This year’s Winter Reading program begins January 15, the National Day of Service honoring Martin Luther King Jr. We kick off our program with a food drive to benefit food banks in Boone & Callaway counties. Bringing shelf-stable food donations will also enter you for a drawing to win an air fryer. January 15-26, 2024…
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In 2022 the Columbia Public Library celebrated 100 years of service to our community! We held special events as we looked back on those 100 years and ahead to the future. Read below about some of the ways our community celebrated our centennial with us! Centennial Time Capsule We put together a time capsule to…
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This winter, we invited you to spend quality time with others as you signed up your whole family for our annual Winter Reading program. We hope you had fun reading books, doing crafts and playing games with friends, family and neighbors. Winter Reading ended February 29. Finishers received a prize as well as a chance…
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The Daniel Boone Regional Library is once again hosting a year-long program around reading through Book Riot’s Read Harder Challenge. Monthly, we will have meet-ups to discuss and socialize with other readers who’ve taken on the challenge. For the time between the meet-ups, there’s an optional Facebook group in which folks can share their thoughts…
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Thank you for casting your vote for this year’s One Read community reading title. The winning book will be announced on May 23, and our Task Force organizations will begin the work of planning a variety of engaging programs for September. In the meantime, read more about our two finalists: “The Chinese Groove” by Kathryn…
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Many elementary school curriculum programs encourage kids to read narrative nonfiction (writing that tells a fact-based story) and informational texts. You can inject more facts and concepts into kids’ “reading diets” by enlisting the help of treasured storybook characters. A newly-published series is Curious George Discovers, in which our beloved monkey learns all about the…
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We are very proud of librarian Lauren Williams, adult and community services manager at the Columbia Public Library, who won the Ronald G. Bohley Award in October at the Missouri Library Association (MLA) conference for her work furthering library cooperation..
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For many of us, summer vacation is drawing to an end, and the new school year is just around the corner. Before you start packing those backpacks, there is one last major event to celebrate this summer – the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro! Here are some fun facts to share with your children about the Summer…
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This fall R.L. Stine, famed author of the beloved Goosebumps book series, held a contest with the Scholastic Reading Club called the Design-A-Monster Contest. To enter the contest, U.S. students in grades 2-6 were encouraged to draw an original monster, come up with a name for the creature and write up a short description of what makes it so…
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I’ve got a nice mix of books for you this month! Family and empathy, swimming and an adrenaline-packed, weeklong dragon race — there’s something for everyone to enjoy in our last full month of summer. Picture Books “There’s Always Room for One More” written by Robyn McGrath and illustrated by Ishaa Lobo Clare is looking…
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