Internal Press Releases

This week’s database highlight, African American Heritage, provides unique sources and support for African American genealogy. The database ties together historical records from the census and military, as well as, the slave register and Freedman’s Bank. In addition to records, researchers are connected to the AfriGeneas Community - a website offering advice, forums, and other ways to exchange information.

The new Access Training is finally upon us! While we wish we could train everyone interested in the first round of training this Spring, we realized that we have limited resources – both in training laptops and in how many people can be out of a library at a time.

Knowing that many people are interested in the training, we have posted all the training manuals, which includes the following documents.

The next Executive Director Search Committee Meeting is Feb. 13 at the Downtown Library at 2:30 PM.

It’s almost Valentine’s Day! Time to celebrate all things hearts and cuddles and romance. Statistics don’t lie, Romance is one of our top circulating genres. If this isn’t a genre you read widely in, it might be hard to make book recommendations.