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8-7-2026 For its September book, the Adult Book Club has selected local author Mary Ann Noe’s Deserving of Murder. Rather than a traditional book discussion, we are planning a Meet the Author event and a field trip. Mary Ann Noe is a docent at Ten Chimneys in Genesee...
7-3-2026 This Monday’s heat was too much for the FFA Petting Zoo, but not too hot for 50 parade goers or our local police department. The ETLPL’s annual Kids Parade and FFA Petting Zoo was held in the 90+ degree heat which eliminated the petting zoo portion. Bikes,...
5-22-2026 This week we announced the winners of the fourth-grade bookmark design competition. Each year the Collaborative Summer Library Program (CSLP) selects a theme and slogan and then commissions art work to illustrate that theme. Libraries across the county,...
5-15-2026 New and special programs receive the majority of this weekly article. I can testify to the continued health and welcome nature of ongoing programs. This winter I moved from 1700 square feet to 835. Doing so without going mad or needing tunnels to move around...
1-23-2026 Thank you to Prairie Lakes Library System for the $200 grant for our 1000 Books B4 Kindergarten program. I have vague memories of the program beginning back in the days when I was a ETLPL Board Trustee for the ETCSD and Alison Senkevitch was the library...
8-8-2025 Late in 2024 I viewed two webinars focused on servicing patrons with dyslexia led by two dyslexia tutors and former public-school educators. Even after twenty plus years of teaching it was an eye opener. Or perhaps...
It’s the final countdown. Eight days until the end of the reading portion of the Summer Reading Program. All reading grides and lists are due no later than 1:00pm July 26, 2025. Drawing for the raffle winners will take place at 1:15pm. I am very excited about the...
This week acts as the official bridge between our spring and summer at the library beginning with the Friends of the ETLPL Books and Bites on Saturday. We had collected so many books over the past year that it took nearly an hour and half to set up. Five hours later...