Newton Public Library invites local readers to explore the breadth and depth of its collection via its new 2020 Reading Challenge. Library staff have chosen reading prompts for each month, starting with this January’s prompt, “Read a Classic.” The definition of a classic is up to each reader, according to NPL adult services supervisor Dan…
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Last year, Newton Public Library IT supervisor Nathan Carr focused his monthly tech talks on the many and varied services offered by Google. In 2020, Nathan is planning to cast a broader net with a new theme: “Top 20 for 2020.” Each month, Nathan will highlight around 20 internet and technology resources you may not…
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We have one more “Top Books of the 2010s” list for you: top picture books! Each of these picture books has been checked out 138 times or more. Last month, we also highlighted our highest-circulating adult fiction, adult nonfiction, young adult fiction and middle-grade fiction books of the 2010s. Each title in this list is…
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Leading up to the New Year, NPL staff created a series of videos highlighting Newton’s highest-circulating books since 2010. You can find those videos on our Facebook page. Would you like to borrow these books in the new decade? Refer to the lists below. Each title is hyperlinked directly to our online catalog, where you…
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This winter, Newton Public Library is offering a three-part TALK (Talk About Literature in Kansas) discussion series exploring tales of the uncanny: “Ghost Stories.” Ghost stories arouse the same emotion that draws readers to mystery fiction: the desire to solve the problem of the past. Ghost stories try to explain what death is, where loved…
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From Sam Jack, sjack@newtonplks.org Last month, genealogist and local history researcher Darren McMannis gave an engaging program about travel accidents in Harvey County, “Roadside Crosses”. This evening at 7 p.m., Darren will be back to present “Unfolding the Fold3 Database.” Available free to all Kansas residents, Fold3 is an online database of more than 600…
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The Newton City Commission has approved Military Park as the site for a proposed new public library. The park, which is the current location of the library, was the top choice of attendees at two community meetings last month.
Allison Pate, residential director of EmberHope Youthville, will give a human trafficking awareness presentation at Newton Public Library, Dec. 16 at 7 p.m.
By Sam Jack – sjack@newtonplks.org Over the decades, millions of American high school students have been assigned to read Herman Melville’s 1851 whaling epic, Moby-Dick. The result? In 2019 – 200 years after Melville’s birth – millions of Americans have come to know and detest Moby-Dick. Few high-school students are going to enjoy reading (and…
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Rex Buchanan will speak about and show photos of little-seen Native American stone carvings, 7 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 4, at Newton Public Library.