This week’s staff pick is Here by Richard McGuire. This graphic novel doesn’t follow any specific story or characters, but instead has a simple concept. Each page is a wide shot of the same exact location spanning tens of thousands of years. Within that same page, separate and sometimes intersecting panels show […]
Yearly Archives: 2018
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Rock Jewelry and Pop Rocks Bark Saturday July 28th @ 11am Create rings and necklaces using beautiful colored rocks and then learnt to make delicious chocolate bark using the classic candy: Pop Rocks! Classic pop rocks! [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyLnUo_xz84&w=560&h=315] Video credit to Rhett and Link on Good […]
At 28 years old, Eli “Berg” Koenigsberg has never encountered a challenge he couldn’t push through, until a head injury leaves him with lingering headaches and a weakness for opiates. Berg moves to a remote Northern California town, seeking space and time to recover, but soon finds himself breaking into […]
Our 2018 Summer Reading program is nearly over! This year’s theme is Libraries Rock! To celebrate, we’ve put together a display featuring music (in CD format) and biographies of some of the best known rock musicians. Here are a few standout titles: Mercury: An Intimate Biography of Freddie Mercury by […]
School’s out for the SUMMER! Check out our display of Summer adventure reads in the Teen Room. We’ve got lake houses, mysterious disappearances, trips through Europe, and more! Below are some suggested titles to get you started. The Summer of Jordi Perez by Amy Spalding Seventeen, fashion-obsessed, and gay, Abby […]
Just Dance and Karaoke Tuesday July 17th @ 7pm Our PS4 is ready and the microphone is turned up to 11! Come take turns dancing and singing all night long. All skill levels and genres welcome. Summer of K-Pop! Korean Hip-Hop: A New Poetic Intervention Thursday July […]
On this day in 1862, renowned American geologist Florence Bascom was born. She was the first woman to earn a PhD from Johns Hopkins University in 1893, and she was the second woman in the United States to earn a PhD in geology. She also went on to be the […]
The FIFA World Cup 2018 is underway and nearing it’s finale! Held every 4 years since 1930, the World Cup is one of the most prestigious and widely viewed sporting events on Earth. This year’s Cup matches will be held at multiple locations all across Russia (the host country), lasting […]
Escape the Room! Tuesday July 10th @ 7pm You are a member of the band described as ‘the next big thing in music!’ But your fans have gone wild and the only way to escape from the green room and avoid your crazed fans is to find disguises. Can you […]
Want to learn some coding this summer? Registration for our Sphero Dance Party Workshop begins tomorrow. Register using our online calendar. Over the course of 3 sessions, learn to code our Sphero robots using block coding. By the end of the 3 sessions, participants will have programmed the […]