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I have nothing constructive to add to the government shutdown discussion. I haven't seen so much traffic on Twitter since the end of Republican primary debate season. Instead, in the kind of outside the Beltway minutia that only a state-level blogger...

Continue the reading progress your child gained in school by taking them to the library this summer. By showing excitement and sharing in curiosity of books, you will help your child enjoy reading, and not just see it as “work” or a subject in school...

Libraries have long been community gathering spaces where all members of society can gather around the pursuit of knowledge or the entertainment of a good read. But the outmoded function of the library as a giant warehouse for physical books means that...

When the Cedar River breached its banks in 2008 to flood downtown Cedar Rapids, IA, the entire first floor of the two-story Cedar Rapids Public Library (CRPL) Downtown Branch drowned in the deluge. The natural disaster occurred at the start of the recession...

Unless you live in Iowa or have spent time living there, the small midwestern state probably only hits your radar once every four years. But it’s a gem in the midwest. Of course, I went to college in small-town Iowa and loved my four years there immensely...