How can parents help prevent a student’s summer slide? Register your child for the summer reading program at the Marion County Library ...

These new titles are hard to categorize – perhaps they all have something to do with not giving up—but they are all easy to recommend.  The miscellaneous books below are all interesting, entertaining, or informative.

Some lighthearted and some dark, this contrasting mix of new novels showcase titles earning multi-starred reviews. They’re waiting for you on the new title rack. Read them and see how many stars you would award.

The Marion County Library will have a Used Book Sale in front of the library on Saturday morning during the FoxTrot Festival on Main Street in Marion. The sale will last from 9 a.m. until 1 p.m.  Look for the bright blue tent.

In order to keep up with all the interesting books we suggest you read, you can look up previous library columns on the library’s website at http://www.marioncountylibrary.org and click on the “What’s New” tab at the top of the page.

Library news: Here are a few powerful picture book biographies you can find at the Marion County Library.

Whether you’re looking to improve your life, ponder our current political climate, leave for a dangerous, vicarious sleuthing adventure, or have a mysterious romantic escape, we have a little something for everyone.

All the books in this week’s Library News column are of the absolutely “not-to-be-missed” variety. And there is much variety in the stories and voices they contain—put your name on the reserve list if you have to; they are all worth waiting for.

In this time of economic downturn, as personal resources are shrinking, people are flocking to their local public libraries. Unfortunately, though libraries are serving record numbers of people, declining revenues are forcing governments, state and local, to decrease or merely maintain funding. 

The Marion County Library Web site has a new look.

New Title rack offers variety to readers: Drama, mystery, romantic mystery, intrigue, and adventure – we’ve got it all. Break out of your rut and try something new from the New Title Rack.

Modern writers for teens have not shied away from any aspect of the subject of death, as a recent selection of new young adult books from the Marion County Library shows.

This simple song that the children and I sing together at the beginning of every story hour may not be on the Top 40 list ...

The Marion County Library has received a number of new, helpful, easy to use books on starting your own business. Check them out ...

The great lesson of biography is to show what man can be and do at his best ... choose one of the following to read in 2009. These books are available in the Marion County Library.