The main library (Ville Platte) and the Mamou and Basile and Turkey Creek branches will close at 4 pm today due to the flooded roads in Evangeline Parish.  Chataignier Branch, which normally opens at 2, will not open today.  Pine Prairie Branch will close at its regular Tuesday time (3 pm).

We apologize for the inconvenience.

All proceeds from Friends fund raisers go to benefit the library and its programs.  Thank you for your help.

The Friends of the Library will meet Tues. Feb. 7 at 6 p.m. at the main library.  Everybody is welcome.  Please come and bring a friend!

The agenda for the meeting is below:

• Election of officers for 2012
• Sharing of the plans for the new library (preliminary summary)
• Summer reading plans
• Brain storming about fund raisers.

For more information, please contact Paula LaFleur, Friends president .  Please come join us!

Thanks to a Broadband Technology Opportunities Program grant through the State Library of Louisiana, Evangeline Parish Library can now offer the use of an accessible workstation at the main library.  The Accessibility Workstation is preloaded with JAWS Screen Reader software; MAGic Screen Magnification software; TypeAbility software; a 24 inch wide-screen monitor; and a TOPAZ Desktop Video Magnifier.  Also, one computer in every branch library of the parish will receive a copy of the MAGic Screen Magnification software in the near future.

The workstation is delicate and expensive and will not be available for general use.  Restrictions will apply: for more information, check at the desk.  This is also our wheelchair accessible workstation.  Please call 363-1369 for more information.