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Irish Genealogy - May the records rise to meet you!

Irish Genealogy - May the Records Rise to Meet You!

If you want to work on your Irish genealogy, you have to understand how the Irish people made their way around the world. Saint Patrick's Day has become a global holiday due mostly to the centuries long disapora of the Irish people. Irish emigration is an essential element in many family history...

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Viral Reads

Viral Reads

You may have some concerns and questions about COVID-19, aka coronavirus, the virus that has been rapidly spreading around the globe. For the lastest information about COVID-19, we recommend visiting...

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Rise: Feminist Literature for Young Readers

Rise: Feminist Literature for Young People

March 8th is International Women's Day, but any day is a great time to read books off of the 2020 list from Rise: A Feminist Book Project (formerly known as the...

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March 2020 puzzle

March makes many of us think of longingly of spring—even though it's probably still a ways off. We hope this puzzle will help celebrate March, or at least help you pass some time while you wait for spring to start in earnest! As always, you can work our puzzle online or in print; we have...

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Katherine Johnson & Other Historical Hidden Figures

Katherine Johnson and Other Historical Hidden Figures

Katherine Johnson, one of the NASA mathematicians who calculated the trajectories required for the 1969 moon landing, died on February 24, 2020 at the age of 101. For much of her life, she and the...

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City Directories can reveal a great deal about your ancestors

Find Your Ancestors with US City Directories

Resourceful genealogists love city directories for piecing together the WHERE, WHEN, WHY, and HOW their ancestors lived. Recently Ancestry.com updated it's US City Directory Collection to include content up for US cities up to 1995. Library patrons can the Memorial Hall Library Ancestry.com...

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Love Is a Good Thing

To celebrate the fact that both Black History Month and Valentines Day occur in February, here are fifteen romance novels with black main characters. These novels represent a variety of subgenres of romance novels (historical, contemporary, sports, royalty...), so we think there's something here...

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2020 Best Picture Nominees

2020 Best Picture Nominees

On February 9, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences held the 92nd Academy Awards. At the end of the night, Bong Joon-Ho's film Parasite was awarded Best Picture, the first non-English language film to be so honored. (Additionally, Parasite won Best International...

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Alex Awards

2020 Alex Awards

Each year the American Library Association selects 10 books for the Alex Awards. These are books written for adults that are selected for having special appeal to teen readers. Alex Award-winning books can be great choices for teens who are looking to read more adult books. They're also great...

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Armchair Travel: 7 Continents in 14 Books

For all the benefits of traveling with none of the hassle, check out some of these books that are set across the world's continents and written by authors local to their settings. With fiction and nonfiction, science fiction, biography, and more, there are plenty of ways to experience a new...

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