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by Morgan — January 15, 2017

With the winter cold in full effect, cabin fever is setting in. It's hard to work out all of your energy when you're stuck inside. So today...

by Beth — January 11, 2017

Cooking with cast-iron cookware is something you either love or you hate. Those who love it make it look so easy - their pans are a lovely...

by Jen E — January 10, 2017

Today at the information desk, we had a patron looking for Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letter from a Birmingham Jail." The patron wanted a...

by Casey — January 3, 2017

The votes have been tallied with more than 100 cast for our Mock Caldecott nominees. Of the fifteen titles chosen we are naming one winner...

by Dennis — December 31, 2016

Heroes come in all shapes and sizes, so it’s about time that superheroes did too. Plus-sized Faith Herbert is the title character of Faith...

by Meredith — December 31, 2016

It's here! Iowa City Public Library's Top Picks for 2016! Staff members nominated more than 100 books released in 2016 as their favorite...

by Meredith — December 30, 2016

It's believed the term "graphic novel" was coined by Richard Kyle in an 1964 essay, though it didn't gain popularity until the late 1970s...

by Meredith — December 29, 2016

Nonfiction books run the gamut from history and science to cooking and travel. The titles nominated for our Best of the Best list are...

by Maeve — December 28, 2016

I have recently read a couple of posts about food emoji and really wanted to learn about how an emoji goes from an idea to a pictograph on...

by Susan — December 28, 2016

We’re always learning at the Iowa City Public Library and recently we have learned a lot about bedbugs, because we found some at the...