The Navarre Library is located on James M. Harvell Road
east of State Road 87 and north of the Senior Center

LIBRARY SYSTEM PHONE: 850-981-READ (7323)
To reach Navarre library, call that number, then dial 8016
LIBRARY HOURS:
Monday-Wednesday 10 a.m.-6 p.m.
Thursday 9 a.m.-1 p.m.
Friday 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
Saturday 9 a.m.-1 p.m.
Member of Santa Rosa County Library System

Upcoming holidays (library closed)
Friday and Saturday, April 6-7 Good Friday
Monday, May 28, Memorial Day
Wednesday, July 4, Independence Day

FONL MAILING
ADDRESS
PO Box 5268
Navarre FL 32566

FRAN ROESCH
BOOKSTORE HOURS
Mon.-Wed.
10 a.m.-4 p.m.
Thu. 9 a.m.-1 p.m.
Fri. 9 a.m.-3 p.m.
Sat. 9 a.m.-1 p.m.

FONL Calendar
(Please click this link to see our calendar)

           LEAP



    into February

Get a jump on your reading next month. All books will be half price in the bookstore during February! You'll love it! 

Santa Rosa County has declared February to be "Love Your Library" month. It suggests joining a Friends group to express that love and to help the library community. Click here to read about the suggestion. Of course, the FONL recommends joining our group.
     
Artist exhibit
Mary Moon of Navarre exhibits a variety of artwork in the library through mid January. Moon is trained in photography, gilding, glazing and a variety of texturing and aging techniques. She also has created amusing driftwood artwork. For more information about her offerings, call her at 936-6637, or email
clubspringdale@webtv.net.


DISPLAY CASE
What are your resolutions for 2012? See a sample of books on many of the common resolutions.
  

Pick up a book bag with the new FONL logo in the Fran Roesch Bookstore. $2.

T-SHIRTS
ON SALE
We have a limited supply of blue t-shirts with the new FONL logo at the bookstore. Cost is $18. 


To explore authors and their works, click here.


The FONL board of directors meets at 5:30 p.m. on the second Monday of each month. Meetings are open to all members and the public. Board meetings will not be held in November and December. The next meeting is February 13.

    OUR MISSION
To promote interest in, use of, and public support for the library and to volunteer time and resources to help provide high-quality library services, books and materials for our community.

Membership renewals due: please go to Join Us page 

Crowe discusses Navarre founder before record crowd



Libbi Crowe (inset above), local geneologist and history buff, talked about the colorful founder of Navarre, Guy H Wyman, to the year's first meeting of the Lore, Legends and Learning @ the Library Tuesday, Jan. 31. The program attracted an all-time record of 68 listeners, largest in the four-year history of the program.

Crowe reviewed Wyman's four wives and his history as a soldier and surveyor. Crowe said that while Wyman generally is called "Colonel" in various reports, he was a major when he was forced out of the U.S. Army during a court-martial.

The program is part of the free Lore, Legends and Learning series at the Library is sponsored by the Friends of the Navarre Library at 5:30 p.m. on the last Tuesday of each month through October. It presents a variety of topics to the public. Reservations are not required.


Part of a record crowd waits to hear Libbi Crowe speak about the founder of Navarre.

New library director appointed to permanent position



Bernice (Gwen) Wilson, who has been interim library director for Santa Rosa County for about eight months, was appointed full-time director Thursday, Jan. 26, by the Board of County Commissioners.

Wilson succeeded Linda Hendrix, the county’s first library director, on an interim basis in July 2011.

Before stepping into the director’s office, Wilson was manager of the Milton Library. Previously she was a volunteer and employee at Navarre. She has masters degrees in human relations and library science.

As director, she will oversee the Santa Rosa County Library System and its five libraries in Navarre, Gulf Breeze, Milton, Pace and Jay.

Digitized at the library



Natasha Godwin, Special Services Coordinator of the Santa Rosa County Library System, oversees digital services available, including many of the databases, to card holders from their home computer. Godwin spoke to the Lore, Legends and Learning at the Library on Tuesday, Oct. 25. The popular informational series, free to the public, convenes on the last Tuesday of each month January through October. 


Wilson visits Navarre Friends
  
               
Gwen Wilson (above center), interim Santa Rosa County library director, met the Friends of Navarre Library Monday, Aug. 8. In the picture are Patt Stewart (left), FONL president, and Susan Cook, Navarre Library manager.

Wilson has masters degrees in human relations and library science. She was a volunteer and employee at Navarre before becoming the library manager of the Milton Library.