Pratt Free Library

With a high school across the street, a college to the west and a medical center to the east, the theme for Baltimore's second new library branch to open this year is clear. "This is really going to be our education branch," Carla D. Hayden, executive director of the Enoch Pratt Free Library system, said yesterday. "It's going to be like a little campus around here, an urban campus. Our collection reflects that." Visitors will get their first peek at the new library - which is in the 1300 block of Orleans St. and cost $4.5 million - when it opens today.

FAMILY CONCERT FOR CONSERVATION Enjoy a night of music and family entertainment while assisting the conservation efforts of the National Aquarium in Baltimore at Disneymania -- Concerts for Conservation on Saturday. Actress Olesya Rulin, of High School Musical and High School Musical 2, hosts the benefit concert, while Disney Records' young hip-hop / pop group T-Squad provides the music. The aquarium is also announcing the first winner of its Muddy Feet Award, an award given to young conservationists.

Movies that reach out and grab you are coming to the Enoch Pratt Free Library this summer, beginning tomorrow with a 2 p.m. screening of the 3-D version of Jack Arnold's 1954 horror classic, Creature From the Black Lagoon. Funny-looking 3-D glasses will be provided. Admission is free. The film will be shown in the Wheeler Auditorium of the central library, 400 Cathedral St. Information: prattlibrary.org/calendar. Baltimore `Pride' "Film Baltimore," the University of Baltimore's salute to movies made in and about Charm City, concludes Thursday with an 8 p.m. screening of Sunu Gonera's Pride (2007)

INSIDE TODAY WHAT THEY'RE SAYING TODAY'S SUN COLUMNISTS Bring links to Baltimore Maybe Tiger Woods would consider taking his golf tournament - which debuted this weekend in Bethesda - for a ride up the parkway to Baltimore. Sports baltimoresun.com/steele Labelle kicks back A review of the performance by soul sister Patti Labelle, Saturday night's headliner at the African-American Heritage Festival. TODAY baltimoresun.com/criticalmass OTHER VOICES Edward Gunts on architectureToday Michael Dresser on traffic troublesMaryland 5 THINGS TO DO TODAY FAIR TO MIDLAND -- The Dallas quintet, which recently released the CD Fables from a Mayfly, plays at the Recher Theatre, 512 York Road, Towson, at 7 p.m. 69 Eyes, Wednesday 13 and Night Kills the Day also perform.

BEWARE THE BIRDS While it's a chilling idea to show Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds outside while birds may be flying above, the American Visionary Art Museum will be doing just that tonight as part of its Flicks From the Hill outdoor film series. Take a picnic dinner, and sit out on a blanket while enjoying this cinematic classic. The museum will be open and free from 5 p.m.- 9 p.m., and the film starts at 9 p.m. .................... The film screens tonight at 9 at the Hughes Family Outdoor Movie Theater on Federal Hill.

Four of the victims of last month's Cecil Avenue fire are to be buried today after funeral services at Israel Baptist Church at 1200 N. Washington St. in East Baltimore. Funeral services for a fifth victim are scheduled Tuesday. Seven people were killed in the May 22 blaze at 1903 Cecil Ave. Two children were buried this week. Services for William C. Hyman, 66, Dominic Thompson, 27, Tashon Thomas, 16, and Davonta Witherspoon, 13, are scheduled at the church at 11 a.m. A wake will be at 10 a.m. A separate funeral for Melvin L. Beckett, 13, will be Tuesday at 11 a.m. The wake will be at 10:30 a.m. The service will be at Bible Way Missionary Baptist Church, 2423 E. Biddle St. Annie Linskey Baltimore : Reservoirs Free fishing offered today People without fishing licenses can fish at one of the city's three reservoirs tomorrow, one of three days out of each year designated a "free fishing day," according to the Baltimore Department of Public Works.

With the boundless energy of a 9-year-old, Daniel Brown, who is home-schooled, yanked on the doors of the Southeast Anchor Library in Highlandtown - determined to be the first patron inside the gleaming building at its opening yesterday morning. On his checklist: Check out the first book at the self-checkout counter. Get on the Internet. "He woke up like it was Christmas," said Daniel's mother, Mary Brown of Canton. He said, `Come on, Mom!' I'm excited, too. I home-school my boys, so I'm excited.

There were still books to be put on the shelves and computers to be hooked up. But there was more than enough to engender enthusiasm among those who came out Tuesday night for a community preview of the city's new Southeast Anchor Library, from the gleaming brick-and-glass exterior, to the separate teen and children's departments with story and study rooms to spaces set aside for a Spanish collection and computer classes. "The best possible replacement" for a storefront library down the street, the Rev. Luigi Esposito said, "not only because of the building, but because of what the building offers."