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The Calendar of Events on our website is the most popular feature. Thousands of readers check the calendar monthly for fun events for their families. We get our print issue events directly from the online calendar as well.
Events that are entered correctly will help direct our readers to your event. Please follow the instructions so that your event can be seen by the maximum number of readers. It also makes it much easier for us to approve your event quickly and without editing. Thank you!
- Navigate to events on the menu bar. You can see the menu bar on any page of the website.
- When the page opens, you'll see the current events along the left side. Scroll down the right to the calendar icon. Underneath, you will see "Submit Your Event." Click on that.
- "Submit Your Event" form will open. Fill the form out as completely as possible. If an item has an asterisk, you must put something in the space.
- For "Location," you can start to type the location of the event and if it's in our system, it will pop up and you can select it. Once it's in the system, you won't need to keep inputting it each time you enter an event. If the location is not in the system, you will be prompted to enter the info by scrolling to the bottom of the pop-up and clicking on "Not the location you were looking for? Add a new location."
- A pop-up window will appear and you can enter location info in the boxes.
- Regarding the "event info" box: PLEASE be as grammatically correct as possible. Do not cut and paste information that is unnecessary. Just input a few sentences about the event that clearly explain what it is including the fee to attend, ages event is geared to, and any other information the reader will need. Write in complete sentences and do not use all caps.
- Put the date of the event in the "Start Date" box. The "End Date" should be the same date. There is a glitch in this system that will keep an event running 24 hours a day on our calendar if you put anything in the end date box other than the start date.
- If the event repeats (every Wednesday at 6 PM, for instance), put that information at the end of your event description. We will set it up in the system so it repeats automatically for you and you won't have to keep putting the event in the system. For example, here is a description you could enter for a repeating storytime: Join us for a free storytime for children ages 2 to 4. Storytime lasts for 45 minutes and parents must stay with the child. Each week's book is different and selected by our librarians. Event occurs weekly on Tuesday from 10 AM-10:45 AM through August 20, 2018.
- When we ok the above sample event, we would remove the last line and set the event so it shows up weekly at 10 AM on Tuesdays running through August, 20. You won't need to enter it each week.
- That's it, just hit "submit" and you're done.