The Arrowhead Library System will be providing public libraries across the region Color Your Yard Tire Wildlife Feeder Take and Make Kits to distribute during the month of October. These Legacy kits, designed by April and Reggie Fountain of Fountain Art in Chisholm, include everything you will need to make a colorful piece of art [...]
The finalists have been announced for the third annual Minnesota Author Project in the Adult and Young Adult Fiction and the Communities Create categories -- please note three are from the Arrowhead Library System region, yay! ADULT FICTION The Wolf’s Trail by Thomas D. Peacock (Duluth Public Library) 50 Shades of Worf by Christopher Schmitz [...]
September is Library Card Sign Up Month, sponsored by DC's Wonder Woman, the Arrowhead Library System and the American Library Association. Library staff can promote this on your websites, Facebook pages, blogs and more by using this article, graphics and links. You can also replace text or graphics with your own ideas, logos and photos [...]
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Welcome to Minnesota Broadband Speed Test Initiative crowd-sourced broadband project: http://mnruralbroadbandcoalition.com/speedtest From this web site data can be collected about your broadband speed (no tracking cookies!) and create a map for your community that will help your community in efforts to get grants and other support to improve broadband for your community. Please make sure that no [...]
Here’s a round-up of Arrowhead Library System Mini Grants that were completed in 2019 and 2020 at Eveleth-Gilbert Public Schools, Eveleth Public Library, Cook County Public Schools, Coleraine Public Library, Hibbing High School Library, Moose Lake Public Library, Duluth Public Library, Mountain Iron Public Library, Calumet Public Library, and Iron Range Historical Society. Project: AR/VR [...]
Arrowhead Library System (ALS) has a long-standing commitment to maintaining a collection of current publication titles of interest to librarians, library staff and library trustees. The collection is housed at the ALS Headquarters in Mountain Iron, but all titles can be requested via the online catalog (if you have a borrower’s card from an ALS library) [...]
Great Poster for your library: Libraries Are For Everyone These well-designed, colorful posters with the motto, Libraries Are For Everyone, are available FREE for your use. Artist, Rebecca McCorkindale, created the great graphics and worked to have the motto translated into 100 languages. These posters offer a wonderful way to invite everyone in your community [...]
The state of Minnesota is one of eleven states hosting the Virtual Library Comic Convention (VLCC) in partnership with library services company BiblioLabs. To celebrate comic and graphic novels together even while the pandemic keeps us apart, there will be virtual events being held on the afternoon of July 30, 2020, with free, unlimited registration [...]
The Arrowhead Library System is pleased to announce the availability of the TumbleBookLibrary for all patrons living in the seven county area of Carlton, Cook, Itasca, Koochiching, Lake, Lake of the Woods, and St. Louis counties. TumbleBookLibrary, geared towards youth in grades K-6, is a collection of animated talking picture books, read-alongs, eBooks, quizzes, lesson [...]