If you’re like many of us here at the library, you’re in deep denial that the final season of HBO’s “Game of Thrones” is starting this month. And to make it worse, we STILL don’t have the sixth book in the “A Song of Ice and Fire” series from George, yet! So what’s a Westeros […]
With the recent news around Facebook, information privacy, and data mining, we thought it would be important to re-share a newsletter article written in 2017 by our Executive Director, David Slivken. It briefly outlines the Library District’s commitment to privacy and privacy issues, particularly of individuals’ personal information and right to read. Privacy has long […]
The acclaimed film Hidden Figures, based on the book by Margot Lee Shetterly, brought us the amazing untold story of the African American women mathematicians who helped win the space race: Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, and Katherine Jones (also, Christine Darden who is featured in the book). But these women are certainly not the only […]
When the opening ceremony gets underway for the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, it will mark the second time that South Korea has hosted the world’s elite athletes. The country previously hosted the 1988 Olympic Summer Games in Seoul. This time around, South Korea expects more than 2,800 athletes from more than 85 nations to […]
What Should I Read Next? Before I worked in a library, occasionally I would find myself in a common dilemma that we readers sometimes find ourselves in: what to read next? Have you ever wanted to read something – anything – but had no idea what you wanted to read? In recent years I’ve picked […]
