SEMINOLE HEIGHTS -- A replacement library for the Seminole Heights Branch Library is slated for future construction. In the final design, residents are hoping there will be room for a special addition — a bookstore. To qualify for a bookstore, library officials say the Seminole Heights library, 4711 N. Central Ave., must have a Friends of the Library group. The Southeast Seminole Heights Civic Association is spearheading an effort to form a Friends group within the next few months. ...more

March 26, 2009

Wimauma and Bealsville, two rural Hillsborough County communities that have never had public libraries, may be a step closer to turning that page. ...more

February 25, 2009

Things To Do is a list of interesting upcoming events. For a list of Tampa Bay area events, see this week's Friday Extra. ...more

January 14, 2009

A grand opening celebration and ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new Hillsborough County Seffner-Mango Branch Library will begin at 1:30 p.m. Thursday at the library, 410 N. Kingsway Road. ...more

January 9, 2009

TOWN 'N COUNTRY - Michael Duncan walked into the children's wing at the new Town 'N Country Regional Library and gazed up and down at the shelves of books. ...more

December 10, 2008

Seffner and Mango residents will have to travel a few miles to borrow reading materials for the next two months. ...more

November 12, 2008

When the Oldsmar Library reopens its doors at its new location early next year, patrons will have to wait a few months to quaff a cup of coffee at its indoor-outdoor cafe. City council recently directed staff to advertise for a concessionaire to operate the cafe at the library after the January opening. ...more

November 23, 2007

It's going to get really cozy around the Palm Harbor Library next year. Throughout 2008, the Library will undergo a remodeling that will cost around $1.3 million, said Library Director Gene Coppola. Another $6 million in Penny for Pinellas sales tax revenue the county has set aside for library expansion will not be ready until sometime after 2010. ...more

October 6, 2007