Bedford Public Library System

Our Montvale Library is hiring for a part-time (13 hours per week) Library Assistant 2 position for Tuesdays, Thursdays, and alternating Saturday Mornings.

For details about the position requirements, please visit our website: https://www.bplsonline.org/about/employment/.

Applications are available at all BPLS locations or online - https://secure7.saashr.com/ta/6153260.careers?CareersSearch=&lang=en-US.

No plans tomorrow (Saturday, July 11th)? There are still spots available in the Unearth Felt Geode Coasters program, being held at the Moneta/SML Library from 10:30 AM to 12:30 PM. Come turn scraps of felt into beautiful "geode-like" coasters to help protect your tables from hot or cold beverages. This program is open to teens and adults 13 and up. All of the materials will be provided.

https://bedford.librarycalendar.com/event/unearth-felt-geode-coasters-79802

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Today is Friday, so that means it's time for a new Friday Facebook Freebie Advanced Reader Copy giveaway prompt!

You are going on a summer trip with the AUTHOR OF THE LAST BOOK YOU FINISHED READING to the SETTING OF THE BOOK YOU ARE CURRENTLY READING! Where are you going and who is your travel buddy? Comment below.

Entries should be posted by 11:59 PM on Thursday, July 16th.
Rules for the Library giveaway:
1. Must Like/Follow BPLS on Facebook.
2. Books being given away are mostly Advance Reader Copies (ARCs), which often include errors, and the books cannot be given back to us or sold.
3. Winners should be Bedford County or a surrounding county/city resident - Lynchburg, Campbell, Botetourt, Roanoke, Amherst, Pittsylvania, Rockbridge, or Franklin.
4. Winners will be announced in a special post on Facebook and notified via Facebook Messenger on the Friday following each giveaway with a list of titles to choose from. Winners can then select which of our branches they would like to pick up their prize from.
5. We will NEVER ASK YOU for any credit card information OR announce the winner(s) by commenting directly on your original entry.
6. If you are a winner and DO NOT receive a message from us within 24 hours, please email our Digital Services Associate, Cynthia Stowell - [email protected].

All of us at the Bedford Public Library System want to take a minute to thank this year's performers and outside program presenters who put on some AMAZING events at our libraries this summer! Thank you so much to...

- Chris & Neal, the Rockstar Magicians
- Mill Mountain Theatre
- Bright Star Theatre
- The Larsen Family and their Reptiles
- Kelsey Laubauch from 4-H Youth Development
- The Bower Center for the Arts for their part in Dino Day
- Invent the Summer
- The Roanoke Valley Mineral and Gem Society
- Smith Mountain Lake Mosaics

AND a pre-emptive THANK YOU to the Science Museum of Western Virginia, who will be coming around to all of our libraries next week (July 15th-July 17th) to talk about and showcase FOSSILS! Spots are still available at all of our locations (except for Forest), so sign up now...https://bedford.librarycalendar.com/events/month/2026/07?keywords=The%20Fossil%20Files&private=no.

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