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A Lakeport library patron uses a new public computer in 2018. Many library services have been added online during the coronavirus crisis this year. (File photo)

Lake County Library goes digital for storytimes and meetings

June 13, 2020 at 6:00 a.m.

LAKEPORT – The Lake County Library has expanded some library services for both children and adults online to reach audiences while library buildings are closed due to the COVID 19...

The Lake County Library is now offering contactless pick-ups outside of all four library branches. Call your local library to select books and to set up a pick-up appointment. (Courtesy Lake County Library)

Lake County Library offering contactless pick-ups at all branches

June 4, 2020 at 6:00 a.m.

The Lake County Library is now offering contactless pick-ups outside of all four library branches. Call your local library to select books and to set up a pick-up appointment.

Georgina Marie is one of Lake County’s poets of all ages and backgrounds who will present their works at the next Know Lake County program at Lakeport Library.

Lakeport Library: Get to know some Lake County poets

April 19, 2019 at 12:16 p.m.

LAKEPORT—Lake County poets will be on stage at the April edition of the Lake County Library’s Know Lake County program. The program will take place at the Lakeport branch of...

Diana Liebe and Richard Schmidt show two sample paintings that they will use in a free art class open to the public. Students will receive a “coloring-book” version of the picture that they will then color in their own styles. The themes explored in the painting come from Into the Beautiful North by Luis Albert Urrea, the NEA Big Read selection in Lake County.

NEA Big Read event to focus on border life

October 23, 2018 at 6:00 a.m.

LAKEPORT— Luis Alberto Urrea painted vivid word pictures of life along the border between the US and Mexico in his novel Into the Beautiful North, the NEA Big Read selection in Lake County. Local...

Wearing a virtual reality headset, a library patron “repairs ‘droids” in a virtual workshop. The monitor behind him displays a view of the virtual environment that he is seeing. Virtual Reality sessions are open to the public ages 12 and up at Lakeport Library every Wednesday in September from 4 to 5 p.m. - Courtesy photo

Patrons can enter the world of virtual reality at the library Virtual reality sessions Wednesdays at Lakeport and Clearlake branches

September 11, 2018 at 9:01 p.m.

LAKEPORT >> Virtual Reality in the form of an HTC-Vive system comes to the Lakeport branch of the Lake County Library every Wednesday in September from 4 to 5 p.m....

Library: last day to turn in books for credit approaching

August 23, 2018 at 12:00 a.m.

LAKEPORT >> The Lake County Library’s Summer Reading Program is in full swing. Librarian Christopher Veach announces that so far 634 people have signed up. That’s 40 teens, 449 kids...

File photo- Lake County Library is holding NEA Big Read events through March 25.

County Library receives NEA Big Read grant

August 23, 2018 at 12:00 a.m.

Lake County librarian Christopher Veach says, “I’m thrilled to receive the support of the National Endowment for the Arts again this year. The NEA Big Read is a fun series...

Libraries receive new public computers

August 23, 2018 at 12:00 a.m.

LAKEPORT >> County Librarian Christopher Veach announces that 31 new public computers have been installed at all four branches of Lake County Library to replace computers that were over 5...

Lake County Library recognizes teachers

August 30, 2018 at 12:00 a.m.

LAKEPORT >> Cindy Beasley’s kindergarten class visited Lakeport branch of the Lake County Library recently to get library cards and to learn about the library. Beasley and other teachers bring...

Book to Action concludes on a high note

August 23, 2018 at 12:00 a.m.

LAKEPORT >> In Breneì Brown’s book “Braving the Wilderness,” Brown redefines what it means to belong in an age of increased polarization. Using research, storytelling and her own personal stories,...

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