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Thursday, February 2
Wiggles and Giggles

9:30am
Central-Clemson Regional Branch

Thursday, February 2
Easley Chess Club

4:00pm
Hampton Memorial Library, Easley

Thursday, Febuary 2
First Thursday Movie
To Be Announced
5:30pm
Village Branch, Pickens

Friday, February 3
Lego Storybuilders

3:30pm
Hampton Memorial Library, Easley

Friday, February 3
New Film Fridays
Abduction
(PG-13)
3:30pm
Hampton Memorial Library, Easley

Saturday, February 4
Yack and Yarn

10:00am
Sarlin Banch, Liberty

Saturday, Febrary 4
Free Family Film
Kung Fu Panda 2
(PG)
11:00am
Central-Clemson Regional Branch

Sunday, February 5
First Sunday Book Sale

2:30pm-4:30pm
Hampton Memorial Library, Easley

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Tax Assistance Available @ Your Library!

Basic income tax filing assistance is available at the Hampton Memorial Library in Easley to anyone in Pickens County earning a household income of under $50,000/year. Trained volunteers from United Way’s VITA program will be available to answer questions and file returns. Assistance is available by appointment only on Thursdays from 9am-8pm. Call 211 to schedule an appointment. And don’t forget that each Pickens County Library System location has state and federal tax forms and instruction booklets available for pick up.

United Way is partnering with Americorps to offer VITA assistance at various other locations throughout Pickens County. For more details, please call 211.

Assistance will be available from Monday, January 23 until Wednesday, April 18.

To make an appointment, you must call 211.

VITA volunteers will be at the Village Branch Library in Pickens on:
Mondays: 11am - 3pm
Tuesdays: 10am - 2pm
Thursdays: 3pm - 7pm
Saturdays: 11am - 3pm
*Walk-ins will be allowed at the Village Branch in Pickens.

VITA volunteers will be at the Hampton Memorial Library in Easley on:
Tuesdays: 4pm - 8pm
Thursdays: 4pm - 8pm
Saturdays: 9:30am - 3:30pm

Habitat for Humanity

The Pickens County Library System staff are partnering with Habitat for Humanity to build an affordable home for a local family in need. You can help!!!

Stop by Mutt's Barbeque in Easley on Tuesday, March 6th from 5-8pm to help us raise money for the Habitat for Humanity House! The library staff will serve customers while Mutt's Restaurant will give the tips plus 10% of sales to the Habitat House!

Mutt's Barbeque Restaurant Website

For more information contact:
Adam Williamson at 850-7077 or
Jennifer Kolesar at 843-5805.

If you would like to make a donation to the Habitat House, please make a check out to Habitat for Humanity and write "Library House" in the memo field. Drop your check off at any library location.

Click here or on the Library Events Photos
for more photographs and house updates!

Thanks in Advance for Your Help!

