Is Your Phone Spying on You? Have you ever searched for something and then suddenly an ad related to that search shows up in your social media feed? What about an ad for something you didn’t search for and only talked about buying? It’s sometimes creepy, but believe it or not, the majority of targeted advertisements aren’t the result of your phone spying on you. Companies like Facebook and Google have developed robust data mining Read more
We Are Open and Atriuum is Live We are open as of 1 PM today. Please bear with us as we begin the adventure of using an entirely new and updated system for our libraries.
The Iuka Library had a Stuffed Animal Storytime and Sleepover where the Stuffed Animals stayed all night at the library. Kids came to pick up their animals the next morning.
The Surprising Benefits of Reading Before Bed We’re all commitment phobes. We scan, we skim, we browse, but rarely do we read. Our eyes pingpong back and forth from Facebook posts to open chat boxes, unclicked emails to GIFs of dancing cats, scanning for keywords but barely digesting what we see. Average time spent on an online article is 15 seconds. In 2014, the Pew Research Centerrevealed that one-quarter of American adults hadn’t read a Read more
Corinth Police Officer Clifford Nix visited the Corinth Library on Tuesday afternoon for National Library Week. (Photos below). Nix talked to a group of children and adults about the life of a police officer. He also discussed the patrol vehicle and let a child sit inside. Corinth Today has a post that we borrowed a few pictures from at this link
National Library Week • April 7 -13, 2019 Join us for fun activities all week long! Monday, April 8 ONLY: FREE RAFFLE! Come by the Iuka Library and get a FREE entry form. Somebody will win an oil painting by Deanna Washington Gregory, certified Bob Ross Instructor©. Winner will be drawn at 6 pm Monday night. Tuesday, April 9: LIBRARY WORKERS’ APPRECIATION DAY: All current and former staff and volunteers are invited to drop in Read more
TUESDAY MARCH 12 WAS LIBRARY ADVOCACY DAY 2019 Mississippi librarians and library advocates flood the Capitol to voice their support of Mississippi libraries. #PassportToKnowledge
Jack Kerouac (/ˈkɛruæk/; born Jean-Louis Kérouac (though he called himself Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac); March 12, 1922 – October 21, 1969) was an American novelist and poet of French-Canadian descent. Kerouac was born on March 12, 1922 in Lowell, Massachusetts to French Canadian parents, Léo-Alcide Kéroack (1899–1946) and Gabrielle-Ange Lévesque (1895–1973). He is considered a literary iconoclast and, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, a pioneer of the Beat Generation. Kerouac is recognized for his method of spontaneous prose. Thematically, his work covers topics such as Read more
Staff Reviews: The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert Last Sunday night I made a terrible mistake. I started Melissa Albert’s The Hazel Wood just thirty minutes before bed and then I didn’t want to put it down! I stayed up way too late night after night as I became caught up in seventeen-year-old Alice Proserpine’s story of all the creepy, bad things that have followed her and her mother as they’ve spent their lives on Read more
The Book Was Almost Thrown Away Friends of the Memphis Public Library Sold it for $1,250 You never know what you’ll find in a bin of old books. In the case of the Friends of the Memphis Public Library, you might just find a book worth $1,250. That’s how much the organization made off a 1968 first-edition of a science fiction book called “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” It was the most a former Read more
