Adult | Books | Education | Humanities
Neoliberalismo y capitalismo académico.
de Jaime Ornelas Delgado
NEW BOOKS: JANUARY 2020
Are you tired of reading the same ole’ books? HAVE NO FEAR! Your friends at the Children’s Library in Homewood have some amazing NEW options for your awesome readers! Instead of only listing new books, each person in TCL chose a new book from the shelves, read them, and wrote a personalize statement about what…
Martin Luther King Jr., Day: “A Place to Land”
If you don’t know anything else about Martin Luther King Jr., you are definitely familiar with Dr. King’s famous “I Have A Dream” speech that was spoken to millions of people at the March of Washington on August 28th, 1963. His speech became the catapult to bring about justice and equality for African Americans during…
Adult | Education | Humanities
Rethinking Education — Reaffirming a humanistic approach (UNESCO).
“Sustaining and enhancing the dignity, capacity and welfare of the human person, in relation to others and to nature, should be the fundamental purpose of education in the twenty-first century.”
National Squirrel Appreciation Day
Yep, I know what you’re thinking…“National Squirrel Appreciation Day?!?” Uh-huh! National Squirrel Appreciation Day is an actual day! A real day! But here’s why! In 2001, Christy Hargrove, who is an wildlife rehabilitation specialist, founded National Squirrel Appreciation in Asheville, North Carolina. Christy created this day to encourage people to build kind attitudes towards these…
Beyond Books Presents: Winnie the Pooh!
Today is A. A. Milne’s birthday! He was born on January 18, 1882. We celebrated by throwing a Winnie the Pooh Party with lots of games, snacks, crafts, and reading Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World’s Famous Bear written by Lindsay Mattick and illustrated by Sophie Blackall. Patrons were so fascinated by the…