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Teens' Top Ten

Teens' Top Ten

Every year, the Young Adult Library Services Association asks teens to choose the top ten YA books of the year. Voting is now open for this year's Teens' Top Ten. Teens can click here to vote for their top 3 choices...

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Girls Who Code

Girls Who Code is a nationwide nonprofit organization that aims to close the gender gap in computing. MHL partners with Girls Who Code to offer a coding class for girls & nonbinary teens in grades 6-12. Our in-person information sessions...

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1K B4 Kindergarten

1000 books challenge at MHL!

This free program encourages you to read 1000 books with your child before he or she enters Kindergarten – a goal experts say children need to help them learn to read for themselves. One of the best ways to encourage learning is to share books every day. Reading...

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Digital Magazines: New from Overdrive

Digital magazines are available through OverDrive!

A new collection of popular magazines is available through OverDrive, the same service that makes available free ebooks, downloadable audiobooks, and streaming videos to anyone with a MVLC library card. You can find these magazines by using the Libby or OverDrive...

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Eisner Awards

2018 Eisner Awards

This past weekend at San Diego Comic-Con, the winners of 2018 Eisner Awards were announced. Named for comics legend Will Eisner, the Eisner Awards are given by members of the comics industry to celebrate outstanding works in the field of comics. Here are some of this year's winners! (...

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staff picks with books

Summer Staff Picks

Summer is in full swing and there's still a lot of time left to get in some reading! If you're at a loss for new and interesting titles to read, check out some of these staff picks. Librarians from all around the building share what they are looking forward to reading this summer. There is sure...

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The Great American Read

The Great American Read

Have you seen The Great American Read on PBS yet? It's an ongoing event to explore America's best-loved books. Here are the top 100 best-loved books, as determined by a PBS survey....

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Read Around the World Cup

Read Around the World Cup

If your goal this summer is to read more widely, you're in the right place! In honor of the international spirit of the World Cup tournament, here's a book from each country represented in the top 16 teams of the 2018 World Cup. Whichever soccer team you're rooting for, all of these...

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Nely Digitized Records Available

St. Mary's Church Lawrence Records Available On American Ancestors

This week, the New England Historic Genealogical Society database, American Ancestors introduced a new browsable image record set from the Roman Catholic Parishes of Saint Mary ...

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Suicide Prevention Treatment Understanding

Resources for Suicide Prevention

Although it's a topic that many are uncomfortable discussing, suicide has been in the news a lot lately. We at MHL want everyone to know that they are not alone and that there are resources available to people in distress.

MHL librarians actively collect information about a variety of...

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