Growing Season Coming Soon
The growing season is coming soon to east central Minnesota. A stop at your local ECRL library to check out some gardening books and magazines can inspire you to start planting. These books from the ECRL collection offer some tips and advice for growing food and flowers throughout the summer. Plant marigolds near tomatoes or […]
Magazines Aren’t Just Print Anymore
Libraries are usually known for their books, but magazines are an overlooked part of the collection. ECRL has magazines in a variety of formats, depending on your needs. The most basic is the old-fashioned paper magazine. ECRL subscribes to many magazines throughout their 14 branches so if you are looking for a magazine […]
Winter Delights
At the Mille Lacs Branch of East Central Regional Library, we slow down at this time of year so I have the time to write a blog posting. The snowbirds have flown south to their condos and trailers. The rest of us are left to face winter. It could be a daunting five months of […]
Last-Minute Election Information
If you’ve suddenly realized that you’re not quite prepared for the upcoming elections, your friendly local librarians are ready to help you out. Except where it’s noted otherwise, all of the following information comes from the Minnesota Secretary of State’s web page. Register to vote in Minnesotahttp://www.sos.state.mn.us/index.aspx?page=204 Find your polling placehttp://pollfinder.sos.state.mn.us/ Need a ride to your […]
It All Started in Minnesota
Summer reading has been around for a long time at East Central Regional Library. Vickie Sorn, our Youth and Community Services Librarian, has a list of ECRL’s summer reading themes going back to 1978*. Bionic Readout was the theme that year—must have been the year of the Six Million Dollar Man. The early themes, prizes […]
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, […]
ECRL PRESENTS: Fool in a Mask Productions !
From June 28th through July 9th the library will present Fool in a Mask Productions in “The Amazing Adventures of Stuart Lindman and Other Short Plays”. Four young actors will perform in four short plays commissioned for the “Minnesota’s Greatest Generation Project”. This program is made possible through the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund and […]
Letter from Japan
This E-mail came from John Becker, a Milaca branch patron who has moved to Japan. He tells us about the library in Japan. I GOT MY LIBRARY CARD!!!! 4 years ago the library here was small, but I didn’t know that from last year they have a new library. It is nice, I have my […]
Thank you letter we received
April 23, 2009East Central Regional Library Staff,There are eight book-club members in Milaca that are in awe of the precious right to borrow books from our very own community library. Our April book selection was one of your book-club kits. Just like that we were on the same page at the same time reading with […]
Visitors brighten the day
I wanted to share a day brightener that we just had: A small family group just came in to see the library. They are in from all over the U.S. to visit their aunt. The only thing the aunt insisted they do is to come to see the new library! Aren’t we just the cat’s […]