ECRL Receives 2022 Spirit of Community Award
East Central Regional Library (ECRL) was honored by the Lakes & Pines Community Action Council, Inc. on Monday, October 3 with the 2022 Spirit of Community Award! Lakes and Pines had this to say on award night: “ECRL is this year’s Spirit of Community Award winner for being an asset to the communities and individuals […]
2013 BOOK AWARDS – Booker, Nobel, Pulitzer !
The votes are in, and the winners have been announced! Here are the authors and books that received major literary awards in 2013: THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE – Alice Munro Cited as a “master of the contemporary short story”, Munro is the first Canadian to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. She […]
Celebrating 25 Years of the MN Book Awards – From Main Street to Your Street
Now that fall is just around the corner, what a better time to settle down with a good book – and a good book written by a Minnesota author. The Minnesota Book Awards was created in 1988 by The Friends of the St. Paul Public Library and other libraries as part of the Festival of […]
Searching for a Grammy
When I was working the desk in a library in another state I both loved and hated certain times that elicited an increased amount of the calls we frustrated librarians called pursuit of trivia. Many of the calls came from Grammy Awards Night parties (or even Super Bowl parties). Tonight if you’re watching the Grammys […]
National Book Awards Finalists
The finalists for the National Book Awards were announced this morning. The winners will be announced on November 16th. The list of finalists is on the National Book Awards site at: http://www.nationalbook.org/ Use the NBA site to build your reading list with winners of past awards. Barbara Misselt, Director
Willow Skogen from Rural Isle Wins $1,000 from Minnesota College Savings Plan Sweepstakes
Mille Lacs Lake Community Library awarded $500 Thirteen year old Willow Skogen of rural Isle was selected as a winner in this summer’s “One World, Many Stories” @ Saving for College” sweepstakes, sponsored by the Minnesota Department of Education, State Library Services and the Minnesota College Savings Plan. Mark and Cameo Skogen, parents of Willow, […]
82nd ANNUAL ACADEMY AWARDS
On the evening of March 7, 2010, the 82nd annual Academy Awards were presented at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was officially organized on May 4, 1927, but the first “Oscars” were not awarded until May 16, 1929. That evening, in the ballroom of the Hollywood Roosevelt […]
Kurt Daudt and Bob Boese Receive MLA Awards
The Minnesota Library Association held its annual meeting recently in Mankato. Two local residents were presented awards at the MLA Awards banquet held on Thursday, October 25 on the Minnesota Sate University-Mankato campus. Kurt Daudt, Isanti County Commissioner, was presented with a Certificate of Merit by MLA. The Certificate of Merit is presented to one […]