Every year, at the beginning of summer, I check out a stack of craft books. The sun is shining (sometimes, even when it’s raining!), my garden is bursting with life, and I’m inspired to try my hand at creation. Our annual How-To Festival, our all-ages celebration of our community’s creativity and know-how, fits perfectly into…
You Too Can How-To!
I came to Lawrence in the fall of 1995 as a freshman at KU, and fell in love with this town right away: the lovely old neighborhoods, the vibrant downtown, and especially the people: creative, community-minded, and unafraid of being their authentic selves. And so the opportunity every year to pull together the How-To Festival…
Case Studies in Solitary Refinement
Although I am, in many ways, a Luddite at heart, I’ve become aware recently that I spend altogether too much time hopscotching across the internet, searching for news. I am also a news junkie, you see, and the interesting times we live in have had me riveted to my screen. However, I’ve also noticed…
Suss Out Your Truthiness
Two definitions: Post-truth: “Relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief.” Truthiness: “Believing something that feels true, even if it isn’t supported by fact.” Quick: conjure the zeitgeist with a single word. A decade ago, that word (according to Merriam-Webster…
Meet the Info Services Team!
You can find the Info Services team staffing the Ask Desk and tending to the nonfiction and local history collections. We love to help you research a topic, get connected to a community resource, or learn something new. We also coordinate drop-in services with local social service agencies and arrange classes and program series on…
Digital Douglas County History: Get Digging!
Do you enjoy spelunking for local history? If so, we’ve got a goldmine for you: in January of 2017, we launched a new tool for digging into our community’s past–the Digital Douglas County History portal. This project, a collaborative venture of the Watkins Community Museum, the Douglas County Genealogical Society, and the Lawrence Public Library…
All the News That’s Fit to Print, and Then Some
The New York Times. The “paper of record” (well, not really, but commonly perceived as such). “All the News That’s Fit to Print.” The gold standard for crossword puzzle enthusiasts. (Source of the lion’s share of my information about national and global current events: If you spend any time talking with me all, at some…
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