News

The Philipsburg Jubilee Library is pleased to announce that applications for the 2020 Literacy Campaign are steadily coming in.

To accommodate the request of some students and school managers PJL have decided to extend the deadline from May 15th to May 29th, 2020.

It is with great excitement and based on the commitment of the program manager and staff I bring you the good news of the re-launching of PJL Story Time. The story time will be aired two times a week on PJL website: stmaartenlibrary.org and on PJL Facebook:stmaartenpjlibrary, on Wednesdays and Saturdays.

In response to COVID-19 mandates, teachers, students, and librarians globally are being forced to transition to an online environment, like many schools, libraries, and universities are going through this process.

The world-wide coronavirus outbreak is impacting us all. Most important in PJL literacy consciousness is, to know-how are our Sint Maarten’s children and youngsters experiencing the coronavirus crisis? It goes without saying, that their world has changed drastically by school closure, by social distancing, distance learning, zoom, and other types
of online meetings, restricted physical encounters,

PJL Director and Staff would like to encourage members and prospective members to join us today and celebrate World Book and Copyright Day.

The ability to read is a treasured asset in your development. We are therefore via this medium asking you to put aside at least 15 - 30 minutes a day to read a book, a newspaper article, a magazine or any other form of literature.

PJL Management hereby informs its members and prospective members that due to the Covid-19 pandemic the library is closed. Therefore you are strongly recommended and encouraged to utilize this period to make full use of PJL
digital service, to access the digital collection with your membership code.

The Philipsburg Jubilee Library will temporarily close its doors as of Wednesday, March 18, 2020,
Wednesday, April 1, 2020. The decision was made by the PJL Board of the pandemic worldwide.

There is always something to do at the Philipsburg Jubilee Library. After the successful Black history observance month, the PJL launches its theme for the month of March: Digital reading. On Thursday, March 12 and 26, 2020, between 6.30 pm and 7.30 pm our toddlers will be surprised with e-book reading sessions. On both events, Mrs. Millicent de Weever will be reading children’s e-books for our young ones (2 to 5 years old).

On Wednesday, February 12th , 2020, Dr. Tasheena
Maccow- Thomas presented the Power of Knowledge Series segment of the Black History
Month under the theme” Passing On Our Legacy” of the Philipsburg Jubilee Library activities.

The annual Black History Observance month starts on February 1 st , 2020. It began as a way of
remembering important people and events in the history of the African diaspora. Black History month is
a time to reflect on what it means to be an African descendant. It is also a time to reflect back on the
activists and organizers of the past who fought for racial equality for everyone.