Archive for 2019

Miner Recs Newsletters & Podcasts

Miner Recs Episode 87: 96th Academy Awards

On this episode, Angelo, Ariana, Quinn and Charlie discuss the 2024 Oscars, including their own picks and predictions of movies nominated, opinions about actors and films that have been unfairly snubbed, and suggestions to the Academy for future categories.

Listen to their conversation in the player below:

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DIY with DPPL

DIY With DPPL: Mason Jar Lanterns

Hey, Kiddos! It's time for a new edition of DIY with DPPL!

This time, you'll learn how to make your very own mason jar lanterns.

 

The Lantern Festival, called Yuan Xiao Jie in Mandarin Chinese, falls at the end of the Chinese New Year. It takes place on the first full moon of the new year and celebrates the end of winter and the beginning of spring. Create your very own lanterns to celebrate the the Lantern Festival and use them to let in light into your world.

Starting on Saturday, March 2nd, stop by the Youth Services desk on the second floor of DPPL to pick up a kit (while supplies last!), and then use the materials to do the project we show you step-by-step in the video.

(Grade 1 and up.)

Kids & Parents

It’s Monarch Award Time - Vote by March 10th

Calling all Kids in Kindergarten through Third Grade.

It’s Monarch Award time and we need your help to pick the winning book!

Every year, the Association of Illinois School Library Educators chooses 20 books to participate in the Monarch Reader’s Choice Awards for kindergarten through third grade.  

Kids all over the state get to vote for their favorite book on the list and you can be one of them!

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Program Highlights Video Archive

Romance and Regency with Bridgerton’s Julia Quinn

Julia Quinn, bestselling and award-winning romance author, has written close to 40 novels including her popular series about the Bridgerton family which was adapted into an Emmy-nominated series on Netflix. Quinn will be joined in conversation with Sarah MacLean, bestselling historical romance author, romance columnist for The New York Times and The Washington Post, and co-host of the weekly romance novel podcast Fated Mates.

(This program originally aired over Zoom on February 20, 2024 and will be available until March 8, 2024.)