Category: Inside Stories
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The Return of the Light: Finding Comfort in Winter
“This is the solstice, the still point of the sun, its cusp and midnight, the year’s threshold and unlocking, where the past lets go of and becomes the future; the place of caught breath.” ― Margaret Atwood, Eating Fire. Whether you celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Yule, the Winter Solstice, Diwali, Soyal, Yalda, Dōngzhì, Lohri, New…
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Animation that Excites, Manga that Inspires
As graphic novels are trending more and more, the term “manga” might have tickled your ear. What is manga and where did it come from? My name is Dillon, I am a new Library Associate here in our Information Services and Adult Learning Department. I’m here to shed some light on the subject. Manga (pronounced…
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How to check out at the library with your phone.
If you’ve ever seen a librarian at Russell pointing their phone at a pile of books, they’re probably using Meescan. We library staff love to find good books and movies while we’re on desk, and when we do we’re the first to check them out. We’re a bit greedy that way, sorry. Using Meescan is…
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A Haunting Experience
Secrets of Russell Library is over for another year. On three Fridays in October, staff led after-hours tours in the dark, telling visitors about the history of our old building and adding a few ghost stories. And with each tour I led, I secretly yearned to see some sign of the paranormal activity that staff…
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Have you heard about the new Activity Room?
Have you visited our Activity Room lately? Even if you don’t spend much time with children, you may have been in this room for our Secrets of Russell Library tours in 2022 or 2023. Many Middletown patrons remember this room before the 1983 Lobby addition, when it was a freestanding children’s library. Some patrons even…
The Library Vault 