Suggested Family Activity • Summer Reading Theme 2 Farm Tales This week, NERL branches begin Theme 2 of our 2021 Summer Reading Program “Tales and Tails.” For the next two weeks, we’ll be discovering all the variety of animals that live and work on farms as part of our “Farm Tales” activities, so pick up your new activity packet soon! Packets are available for Families, Ages 6 and under, Ages 7-11 and Ages 12 and Read more…
Suggested Family Activity • Summer Reading: National Loving Day Tomorrow is National Loving Day. This is the perfect day to extend loving kindness to others around you. One way to show loving acts of kindness is by using your manners and being polite, such as saying “Please” and “Thank you” and holding open a door for someone and then stepping back to allow them to enter in front of you. Another way to be loving Read more…
The Northeast Regional Library System has recently been awarded an Anti-Racism Reading Shelf Grant by the Mississippi Humanities Council in the amount of $1500.00. This program is financially assisted by the National Endowment for the Humanities through the Mississippi Humanities Council. A total of 87 titles were distributed to NERL branches across Alcorn, Prentiss, Tippah, and Tishomingo counties. New materials made possible by this grant are a combination of adult titles and those aimed at Read more…
Top 10 Tips for Reading to a Child Get everyone in your family involved – parents, baby-sitters, grand-parents, aunts & uncles, brothers & sisters – anybody! Don’t be self-conscious and worry about how you sound. Each person has a different reading style so read however you feel most comfortable. All your child cares about is that YOU are reading to THEM. Feel free to change the text by adding words or phrases to make it Read more…
Love Lettering is now live on your OverDrive site until February 24 with no waitlist! The title is available in both the ebook and audiobook formats. Be a part of the conversation A discussion guide is available here. And, you can join the conversation on Overdrive’s discussion board. Author Interview Don’t miss OverDrive’s Professional Book Nerds podcast interview with author Kate Clayborn. Click here to learn more about Overdrive, the Libby App and how to Read more…
The Corinth Library is temporarily closing due to a Covid-19 exposure. The library will reopen on Friday, February 5th if possible.
Congratulations to Northeast Regional Library The winner of this year’s Jane Smith Literacy Award. You can learn more about their project, which promotes activities that build early literacy skills at home, here: https://www.nereg.lib.ms.us/family-activities/ #JaneSmithLiteracyAward #Literacy #MSLibraries
We are so thankful for Ms. Greene and all the work she does to help make the monthly packets. My kids have loved working on all the activities. – Ashley Higginbottom
The Deadly Irish Epidemic That Helped Bring Dracula to Life from Atlas Obscura. Forget Vlad the Impaler. A 19th-century cholera outbreak in Sligo may have been Bram Stoker’s chief inspiration. AN AFTERNOON WIND FUNNELS DOWN deserted Old Market Street, past shuttered shops and darkened restaurants. The rowdy Irish student town of Sligo has been frozen. It is two months into a strict nationwide lockdown enforced by the Irish government to combat the novel coronavirus, which has Read more…
Library SnapShot Day 2020 It may have looked a little different… but that’s ok!