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50th Anniversary: "I Have A Dream" Speech   On August 28th, 1963 at 3pm Eastern time, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech. To honor the 50th Anniversary, we will be showing a film of the speech at several of our branches.  Please join us and the rest of the nation as we celebrate this historical moment. Click here for branch information:  Events & Programs .

OverDrive Media Console has an ever growing history with mobile platforms. We first released a mobile version of OMC on the Windows Mobile platform in September of 2009, followed soon after by the Android version in December of ’09, and then the BlackBerry version in February ‘10 and finally on iOS devices in April ’10. Since then, we have included Windows Phone and Windows 8 in the OMC app family and worked hard to improve the apps; from adding the ability to read eBooks, to trying to unify the visual experience between devices, to simple bug fixes.   Many changes have swept through the mobile device platforms since then and we’ve kept up with the pace of technological growth, bringing you the latest and greatest version of OMC. My fellow OverDrive blogger, Adam Sockel, gave you a great overview of what to expect with the newest release, and we have a couple live training sessions scheduled as well. To help get you excited for this new release, I’m here to give you a clos...

Downloading FREE Literature from SYNC is coming to an end! Download the final YA Novel from August 15th-August 21st. This week's download is Sold by Patricia McCormick. "Lakshmi, raised in a small hut on a mountain in Nepal, journeys to India to take a job to support her family. There she is tricked into prostitution and must risk everything to reclaim her life." Eventhough SYNC's summer downloads are coming to an end, remember your library has its own digital collection of eBooks and Audiobooks. Check it out and download today!

Hey kids, what if you could learn, have FUN & make friends at the Library with an interactive learning table? You can. It’s called a SMART Table. Gather around this multi-touch, multi-user table to explore educational games and work together on interactive learning activites.  Find it at the Epps Library, Central Library, Moss Bluff Library and now the Iowa Library . It’s so COOL!

We Need New Names by  NoViolet Bulawayo Reviewed by  Gabriel Morley Library Copies   A new generation of novelists is emerging from the continent of Africa, bringing a rich variety of stories and images with them. These stories are immense, frequently unsettling and often overlooked in America, but NoViolet Bulawayo’s new novel “We Need New Names” is begging to be noticed. Bulawayo’s coming of age tale features Darling, a 10-year-old girl in Zimbabwe who lives in a shanty town called Paradise. Darling and her mother have been uprooted by civil unrest and forced to live in Paradise in a one-room shack made of corrugated tin. Hundreds of other displaced Zimbabweans are crammed together with them. But Darling has hope. Her aunt lives in America and Darling insists it is only a matter of time before she joins her relatives in Destroyedmichigan (Detroit, MI). In the meantime, Darling and her friends, including a pregnant 11-year-old named Chipo, prowl the streets day...

Do you have what it takes to survive? Find it at your library!!! Survive the Zombie Apocalypse!

It's very scary when you have to find another job! Or maybe you've decided to try a new career. That means it's time to create a resume, right? Don't add to your anxiety with the stress of figuring out how to create a professional resume or polish an old resume. In 3 easy and quick steps, you can create a professional resume with  Cypress Resume from your Library. Okay so you have the resume builder, but you don't have a computer or laptop? Now what? Did you know that your library has computers that you can use or that you can actually check out laptops? The laptops, housed at the Central Library (721-7116) &  Sulphur Regional Library  (721-7141) , are provided to Calcasieu Parish by the State Library of Louisiana as part of the Broadband Technology Opportunities Program of the Department of Commerce. Included/installed software/programs are Microsoft Office 2007, Adobe Acrobat Reader, QuickTime Vie...