Happy New Year! Participate, connect, and discover with your library this January.

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January 2023
Happy New Year from your friends at the library! Start off 2023 with the return of our Winter Reading Challenge and help us reach our community reading goals. Try a new hobby or craft with events at your local branches. Connect with fellow readers at a book club. Explore the Alachua County Library District's Braille collection during Braille Literacy Month. Get a head start on the new semester with Tutor .com. Whatever your goals for this year, the library is here to help!

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Try Something New
Start exploring new hobbies with Alachua County Library District resources, which are free to use for anyone with a library card! Try anything from gardening and crafting to investing and car repair. 

Not ready to commit to a hobby? Try participating in one of the many varied library events at our local branches. Check out our events calendar to find activities for all ages like Crafternooners, STEAM programs, D&D for Teens, Creative Journaling, and much more!
Find Events

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Challenge Accepted
The Beanstack Winter Reading Challenge is back! Help us reach our community goal of reading 300,000 minutes. 

Sign up for the 2023 Winter Reading Challenge: All the Feels on Beanstack and make your reading minutes count from Jan. 1 to Jan. 31.  Each badge earned and minute logged helps the Library District advance in the competition against libraries nationwide! 

Participants also have the chance to win prizes, thanks to our sponsors at Spurrier's Gridiron Grille, Mi Apá Latin Café, and Okito America. Each badge earned is worth another entry in the weekly prize drawings to win a $10 gift card to Spurrier's. At the end of the challenge, one adult, teen, and youth reader will each win a $50 gift card from one of our three sponsors.
Sign Up

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New Year, New Book Club
What is on your list of New Year's resolutions? Does it include joining a book club? If it does—and it should!—the Alachua County Library District has you covered with a book club at nearly every library branch, including the brand-new Action! Suspense! Thriller! Book Club.  
Join a Club

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Braille Literacy Month
January is National Braille Literacy Month. Braille is a system of touch reading and writing developed to meet the needs of the blind and visually impaired. It uses a cell with six raised dots structured in patterns to represent letters of the alphabet, punctuation marks, and phrases to show letter groupings.

Did you know that the Alachua County Library District has a Braille collection? Our collection includes a braille primer, children’s books, and adult books written in braille. The adult braille and children's braille collections can be found in different areas at each library branch so please don’t hesitate to ask staff for assistance in locating your materials. We’re here to help!
Learn More

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Spring into the New Semester
Students of all ages and job seekers can start the new year right with the help they need with Tutor .com. Tutor .com has a network of over 3,000 professional academic and career tutors who are ready to help with just about any question you may have. The drop-off reviews and self-study tools provide additional homework or career help and are available 24/7.

Live tutors are available for one-on-one sessions from 3 p.m. to 10 p.m. every day. If you're working from your phone, Tutor .com has an app for you. It is available for Android, iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch.
Access Tutors

Holiday Closures

All branches will be closed on Sunday, Jan. 1, and on Monday, Jan. 2 for New Year's Day. All locations will resume current hours on Tuesday, Jan. 3.

All branches will be closed on Monday, Jan. 16 for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. All locations will resume current hours on Tuesday, Jan. 17.

Online services and book drops will remain available during closures

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Alachua County Library District
401 East University Avenue Gainesville, FL 32601
Phone: (352) 334-3900
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