Book display in honor of American writers born in March.
 Library users are often overwhelmed trying to choose from the huge selection of books filling the shelves. Libraries that feature books in displays help overcome that problem. The potential reader has a manageable selection to browse through. We are trying to help our readers to make right choise and stay with books as long as it possible.

March is Nationa Nutrition Month in US. Come and borrow a book which will help you to stay younger and healthy!
March is National Nutrition Month. According to the American Dietetic Association, National Nutrition Month was introduced in 1973 as National Nutrition Week and was expanded to a full month in 1980. Nutrition is important to good health, and good health is linked to academic success.

With March comes some wonderful Celebrations that we are honoring with our Book Displays. Two of our book displays will be in honor of Women's History Month which is March.
This time American Library staff prepared two book displays - Celebrating Women's achievements and Woman in Fiction. Come anf feel free to pick up serious or non serious book!

AFRICAN AMERICAN ACHIEVEMENTS

These are the first black Americans to realize pioneering achievements in their fields. With talent and determination, each one has reinvented not only what it means to be an African American, but also what it means to be an American. Our book dislplay is dedicated to the first African Americans to overcome the obstacles of discrimination and achieve top honors in their fields of endeavor.

BLACK HISTORY MONTH:LITEREATURE AND ARTS

This book display was prepared by American Library staff to highlight some of literature and art of the African-American experience. As it is Black History Month, we offer you to reed the following books.

JOHN ERNST STEINBECK, JR

This February we celebrate 111 th birthday of John Ernst Steinbeck, Jr. (February 27, 1902 – December 20, 1968) He is widely known for the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Grapes of Wrath (1939) and East of Eden (1952) and the novella Of Mice and Men (1937). As the author of twenty-seven books, including sixteen novels, six non-fiction books, and five collections of short stories, Steinbeck received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962.

Remembering Maratin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr. goes down in history as one of the principal leader of the civil rights movement in the United States and a prominent advocate of nonviolent protest. King's challenges to segregation and racial discrimination helped convince many white Americans to support the cause of civil rights in the United States.

King was born in Atlanta, Georgia, and was ordained as a Baptist minister at age 18. He graduated from Morehouse College in 1948 and from Crozer Theological Seminary in 1951. In 1955 he earned a doctoral degree in systematic theology from Boston University. While in Boston, King met Coretta Scott, whom he married in 1953.

In 1954 King accepted his first pastorate at the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. Montgomery's black community had long-standing grievances about the mistreatment of blacks on city buses. Heading the year-long bus-boycott against segregation in buses, King soon became a national figure.

In 1957 King helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), an organization of black churches and ministers that aimed to challenge racial segregation. King and other SCLC leaders encouraged the use of nonviolent marches, demonstrations, and boycotts to protest discrimination.

King and other black leaders organized the 1963 March on Washington, a massive protest in Washington, D.C., for jobs and civil rights. King delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech to an audience of more than 200,000 civil rights supporters. The speech and the march created the political momentum that resulted in the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibited segregation in public accommodations and discrimination in education and employment. As a result of King's effective leadership, he was awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize for peace.

Throughout 1966 and 1967 King increasingly turned the focus of his activism to the redistribution of the nation's economic wealth to overcome entrenched black poverty. In the spring of 1968 he went to Memphis, Tennessee, to support striking black garbage workers. King was assassinated in Memphis on April 4, 1968

American Library staff prepared the book display Remembering Maratin Luther King Jr. Everyone is wellcome to see and to boroww some book about great American leader.

Native American Heritage Month

Native American Heritage Month is observed every November in the United States. Learn about the history of American Indian Heritage Month, read biographies of famous American Indians, try our quizzes and crosswords, find stats and facts about tribes and reservations, and more.

American Library staff prepared the book display dedicated to this ivent.

Election 2012 Book Display

The 2012 United States presidential election is scheduled to be held on Tuesday, November 6, 2012. It will be the 57th quadrennial presidential election in which presidential electors, who will officially elect the president and the vice president of the United States on December 17, 2012, will be chosen.

American Library staff prepared the book display dedicated to upcoming elections.

Banned Books Week 2012

Banned Books Week: Celebrating the Freedom to Read.

Every year since 1982 the last week of September is BBW.
Banned Books Week was started in response to a sudden surge in the number of challenges to books in schools, bookstores and libraries.
We hope to remind people that the ability to read, speak, think and express ourselves freely is a right, not a privilege. It’s important to recognize that book banning does exist in this day and age.

American Library in Kyiv invites its patrons to borrow some items from Banned Books Display. It's interesting to discover why The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn or Gone with the Wind are banned.

Inaugurated by the Academy of American Poets in 1996, National Poetry Month is now held every April, when publishers, booksellers, literary organizations, libraries, schools and poets around the country band together to celebrate poetry and its vital place in American culture. Come on all poetry lovers and non-lovers and don't forget to borrow some remedy for your soul.