanly County History Center, and then at 7 PM there will be a presentation by Lewis P. Bramlett at the Fellows [...]

Children’s Summer Reading Progr...

May 26, 2021 Written by Matthew Kelly

Join our Children’s Summer Reading Program! Details can be found by visiting the Children’s page; just click “Children” in the green bar above this post or click this link: http://www.stanlycountylibrary.org/children

Adult Summer Reading

May 26, 2021 Written by Matthew Kelly

Summer is the perfect time for a great story! Read or listen to six books of your choice between June 1 and July 31, record them on your reading log & come to any of our locations & trade your completed log for a tote bag (while supplies last). You can pick up a reading log at any of our locations or click on the link to download o [...]

Read Squared

July 30, 2020 Written by Matthew Kelly

We’re excited to offer our kids and teens a new way to track what they’re reading digitally! The State Library of NC has provided us with a program called Read Squared where you can track your reading digitally to earn virtual badges and unlock games! This program will begin on August 1st so download the app and get registere [...]

Picks for Patrons

July 23, 2019 Written by Matthew Kelly

We are offering a new service called Picks for Patrons at the Albemarle Library. If you’ll fill out the form on our navigation bar (or here), we’ll be happy to pick out some books for you that we think you might like. Too busy to pick books to read? Let a librarian do it for you! If you are 18 or older, fill out the brief for [...]