Like This? Try That
If you liked The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Olympics by Daniel Brown, why not try ...
Shop Small
The Schaumburg Library wants you to join us and "shop small"!
Small Business Saturday falls on the Saturday after Thanksgiving every year, encouraging people to "shop small" and bring more holiday shopping to small businesses.
Food for Fines
If you owe fines for overdue Library materials, you can pay them off with non-perishable donated food items from Nov. 23 through Dec. 31, 2018.
Kristallnacht Reads
On Nov. 7, 1938, German diplomat Ernst vom Rath was fatally shot in Paris by 17-year-old Herschel Grynszpan, a Polish Jew. Grynszpan and his family had been among the estimated 12,000 Polish Jews arrested, stripped of their property and deported from Germany in October 1938. By shooting vom Rath, Grynszpan sought to alert the world to the grave situation in Germany under Adolf Hitler.
Veterans History Project
The Library is looking for local veterans who would like to share stories of their service.
Genealogist Tony Kierna is interviewing veterans about their experiences at war for the Veterans History Project. This initiative of the Library of Congress' American Folklife Center collects, preserves, and makes accessible the personal accounts of American war veterans so that future generations may hear directly from veterans and better understand the realities of war.
Flash Fiction Winners
The theme of the 2018 Flash Fiction Contest was "finding yourself in a new situation." We loved reading through all the entries and listening to your stories. Congratulations to our winners!
Hoopla is Here
You can now use your Library card to stream or download instantly through Hoopla – with no waiting or holds!
Hoopla is an online service for videos (movies and TV!), music, eAudiobooks, comics and eBooks.
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Who Was Meacham, Anyway?
Meacham, Bode, Higgins, Springinsguth ... we drive on these roads all the time, but how did they get their names?
Like This? Try That
If you liked Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt, why not try ...
War of the Worlds Reads
“Ladies and gentlemen, we interrupt our program…”
Of the many adaptations of H.G. Wells’ science fiction classic The War of the Worlds (1897), one of the most written about is the 1938 live radio adaptation by Orson Welles and his Mercury Theatre on the Air. Instead of Martians attacking Victorian England, the 23-year-old Welles set the story in modern day, with newscasters interrupting a music program to describe death and destruction spreading across New Jersey and New York.