Summer Slip Slides Away at BPL

This past Friday, we said goodbye to the 2016 Summer Reading Program in style with a grand closing party featuring snacks crafts, sno cones, and a big ol’ water slide. Rather than describe the fanfare, I thought I’d show you the good times in live action: Continue reading →

Call the Library for Good Measure

People call the library for all kinds of reasons, each of which puts the skills of our staff members to the test in different ways. Many calls require searching for information. Some involve sleuthing and detective work. Others take patient technological talk throughs. These are the types of things you mentally prepare yourself to do … Continue reading →

The Library: Come for the Pokemon, Stay for Everything Else

In the week and a half since its release, Pokemon Go has engulfed the culture with the heat of a thousand Charizards. The augmented reality creature hunting game is a bona fide phenomenon, and so much has been said and written about it in its short existence that to write anything more already feels hackneyed. … Continue reading →

No Más Excusas

Whenever somebody asks me if the library has books in Spanish, I’m fortunately able to answer yes, but then most unfortunately have to follow it up with the caveat that we don’t have many of them, and they have to be hunted down in the general collection in which they are interfiled. It’s an answer … Continue reading →