Free Tickets to local Museums and Events

Want to go to an upcoming concert or play but just didn't think you could afford it? Need to get the kids out of the house to something fun and free? Visit the Eveleth and Gilbert libraries and check out a FREE Museum Pass to get free tickets to a variety of local events and attractions. Yes, you check them out just like you check out books! You can have as many tickets as you want, but first come first served. Free tickets to the following events are currently available at the libraries:

Friday February 19 7:00 p.m. The children's play "Tales of a 4th Grade Nothing" at the Reif Center in Grand Rapids.

Sunday, March 7 the Duluth Symphany's "Lollipop Concert" at the DECC. Catch the FREE bus at the Eveleth Library @ 12:30 p.m., catch the bus at the Gilbert library @ 12:50 p.m. The Concert starts at 3:00 p.m. Return home to Gilbert on the bus by 6:45 p.m. and to Eveleth by 7:00 p.m. If you don't want to take the bus and want to drive down yourselves you can get tickets for the 3:00 concert only.

Friday March 12 7:30 p.m. The concert "Chatterton Duo" at the Virginia High School Auditorium.

Free tickets are also available to visit the following attractions any time you want: The Carlton County Historical Society, the Cook County Historical Society, the Duluth Depot, the Ely-Winton Historical Society, the Great Lakes Aquarium, the Judy Garland and Children's Museum, the North Shore Commercial Fishing Museum, Palkie Grist Mill in Esko, and Split Rock Lighthouse.

Take advantage of this great deal when you visit your hometown Eveleth or Gilbert libraries.

This project was funded in part or in whole with money from the vote of the people of Minnesota on November 4, 2008 which dedicated funding to proserve Minnota's arts and cultural heritage.

Pajama Story & Game Night @ the Gilbert Library Feb 20th

Want to get the kids out of the house on a Saturday night for someexercise, fun and food? Bring them to the Gilbert Library on SaturdayFebruary 20th @ 7:00 p.m. for some loud rowdy running games and quietsleepytime stories. Jordy the Readdog will be there, and refreshmentswill be served. Kids can wear pajamas if they want! This event is FREEand is especially for kids under 12 and their families. For moreinformation call 748-2230.

Gilbert Public Library has gone Wireless

Visitors to the Gilbert Public Library will find something new in 2010. The Library now has wireless internet available! Anyone can now bring in their own laptop computer and access the internet through the Library's wireless internet network. This will be especially useful during those busy after-school hours and in the summers when tourists from around the world pass through Gilbert. Access Broadband is providing the wireless service at no cost to the Library.

January 2010 New Materials - Audiovisual

9 - DVD
50 cartoons - DVD
2010 - DVD
All About: the ultimate collection Vol. 3 - DVD
Bright star - DVD
Cloudy with a chance of meatballs - DVD
A face in the crowd - DVD
The final destination - DVD
The friends of Eddie Coyle - DVD
G-Force - DVD
Ghost world - DVD
Guys and dolls - DVD
The hangover - DVD
Hollywood classics. Golden age of the - DVD
The hurt locker - DVD
Icons of screwball comedy. Volume two - DVD
The invention of lying - DVD
Paranormal activity - DVD
Strawberry Shortcake. Let's dance - DVD
Surrogates - DVD

January 2010 New Materials - Non-Fiction

All cakes considered - Melissa Gray - 641.8 GRA
The boy who harnessed the wind - William Kamkwamba - 621.31 KAM
Cold : adventures - Bill Streever - 910.911 STR
Columbine - Dave Cullen - 373.788 CUL
Committed - Elizabeth Gilbert - 306.81 GIL
Down, down, down - Steve Jenkins - J 591.779 JEN
Empire of liberty - Gordon S. Wood - 973.4 WOO
The good soldiers - David Finkel - 956.7044 FIN
The Great Depression - Benjamin Roth - 973.917 ROT
The lineup - Otto Penzler - 813 LIN
Making the most of your money now - Jane Bryant Quinn - 332.02 QUI
The Mayo Clinic diet - Mayo Clinic - 613.25 MAY
Mennonite in a little black dress - Rhoda Janzen - 811.6 JAN
Mission control, this is Apollo - Andrew Chaiken - J 629.45 CHA
The rock garden plant primer - C. Grey-Wilson - 635.96 GRE
True description of the Lake Superior - John R. St. John - MN 917.74 ST.J

