Library Commission News & Announcements
Creative, resilient, and bitter. When discussing heroic mothers in fiction, any list would be empty without "Ma" from the 2010 novel, Room, by Irish-Canadian Author Emma Donoghue. As a college freshman, Ma was abducted and locked in a shed for 7 years...
Below is a list of free training opportunities coming up this week and some recently recorded webinars! There is also a monthly list of free training resources which is compiled each month by the Maine State Library and WebJunction. Many webinars are recorded and can be watched later...
Learn how to make 'Small Adjustments for Big Changes' at your library on next week's NCompass Live webinar on Wednesday, May 21 at 10am CT...
The Ancillary series had been recommended to me years ago, so when I came across the boxed set, I took a chance, and bought it. And it just as good as the awards make it out to be-the first book, Ancillary Justice won the Hugo, Nebula and Arthur C. Clarke Awards...
Listen to the rhythm of #BookFaceFriday! This week's #BookFace is all about chasing your dreams. "Songs in Ursa Major" is a scintillating debut by Emma Brodie (Knopf, 2021), a love story that's all about music and the trappings of fame...
Stop and smell the flowers this #ThrowbackThursday! This 4"x6" glass plate negative is a portrait photograph of Frances Barbee, from Gresham, Nebraska...
"Vigilante Days: Frontier Justice Along the Niobrara" by Harold Hutton is now available on cartridge and for download on BARD, the Braille and Audio Reading Download service...