Booneville Library
Express Yourself Contest Winners
Express Yourself Contest Winners Featuring Booneville Miss Hospitality Abbie Gamble George E. Allen Library in Booneville Ages 7 and Under Ages 8 – 9 Ages 10 – 11 Ages 12 – 14 Ages 15 – 18
Northeast Regional Library Blog
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James Holzhauer, Jeopardy! Champion and Reading Superstar
James Holzhauer, Jeopardy! Champion and Reading Superstar The Jeopardy! Champion, James Holzhauer, attributes his knowledge to the public library children’s non-fiction section. Visit us to develop your Jeporady skills! “I plan to give some of my winnings to the local branches here in Las Vegas,” says James Holzhauer, who has been on a record-winning Jeopardy! streak this week. He set a single-game record on Wednesday, April 9, by winning an unbelievable $110,914. The 34-year-old professional gambler from Read more…
News
Is Your Phone Spying on You?
Is Your Phone Spying on You? Have you ever searched for something and then suddenly an ad related to that search shows up in your social media feed? What about an ad for something you didn’t search for and only talked about buying? It’s sometimes creepy, but believe it or not, the majority of targeted advertisements aren’t the result of your phone spying on you. Companies like Facebook and Google have developed robust data mining Read more…
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We Are Open and Atriuum is Live
We Are Open and Atriuum is Live We are open as of 1 PM today. Please bear with us as we begin the adventure of using an entirely new and updated system for our libraries.
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Iuka Library: Stuffed Animal Storytime
The Iuka Library had a Stuffed Animal Storytime and Sleepover where the Stuffed Animals stayed all night at the library. Kids came to pick up their animals the next morning.
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The Surprising Benefits of Reading Before Bed
The Surprising Benefits of Reading Before Bed We’re all commitment phobes. We scan, we skim, we browse, but rarely do we read. Our eyes pingpong back and forth from Facebook posts to open chat boxes, unclicked emails to GIFs of dancing cats, scanning for keywords but barely digesting what we see. Average time spent on an online article is 15 seconds. In 2014, the Pew Research Centerrevealed that one-quarter of American adults hadn’t read a Read more…
Corinth Library
Corinth Police Officer Visits the Library
Corinth Police Officer Clifford Nix visited the Corinth Library on Tuesday afternoon for National Library Week. (Photos below). Nix talked to a group of children and adults about the life of a police officer. He also discussed the patrol vehicle and let a child sit inside. Corinth Today has a post that we borrowed a few pictures from at this link
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Iuka Library: National Library Week
National Library Week • April 7 -13, 2019 Join us for fun activities all week long! Monday, April 8 ONLY: FREE RAFFLE! Come by the Iuka Library and get a FREE entry form. Somebody will win an oil painting by Deanna Washington Gregory, certified Bob Ross Instructor©. Winner will be drawn at 6 pm Monday night. Tuesday, April 9: LIBRARY WORKERS’ APPRECIATION DAY: All current and former staff and volunteers are invited to drop in Read more…
Events
Library Advocacy Day
TUESDAY MARCH 12 WAS LIBRARY ADVOCACY DAY 2019 Mississippi librarians and library advocates flood the Capitol to voice their support of Mississippi libraries. #PassportToKnowledge
Authors
Happy Birthday Jack Kerouac!
Jack Kerouac (/ˈkɛruæk/; born Jean-Louis Kérouac (though he called himself Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac); March 12, 1922 – October 21, 1969) was an American novelist and poet of French-Canadian descent. Kerouac was born on March 12, 1922 in Lowell, Massachusetts to French Canadian parents, Léo-Alcide Kéroack (1899–1946) and Gabrielle-Ange Lévesque (1895–1973). He is considered a literary iconoclast and, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, a pioneer of the Beat Generation. Kerouac is recognized for his method of spontaneous prose. Thematically, his work covers topics such as Read more…
