Summer is here! Summer is here! I am so excited to be at LPL for another Summer Reading Program. Of course you can always check out our Summer Reading Catalog and our Summer Reading Events, but there’s SOOO much happening, it’s pretty easy to gaze right over some stunners. So here are some events to…
I say Ooh, You say Aah!
Every year as schools wind down, the library winds up. Summer is just around the corner and the bulk of LPL’s Youth Services department went out into the wild-- aka USD 497-- to promote the Summer Reading Program. (If you want to learn more about it, when it starts, how long it lasts, what even…
THURSDAY SUMMER PERFORMERS!
Each Thursday we have 2 shows for the kids and parents of Lawrence put on by all sorts of performers. From the wacky to the goofy to the cute fluffy animals, we're serving up excellent summer entertainment two times a day. Up Next Mad Science: Sounds of Summer THU | Jun 7 | 11 AM-12…
Frog and Toad’s Laws of Literary Motion
In my years selecting children’s books for the library, I have often envied the mathematical certainty of the hard sciences. After all, when the Pythagorean theorem doesn’t work, it’s usually our own bad arithmetic at fault, and Planck’s Constant isn’t exactly wishy-washy. It’s a little more difficult to make sense of children’s literature sometimes. Perhaps…
024: Do You Even Fantasy, Bro?
Magic! Friendship! Gratitude! Tom Petty! We may have thought fantasy wasn't our thing, but it turns out... we were wrong. (First time for everything!) Bookish News: Dietland is being made into a TV series on AMC. Kirkus describes it as “Part Fight Club, part feminist manifesto, an offbeat and genre-bending novel that aims high—and delivers.…
Gifts from Nature: Creative Inspiration and Free Art Supplies!
Now is the perfect time of year to spend time outdoors, and if you need an excuse to do so - gathering ideas and art supplies is a great one. It’s fun to keep your eyes open for treasures when you are on a hike, weeding your garden, or just strolling through the neighborhood.…
J. Drew Lanham: An Interview In Anticipation Of His First Visit To Kansas
I’m not the only one who views J. Drew Lanham as a superhero of advocacy for the natural world—especially for greater participation among people of color as wel
The Joy of Words
Odds are you’ve heard that the indigenous peoples of the Arctic North have dozens of words for snow. A contentiously debated subject since anthropologist Franz Boaz described his experiences living with the Inuit in his 1911 Handbook of American Indian Languages, linguists have more recently acknowledged that what they once considered urban legend is…
LPL Field Report: World Voices Festival 2018
The mission of our library presses forward only with some careful study and reflection along the way. To keep making the right decisions for our collections and services, librarians can never stop learning about our world and our community; it probably doesn’t surprise anyone that we have no qualms with this. More knowledge, please. To…
Shut Up and Take My Money: Fancasting My Favorite Rom-Com Reads
Like many people, I love a good romantic comedy. I’m always in the mood for a meet-cute, a tale-of-friends-to-lovers, a happily-ever-after (or at least for now). Luckily, as a reader of romance, I usually have a stack of rom-coms sitting on my bedside table. The only downside to my rom-com reading habit is that I…
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