Bored with a postbox full of bills and junk mail? Postcrossing spruces up mail retrieval while giving participants occasions to get creative with paper and make connections with snail mail lovers from different corners of the world (210 participating countries and territories, to be precise). Originally a side project he tinkered with as a student […]
Books, Board Games, & More with Bryn Hello and welcome to the next installment of Books, Board Games, and More (with Bryn)! It’s September, which means summer is fading and fall is rolling in. Let’s explore some fun options for you in this month of shifting seasons! The Legend of Zelda is a game that […]
Welcome to Anime for Adults, a blog series where librarian Bryn offers suggestions from the Willoughby-Eastlake Public Library’s collection for anime, manga, and graphic novels that might appeal to an adult audience. Just because we’re grown-ups doesn’t mean we can’t indulge our inner otakus! Kicking off this blog series, the first anime I must recommend […]
There are things in the book you could never do in a movie -Noah Hathaway Do you agree? Disagree? Our upcoming reading challenge might give you a chance to ponder. The temperatures are dropping, which means the annual all-ages autumn reading challenge is back! This year, participants will read great works that made it to […]
Last night, Make It Monday featured Eastlake Public Library’s two Cricut Makers, which can cut out custom shapes on paper, vinyl, sticker paper, and assorted other flat materials. A demonstration on using the Cricut Maker was the subject of a previous Power to the WEPL post. For this class, we designed custom stickers using Canva, a free […]
Welcome to Books, Board Games, and More, a blog series where librarian Bryn showcases some of the board games, video games, tabletop roleplaying games, and adjacent items that the Willoughby-Eastlake Public Libraries own! Join us for a unique feature of what’s available to you. In the inaugural post of this series, I am undertaking the […]
The budget bill has passed the Ohio House and Senate and is now headed to Governor’s Desk to be signed on Monday. The bill contains a provision that would restrict where libraries could place materials discussing “sexual orientation and gender identity or expression.” The bill would also require those materials be placed “in a portion […]
We are so excited about the opening of our new Administrative Offices later this year! Our current Administrative Offices have been housed at Eastlake City Hall since 2015. We are deeply grateful to the City of Eastlake for this partnership opportunity. In 2021, during the pandemic, we purchased the old Citizens Bank building at 38115 […]
Thank you to each and every one of you who contacted your representatives and for speaking up on behalf of Willoughby-Eastlake Public Library and all libraries in Ohio. Your efforts paid off. Your stories made a difference. Our voices were heard, and progress was made. The Ohio House changed their budget bill. The state budget […]
Yesterday, the Ohio House introduced their version of the proposed state budget which drastically reduces the amount of funding going to Ohio’s public libraries. The substitute bill introduced in the House Finance Committee proposes to place library funding into a budget line-item instead of using a percentage of the state’s general revenue fund (GRF). The […]
