Events at this location

Come to the Library to buy some new to you books for cheap, cheap, cheap! Support the Anastasia Island Friends of the Library by stopping in at our Book Sale. Books of all kinds and items such CDs will be available for a steal! They will have $1 and $2 items for sale!  Sale items are located in the meeting room.  Sale entrance is on the East side of the Anastasia Library by the planter. All money raised goes to support the Library and programs.  While you are at the Library, don’t forget to stop to check out the Friends Spring Basket Silent Auction!

Join us at Anastasia Island Library for a bit of mid-week meditation. Nancy is an Intuitive Healer specializing on releasing blocks, rebalancing and immersing the body with the Angelic and Universe energies. As a certified Usui Reiki Master with Advanced Symbols, focus is on the body, aura and chakras to remove blocks, cords, trauma, disease, ancestral contracts, old guides and outdated programming.

Contact lgoode@sjcfl.us or 904-209-3730 for more information.

Join Ms. Nicole in the Anastasia Library or via Zoom for our Wings of Fire Book Club! Kids, grades 3-6, can join us for this popular book series. We will have book trivia, discussions and hands on activities and weekly challenges! Registration is required as supplies are limited.   No registration necessary.  If interested in attending via zoom, email njebbia@sjcfl.us. Sponsored by the Friends of the Library.
September = The Hive Queen
October = The Poison Jungle

Anastasia Island Crafters are upcycling wine corks into rustic and wonderful drink coasters. Make a set of four coasters for yourself or a friend, or if you prefer to make a wine cork message board we have those supplies too!

If all spaces are taken, please still RSVP for the wait list as we do try our best to make sure everyone can come and enjoy.

All supplies are generously provided by the Friends of the Anastasia Island Branch Library.

Teens and adults can come into the Anastasia Library to solve a twisted fairytale murder mystery: Lady Treville and one of her daughters are found stabbed in the royal gardens by a glass slipper. The prime suspect is the mistreated stepdaughter Cinderella – she had motive and opportunity. Could it be that simple? Sign up online at www. sjcpls.org

Join us for an our Bilingual Little Ones Class in the Anastasia Library! Young children and their caretakers can join Ms. Nicole in a storytime featuring engaging stories, songs, and finger plays in both English and Spanish. Space is limited in the kids area of the branch, so please leave your strollers outside the library.  Please email njebbia@sjcfl.us with any questions.

Craft time is open to all children and focuses on teaching scissor, glue, and coloring skills.

Join us for an our Todder/PreSchool Craft in the Anastasia Library Event Room. Children of all ages and abilities are welcome at this craft time. Each week we will work on different skills for children to develop, including scissor skills, fine motor skills, gluing, exploration and others. Materials are generously provided by the Friends of the Library.

Join us for an our Bilingual Little Ones Class in the Anastasia Library! Young children and their caretakers can join Ms. Nicole in a storytime featuring engaging stories, songs, and finger plays in both English and Spanish. Space is limited in the kids area of the branch, so please leave your strollers outside the library.  Please email njebbia@sjcfl.us with any questions. No preregistration necessary.

Kids Crafts are open to all children ages 2-8 and focuses on teaching scissor, glue, and coloring skills.  Every week we will have a different craft out for kids to make.  Each week we will work on different skills for children to develop, including scissor skills, fine motor skills, gluing, exploration and others. Materials are generously provided by the Friends of the Library.

Join us at Anastasia Island Library for a bit of mid-week meditation. Nancy is an Intuitive Healer specializing on releasing blocks, rebalancing and immersing the body with the Angelic and Universe energies. As a certified Usui Reiki Master with Advanced Symbols, focus is on the body, aura and chakras to remove blocks, cords, trauma, disease, ancestral contracts, old guides and outdated programming.

Contact lgoode@sjcfl.us or 904-209-3730 for more information.

This class if for youth grades K-5 who can come into the library to gain hands on experience with our OSMO kits. OSMO kits are a play based learning system using iPads along with different educational components.  We will have just added onto our kits to include coding and drawing OSMO in addition to words, tanagrams, and numbers. Families can play as a group too! OSMO kits are limited, so register early!

