As of Wednesday, the Main Library continues to experience an Internet outage. No computers, printing, or phones. You must have your library card to check out materials. The Crown Branch is fully operational. All locations are closed on the Fourth of July.
June 10, 2010
Eleanor Taylor Bland’s mysteries combined police procedurals with contemporary African American themes. Female cop Marti “Big Mac” MacAlister works with her white partner Matthew Jessenovik in the fictional Illinois town Lincoln Prairie (which was a stand-in for Waukegan ). We have most of her books beginning with her debut mystery Dead Time. Read more about […]
June 8, 2010
Last week, John Wooden, one of the greatest baskeball coaches of all time, passed away at the age of 99. In this article he wrote for Poetry Magazine, he describes his love of poetry and how he “constantly incorporated bits of poetry, rhymes, and maxims” throughout his long and distinguished career.
June 1, 2010
Before the riots at Kent State the information service answered students’ queries via telephone on a wide range of topics. Guess what? They still do today in the Internet Age. Heard on NPR. (Shira S., RA)
June 1, 2010
This article in the NY Times explains the various activities planned to celebrate a half century of the classic “To Kill a Mockingbird.” Not surprisingly, the reclusive author, Harper Lee, is not planning on participating in public gatherings honoring her famous work.
May 26, 2010
If good things truly come to those who wait then patient readers of sci-fi legend Philip K. Dick will soon have much to celebrate. With word of a future festival, film, and book all cropping up this past month, it seems that for PKD fans good news has been multiplying faster than the android hordes in one of the late author’s dystopian […]
May 24, 2010
Timothy L. Campbell is an Evanston based artist. He has recently created a series of drawings and short text pieces detailing the lives of residents of the fictional town of Colorido. EPL is pleased and honored feature Mr. Campbell as the first artist in our local artist exhibition series. You can currently view the Colorido project […]
May 24, 2010
Having worked in bookstores and libraries for many years and having loved books for even more years, it was with great delight that I came across an essay Kristy Logan wrote for The Millions about her overflowing collection of unread books. Like Logan, I too am guilty of stockpiling far more books than I will be […]
May 21, 2010
Whether you’re looking for a new book to read and aren’t sure exactly what you want or you’re looking for your next great read and are absolutely certain what kind of book you want, than have we got a tool for you. For the next two weeks EPL is featuring a free preview of Books […]
May 19, 2010
The death of postwar Yiddish writer Chaim Grade’s widow on May 2, means that his many untranslated, unpublished writings, which were jealously guarded by Inna Hecker Grade, may finally become available to general readers. Grade lived in Lithuania until the Nazis arrived. Eventually, he made his way to the New York, where he wrote for Yiddish newspapers. Not a lot […]
May 18, 2010
My mother, a dedicated 5th grade teacher, deplored comic books and refused to allow them in her classroom. “All kids do is look at the pictures; they don’t learn to read that way”. Dear old Mom. She was right about some things, (yellow is not my color) but dead wrong about comics…or graphic novels as […]