DVDs Coming Soon

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$<script type="text/javascript">  </script> <body onload="MM_preloadImages('home/images/request_dvd_on.jpg')"> <p class="content"><b>Hugo (PG)</b> After his clockmaker father perishes in a museum fire, Hugo goes to live with his Uncle Claude, a drunkard who maintains the clocks at a Paris train station. When Claude disappears, Hugo carries on his work and fends for himself by stealing food from area merchants. In his free time, he attempts to repair an automaton his father rescued from the museum, while trying to evade the station inspector, a World War I veteran with no sympathy for lawbreakers. When Georges, a toymaker, catches Hugo stealing parts for his mechanical man, he recruits him as an assistant to repay his debt. If Georges is guarded, his open-hearted ward, Isabelle, introduces Hugo to a kindly bookseller, who directs them to a motion-picture museum, where they meet film scholar René. 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In LA, he's taken in by Fred after the out-of-work slacker hits E.B. with his car.</p> <p align="center"><a href=" http://www.pickens.ipac.lib.sc.us/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=K3AH304574483.3823&profile=cc&bibkey=260024&aspect=subtab13&lang=eng&menu=request&submenu=none&source=~!horizon&uri=link%3D3100007~!272487~!3100001~!3100002&time=1328304572884 " onmouseout="MM_swapImgRestore()" onmouseover="MM_swapImage('Image1','','home/images/request_dvd.jpg',1)"><img src="home/images/request_dvd.jpg" alt="Request DVD" name="Image1" width="97" height="23" border="0" id="Image1" /></a></p> <p>$ $<script type="text/javascript">  </script> <body onload="MM_preloadImages('home/images/request_dvd_on.jpg')"> <p class="content"><b>Footloose (PG-13)</b> Big city teen Ren McCormack moves to a quiet little town and discovers that the hard-line minister has outlawed loud music and dancing. But everything changes when Ren decides to challenge the ban, revitalizing the town and falling in love with the minister's rebellious daughter Ariel.</p> <p align="center"><a href=" http://www.pickens.ipac.lib.sc.us/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=K3AH304574483.3823&profile=cc&bibkey=260020&aspect=subtab13&lang=eng&menu=request&submenu=none&source=~!horizon&uri=link%3D3100007~!272483~!3100001~!3100002&time=1328304778905 " onmouseout="MM_swapImgRestore()" onmouseover="MM_swapImage('Image1','','home/images/request_dvd.jpg',1)"><img src="home/images/request_dvd.jpg" alt="Request DVD" name="Image1" width="97" height="23" border="0" id="Image1" /></a></p> <p>$ $<script type="text/javascript">  </script> <body onload="MM_preloadImages('home/images/request_dvd_on.jpg')"> <p class="content"><b>Jack and Jill (PG)</b> Jack Sadelstein, a successful advertising executive in Los Angeles with a beautiful wife and kids, dreads one event each year: the holiday visit of his identical twin sister Jill. Jill's neediness and passive-aggressiveness are maddening to Jack, turning his normally tranquil life upside down. Things spin even more out of control for Jack when Jill decides to extend her visit and he doesn't think that she'll ever leave!</p> <p align="center"><a href=" http://www.pickens.ipac.lib.sc.us/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=K3AH304574483.3823&profile=cc&bibkey=260025&aspect=subtab13&lang=eng&menu=request&submenu=none&source=~!horizon&uri=link%3D3100007~!272488~!3100001~!3100002&time=1328304897831 " onmouseout="MM_swapImgRestore()" onmouseover="MM_swapImage('Image1','','home/images/request_dvd.jpg',1)"><img src="home/images/request_dvd.jpg" alt="Request DVD" name="Image1" width="97" height="23" border="0" id="Image1" /></a></p> <p>$ $<script type="text/javascript">  </script> <body onload="MM_preloadImages('home/images/request_dvd_on.jpg')"> <p class="content"><b>My Week with Marilyn (R)</b> The year was 1956. Colin Clark was an ambitious 23-year-old determined to make a name for himself in film. As summer gets underway, Clark manages to land a position as a production assistant on the film THE PRINCE AND THE SHOWGIRL, starring Marilyn Monroe and Sir Laurence Olivier. Monroe had just gotten married to playwright Arthur Miller, and the newlyweds were on their honeymoon as production got underway. Later, when Miller leaves, young Clark seizes the opportunity to befriend the platinum blonde beauty, and give her a taste of everyday life in England -- far away from the bright lights of Hollywood and the suffocating pressures of fame.</p> <p align="center"><a href=" http://www.pickens.ipac.lib.sc.us/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=K3AH304574483.3823&profile=cc&bibkey=260021&aspect=subtab13&lang=eng&menu=request&submenu=none&source=~!horizon&uri=link%3D3100007~!272484~!3100001~!3100002&time=1328305378856 " onmouseout="MM_swapImgRestore()" onmouseover="MM_swapImage('Image1','','home/images/request_dvd.jpg',1)"><img src="home/images/request_dvd.jpg" alt="Request DVD" name="Image1" width="97" height="23" border="0" id="Image1" /></a></p> <p>$ $<script type="text/javascript">  </script> <body onload="MM_preloadImages('home/images/request_dvd_on.jpg')"> <p class="content"><b>Immortals (R)</b> In this epic tale of vengeance and destiny, power-mad King Hyperion threatens to destroy all of humanity on his maniacal quest to obtain the ultimate weapon, the legendary Epirus Bow that gives the power to unleash war on both Heaven and Earth. But Theseus, a heroic young villager chosen by the gods, rises up to stop Hyperion's brutal rampage. With supernatural help from the beautiful oracle Phaedra, Theseus embraces his destiny and leads a fierce band of warriors in a desperate fight for the future of mankind.