Regular readers of the blog will know: How-To Tuesdays are upon us. In this how-to season of yore, I thought I might learn a new skill by reading a library book. Just a nice, small project: read a book, learn a thing. Couldn’t be too hard, right? Well. Searching “how to” in our catalog yields…
Tales of Mythical Tails
I read a really great book recently. Like really, really, really great. It gave me the type of reading experience I didn’t even know I was craving. It was dark, and lush, and brooding, full of magical mayhem set against the oppressive, slate colored backdrop of the sea and its hidden horrors. Marketed as gothic…
Goodbye Storytime, Hello Book Club
Starting a book club at home is fun and fulfilling.
First Steps
It happened again. A patron led me down a long and twisty path, simply by requesting a DVD. "Do you have Nomad?" I figured he meant the Oscar-winning film Nomadland, but a catalog search came up with a match, a film I'd never heard of -- and, it turns out, one that I was keenly interested…
How-To Tuesdays!
It’s June again--can you believe it?--which means it’s time for some How-To here at LPL. In years past, this has meant a festival (whether IRL or virtual) packed with local experts sharing their skills and knowledge. This year, we’re savoring small batches of our community’s know-how throughout the month of June. Join us for How-To…
Reclaiming Memory and History in Last Night at the Telegraph Club
In 1982, a British researcher and historian named Helena Whitbread stumbled upon a strange series of diaries written in a code. The diaries were written by Anne Lister, a wealthy and well-educated landowner who lived from 1791-1840. According to a BBC News article titled “The Life and Loves of Anne Lister'' by Rebecca Woods, the…
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