Welcome back! This month we are reading and discussing Emily Henry’s People We Meet On Vacation. Read what others are saying:

“What Henry is especially skilled at is writing dialogue. The banter between Poppy and Alex is so natural, quick and witty that it would make Shonda Rhimes do a slow clap.”
—The Associated Press

“Beach Read fans, assemble. Emily Henry is back with another smart, steamy romance….Warning: you will feel all the feels. And probably shed a few tears.”
—The Skimm

“The strength of People We Meet on Vacation [is] the clever observations, the dialogue (which is laugh-out-loud funny) and, most particularly, the characters. Funny and fumbling and lovable, they’re most decidedly worth the trip.”
—The Wall Street Journal

“A delightful love story full of hilarious one-liners and winking asides, making it the perfect poolside companion.”
—Real Simple

“Emily Henry is my newest automatic-buy author, and People We Meet on Vacation is the perfect getaway: a heartfelt, funny, tender escape that you wish could last forever.”
—Jodi Picoult, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Two Ways

For the convenience of all, this title will be discussed at both the morning and evening book club. Please join us for some fun, socialization and just all-around good time!

Join us for an our Bilingual Little Ones Class in the Anastasia Library! Young children and their caretakers can join Ms. Nicole in a storytime featuring engaging stories, songs, and finger plays in both English and Spanish. Space is limited in the kids area of the branch, so please leave your strollers outside the library.  Please email njebbia@sjcfl.us with any questions.

Craft time is open to all children and focuses on teaching scissor, glue, and coloring skills.

Join us for an our Todder/PreSchool Craft in the Anastasia Library Event Room. Children of all ages and abilities are welcome at this craft time. Each week we will work on different skills for children to develop, including scissor skills, fine motor skills, gluing, exploration and others. Materials are generously provided by the Friends of the Library.

Join us for an our Bilingual Little Ones Class in the Anastasia Library! Young children and their caretakers can join Ms. Nicole in a storytime featuring engaging stories, songs, and finger plays in both English and Spanish. Space is limited in the kids area of the branch, so please leave your strollers outside the library.  Please email njebbia@sjcfl.us with any questions. No preregistration necessary.

Kids Crafts are open to all children ages 2-8 and focuses on teaching scissor, glue, and coloring skills.  Every week we will have a different craft out for kids to make.  Each week we will work on different skills for children to develop, including scissor skills, fine motor skills, gluing, exploration and others. Materials are generously provided by the Friends of the Library.

Abhishek and Lakshmi of Heartfulness Meditation are looking forward to seeing you all again and teaching you the practice of meditation that can help reduce stress and negativity, while building on being present and increasing patience and tolerance.

Join us at Anastasia Island Library for a bit of mid-week meditation. Nancy is an Intuitive Healer specializing on releasing blocks, rebalancing and immersing the body with the Angelic and Universe energies. As a certified Usui Reiki Master with Advanced Symbols, focus is on the body, aura and chakras to remove blocks, cords, trauma, disease, ancestral contracts, old guides and outdated programming.

Contact lgoode@sjcfl.us or 904-209-3730 for more information.

Don’t be frightened! It’s only a donut! Kids and tweens will have fun creating their own scary treats and crafts in this spooktacularly delicious program. Parents, we did not forget you …. we will have our S’Mores grill all set for you to join in the fun too!

Join Ms. Nicole in the Anastasia Library or via Zoom for our Wings of Fire Book Club! Kids, grades 3-6, can join us for this popular book series. We will have book trivia, discussions and hands on activities and weekly challenges! Registration is required as supplies are limited.   No registration necessary.  If interested in attending via zoom, email njebbia@sjcfl.us. Sponsored by the Friends of the Library.
September = The Hive Queen
October = The Poison Jungle

Join us for an our Bilingual Little Ones Class in the Anastasia Library! Young children and their caretakers can join Ms. Nicole in a storytime featuring engaging stories, songs, and finger plays in both English and Spanish. Space is limited in the kids area of the branch, so please leave your strollers outside the library.  Please email njebbia@sjcfl.us with any questions.

Craft time is open to all children and focuses on teaching scissor, glue, and coloring skills.

Join us for an our Todder/PreSchool Craft in the Anastasia Library Event Room. Children of all ages and abilities are welcome at this craft time. Each week we will work on different skills for children to develop, including scissor skills, fine motor skills, gluing, exploration and others. Materials are generously provided by the Friends of the Library.

