In order to help ease the financial burden caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Niles-Maine District Library Board of Trustees, at a special board meeting on May 11, 2020, voted to approve an abatement of the 2019-2020 Library tax levy in the amount of $1 million, or 14.3% of the levy. This decision will reduce […]
As you likely already know, the Niles-Maine District Library is closed, along with all the schools in the state, and many businesses and places of work and worship, in order to decrease the spread of the Coronavirus. I am sure that with the school closings, many of you had hoped to use the Library as […]
I am not in the habit of checking books out of the Library. As a matter of fact, I tend to buy a lot of the books I read. As a member of Costco, I find myself browsing their book selections and picking up two or three at a time. After all, who wants to […]
You might think I’m biased towards Shakespeare because I’m a former English major, but I’ll tell you a secret: I was not a fan when I was in high school. In fact, I dreaded reading his works, mainly because they were blown over with little care given to biographical context, honoring students’ individual interpretations, or […]
