Last spring, dozens of patrons completed the “Warm-Up Challenge”. Participants were asked to read about heroes and daring escapades, in conjunction with the 2024 Summer Reading Program (SRP) theme, Adventure begins at your library. The Warm-Up Challenge is back and ready to embrace the 2025 Summer Ready Program theme, Color Our World. If you want […]
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We’re All Adults Here 2023 WEPL Winter Reading Challenge by Amanda Schoen If you liked our 10 to Try Reading Challenge last year, sign up for our 2023 WEPL Winter Reading Challenge! Participants have until March 15, 2023 to read 10 books from 50 categories selected by WEPL librarians. This challenge is not for the faint […]
WE Library Text Alerts Want text notifications on the latest WEPL news and updates? We’ve got you covered! From general alerts to Book Discussions, with more features to come, you can now stay in the know on all types of WEPL offerings via text messages. This is a free service, and you will receive texts […]
Seed Libraries Help Our Community Northeast Ohio staple Dave’s Market recently announced the closing of its Euclid Beach location. While a new site will open about 10 minutes from the previous spot, this change will impact those who live near the family-owned market. Seniors who live in the residential high-rise buildings in proximity depend on […]
We’re All Adults Here Book Recommendations & Other Musings by Carol Tuttle OverDrive app users, changes are coming! The legacy OverDrive app will soon be replaced with Libby, OverDrive’s newer reading app. You can still use the legacy OverDrive app for now, but we recommend making the switch to Libby. It’s easy to use and […]
We’re All Adults Here Book Recommendations & Other Musings by Carol Tuttle Our popular WE Holds program and has gotten some fresh updates to the author list. Are you familiar with WE Holds? It’s kind of a library subscription to upcoming books from popular authors. You choose from our curated list of authors one time, […]
We’re All Adults Here Book Recommendations & Other Musings by Carol Tuttle We are greeting 2022 with a new addition to our WEPL digital collection that brings access to the current day’s issue of our local paper, The News-Herald. Previously, logging in to the NewsBank database offered full text searching of past issues without photos. […]
We’re All Adults Here Book Recommendations & Other Musings by Carol Tuttle The pandemic has resulted in numerous changes in our world, and one we are noticing in libraries is an acceleration of format change. The biggest shifts are away from CD and DVD formats toward Blu-ray and digital format for AV material. Audiobooks on […]
We’re All Adults Here Book Recommendations & Other Musings by Carol Tuttle I have been doing a lot of reading this summer and the month of September is dropping a slew of new books by great authors. Three that I just finished reading are on the September LibraryReads list https://libraryreads.org/ of books being recommended by […]
We’re All Adults Here Book Recommendations & Other Musings by Carol Tuttle We are starting to appreciate how important truck drivers are to libraries. On July 1, there was a switch to a new provider for the daily delivery service between all libraries (public and academic) across the state of Ohio. Hopes were high as […]