Join us for an our Bilingual Little Ones Class in the Anastasia Library! Young children and their caretakers can join Ms. Nicole in a storytime featuring engaging stories, songs, and finger plays in both English and Spanish. Space is limited in the kids area of the branch, so please leave your strollers outside the library.  Please email njebbia@sjcfl.us with any questions. No preregistration necessary.

Kids Crafts are open to all children ages 2-8 and focuses on teaching scissor, glue, and coloring skills.  Every week we will have a different craft out for kids to make.  Each week we will work on different skills for children to develop, including scissor skills, fine motor skills, gluing, exploration and others. Materials are generously provided by the Friends of the Library.

Join us at Anastasia Island Library for a bit of mid-week meditation. Nancy is an Intuitive Healer specializing on releasing blocks, rebalancing and immersing the body with the Angelic and Universe energies. As a certified Usui Reiki Master with Advanced Symbols, focus is on the body, aura and chakras to remove blocks, cords, trauma, disease, ancestral contracts, old guides and outdated programming.

Contact lgoode@sjcfl.us or 904-209-3730 for more information.

Adults, teens and kids are welcome to come in for our drop-in crafternoon! We will be celebrating fall with a fun yarn pumpkin.
Do you have a project you just need to borrow a tool to complete or take it to the next level? We will also have out our sewing machines, die cut and cricut for you to use! What ‘s the catch? You need to bring your own supplies to use with our tools and shirts or clothes to tie die with our die!

Welcome to an in-person I Love Julia program! Julia Child has inspired many of us and this month we have Dave and Martha Hall of beeaugustine.com talking to us about bees and honey. They have six Apiaries around St. Johns County and each yields a unique honey depending on its location.  This honey will be used in place of sugar as we make pumpkin spice cookies and pumpkin spice cream cheese icing! Delish! We will also have Pain D’Epices (space cake) as our featured Julia recipe.

Chez Bibliotheque will open at 10:45 a.m. For more information, please contact lgoode@sjcfl.us or 904-209-3730.

Supplies are generously provided by Dave and Martha Hall and The Friends of the Anastasia Island Branch Library.

Join Timber Hawkeye, bestselling author of Buddhist Boot Camp, Faithfully Religionless, and The Opposite of Namaste, for a free book talk, discussion, and Q&A. Discover the benefits of mindfully living at peace with the world (both within and around us). Mindfulness doesn’t make other people less irritating; it makes us less irritable. It’s not about living in a bubble where nobody pushes your buttons, it’s about getting to a point where you don’t have any buttons that can be pushed. His books and the Buddhist Boot Camp Podcast offer a secular and non-sectarian mindfulness practice to be at peace with the world (both within and around us).
His intention is to awaken, enlighten, enrich, and inspire.

Everyone is welcome, but space is limited. First come, first seated.  Doors will open at 1:15 p.m.

Join the Anastasia and Southeast Libraries out front of the St. Augustine Beach Police for some trick-or-treating, games, firetruck visit and more! Don’t forget to wear your costumes! This is a free event sponsored by the SABPD and Friends of the Libraries.

Join us for an our Bilingual Little Ones Class in the Anastasia Library! Young children and their caretakers can join Ms. Nicole in a storytime featuring engaging stories, songs, and finger plays in both English and Spanish. Space is limited in the kids area of the branch, so please leave your strollers outside the library.  Please email njebbia@sjcfl.us with any questions.

Craft time is open to all children and focuses on teaching scissor, glue, and coloring skills.

Join us for an our Todder/PreSchool Craft in the Anastasia Library Event Room. Children of all ages and abilities are welcome at this craft time. Each week we will work on different skills for children to develop, including scissor skills, fine motor skills, gluing, exploration and others. Materials are generously provided by the Friends of the Library.

Join us for an our Bilingual Little Ones Class in the Anastasia Library! Young children and their caretakers can join Ms. Nicole in a storytime featuring engaging stories, songs, and finger plays in both English and Spanish. Space is limited in the kids area of the branch, so please leave your strollers outside the library.  Please email njebbia@sjcfl.us with any questions. No preregistration necessary.

