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Iuka Library: Stuffed Animal Storytime
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.
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The Surprising Benefits of Reading Before Bed
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 Read more
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Iuka Library: National Library Week
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 Read more
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Staff Reviews: Melissa Albert The Hazel Wood
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 Read more
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Your Kids Can Now Watch Astronauts Reading Stories From Space
Your Kids Can Now Watch Astronauts Reading Stories From Space Reading to kids is wonderful and everything, but reading to kids from space is super awesome If you need to mix up your bedtime story routine a little bit, the Global Space Education Foundation has just the thing for you: Story Time in Read more
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Black History Month
The Iuka Public Library has a great Bulletin Board for Black History Month
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Equestrian Librarians
Female Librarians on Horseback Delivering Books, ca. 1930s In the 1930s, many people living in isolated communities had very little access to jobs, let alone a good education for their children. In Kentucky, they had isolated mountain communities which could only get their books and reading material from one source… Read more
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Luka, The Picture Book Reading Robot
Luka, The Picture Book Reading Robot Luka is a little owl shaped robot that reads picture books to your kids. Literally, it reads the book—you place a picture book in front of Luka and it reads the title. You turn the page and it starts reading the words on the Read more
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Why Reading Books Should Be Your Priority, According to Science
More than a quarter–26 percent–of American adults admit to not having read even part of a book within the past year. That’s according to statistics coming out of the Pew Research Center. If you’re part of this group, know that science supports the idea that reading is good for you on several levels. Reading fiction can help Read more
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Author Talk with Merle Temple
Deception, murder, money, and organized crime—these describe the world that Merle Temple has been involved in for most of his life. The Tupelo native spent his career as a deputy sheriff, as well as an agent and captain with the Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics during the first of the drug Read more