January 2010 New Materials - Juvenile Fiction

Picture Books
Ah-choo! - Margery Cuyler - E CUY
All the world - Liz Garton Scanlon - E SCA
Brownie & Pearl step out - Cynthia Rylant - E RYL
Comin' down to storytime - Rob Reid - E REI
Crafty Chameleon - Mwenye Hadithi - E HAD
Eight animals on the town - Susan Middleton - E ELY
Elephants cannot dance! - Mo Willems - E WIL
Here comes the big, mean dust bunny! - Jan Thomas - E THO
I am a backhoe - Anna Grossnickle Hines - E HIN
Let's do nothing! - Tony Fucile - E FUC
Moon man - Tomi Ungerer - E UNG
Pet shop lullaby - Mary Ann Fraser - E FRA
Sleepy little alphabet - Judy Sierra - E ABC
Supersister - Beth Cadena - E CAD
What's wrong with my hair? - Satoshi - B KIT

Elementary Age
Dodsworth in London - Tim Egan - J EGA
Eidi - Bodil Bredsdorff - J BRE
The Georges and the Jewels - Jane Smiley - J SMI
How to build your own country - Valerie Wyatt - J WYA

Young Adult
The Ask and the Answer - Patrick Ness - YA NES
Dani noir - Nova Ren Suma - YA SUM
Raven summer - David Almond - YA ALM
The sorcerer of the north - John Flanagan - YA FLA
The sorceress - Michael Scott - YA SCO

January 2010 New Materials - Adult Fiction

31 hours - Masha Hamilton - F HAM
Alice I have been - Melanie Benjamin - F BEN
Altar of Eden - James Rollins - F ROL
Bad things happen - Harry Dolan - M DOL
The bride blunder - Kelly Eileen Hake - F HAK
The brightest star in the sky - Marian Keyes - F KEY
The burning land - Bernard Cornwell - F COR
Catalyst - Anne McCaffrey - F MCC
The chocolate cupid killings - JoAnna Carl - M CAR
The cloud pavilion - Laura Joh Rowland - M ROW
Dark horse - Craig Johnson - M JOH
A dark love - Margaret Carroll - F CAR
Day out of days - Sam Shepard - F SHE
Days of gold - Jude Deveraux - F DEV
Death of a valentine - M.C. Beaton - M BEA
Deeper than the dead - Tami Hoag - F HOA
The domino pattern - Timothy Zahn - SF ZAH
The endless forest - Sara Donati - F DON
Fired up - Jayne Ann Krentz - F KRE
First annual Grand Prairie Rabbit - Ken Wheaton - F WHE
The first rule - Robert Crais - F CRA
Gutshot straight - Lou Berney - F BER
The honor of spies - W.E.B. Griffin - F GRI
Impact - Douglas Preston - F PRE
An Irish country girl - Patrick Taylor - F TAY
Iron river - T. Jefferson Parker - F PAR
Kisser - Stuart Woods - F WOO
The lock artist - Steve Hamilton - F HAM
The lord of death - Eliot Pattison - M PAT
The man in the wooden hat - Jane Gardam - F GAR
A matter of class - Mary Balogh - F BAL
Nemesis - Jo Nesbo - F NES
Not my daughter - Barbara Delinsky F DEL
Pieces of sky - Kaki Warner - F WAR
The queen's governess - Karen Harper - F HAR
Remarkable creatures - Tracy Chevalier - F CHE
Silencer - James W. Hall - F HAL
Sizzle - Julie Garwood - F GAR
Snow angels - James Thompson - M THO
Soulless - Gail Carriger - F CAR
Starvation Lake - Bryan Gruley - M GRU
True confections - Katharine Weber - F WEB
Unfinished desires - Gail Godwin - F GOD
The wolf at the door - Jack Higgins - F HIG
Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel - F MAN
Worth the risk - Nora Roberts - F ROB

Pajama Storytime

Pajama Storytime for children at the Gilbert Public Library.
February 20th, @ 7pm.

February 2010 Storytime

Storytime for children five and younger at the Gilbert Public Library.
Fridays from 11:00 am to 11:30 am.
Dates in February: 5th, 12th, 19th, and 26th.