The Main and the Robert Crown Branches of EPL will be closed Dec. 24th & Dec. 25th. We will reopen Dec. 26th for regular library hours.
June 8, 2016
The strangest thing about all the recent celebrity deaths is how universally beloved each passing man was. David Bowie, Prince, and now Muhammad Ali brought people together both in life and death. Ali has struck a particular note with fans, young and old. My Facebook feed this week was fascinating because friend after friend posted […]
June 3, 2016
Here at Evanston Public Library we never run short of good books. The latest crop is coming in now and there are some true doozies in the mix. Here’s a brief smattering of some titles that you may not read about in your New York Times Book Review but that remain very interesting just the […]
May 31, 2016
When moving to any new city, you try to get the lay of the land early on. Where’s the closest grocery? The local bookstore? The library branch (or three!). And since I moved here from NYC I wanted to immediately know precisely which publishers were local. Because my previous focus was children’s book publishing, I […]
May 26, 2016
This Friday at 11 a.m. on the third floor our annual falcon banding and naming ceremony will take place and you’re invited to come watch. Mary Hennen and Josh Engel from The Field Museum will band falcon chicks hatched at the Evanston Public Library Peregrine Falcon nesting site. The baby falcons (eyases) will also be […]
May 25, 2016
There are distinct advantages to belonging to the Evanston Mamas Facebook group. As a still relatively new transplant (almost a year in!) I continue to explore this wild, untamed wilderness you call “Evanston”. To aid me in my research I call upon folks who know the ins, the outs, and in the in-betweens. I suspect […]
May 21, 2016
Don’t know if you’re aware of it but today at 1:00 p.m. in the Community Meeting Room we are hosting our annual Senior Spelling Bee. What is it? Well, are you age 50 or older? Are you a resident of Illinois? Do you think you can spell? Here’s you chance to shine! Just register in […]
May 13, 2016
Spring is here and if you haven’t already treated your ears to the crack of a bat or the slap of a mitt, there’s plenty of time to do so. There are also plenty of amazing brand new books about America’s favorite pastime. So for your reading pleasure, here’s a whole slew of interesting baseball […]
May 11, 2016
When Prince died, a tidal wave of nostalgia swept the nation. All at once people wanted, no, needed to hear the full album of Purple Rain. To listen to something unique and entirely Prince-like. So imagine everyone’s surprise when it was discovered that sites like Spotify simply do NOT stream Price. Prince covers? Sure. But […]
May 7, 2016
In case you were unaware, our fledglings are hatching. As of this writing, there are three baby eyasses bouncing around the peregrine falcon nest here at Evanston Public Library. They are white, fluffy, and have a never ending pit of hunger in their bellies for sweet, delicious pigeon/bunny. I cannot embed the video here, but that […]
May 6, 2016
On this date in history in 1937, the German passenger airship The Hindenburg caught fire and was destroyed during its attempt to dock with its mooring mast at Naval Air Station Lakehurst in Manchester Township, New Jersey. Of the 97 people on board (36 passengers and 61 crewmen), there were 35 fatalities (13 passengers and […]
