Back to School
Do you feel the urge to get back to learning? To send your kids away to some place where someone else will have to listen to their bullshit? The library is not the place for either of those, but we are also celebrating the fact that children will not be free to roam the city streets during the day time with their evil ways and sharp sticks.
Reference Wine and Cheese Lunch
Come down next Friday to the reference desk on the second floor of the library to watch staff eat wine and cheese. Our reference staff know very little and have almost no taste buds left after over one hundred years collectively of running wild in various forests. While patrons will not be allowed to partake, staff will describe all the stinky-itude and get a little crunk.
Circulation
Top Gear - Despite kind of hating one of the three hosts (no prize to who guesses which one), this British car show is a fun watch as the gang goes across the world doing stupid challenges, gives car talk, and talks to famous folk. This is for the original show as I've never seen the show after the BBC.
Children Hunting Update
Last week we brought out the end of Hunting for Change as the end of the Summer Solstice Reading Program comes to an end. When one child emerged from the forest secret places alive and with the beating heart… Well, let's just say congratulations to Emily Tellerman and hope her stay at the Mississippi Home for the Mentally Insane.
News
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Florida college dumps hundreds of books, many on sexuality, race and feminism
Seattle, the liberal city, just ‘book-banned’ a cultural exhibit