Need money for college? Find out how to get it! Representatives for the Federal TRiO Programs will be at St. Louis Public Library to assist current and future students with FAFSA, other types of financial aid, college and university admissions, and other relevant topics. Students of all ages welcome. Saturday, April 14, 1 - 2:30…
New Year’s Reading Challenge
It’s not too late to set a plan to challenge yourself this new year. We would be remiss as a Library if we didn’t talk about the ways to stretch your reading horizons. You can trip over a book challenge in any corner of the internet. For instance, there’s the basic one that Goodreads does…
“Becoming King: The Inspiration of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr” panel discussion at Schlafly
Next Monday, January 15, will be the 89th anniversary of the birth of the most influential civil rights leader in American history, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. This year will also mark the 50th anniversary of his death. What trials and experiences formed this young man, whose name and memory are now celebrated as…
New Year’s Resolutions – Use your library
Every year we make resolutions. Lose weight, exercise more, spend more time with family, or get organized. Invariably our determination peters out, for some by the end of the first week of the year. One resolution everyone should make is to use and support your library and encourage others to do the same. Public libraries…
What We’ve read, What We’re Reading
By Craig A patron introduced me to Paul Butler's Let's Get Free: A Hip-Hip Theory of Justice which was excellent, so I decided to read Chokehold: Policing Black Men which was also an excellent. Butler was a persecutor in Washington D. C. who, after his own unjust arrest and jailing, became sickened by being part of…
What We’ve read, What We’re Reading
Want to know what St. Louis Public Library staff is reading? Here are a few of our current reads. Barbara at Cabanne The Gatekeepers : How the White House chiefs of staff define every presidency / by Chris Whipple I read this book because after President Trump accepted the resignation of Reince Priebus, his chief…
Fake it ’til you Make it: Fictional Bands
A Visit From the Goon Squad - Jennifer Egan's Pulitzer Prize-winning short-story collection (or is it a novel?) features several musicians, bands and members of the entertainment industry. Since a theme is that the inevitable march of time is the true crusher of dreams, Egan's book doesn't paint as rosy a picture as some more aspiration…
Wizards of the Weird
This Halloween, get ready for a celebration of cinema at the Schlafly Library. Just in time for the St. Louis International Film Festival and the Contamination Pop Culture Festival, Wizards of the Weird celebrates short films in the Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror genres. Each director will screen their films and then answer audience questions. Here…
Staff Pick: Braiding Sweetgrass
Robin Wall Kimmerer, a Native American author, has a Ph.D. in Biology; she is also a professor and mother. Rooted in multiple places and identities, she weaves stories of family, students, Native Americans, plants, land and wigwams--and Native stories of origins and thanksgiving. Braiding Sweetgrass is a wonderfully human and earthy book that connects readers not only to earth, roots and Native respect…
Lost and Found at the St. Louis World’s Fair
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to personally experience the 1904 World’s Fair? Karl and Margie Kindt, along with the 1904 World’s Fair Society, will present the glass plate negatives of William H. Rau, alongside one of the most detailed firsthand descriptions of the Fair’s marvels provided from the journals of Laura…
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