May 2025 Book List: April Showers Bring May Flowers!
By Research Librarian Jessica McClain This oft-quoted proverb dates back to a 16th century work by English poet and Farmer Thomas Tusser. The lines appear in a sonnet included in the piece “A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie” as “And Aprill his stormes, to be good...April 2025: Library Appreciation Month
By Research Librarian Jessica McClain The American Library Association sponsored the first National Library Week in 1958, and we continue to recognize and celebrate the role of libraries and librarians in our communities during the first full week of April each year....Goodbye to Winter
By Keeper and Executive Director Tom Hardiman Last week we said goodbye to winter (at least according to the calendar). All-in-all, it was a winter to forget. The recent months have been sad for our Athenæum family. Just as we are planning our Memorial Concert on May...A Little Extra Love from Libraries
By Keeper and Executive Director Tom Hardiman I am a life-long library lover and have now reached an age when I think I have literally spent half my life in a library of some kind. A few years ago, my lovely wife bought me a new wallet for Christmas. As I was cleaning...Events Calendar
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