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Get Help Choosing a Preschool

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Finding the right preschool for your child can be an exciting yet stressful task. To help area parents gather the information they need to make the best choice, the Peters Township Public Library will offer a Preschool-A-Palooza on Saturday, January 19 from 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.

While parents ask questions of representatives from area preschools, Children’s Librarian Linda Esposito will offer activities for children including games, crafts, and a basket raffle.  Preschools and other organizations participating in the event include:

  • Bowers School House Preschool
  • Center Church Christian Preschool
  • The Goddard School
  • Justabout Pediatric Therapy
  • Macaroni Kid
  • Namaste Montessori of Peters
  • Noah’s Ark Preschool
  • St. Ben’s Catholic Preschool
  • St. David’s Christian Early Learning Center
  • St. Louise de Marillac Catholic Preschool
  • Sunshine Kids
  • Tender Shepherd Preschool

Register online to attend this family-friendly event. Walk-ins welcome too!

Holiday Book Sale

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Looking for the perfect gift for the reader(s) in your life? Visit our Holiday Book Sale in the main lobby during library hours! You will find a variety of gently-loved books for holiday crafts, fiction, music CDs, and cookbooks to find something special for a gift – or for yourself!

Our volunteers keep the shelves stocked for our daily book sale too with popular hardback fiction and non-fiction titles, paperbacks, puzzles and bargains for children and young adults! Most items are only a dollar or two! Fill a pretty basket with books, add a ribbon, and you’ve got a wonderful gift for a friend or a whole family!


Holiday Hours

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The library will be closed on Monday, December 24 and Tuesday, December 25. The library will close at 4:00 p.m. on Monday, December 31. The library will be closed on Tuesday, January 1, 2019. The library will be open at 9:00 a.m. on Wednesday, January 2.

Fall Programming Delayed for Children and Teens

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Due to the installation of new carpeting in the Youth Services Department, the library will delay the start of their fall programming for children by two weeks. Programs for babies through teens will begin the week of Monday, September 24 instead of Monday, September 10 as originally scheduled. The fall session will be extended by one week concluding on Friday, November 16.

The loan period for all materials borrowed from the library will be extended beyond this time. There will be no due dates from September 10 through 22. During the period that the new carpeting is being installed, materials will be shifted and shelving will be moved. The Youth Services Department area and Family Activity Center may not be accessible at times, but the remaining areas of the library will be open and materials can be checked out.

Adult programming will not be impacted by the carpet installation, and all regularly scheduled library clubs will meet as planned. The Western Pennsylvania Lensshooters will meet on Wednesday, September 12 from 7:00 p.m. in the Peters Township Community Room located at the rear of 200 Municipal Drive, McMurray – the same building used by the Peters Township Police Department.

To review a complete list of the scheduling changes for September, visit the events calendar page. Contact the library at 724.941.9430 for more information.

New Service – Book-a-Librarian!

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Would you like a personal introduction to the electronic resources available to you at the Peters Township Public Library? Do you need more in-depth help than you can get when you just walk into the library? Try our new Book-a-Librarian service! You can schedule a personalized, one-on-one lesson tailored to meet your specific information need.

To register for a free, 45-minute appointment with a library information professional, please complete this online form or call 724.941.9430 ext. 5767.

Please allow 2-3 days for a response, especially when submitting questions over the weekend.

Hamilton the focus of a talk and exhibit in June

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The Peters Township Public Library will welcome Denver Brunsman to present Hamilton, Washington, and the Creation of the United States on Thursday, June 14 at 7:00 p.m. Register here or call 724.941.9430 #1.

As Hamilton: An American Musical makes clear, it was crucial for Alexander Hamilton to have George Washington “on his side.” Brunsman will discuss the collaboration between Hamilton and Washington in creating the United States from the Revolutionary War and Constitutional Convention to launching the federal government and America’s financial system. Twenty-five years Washington’s junior, Hamilton acted as both a surrogate son and equal to the nation’s first president. Together, they made history in helping to shape our country as we know it. The talk will weave references to songs from Hamilton and the national traveling exhibition, Alexander Hamilton: Immigrant, Patriot, Visionary, which will be on display during library hours from Thursday, June 14 through Saturday, July 7.

Using primarily reproductions from the Gilder Lehrman Institute’s renowned collections, and drawing on recent scholarship about Alexander Hamilton, the traveling exhibition will examine Hamilton’s role during the Revolutionary War and Founding period (1774-1804) in creating the economic, constitutional, social, journalistic, political, and foreign policy templates for modern America. It will acquaint visitors with a statesman and visionary whose life inspired discussion and controversy and shaped the America we live in two hundred years after his death. The exhibit from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History is made possible by the Rockefeller Foundation.

Denver Brunsman, Associate Professor in the History Department at George Washington University, where his courses include “George Washington and His World,” teaches annually at Mount Vernon. He is a coauthor of a leading college and AP U.S. History textbook, Liberty, Equality, Power: A History of the American People and an e-book, Leading Change: George Washington and Establishing the Presidency. The recipient of numerous teaching honors, Brunsman was inducted into the George Washington University Academy of Distinguished Teachers in 2016.