Create, Read, Explore: Summer with the Library Started June 1 Summer with the Library is back with more fun, more activities, more community outreach — and more prizes! As of June 1, readers and adventurers of all ages can sign up and open the door to a whole season of possibilities. Individuals and families can…
(Photo | Courtesy of Kim Cooper Findling) “A perfect heroine’s journey.” The pandemic made working from home while caring for small children all too real for many parents. Growing a career alongside the kids is at once impossibly difficult, positively hilarious and just rewarding enough to keep you from walking out on the job. A…
(Photo | Courtesy of Deschutes Public Library) Step outside this spring to experience the new and improved StoryWalk installations at your library. Read, sing and play outside while enjoying a children’s book to help young readers develop a strong vocabulary, passion for reading and familiarity with sounding out words. StoryWalk is an outdoor reading experience…
(Aubrey Luse | Photo courtesy of RPA) Redmond Proficiency Academy (RPA) junior Aubrey Luse was recently awarded a Superior rating for her play, The Plant Crusade, from the Educational Theatre Association, an international organization dedicated to providing high school students access to theatre education. The Plant Crusade is about an awkward, poetry-loving student named Ophelia,…
(Photo | by Dennis McGregor) Sisters author Dennis McGregor has finished the sequel to You Stole My Name, a collection of paintings and verses about animals with unlikely shared names. The new book, You Stole My Name Too, features plants with animal names. Some of these combos, like Gooseberry, Crab Apple and Tiger Lily, are…
Kicking off A Novel Idea, new streaming service, access to consumer reports and more from your library. A Novel Idea 2021: Two Books + Two Authors = Something for Everyone! We’re just days away from kicking off the 18th annual A Novel Idea community read project. This year we are excited to have two books,…
Deschutes Public Library announced its selection of an owner’s representative to help guide the organization through its upcoming expansion and renovation of libraries throughout Deschutes County. After evaluating several proposals, the Library Board awarded deChase Miksis and GH Consulting, in partnership, the contract. Both are based in Oregon. “Selecting an owner’s representative is a crucial…
“Medalists Explore Change, Chaos and Reinvention” The COVID-19 pandemic has turned our world upside down, changing the way we live, work, shop, dine and seek entertainment. Online shopping, video conferencing, virtual events, and myriad changes to healthcare and sanitation have complicated basic human interaction — could the old-fashioned handshake become obsolete? This is the kind…
(Book covers | Courtesy of Autumn Toelle-Jackson ) Growing with Grief and Wise Ink Creative Publishing is pleased to announce that Boldly into the Darkness: Living with Loss, Growing with Grief & Holding onto Happiness, by Autumn Toelle-Jackson, has been recognized as a Finalist in the 23rd annual Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards,…
(Anis Mojgani | Photo courtesy of Central Oregon Community College) Anis Mojgani, a two-time National Poetry Slam champion, winner of the International World Cup Poetry Slam and Oregon’s current poet laureate, is headlining Central Oregon Community College’s (COCC) National Poetry Month celebration. From 6:30-8pm on Wednesday, April 7, Mojgani will give a virtual reading of…
