Dan Kainen is back with another wonderful Photicular book. His two other books Safari and Ocean were showstoppers. Polar , written by Carol Kaufman, a National Geographic writer, highlights a number of animals which inhabit the polar regions of the...
Author Archive for Maeve
Wednesday, Nov 25, 2015
How low will the price of gas drop this year? Iowa City recorded a low of $1.99 the first part of January 2015 and while the cost of filling your car has gone up since then, prices are trending down t
Sunday, Nov 15, 2015
Natsuko Kuwahara, a Tokyo food stylist and former baker and pastry chef has created a delightfully quirky book, Bread and a Dog . The bread in the title is what she would bake each morning for breakfast and the dog in the title is Kipple, a rescue...
Tuesday, Oct 6, 2015
Some of you may never have used a card catalog or touched an actual catalog card, so the news from Dublin, Ohio that OCLC printed its last catalog card may not have meant much to you. To those of us who used catalog cards or took cataloging classes...
Thursday, Jul 16, 2015
Summer the season of sun, fun and Rummage in the Ramp! This year Rummage in the Ramp is calling on you creative types out there to upcycle a castoff into a work of art. Rummage ReDux, a new event which supports the creation of artwork from...
Friday, Jul 3, 2015
Independence Day is two short days away and one of the best parts of the holiday is fireworks. Fireworks at home or the neighbor's house or in a park or campground are not legal, with the exception of sparklers and snakes. A bill in the Iowa...
Tuesday, Jun 23, 2015
I love Wednesdays in the summer because I know that when I get off work I can walk a little more than one block to the Farmers Market and find the garden of earthly eating delights. I will not have to make dinner, not that I make dinner much...
Wednesday, Jun 10, 2015
It's hot, it's humid, it's time for an iced tea. According to an NPR story on the history of iced tea, the Tea Association of the U.S.A states that 85 percent of all tea consumed in the United States today is sipped cold. Iced tea's history is...
Tuesday, May 12, 2015
Not only do wild flowers emerge in the spring, but wild animal young do, too. We've had questions about what to do when someone has found a nest of baby bunnies or a young robin on the ground or even a fawn without a doe nearby. Our natural...
Thursday, Apr 23, 2015
It's Money Smart Week and the Iowa City Public Library has a deal for you. Money Smart Week is a program of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and one of the activities is Dash for the Stash. DASH for the STASH, is an investor education and...
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About Maeve
Maeve previously worked at the Iowa City Public Library as the Adult Services Coordinator.