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Garrulousness

We have an exciting Summer Reading-themed show! Our Librarians called in with several recommendations for your little ones. We also asked you on facebook to submit your favorite childhood titles. We mention a number of your suggestions! From those, we created a really great booklist. Before we launch into all that, Melissa Horak-Hern and Dave Carson share memories of their top-five childhood books!

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Six Million Reasons to Remember

Yom HaShoah, the Holocaust Remembrance Day, is a time to learn about the Holocaust, remember survivors and victims and reflect about genocide. Join us for In Memory of Six Million as we welcome survivor Sonia Warshawski. She will share her experiences of a teenager in Poland during WWII, from ghetto to death camp. The generation of survivors is rapidly shrinking. Learn this tragic history from someone who lived it.

Thursday, April 16
7 – 8 p.m.

Corinth Library

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Enter to Win Our Writing and Poster Contests

We have two contests that close on July 10, one for kids and one for all ages!

Kids! Enter to win our Fantasy Writing Contest for 3rd-8th Graders. Writers going into 3rd-8th grade are invited to share their fantasy stories with us through July 10 as part of our summer reading activities.

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All ages! Enter our Imagine Your Story Fandom Poster Contest! If you have a fandom, we want to see it! Make a poster and share it with us this summer through July 10!

Submit your entries here » 

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TBT: J. Robert Oppenheimer

Sometimes history is just one week ago. That's when we released our Author Research in Action series where we take an award-winning author and let them dive-into conversation with a subject matter expert! In this rebroadcast, Los Alamos National Laboratory Program Manager and Senior Historian, Alan Carr is paired with author Robert J. Sawyer who’s written a new SciFi/historical fiction/thriller called The Oppenheimer Alternative.

Happy Throwback Thursday! Some call it the best day of the week.

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Slavery and Anti-Slavery Transnational Archive

We provides access to an abundance of digitized primary source content and research guides related to the history of slavery including legal issues, the Caribbean, children and women under slavery, modes of resistance, and more.

Find Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive in the Research section of our website. 

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A JoCo Library How-To: The Simplest Way to Quickly Place a Hold!

Do you know the simplest way to quickly place a hold? It’s easy!

First, log into your account. Click on the blue “LOG IN/MY LIBRARY” button in the top right corner on the jocolibrary website. Now, enter the title, author or subject of the item you’re looking for.” From here, you can click on a title to get detailed information, add the title to you “FOR LATER” shelf, or, click the green “PLACE A HOLD” box. Now, you can choose where you want to pick up your hold from the “SELECT A LOCATION” dropdown menu. Don’t forget to hit that blue “CONFIRM HOLD” button. And that’s it!

Give us a couple days and you'll receive an email from us when your held item(s) is ready for pickup at your chosen Library. Your item(s) will remain on the hold shelf for seven days from the date of the email.