displays

  • Endangered Species Day

    Mark your calendars for May 19 – Endangered Species Day. Since 2006, the third Friday in May has been a day to reflect on animal and plant species that are becoming extinct at an alarming rate. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) maintains The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, a comprehensive list… Continue reading

  • Loving fiction to the soles of my feet

    If you spend a lot of time in the fiction stacks, you may have noticed shoes and feet gracing the covers of many adult novels and teen novels. This certainly isn’t a new trend, but it does seem more prevalent in the last five years for all sorts of novels (not just chick lit, which,… Continue reading

  • Are you prepared?

    ARE YOU PREPARED? OK, we all know about the necessity of being prepared.  We heard, saw, and felt the devastation of  Katrina in 2005, and thought that we should make a plan. The recent earthquakes in Haiti , Chile and southern California renewed those thoughts.  As much as it is obvious for us to be… Continue reading

  • The Blurb King

    A couple of summers ago, I checked out the novel Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn, seduced by the cover and a glowing endorsement from Stephen King. “To say this is a terrific debut novel is really too mild. I haven’t read such a relentlessly creepy family saga since John Farris’s All Heads Turn When the… Continue reading

  • Lost and Found

    One of the most attention-getting displays we have ever done at the Central library was an exhibit of things we’ve found in library books. You’d see even the most harried or preoccupied patrons stop to peer into the Plexiglas case with its odd assortment of scribbled notes, old Polaroids, postcards, ticket stubs and bookmarks ornate… Continue reading