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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...
Summer really is right around the corner. Maybe not the weather, but certainly the end of the school year. While I still catch myself making plans for when I am off in the summer, I quickly catch myself and panic sends me back to making my real summer plans. This week...
Featured Summer Books Series Last summer Miss Maria began a weekly book club for patrons 9-13 years old. The Choose Your Own Adventure Book Club was actually in conjunction with the publishers of those books who provided swag for everyone who participated each week....