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Choose from dozens of free activities at your Library every week.
We offer weekly virtual story times throughout the year
Wednesday’s at 10.00 am for babies and toddlers,
Saturday’s at 11.00 am for ages 9 and up.
Great opportunity to spend quality time and fun time exposing your child to literacy. Don’t miss it!

Virtual storytime: Melackia Spencer
Name of the book: Little Cloud and the lady wind

Winner Aquilla Pemberton receives a Lenova Lap Top courtesy of Philipsburg Jubilee Library.
Philipsburg, June 30, 2020. The overall winner, Aquilla Pemberton, a fourth form student of the Sint Maarten Academy, received a laptop from the Philipsburg Jubilee Library. Ms. G. Holiday was accompanied by the Minister of Education, Culture, Youth and Sports, the Honorable Rodolphe Samuel, who handed Aquilla her prize as seen in the photo.

The Philipsburg Jubilee Library would like to inform the general public that the library is open again. Opening hours are: Monday – Friday from 9 am until 5 pm and on Saturdays from 10 am until 1 pm Of course, Covid19 prevention measures apply. All visitors are required to wear a mask, sanitize their hands, keep social distancing, and follow the instructions of the staff.

Library back in business!
Philipsburg, May 18, 2020. The Philipsburg Jubilee Library is back in business, but with some restrictions. Until further notice, only “DROP OFF and PICK UPS”, at the window will be allowed.
Drop Off and Pick up of books are daily from 9:00 am until 4:00 pm.

The Philipsburg Jubilee Library is pleased to announce that applications for the 2020 Literacy Campaign are steadily coming in.

To accommodate the request of some students and school managers PJL have decided to extend the deadline from May 15th to May 29th, 2020.

It is with great excitement and based on the commitment of the program manager and staff I bring you the good news of the re-launching of PJL Story Time. The story time will be aired two times a week on PJL website: stmaartenlibrary.org and on PJL Facebook:stmaartenpjlibrary, on Wednesdays and Saturdays.

In response to COVID-19 mandates, teachers, students, and librarians globally are being forced to transition to an online environment, like many schools, libraries, and universities are going through this process.

The world-wide coronavirus outbreak is impacting us all. Most important in PJL literacy consciousness is, to know-how are our Sint Maarten’s children and youngsters experiencing the coronavirus crisis? It goes without saying, that their world has changed drastically by school closure, by social distancing, distance learning, zoom, and other types
of online meetings, restricted physical encounters,

PJL Director and Staff would like to encourage members and prospective members to join us today and celebrate World Book and Copyright Day.

The ability to read is a treasured asset in your development. We are therefore via this medium asking you to put aside at least 15 - 30 minutes a day to read a book, a newspaper article, a magazine or any other form of literature.