It's National Hispanic Heritage Month! This celebration, which runs each year from September 15 - October 15 to commemorate the independence days of many Latin American nations, honors the culture and contributions of Hispanic and Latinx Americans. Today, I collected some biographies of amazing Latinx Americans for all ages. For the younger crowd: Dancing Hands: [...]
Sometimes you just need to share a good laugh with your kids! A couple of weeks ago, one of the Grab Bag requests I received asked for hilarious picture books that made you laugh out loud. It was such a fun request to fill and I turned to some of my librarian colleagues for more [...]
As a civic institution, the library encourages everyone to vote if they are eligible. In pursuit of that, and in honor of National Voter Registration Day earlier this week on the 22nd, here is some information about voting in Indiana: Voter registration deadline is October 5; if you are mailing your registration in, it needs [...]
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 [...]
I have spent much of my work from home time creating Family History class tutorials, since our scheduled Family History classes were canceled due to the pandemic. Ordinarily, there are four two-hour Beginning Family History classes and four two-hour Intermediate Family History classes. I have streamlined these, broken them up, and rearranged some of them [...]
Join us for Discovery Friday this fall on Fridays at 10:30 AM beginning September 11. You can sign up to reserve a free cotton face mask that you can decorate however you like. We'll also have S.T.E.M. activities with Purdue Extension and art programs from the library and the Carnegie Center of Art & History. [...]
Here’s the Rub: Experiencing History Through Art Blog and artwork by: Al Gorman, Coordinator of Public Programs and Engagement Carnegie Center for Art and History, A Branch of the Floyd County Library With minimal art materials (paper, graphite, crayons, for example), you can explore history through the built environment around us. As we have experienced [...]
There are lots of ways to make a family! Check out some of these picture books about adoption and foster care. I'm Adopted! by Shelley Rotner. With photographic illustrations showing families of many different races and ages, this book's basic, informative text explains what adoption is and why some children are adopted. It validates an [...]
As we carefully reopen our services at The Floyd County Library, you may be wondering: If I can't get into the library and pick out my own books from the shelf, how can I get the book I want? You may be surprised to learn that, even right now, there are many ways to do [...]
As of August 18, it has been one hundred years since the 19th Amendment was ratified, guaranteeing the right to vote for (white) women. If you would like to read up on this historic event and the movement that precipitated it, look no further than this book list! The Woman's Hour by Elaine Weiss (2018, [...]
