Did you know that not only can you keep up with your favorite Library on Twitter and Facebook, but you can also check out images of our programs and other fun stuff on our Flickr Photostream? Flickr is where we share with you our most favorite photos of programs and other fun goings on around [...]
So you’ve decided to participate in Curiouser & Curiouser: An Alice Inspired Art Contest for Teens but you want to guarantee that you win that Wacom Tablet. Don’t forget to sign up for our Artist Workshop, hosted by Kendall College of Art & Design’s Drawing Club, Vitamin D. Bring your in-progress submissions for the competition [...]
Looking for a leg up on the competition for the upcoming contest, Curiouser & Curiouser: An Alice Inspired Art Contest for Teens? Then sign up for our Artist Workshop, hosted by Kendall College of Art & Design’s Drawing Club, Vitamin D. Bring your in-progress submissions for the competition and Vitamin D members will be there [...]
Nominations are now open for the 2010 Carnegie Corporation of New York/New York Times I Love My Librarian Award. The award invites library users nationwide to recognize the accomplishments of librarians in public, school, college, community college and university libraries for their efforts to improve the lives of people in their community. Nominations run through [...]
An exciting new project is currently floating around the Grand Rapids community, and it’s the idea of free education. Word on the street is that Grand Rapid is starting its very own Free School, “a community-based organization of people who freely participate in creating, sharing, and learning together as equals”. Anyone can teach classes, and [...]
If you’ve got about 3 minutes, you can have a bird’s eye view of a portion of the Kalamazoo River that’s been befouled by the Enbridge oil spill. Perhaps because this disaster happened less than 100 miles from Grand Rapids, it has made some of us more empathetic with the tragic oil spill in the [...]
The African American Heritage Committee is asking that any local speakers and performers interested in participating in Taste of Soul Sunday on February 20, 2011, or other related events, send an email to opencall@grpl.org. The Committee seeks to provide programs that celebrate the rich cultural heritage of African Americans and meet the specific interests and [...]
Let us know you’ve been reading by turning in your reading record! August 7 is the last day to get your t-shirt, coupons, and be registered for drawings. It’s important to us to know that you’ve been reading during the summer. Parents and community members, we keep track of how many youth in the [...]
So, if you’re a kid or teen and you’ve been reading ever so diligently….uh, ever so much, just waiting for that t-shirt, guess what? They’re here! If you have finished your water slide reading record or your first teen raffle, you can now go to your local branch to pick up your t-shirt and other [...]
SYNC, an online community that hopes to build an audience for audiobooks, is offering free downloads of select titles for the next two months. Until September 1, anyone 13 years old and up can download two different audiobooks each week. One is a newer teen title, the other a classic. The titles are in MP3 [...]
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