Friday, November 21, 11:30-1:00 pm
Marvin Auditorium 101C

Join Nancy Katherns, RN, Cotton-O'Neil Heart Center as she discusses Peripheral Arteri-al Disease as it relates to cardiac care.

The National Book Awards for 2008 have been announced!  The winners are:

FICTION

Shadow Country by Peter Matthiessen

NONFICTION

The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed

POETRY

Fire to Fire: New and Collected Poems by Mark Doty

YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE

What I Saw and How I Lied by Judy Blundell

Visit the...

The eleventh annual Winter Wonderland a Celebration of Lights begins at Lake Shawnee Friday November 21st with a lighting ceremony at 6pm. This community event benefits the TARC Inc. of Topeka.  You can take a carload through the 2 mile holiday lights display through December 31st. Take a look at the Winter Wonderland site for prices, times, and special events including a chili feed at Reynolds...

Fall From Grace is a documentary which provides an amazingly unbiased look at the Westboro Baptist Church which is based here in Topeka, KS, and is run by Fred Phelps and his family.  The writer/producer/director, K. Ryan Jones, made this striking film as an assignment for a film class at the University of Kansas, not knowing just how far his subjects would take him.  Jones tells the story, or...

Books Outside the Binding
December 5, 2008 - February 13, 2009

We expect to find books at a library, but chances are you've never seen books quite like these.

2008 Score Big with Reading! Fall Reading Program 

Our “Score Big with Reading” fall reading program kicked-off in style with Midwest Martial Arts karate school on Saturday, October 11. Twenty-seven students of all ages from white belt to black belt wowed the audience with their katas, weapons, and sparring. Mr. Ronnie Moore, owner of the karate school, is a fifth degree black belt in...

Aspiring movie makers met to learn trick and tips of making movies from Washburn University Professor David Pownell and Curriculum Research Center librarian Heather Smith-Collins.  Students learned the difference in copyright and creative commons. Under Pownell's tutelage teens learned about tricks in filming and editiong their masterpieces. 

Teens interested in joining a technology club should contact the library at ya@tscpl.org.