Voters may be looking for more information about the School Board Election and Bond Referendum vote TODAY - Tuesday September 12th. Early voting concluded on Monday September 11. On Election Day, all voters must vote at their polling place. Polls...
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Thursday, Sep 7, 2017
Forrest Spaulding Photograph 2017 marks the 100 th anniversary Forrest Spaulding's first appointment as Director of the Des Moines Public Library. He is a pioneer in the Library world for his advocacy for human rights and belief that all people...
Wednesday, Sep 6, 2017
Over the weekend I was cleaning out a cabinet and found an old Windows 7 laptop that I used to read eBooks from the Library via OverDrive. The laptop hadn’t been turned on since about 2012. When I started exploring, I felt a bit like Rip Van...
Tuesday, Sep 5, 2017
The Bookmobile Fall Schedule is off to a great start. The Fall Schedule runs through December 21 st and features four new stops including Hy-Vee on Waterfront Drive, Emerson Point retirement residence, Iowa City Walmart, and Mark Twain Elementary....
Friday, Sep 1, 2017
September is National Library Card Sign-up Month - the 30th anniversary of National Library Card Sign-up Month. This sign-up drive has been held every September since 1987, at the beginning of the school year, to encourage everyone to sign-up for a...
Monday, Aug 21, 2017
A quick reminder the Bookmobile is not out this week due to scheduled maintenance, staff training and preparations for the Fall Schedule which begins on Monday August 28. To see the Fall Schedule, navigate to icpl.org/bookmobile and click on the "
Thursday, Aug 17, 2017
If you missed the Library's " Great Eclipse of 2017 " program on Monday August 14 with Brent Studer, Adjunct Professor of Astronomy at Kirkwood Community College, here's your chance to watch it online. Professor Studer explains the circumstances...
Tuesday, Aug 15, 2017
The Library has glasses to distribute ... but there's a catch. The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation partnered with the National Center for Interactive Learning and StarNet to provide a limited number of solar eclipse glasses for the Library to...
Tuesday, Aug 15, 2017
The Johnson County Auditor's Office recently released information about early voting for the September 12 School Board Election and Bond Referendum. If you are wondering more about what the Bond Referendum is all about, check out Maeve's Blog Post...
Monday, Aug 14, 2017
It's been a great summer on the Bookmobile! We drove over 1,000 miles, hosted an average of 700 visitors a week, and checked out over 6,000 items. That's about 6 checkouts per mile :) The Bookmobile will take a break August 21-25. This is a time...
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About Kara
Kara was the Community and Access Services Coordinator. She retired in June 2020.