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February 23, 2017
Can you believe it was in 1885 when a librarians got together to decide on which penmanship style would be used for card catalogs? That’s right. The first card catalogs were hand written. For the entire story on these librarians created a handwriting style that would be used throughout […]
February 22, 2017
In our perfect world, there’s a pot full of books at the end of the rainbow…ok, ok, we’ll take the gold too. We can’t promise the luck o’ the Irish if you hang these posters in your library, but we do promise that it will inspire and encourage your patrons to read!
February 17, 2017
This holiday is most commonly called President’s Day, but the federal holiday is officially called Washington’s Birthday. The day honors all of the previous presidents of the United States. It became a federal holiday in 1879. There were four presidents born in February including George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, William Harrison […]
February 10, 2017
Today is National Umbrella Day. Umbrellas have been featured in many motion pictures, most notably: Singing in the Rain – 1952 & Mary Poppins – 1964 Book: Umbrella by Will Self: Umbrella Today is also National Cream Cheese Brownie Day You can find one of […]
February 7, 2017
Happy Birthday Charles Dickens! Here are a few facts that you may have never knew about of one the greatest and recognizable English writers of all time. Dickens loved going for walks. In fact, he would sometimes walk up to 20 miles outside of town. Though at times Charles lived […]
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