Check out the flyer for our upcoming program:

Knowledge is in the air and some students from Kennedy Charter School has began working on a school project! Check them out here:

WBL is offering teens the opportunity to participate in our Financial Future series. The Series began back in August and there have been four workshops where Cornelius Smith facilitates. Cornelius is the owner of the non-profit organization Nauglobal where he teaches underprivileged children and teens how to become excited about the prospect of becoming business owners; he tries to instill a good knowledge of credit and business to teenagers.

West Boulevard has pulled in alot of teens to this series and we have passed our goal of participation for this program! The teens have enjoyed this program and are learning a lot about credit and becoming entrepreneurs!

Cornelius Smith

Passing our partcipation goal!

WBL knows how to finish off Summer Reading with a BANG! Every year we have put on a party for our summer reading participants! There’s always food, fun, and entertainment. This year was slightly different and equally entertaining!

Of course, we invited our good friend Ray from Parks and Rec to join us in wrapping up our summer reading program!

Not only did Ray visit us, we had the DJ stylings of DJ Infinite spinning records and keeping the kids active!

We also played a pop culture trivia game, just for fun and the kids went crazy over the subjects!

We also had a performance by Oasis Performing Arts School do 2 skits to entertain us!

We topped all of this fun off with some snacks!

We enjoyed the planning the Blowout and we hope that you all enjoyed it! Oh my….we have to hurry and get to planning next summer’s blowout!

Be Creative was the theme for this year’s summer reading program and we had plenty of fun being just that– CREATIVE! The children and teens that were involved were encouraged to use any and every avenue of creativity in our programs!

Here at WBL, we had a wonderful Teen Volunteer and two Summer Mayor Interns to help us present the best possible programs!

Below are some pictures from our programs:

The library was proud to have famed nursery rhyme rapper Father Goose for storytime with a group of more than 50 children there to enjoy the sounds and beats of Father Goose! Check out some photos and video from his performance below:

Children's rapper, Father Goose

Checkout our Children and Teen programs for this Summer and join us year round for awesome programming!

Most recently, our branch has hosted a series of the arts from Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools students!

We were excited to display the artwork of Harding University High School Art I and II students. These students did a tremendous job and displaying their artwork was an honor!

We also had band performances by Garinger High School:

and we also heard from the Wilson Middle School Band:

Welcome to the Thompson’s Child Development Center! They are located right across the street from the West Boulevard Library and we welcome them! Below are some photos taken at the Grand Opening held on March 7, 2009:

Ms. Sylvia, our Young Adult Librarian set off the fall season with a professional Cartoonist to come in and aid the Teens in comic book drawing!

Farewell Danielle! In October, we said goodbye to our CHildren’s Librarian. Daniell was with us for over a year and she made a big impact while at West Boulevard Library. She will be missed! Below are pictures from her going away party: