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The Philipsburg Jubilee Library, with Writers Unlimited and Nederlands Letterenfonds [Dutch Foundation for Literature], presents the International Literary Festival “Crossing the Seas” to be held on April 15, 2012, at 4pm at Philipsburg Cultural and Community Center on Backstreet

The Philipsburg Jubilee library will be closed on the following dates

Wednesday coming April 4th, 2012 the library will be hosting a storytelling workshop.
Mrs Manisha Baharani will conduct a special workshop for parents and caregivers about the importance of teaching with music, which would lead up to playtime and learning time.

Academy has done it again!!!! Tonight, Cookie Lilawatee walked away with the top prize in the Readers Are Leaders program. Congrats and enjoy your new laptop. Also carting away a laptop was Jenice Forbes .

She was nominated because of her exemplary academic performance and outstanding poetry skills.

On April 7th 2012 10:00 - 12:00 pm



age: toddlers to 10 years
It’s that time of the year again
so hop on over or even run, we’re having an Easter egg hunt that will be lots of fun

As part of our RBC’s rebranding on Monday 19 March 2012 we were please to be the recipient of $1000 of their community donations. Special mention of interest for RBC was our Readers are Leaders Project which is a possible through a collaborative effort of The Rotary Club of St. Martin Sunrise

Help your children start the Library Tradition Early!
Join us from 11.00 am - 12.00 pm at the Philipsburg Jubilee Library in our Story Corner for stories & activities geared to children 5 – 12 years.
The story hour will be on Saturday March 24th 2012

On Thursday, March 8, independent Member of Parliament (MP) Patrick Illidge made good on a promise to deliver five more computers to Philipsburg Jubilee Library, for a grand total of 10. The additional five computers were made possible through a donation by Diageo Company

On Saturday March 17th at 11.00 pm Children’s book writers Elle and Erik will visit the Philipsburg Jubilee Library to read from their books Elle and Erik have been writing children’s books together since 1990. They also write songs, rhymes and lyrics for magazines. They have a daughter, Anna (1990) and a son, Lot (1992);

We’d like to thank the community for making the March 3rd book sale a success. With the sale we made a total of Naf.754,25.