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Graduation Robe Steam Station! Class of 2025 Look your best on graduation day by coming in and using the library's steam station beginning May 1! |
Need a location to take prom or graduation photos? Consider the library! Students and their photographers are welcome - the only provision is that photo taking not disrupt other patrons by blocking aisles, setting up of lights, etc. |
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Egg-citing News from the Children's Room! Stop by to check on the eggs in our incubator—we're expecting chicks to start hatching around **May 12th**! Once they begin to hatch, you can watch all the adorable action live on our YouTube channel |
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Community Jigsaw Puzzle Challenge! The puzzle is nearly halfway done! Come in and see the progress and lend a hand and try to fit some pieces together! |
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Art and Adventures with Author/Illustrator Dan Santat
Saturday, May 3 at 2 PM Register Dan Santat is the author and illustrator of over a hundred books for young people. Many of his books are New York Times-bestsellers, including The Adventures of Beekle: The Unimaginary Friend, Are We There Yet?, and After the Fall (How Humpty Dumpty Got Back Up Again). His latest works include the best-selling graphic novels, The Aquanaut and A First Time for Everything. Santat won the Caldecott Medal for most distinguished picture book in 2015, the National Book Award for Young People's Literature in 2023, and Golden Kite Award for Middle Grade Fiction in 2024. |
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Poverty: A Discussion with Matthew Desmond
Tuesday, May 13 at 7 PM Register Matthew Desmond is a professor of sociology at Princeton University and author of the award-winning book Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City. Desmond’s research focuses on poverty in the United States, city life, housing insecurity, public policy, racial inequality, and ethnography. Desmond is the recipient of a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship and was listed in 2016 among the Politico 50, as one of “fifty people across the country who are most influencing the national political debate.” These events are made possible by Illinois Libraries Present (ILP), a statewide collaboration among public libraries offering premier events. ILP is funded in part by a grant awarded by the Illinois State Library, a department of the Office of Secretary of State, using funds provided by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services, under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA). |
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