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 […]
Have you used Lynda.com before? If not, prepare yourself – it’s a tad addictive. I was lucky enough to be introduced to Lynda during my undergraduate studies at the University of Illinois (courtesy of our generous library system, of course. Yay libraries!) I used it primarily to learn web development skills like HTML/CSS, accessibility coding, […]
