Have You 3D Printed Yet?

Updated 5/2019 with Captain Cache’s Curiosities Podcast episode about 3D printing at the Libraries. On the second floor of the Old Town Library, tucked over by the computers and printers, sits a large complex looking machine that steadily toils nearly every day printing wondrous, and sometimes strange objects. It’s a machine for the makers, the …

Public Library Version 2.0: the Forefront of Digital Equity

Public libraries have always been a community’s access point to information and learning: obtaining books or journal articles, attending educational presentations, participating in civic discussions, joining in storytimes and reading activities. But, in today’s digital media age, the access point to information is increasingly through the internet and on devices like smartphones, tablets, and laptops. …

A Beginner’s Guide to Pokémon Go Created by a Beginner

I’ve spent much of my workday the past few days watching people of all ages stroll by the Webster House Administration Center and the Antoine Janus Cabin, or wander through Library Park searching for Pokémon and trying to capture them.  A few of the folks are so absorbed in the game they haven’t been real good …

Lexile and Accelerated Reader Information Now in Catalog

Through a new automated process, Lexile and Accelerated Reader information has been added to 44,000 juvenile and teen listings in the library catalog. Both Lexile and Accelerated Reader are reading level indicators used by teachers and parents to evaluate where a child is reading and to guide readers to books within their level. For families …

Build It and They Will Come… and they did!

Just six years after building Council Tree Library some updates were needed. Anyone that has built a custom home can attest to the fact that no matter how many times you stare at the blueprints, there is always the realization after the house is actually built, you wish you had changed a couple of things,,, …