Just in time for your holiday binge watching pleasure, hoopla is now even more accessible with new apps available for Apple TV and Fire TV! With Apple TV, hoopla users are able to browse, search, borrow, and stream audiobooks, movies, music, and television. Additional features include closed captions and access to favorites to revisit saved content. The…
Miss Eva’s Top Three: November 2017
Welcome to Miss Eva's Top Three! Each month I'll be picking out items from three different areas of the children's section to feature that I've enjoyed -- some new titles, some older ones, but all of them things that have caught my eye! Check out this month's picks below. Picture Book: The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats I…
Book Giveaway for Teens
Teens in grades 6-12 may enter for the chance to win a free copy of X: A Novel, the 2017-2017 Great Michigan Read title! WHAT IS THE GREAT MICHIGAN READ? The Michigan Humanities Council’s Great Michigan Read is a book club for the entire state with a focus on a single book – X: A…
Teen Filmmaker Festival in Kalamazoo
Calling all Michigan filmmakers ages 12-19! You are invited to enter your short films (no more than 10 minutes long) in the 15th Annual Teen Filmmaker Festival by 5pm on Friday, January 26, 2018. Award categories are: Grand Prize for Best Film Best Animation Best Experimental Film Best Music Video Best Short Film Best Technical…
Mackinac Bridge Turns 60!
Whats 5 miles long, 500 feet tall and turns 60 today? The Mighty Mac! The Mackinac Bridge opened to traffic on November 1, 1957. We've been testing our newest 3D printer by printing mini versions of the bridge, using a design created by Thingiverse user Brad Nicholls. Great design Brad! List created by laurengail Mackinac…
November is Picture Book Month
I might be a little biased, since November is my birth month and middle name, but here's another point for November being the greatest month of the year: it's also Picture Book Month! As a children's librarian I'm lucky and get to read picture books just about every day, new favorites and old classics alike…
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