Learn about estate planning, investing and more during a series of free financial planning workshops starting on Friday at Mesa’s Red Mountain Library.

Oskar Knoblauch, the author of “A Boy’s Story — A Man’s Memory Surviving the Holocaust 1933-1945,” will recount his story of loss and survival at the Red Mountain Library on Saturday, Jan. 26.

If you are at a stage where you’ll be caring for a parent, Mesa’s Red Mountain Library is hosting a workshop to give you the help you need.

Mesa public libraries will hold a fair for teens 12 to 18 to fill volunteer positions for the summer reading program. The volunteers will assist by working at the library desk, being computer aides, shelving books, working in the crafting program and other duties.

The Mesa public libraries are reducing their hours because of a staffing shortage caused by the city’s budget woes.

The Mesa public libraries are reducing their hours because of a staffing shortage caused by the city’s budget woes.

November 13, 2004

When people drive past the future Arabian Library, they might not notice it.

The closure of the Red Mountain Library has been extended again, with the latest reopening date tentatively set for Tuesday. The library closed after a Dec. 28 water line break, and unusually frigid weather has lengthened the amount of time needed to dry the floors.

All Mesa library branches will close Wednesday to upgrade a computer system. The libraries will open with normal hours on Thursday.

Mesa’s Dobson Ranch and Red Mountain branch libraries will reduce their hours in the coming weeks because of a staffing shortage.

Danielle Mershon stood patiently for her turn at a computer station inside Mesa’s Main Library on a recent weekday afternoon. After a 30-minute wait, with seven people ahead of her in the queue, the 22-year-old Mesa resident gave up.

Mesa is writing the first chapter in the story of new library as it looks to open a tiny branch in the city's southeastern area.

The Red Mountain Library will be hosting a free “Energywise” workshop with SRP 1 to 3 p.m. Friday.

Mesa’s Red Mountain Library will host a used book sale 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day, Thursday through Saturday, Nov. 29-Dec. 1. Hardbound books will be sold for 50 cents and paperbacks will cell for 25 cents. Magazines and other library materials will also be on sale for bargain prices. All proceeds will support the Mesa Public Library.

Mesa Public Libraries is holding a series of teen volunteer fairs for students entering seventh through 12th grade, between the ages of 12 and 18 to fill positions for the Summer Reading Program. Jobs will assist as program desk aides, computer aids, self-checkout assistants, shelving positions, program craft aides and other miscellaneous duties.

New York Times bestselling author, J.A. Jance, will be at Mesa’s Red Mountain Library, 635 N. Power Road, 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Friday. Jance will be hosting a book signing to promote her latest mystery novel “Deadly Stakes.”

The Arizona Curriculum Theater (ACT Inc.) will perform a dramatic reading of John Steinbeck’s American novel “The Grapes of Wrath” at 2 p.m. Monday the Red Mountain Library, 635 N. Power Road.

Mesa’s Main Library will be closed Sundays and the library hours will shorten Monday through Thursday. The changes take effect starting this Sunday.

There’s no room for scaredy cats in the East Valley Paranormal Society, a band of ghost hunters that investigates Arizona cemeteries, mines, hotels, jails, courthouses and other suspected haunts. The team will describe a typical investigation, play audio and video recordings from their field work and answer questions in a presentation geared toward guests ages pre-teen and older. They’ll also show off their ghost-tracking equipment, from infrared illuminators to electromagnetic field detectors.

Mesa 12-year-old Jon Sides sat outside the Dobson Ranch Public Library on Sunday, waiting for the doors to open. When would-be visitors approached, he politely informed them that the library does not open until 1:30 p.m.

Mesa 12-year-old Jon Sides sat outside the Dobson Ranch Public Library on Sunday, waiting for the doors to open. When would-be visitors approached, he politely informed them that the library does not open until 1:30 p.m.

Mesa library users may be facing reduced hours well before the May vote on a property tax and sales tax increase.