We recently completed our strategic plan document to guide the next three years.  This process started at the end of last year when we asked the community to complete a survey and then began holding focus groups.  We also created a Needs Assessment that included demographic information about the community, library statistics, our Edge benchmark scores, our Impact Survey results, and the results of the…

Joy Harjo is an internationally renowned performer and writer of the Muscogee Creek Nation and was named United States Poet Laureate this year.  Her latest book of poetry, An American Sunrise, is on this week’s shelf of new books.  Harjo resides in Tulsa, Oklahoma.     American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race by Douglas Brinkley The historian author of Cronkite draws on…

Some authors are known for spinning a good yarn.  Tea Obrecht, author of The Tiger’s Wife, has spun a new one that comes highly recommended and is on this week’s shelf.   The Bitterroots by C. J. Box Former police officer Cassie Dewell is starting over with her own private investigation firm and an old friend calls in a favor: she wants Cassie to help exonerate…