For the community, by the community
It’s now or never, so we are going to have a quick Friends Members Only FREE Day this Saturday, April 10, 10 am – 6 pm at the Friends of the Library Book Warehouse, 13081 Coffing Rd, Mount Vernon.
This week, the Public Library of Mount Vernon and Knox County encourages all community members to visit their website to explore and access virtual services and programs. The Public Library of Mount Vernon and Knox County offers a wide array of online resources that are available from the comfort of home, including Hoopla, Libby, Ancestry Online, Fold3, Acorn TV, Kanopy, Chilton Library online repair database, Transparent Language, Universal Class, business research databases and more.… Read full story
Monday, March 11, 2021 via Zoom at 7:00 PM
KAREN MEYER’S passion for history began as a young girl and led her to copy an early Ohio settler’s diary in her senior year of high school. After earning a bachelor’s degree cum laude in English and Education, she became an Air Force wife, and over the course of nine years lived in places as far away as Labrador.… Read full story
As writers, we make things up, invent, lie, contrive, exaggerate, understate—whatever it takes to get the job done. But nonfiction is supposed to be true, isn’t it? Unlike fiction, shouldn’t nonfiction always be realistic? Believable? Factual? No. Nonfiction can be just as full of magic, imagination, and impossible beings and phenomena as the most fantastic fiction.… Read full story
Are you ready for winter? Our last day open to the public until next year will be Saturday, November 14, 10 am – 6 pm. Hurry over and stuff a bag with movies, music, and books for a $5 donation to the Friends of the Library.… Read full story
We are excited to announce a new book on the “Storybook Trail” at Wolf Run Park! It is titled Gorgonzola written by Margie Palatini and illustrated by local Mount Vernon Artist, Tim Bowers. Tim has had three of his titles listed on the New York Times Best Selling List.… Read full story
Looking for something fun to do this weekend? Check out the Ohioana Virtual Book Festival! The event will be online Friday the 28th through Sunday the 30th. No registration is necessary for the FREE event! Check out the schedule at http://www.ohioana.org/progr…/ohioana-book-festival/schedule… Read full story
Congratulations to the 2020 Knox County Battle of the Books Team Champions, Twin Oak Elementary School and this year’s second place team, Columbia Elementary School.
The year-long reading competition, open to teams of Knox County fifth graders, is sponsored by Central Ohio Technical College, Public Library of Mount Vernon and Knox County and Friends of the Library.… Read full story
We are getting excited for the 2020 Adult Summer Reading Program, June 1-July 3, 2020! This year our theme is “Imagine Your Story.”
We have several options for patrons to register. Online registration will be live Monday, June 1 for all ages.… Read full story
We miss you. We miss talking about books. We miss talking to you about books. Two weeks of this is enough. Paragraphs Bookstore will digitally “reopen” on April 1. (This is not an April Fool’s joke.) If you want to order a book or books, go to our website https://paragraphsbookstore.indielite.org/… Read full story