</p> <p align="center"><a href=" http://www.pickens.ipac.lib.sc.us/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=P3283F5Q59446.3849&profile=cc&bibkey=260023&aspect=subtab13&lang=eng&menu=request&submenu=none&source=~!horizon&uri=link%3D3100007%7E%21272486%7E%213100001%7E%213100002&time=1328305482816#focus " onmouseout="MM_swapImgRestore()" onmouseover="MM_swapImage('Image1','','home/images/request_dvd.jpg',1)"><img src="home/images/request_dvd.jpg" alt="Request DVD" name="Image1" width="97" height="23" border="0" id="Image1" /></a></p> <p>$ $<script type="text/javascript">  </script> <body onload="MM_preloadImages('home/images/request_dvd_on.jpg')"> <p class="content"><b>J. Edgar (R)</b> Leonardo DiCaprio stars as J. Edgar Hoover, head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation for nearly 50 years. Hoover was feared, admired, reviled and revered, a man who could distort the truth as easily as he upheld it. His methods were at once ruthless and heroic, with the admiration of the world his most coveted prize. But behind closed doors, he held secrets that would have destroyed his image, his career and his life.</p> <p align="center"><a href=" http://www.pickens.ipac.lib.sc.us/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=13F7N340150F5.2453&profile=cc&bibkey=259814&aspect=subtab13&lang=eng&menu=request&submenu=none&source=~!horizon&uri=link%3D3100007~!272191~!3100001~!3100002&time=1327534023781 " onmouseout="MM_swapImgRestore()" onmouseover="MM_swapImage('Image1','','home/images/request_dvd.jpg',1)"><img src="home/images/request_dvd.jpg" alt="Request DVD" name="Image1" width="97" height="23" border="0" id="Image1" /></a></p> <p>$ $<script type="text/javascript">  </script> <body onload="MM_preloadImages('home/images/request_dvd_on.jpg')"> <p class="content"><b>Breaking Dawn (PG-13)</b> In the highly anticipated fourth installment of The Twilight Saga, a marriage, honeymoon and the birth of a child bring unforeseen and shocking developments for Bella and Edward and those they love, including new complications with werewolf Jacob Black. </p> <p align="center"><a href=" http://www.pickens.ipac.lib.sc.us/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=1325OJC500228.3681&profile=cc&bibkey=259356&aspect=subtab13&lang=eng&menu=request&submenu=none&source=~!horizon&uri=link%3D3100007%7E%21271477%7E%213100001%7E%213100002&time=1325954683449#focus " onmouseout="MM_swapImgRestore()" onmouseover="MM_swapImage('Image1','','home/images/request_dvd.jpg',1)"><img src="home/images/request_dvd.jpg" alt="Request DVD" name="Image1" width="97" height="23" border="0" id="Image1" /></a></p> <p>$ $<script type="text/javascript">  </script> <body onload="MM_preloadImages('home/images/request_dvd_on.jpg')"> <p class="content"><b>Puss in Boots (PG)</b> In this fractured fairy tale, Jack and Jill have the magic beans and Humpty Dumpty, with the aid of Kitty Softpaws, convinces his old friend Puss in Boots to help him steal the beans so they can climb the beanstalk to get to the golden eggs. Never mind that Humpty Dumpty and Puss in Boots had a falling out years ago, or that Jack and Jill are completely preoccupied by their squabbling over whether or not to have a child--and regardless that Puss in Boots is a wanted cat who's sworn off his thieving ways, and Kitty Softpaws is a cat burglar who works alone. </p> <p align="center"><a href=" http://www.pickens.ipac.lib.sc.us/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=1325OJC500228.3681&profile=cc&bibkey=259357&aspect=subtab13&lang=eng&menu=request&submenu=none&source=~!horizon&uri=link%3D3100007%7E%21271478%7E%213100001%7E%213100002&time=1325954632855#focus " onmouseout="MM_swapImgRestore()" onmouseover="MM_swapImage('Image1','','home/images/request_dvd.jpg',1)"><img src="home/images/request_dvd.jpg" alt="Request DVD" name="Image1" width="97" height="23" border="0" id="Image1" /></a></p> <p>$ $<script type="text/javascript">  </script> <body onload="MM_preloadImages('home/images/request_dvd_on.jpg')"> <p class="content"><b>Tower Heist (PG-13)</b> Josh Kovacs manages a super-high-tech high-rise in the middle of Manhattan, catering to every need of the tower's residents, including financier Arthur Shaw. When Shaw gets arrested by the FBI, Kovacs realizes that his staff's pensions, which he asked Shaw to invest, are lost, and when it looks like Shaw is going to get away with it, Kovacs pulls together a mismatched team to steal the secret stash of cash that the FBI suspects Shaw must have. </p> <p align="center"><a href=" http://www.pickens.ipac.lib.sc.us/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=1325OJC500228.3681&profile=cc&bibkey=259358&aspect=subtab13&lang=eng&menu=request&submenu=none&source=~!horizon&uri=link%3D3100007%7E%21271479%7E%213100001%7E%213100002&time=1325954581496#focus " onmouseout="MM_swapImgRestore()" onmouseover="MM_swapImage('Image1','','home/images/request_dvd.jpg',1)"><img src="home/images/request_dvd.jpg" alt="Request DVD" name="Image1" width="97" height="23" border="0" id="Image1" /></a></p> <p>$ $<script type="text/javascript">  </script> <body onload="MM_preloadImages('home/images/request_dvd_on.jpg')"> <p class="content"><b>The Rum Diary (R)</b> Tiring of the noise and madness of New York and the crushing conventions of late Eisenhower-era America, journalist Paul Kemp travels to the pristine island of Puerto Rico to write for a local newspaper, The San Juan Star, run by downtrodden editor Lotterman. Adopting the rum-soaked life of the island, Paul soon becomes obsessed with Chenault, the wildly attractive Connecticut-born fiance of Sanderson. Sanderson, a businessman involved in shady property development deals, is one of a growing number of American entrepreneurs who are determined to convert Puerto Rico into a capitalist paradise in service of the wealthy. When Kemp is recruited by Sanderson to write favorably about his latest unsavory scheme, the journalist is presented with a choice: to use his words for the corrupt businessmen's financial benefit, or use them to take him down.</p> <p align="center"><a href=" http://www.pickens.ipac.lib.sc.us/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=1325OJC500228.3681&profile=cc&bibkey=259359&aspect=subtab13&lang=eng&menu=request&submenu=none&source=~!horizon&uri=link%3D3100007%7E%21271480%7E%213100001%7E%213100002&time=1325954524058#focus " onmouseout="MM_swapImgRestore()" onmouseover="MM_swapImage('Image1','','home/images/request_dvd.jpg',1)"><img src="home/images/request_dvd.jpg" alt="Request DVD" name="Image1" width="97" height="23" border="0" id="Image1" /></a></p> <p>$

