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Thursday is Halloween, and the library will be celebrating in style! We kick things off in the morning at 11 with the Children’s Department Trick or Treat at the Library. Meander your way through the Library, going desk to desk collecting yummy, yummy candy. Kids are, of course, encouraged to dress in costume. And after […]

We’re all doing more and more on our phones (and tablets) these days, but did you know the library is on your phone, too? Well, it’s true. You can read books, watch movies, learn a foreign language, even finally figure out how to tackle Excel spreadsheets, all from a mobile device. If you want to […]

Election Day is now less than a month away on Tuesday, November 5. There are several issues on the ballot locally and some contested races for office, and all of them can be confusing to figure out. Thankfully, The League of Women Voters of the Canton Area has put together their guide once more to […]

Since the library started upgrading the staff computers to Windows 10, we’ve been forced to make some adjustments. One of the things that has happened is that the default display setting is smaller than it used to be. The icons on the desktop are smaller, the open windows of the software we use all the […]

Every fall in Stark County residents are asked to read the same book and then join in programing and book discussions about the work. This year’s book is Beautiful Boy by David Sheff, a memoir about his son, Nic’s, drug addiction. (There is also a separate book for young readers: High, co-written by David and […]

As I’ve mentioned a couple of times on this blog, I’m a writer in my spare time. In fact, it’s my primary hobby, as my overgrown flower beds can attest. I like writing and talking about writing, so it probably won’t come as any surprise that this Saturday’s Local Author Fair is something I’m really […]

If you stopped by Amazon today to buy an ebook copy of Vendetta in Death, the latest J.D. Robb book that currently sits atop the New York Times Best Sellers list, it would cost you $14 and it would be all yours to read and reread as many times as you like. If the library […]

Yesterday I was chatting with my coworker Elizabeth about audiobooks. We’re both always on hold for audiobooks through the Ohio Digital Library, but sometimes we have a gap while we’re waiting. I mean, it never seems to fail that the audiobook I’m most excited for on my hold list says it will be available soon […]

For the past two years, no adult program has brought in as many people as our wildly popular Tai Chi. Over 900 people have come to either one of our weekly sessions, summer monthly sessions, or gotten a taste at our How-To Festival. And next week, it all starts back up again. Every Tuesday from […]

It’s the last week of August, and things are pretty quiet here at the library. Well, quiet in that we don’t have a lot of programs and activities going on. It’s extremely not quiet in the auditory sense. Our various construction projects are in full swing, and as I type this, there’s some horrible drill […]