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This week’s article is from Sage, one of our brilliant circulation clerks, who may be too humble to let you know that he created a lot of the resources mentioned: Has this happened to you? Some days, I walk into the library or pull Libby up on my

NaNoWriMo – as fun to say as it is to do!  For more than 20 years, aspiring and established writers have competed – against themselves and against the clock – to write a 50,000-word novel draft during the month of November.   Deciding to write a book

From Library Director Ryan Johnson: Just four years ago (although it feels like eight with COVID mixed in) the Friends of the O’Fallon Public Library elected a new president, Ray Farmer.  A few months after that, I took over as director.  It’s been a

There are currently 289 books on my TBR list. Of course, that’s only the list on my library account; it doesn’t include titles I’ve saved to Goodreads, or taken a screenshot of so I remember them, or saved in one of a million tabs open on my phone.  

I think about books as food a lot. (Please feel free to assume that here I have written – and deleted – several tortured metaphors about literature as nourishment, and so on). Mostly I think it’s the variety that resonates with me: I love a buffet, a

I think about books as food a lot. (Please feel free to assume that here I have written – and deleted – several tortured metaphors about literature as nourishment, and so on). Mostly I think it’s the variety that resonates with me: I love a buffet, a