Juneteenth is celebrated across the country on the 19th of June, and it is the oldest national holiday to commemorate the end of slavery in the United States. The Emancipation Proclamation was issued during the third year of the Civil War and took effect on January 1, 1863, freeing more than 3 million enslaved people. […]
Celebrate 25 years of the service provided by the Heartland Library Cooperative. Visit us on our Facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/HeartlandLibraryCooperative. Join us for Did You Knows, Bestsellers Through the Years, and a scavenger hunt!
The libraries in Highlands County have been closed to the public for several weeks, but staff members have still been working to clean up the libraries, get new items on the shelves and make sure everything is where it should be. Since normal library interactions are not an option right now, the staff also […]