Books Coming Soon

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Find the Book Discussion for You!

Ever wanted to run away and join the circus? Enjoy debating how far one should go to try and save a child? Rather stay close to home with a good mystery? Just want to tell someone about the great book you read over the holidays? If you answered yes to any of these, the Pickens County Library System has the book discussion group for you! If you have a particular selection you would like to see us offer in the coming months, just email us.

Easley Book Club
Fourth Tuesday, 7:00 pm
Wednesday, January 24
The Paperboy
by Pete Dexter

Central-Clemson Book Club
First Wednesday at 7:00 pm
Wednesday, January 4
The Elegance of the Hedgehog
by Muriel Barbery

Pickens Book Club
Third Tuesday at 10:00 am
Tuesday, January 17
Sing You Home
by Jodi Picoult

Liberty Fantasy Forum
Third Tuesday, 1:00 pm
Tuesday, January 17
Discuss your favorite fantasy/paranormal books and learn about new authors and titles. Light refreshments provided.

Pickens Book Banter
First Monday, 11:00 am
Due to the New Year's Holiday,
the January Pickens Book Banter will meet on the second Monday
Monday, January 9
Bring whatever you're reading to this open discussion of fiction!

Don't Forget to "Like" Us on Facebook!

Go to Facebook.com, search for the Pickens County Library System and you'll see our multi-colored reading figure logo. By "liking" us, you can easily stay informed about upcoming events and activities, check our computer class schedule, look up branch locations and hours of operation, join in discussions with other library users, and much more!

Library Newsletter

Read our newsletter and learn about the special events at the Hampton Memorial Library and branches.

January/February Newsletter

Subscribe to our newsletter and keep current with the Pickens County Library System programs and upcoming events! Just send an e-mail to the following address with "Newsletter" in the subject line. We will deliver future library newsletters to your e-mail address!

reference@pickens.lib.sc.us

Historical Photographs

Pickens County Library System Photographs
that are Tagged "Disasters"

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These are a few images which can be viewed in the library's historical photo collection. To see more, click the Flickr link to access our historical photo website.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/pcls

Do you have any old (or even not-so-old) photographs of Pickens County people or places? We would like to take a look and consider them for our collection. Generally, we are looking for pre-1980 photos of schools, churches, historic homes, prominent persons, public events and commercial and government buildings. You do NOT have to donate your photos. We can return them after they have been scanned. Also, any information about the photo is especially helpful. We have several unidentified photos in our Flickr collection, so play detective with us!

Check Your Attic!

The Library System and the State Archives are missing the following years of our local papers. If you have any old newspapers, please consider donating them to the library to fill the gap for our researchers.

Easley Progress: 1907-1920
Pickens Sentinel: 1894-1903 and 1919-1921

If you have comments or suggestions concerning the library website, please contact us at

reference@pickens.lib.sc.us