Join us for a virtual trivia night featuring the TV show "Friends." We'll have a fast-paced trivia contest using Zoom and Kahoot with a $10 Amazon gift card for the winner. Kahoot is a quiz program that can be accessed online or through a free app - you'll just need a second screen [...]
A lot of people are staying home and utilizing more online services these days. One service that we offer is online learning through Niche Academy. Through Niche Academy, we offer a lot of tutorials to show you exactly how to use a lot of our Digital Services. One digital service that will come in handy [...]
More Deadly Than War: The Hidden History of the Spanish Flu and the First World War by Kenneth C. Davis (2018), 291 pages. During our current pandemic, I've heard things here and there about the last time the world saw a pandemic this devastating and widespread - in 1918 when the world was hit by [...]
This time of year usually means a lot of cooking; and with the days getting shorter, and lots more time staying home, you might be looking for more things to do as a family. You can do both with some of these cookbooks for kids that include easy recipes that are fun for the whole [...]
Here at The Floyd County Library, our Local Author Week 2020 (November 16-20) will soon be underway, so we wanted to introduce you to our amazing local authors! Here you can read a little bit about them, the books they've written, and where you might be able to purchase their books for yourself. Books available [...]
Elatsoe (Eh-lat-so-ay) is a new YA fantasy novel from Darcie Little Badger, an Indigenous author of the Lipan Apache Tribe. Set in an alternate United States (much like our own, but including ghosts, vampires, monsters, and magic), Elatsoe tells the story of Ellie, a teenage girl with the gift of awakening the ghosts of dead [...]
October 19 at 5:30 PM we'll be offering a virtual version of the Stage Combat Workshop from Kentucky Shakespeare Festival. This program is limited to 30 students in grades 4-12, so if you're interested register here and you'll receive a link to the event before the meeting. In this live virtual workshop you'll learn how [...]
It's been a while since we've put out an update, so you may be wondering - What's open now at the the library? We're happy to report that our entire Upper Level is now open! Previously, we only had the front lobby open, but we've expanded our service. Just remember to enter through the front [...]
As many of you know, the Library, as well as the Friends of the Library, have been unable to accept book donations due to COVID restrictions. So where is everyone supposed to donate all the books they bought online during the stay-at-home order now that they've read them all and need to make room for [...]
Today is Constitution Day and Citizenship Day, a day that commemorates the signing of the Constitution on September 17, 1787, and recognizes “all who, by coming of age or by naturalization, have become citizens.” We’d like to celebrate by recommending these children’s books. Duck for President by Doreen Cronin, Betsy Lewin, ill. In this silly [...]