Welcome back! This month we are reading and discussing Will Harlan’s Untamed: The Wildest Woman in American and the Fight for Cumberland Island.  If you enjoyed Where The Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens, you will surely enjoy this true account. Read what others are saying:

“Vivid. . . . Ms. Ruckdeschel’s biography, and the way this wandering soul came to settle for so many decades on Cumberland Island, is big enough on its own, but Mr. Harlan hints at bigger questions. Who does this island belong to? The Park Service, the Carnegies, Carol—and, for that matter, the turtles? What is the difference between stewardship and ownership? Carol Ruckdeschel found a home as the latest in a series of women who have tried to protect Cumberland Island. The difference being that, rather than being a Carnegie, she is a benevolent invasive species of one.”—Wall Street Journal

“Harlan intimately and expansively profiles a fearless Southern island dweller. . . . A moving homage and an adventure story that artfully articulates the ferocities of nature and humanity.”—Kirkus Reviews

“Deliciously engrossing. . . . Readers are in for a wild ride.”—Citizen-Times (Asheville)

“Open this book to the brine of salt marsh, the musk of turtles and sea breezes, and the astonishing story of Carol Ruckdeschel. From the first line I was captivated by this biography of a fierce and enigmatic passion for wildness, mesmerizing and beautiful. May we all learn something of love from it.”—Janisse Ray, author of Ecology of a Cracker Childhood

Please join us for some fun, socialization and just all-around good time!

Thursday, November 10 @ 5 PM
Join Ms. Nicole for our  teen book club (Grades 7 and up) inside the Anastasia Library. You can choose how to participate, either join us through Zoom, or meet with us at The Anastasia Library. Make new friends, have good discussion and fun. We will have a fun hands on activity after our trivia! Books for the book clubs are chosen by the teens.
September Book: The Final Gambit by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Books are provided by the Friends of the Anastasia Island Library to the first 6 teens who sign up for our book club!   If you already have a copy of the book, just come on in – no need to sign up!

Join us for an our Bilingual Little Ones Class in the Anastasia Library! Young children and their caretakers can join Ms. Nicole in a storytime featuring engaging stories, songs, and finger plays in both English and Spanish. Space is limited in the kids area of the branch, so please leave your strollers outside the library.  Please email njebbia@sjcfl.us with any questions.

Craft time is open to all children and focuses on teaching scissor, glue, and coloring skills.

Join us for an our Todder/PreSchool Craft in the Anastasia Library Event Room. Children of all ages and abilities are welcome at this craft time. Each week we will work on different skills for children to develop, including scissor skills, fine motor skills, gluing, exploration and others. Materials are generously provided by the Friends of the Library.

Join us for an our Bilingual Little Ones Class in the Anastasia Library! Young children and their caretakers can join Ms. Nicole in a storytime featuring engaging stories, songs, and finger plays in both English and Spanish. Space is limited in the kids area of the branch, so please leave your strollers outside the library.  Please email njebbia@sjcfl.us with any questions. No preregistration necessary.

Abhishek and Lakshmi of Heartfulness Meditation are looking forward to seeing you all again and teaching you the practice of meditation that can help reduce stress and negativity, while building on being present and increasing patience and tolerance.

Join us for an our Bilingual Little Ones Class in the Anastasia Library! Young children and their caretakers can join Ms. Nicole in a storytime featuring engaging stories, songs, and finger plays in both English and Spanish. Space is limited in the kids area of the branch, so please leave your strollers outside the library.  Please email njebbia@sjcfl.us with any questions.

Craft time is open to all children and focuses on teaching scissor, glue, and coloring skills.

Join us for an our Todder/PreSchool Craft in the Anastasia Library Event Room. Children of all ages and abilities are welcome at this craft time. Each week we will work on different skills for children to develop, including scissor skills, fine motor skills, gluing, exploration and others. Materials are generously provided by the Friends of the Library.

Join us for an our Bilingual Little Ones Class in the Anastasia Library! Young children and their caretakers can join Ms. Nicole in a storytime featuring engaging stories, songs, and finger plays in both English and Spanish. Space is limited in the kids area of the branch, so please leave your strollers outside the library.  Please email njebbia@sjcfl.us with any questions. No preregistration necessary.

Abhishek and Lakshmi of Heartfulness Meditation are looking forward to seeing you all again and teaching you the practice of meditation that can help reduce stress and negativity, while building on being present and increasing patience and tolerance.