Adult Services Coordinator Tracy McPeck recommends wonderful new titles to help you enjoy your next escape.
Book Corner: Shoot for the Moon When Choosing Your Next Read
Today, we take for granted the knowledge that the Moon is a solid chunk of rock that rotates around the Earth, and the mystical Man in the Moon is just a collection of craters (thank Galileo for that tidbit). We also know that the Moon rotates on its axis in synchronicity with the Earth, which…
Book Corner: Books Give Kids Taste of Travel Before Start of Vacation
Planes, trains, cars; beaches, mountains, cities; friends and family or brand-new faces. Whether summer travel takes children just down the road or across the world, it can be an adventure. Or, honestly, sometimes it can be frustrating or frightening. For children, traveling can bring a mix of emotions. They may be excited to see relatives…
My Librarian: The Benefits of a Local Writers’ Group
Writing tends to be a solitary activity. From hours of research to even more hours of honing one’s prose or choosing just the right word for a new poem, writers spend a lot of their time working alone. That’s what makes a writers' group so helpful and refreshing. You get together with other writers who understand…
My Librarian: The Roaring Twenties
After the horrors of World War I and the resulting social trauma, young men and women who survived came to be known as The Lost Generation because they never recovered from all of their losses and suffering. To deal with their pain, many of them lived by the adage, “Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we…
Learn to Keyboard
By Mary Buck "Keyboarding is a motor skill," Nansen noted. "It is a matter of training fingers to respond correctly and quickly to press the correct key — kind of like in athletics where you keep doing it over and over again until it becomes habit." —"Teaching Keyboarding — When? Why? How?" Education World, 2/02/2001…
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