Lots of stuff is going on in the area this weekend! Here's a sample: Lois Lowry Author Visit, Friday, October 5 at 7:00 PM in Room A Get more specifics in this blog post . Get excited! (I am.) 7th Annual Iowa City Zombie March: Las Vegas!,...
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Wednesday, Sep 12, 2012
Julie Burton Terri Caplan Janet Godwin Todd Pettys Eileen Robinson Alan Swanson Welcome to the following community leaders who joined the Board of Directors of the Iowa City Public Library Friends Foundation. The Library’s Development Office...
Wednesday, Sep 12, 2012
The Iowa City Public Library Board of Trustees for 2012-2013. The Iowa City Public Library Board of Trustees for 2012-2013 are (l to r, front row) Mary New, Holly Carver (Secretary), Meredith Rich-Chappell (President), and (l to r, second row)...
Tuesday, Sep 4, 2012
Sock Monsters! Image via favecrafts.com I love crafting. I've loved it since I was a teenager, and I love getting other teenagers hooked on creating cool stuff with simple materials. I never really settled on one craft in particular, and instead I...
Wednesday, Aug 8, 2012
If you have been following the adventures of the latest Mars rover, Curiosity, pick up the story a little earlier with The Mighty Mars Rovers: The Incredible Adventures of Spirit and Opportunity by Elizabeth Rusch. Beginning with the determined...
Sunday, Apr 29, 2012
In 1937, everybody in Beijing was on edge. Except Pamela Werner. The nineteen-year-old daughter of a former British consul, Pamela had grown up comfortably, but largely unsupervised in Armour Factory Alley, outside the Legation Quarter where most...
Saturday, Mar 24, 2012
From http://www.ala.org/yalsa/best/2012 According to Gretchen Kolderup, YALSA's Best of the Best Reading Challenge begins April 1, 2012 (no April Fool's joke, I promise). She writes, "You'll have three months (until July 1, 2012) to read as...
Tuesday, Mar 20, 2012
Image from http://www.themarysue.com Jurassic Park is coming back to theaters! This was the first "scary" movie I watched when I was younger, and I can't WAIT to see it on a big screen! And I'm not a huge fan of the releasing movies in 3D...
Tuesday, Mar 6, 2012
Photo from http://www.wired.com/wiredscience It seems that as people who grew up playing with Legos become adults, more and more examples of AWESOME Lego sculptures (seriously, works of sculptural art) dance about on the internet. Take this recent...
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