If you haven’t noticed, libraries are changing. We are reinventing ourselves as community centers that provide bestsellers, free eBooks, and access to technology. Gone are the days of scary-quiet mausoleums. We want the Library to be a friendly, warm place where we can respond to your needs.
February 2nd is usually all about groundhogs, and while they are cute little creatures who may or may not see their shadows, they aren’t the only reason to celebrate this Saturday. The first Saturday in February is also Take Your Child to the Library Day!
January 29th is Freethinkers Day, so put on your thinking caps and celebrate Thomas Paine’s birthday! And what does Thomas Paine have to do with freethinking??? He practically invented it.
Through Bohjalian’s story telling, we meet Laura, whose grandparents experienced the First World War in Syria together. Her grandmother, Elizabeth, arrives in Syria from Boston with aid for Armenian refugees. There, she becomes acquainted with Armen, an Armenian engineer, and they slowly begin to fall in love despite the raging genocide around them.
It’s cold and gray and boring out there. We’re stuck in the middle of winter, where it gets dark at 4:30 p.m. and stays dark ‘til 7:00 a.m. What are you going to do during all that indoor time? How about something creative? What about something to do with pencils? What about pencil shavings? Wait, what???
American Idol’s new season premiers this week! (Cue teenybopper screams and teary-eyed fainting.) Ok, I’ll admit it. By my obvious sarcasm, you can probably tell that I am not a huge fan of this show. The crabby judges, humiliating auditions, and the sappy lead-in stories for each segment don’t really scream sophisticated reality drama, but this year, I have to watch.
I’ve been feeling a little nostalgic lately and was reminded of one of my favorite childhood characters, Babar the Elephant, who first appeared in Histoire de Babarby Jean de Brunhoff. The English language version of the Babar we know and love was introduced a few years later by A.A. Milne, author of Winnie the Pooh.
