Hi Everyone, This is Jamie from the Youth Services team. While many of you are staying inside, I know that kiddos can be getting pretty bored. I have been posting a lot of things to my personal Facebook, but I thought it would be a great resource for me to compile a lot of these [...]
As you may have noticed, the library now offers all kinds of training through Lynda.com. This is a really exciting opportunity to learn new skills, from programming to management skills. If you go to our homepage, Floyd County Public Library. you can click on the banner or the link to its right and you'll [...]
For a recent Discovery Friday program we did a Breakout Box, which I also re-used on a school visit and a trip to the youth shelter. The Breakout Box is a way to do an escape room-style program without having to be tied to one location. It's also helpful for Discovery Friday which can have [...]
This year is a census year for the United States. What this means is that the government will ask questions of each household/individual to gather statistics. Originally, this was done strictly for taxation and representation purposes. The census now also helps government officials make decisions on over 100 government funded programs and institutions, such as [...]
Attucks!: Oscar Robertson and the Basketball Team that Awakened a City by Phillip Hoose (2018), 212 pages Anyone connected to Indiana knows that basketball is a huge deal here. Many famous players have come out of the state, and the state high school tournament even inspired the classic basketball movie Hoosiers (1986). Teens or [...]
February 20 is National Love Your Pet Day! What's almost as good as a pet? A good picture book about pets! We have lots of great ones here at the library just waiting to be checked out! Here are some of our favorites: Aaaarrgghh! Spider! by Lydia Monks Don't be scared! This spider just wants [...]
Here's a list of the last ten years' worth of books which have won Coretta Scott King Awards, with links to the copies available through the library. This should make it easier to find these important titles. I'll add older titles and of titles by award-winning illustrators as the month goes on. 2020: New Kid (Jerry [...]
Autoimmune diseases run rampant in the world today and it seems that new ones are being discovered all the time. I was recently diagnosed with an autoimmune disease that most doctors haven't even heard of, let alone know how to treat. So, I did what any librarian would do. I began researching for myself. I [...]
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson (2014), 336 pages (audiobook on CD) (ebook on Overdrive/Libby) (young adult adaptation) If you're like me, you've been fortunate enough to avoid much interaction with the criminal justice system. You may hope, as I always have, that it operates fairly and justly. But [...]
I have had several people ask me recently, what happened to the vertical files? You may have noticed that many of the filing cabinet drawers are empty. Fear not. We are NOT throwing them away. We recognize how valuable and rare the vertical file collection is and we are having them digitized for ease of [...]
