by AnnDee Peterson | Feb 3, 2023 | From the Stacks
From the Stacks By Carol Ann Robb, PPL Reference Librarian There are days I feel like I could do my job in my sleep. Or at least on autopilot (and I suspect I have on more than a few occasions). That happens when you’ve been at the same job for oh so many years—many...
by AnnDee Peterson | Jan 27, 2023 | From the Stacks
From the Stacks By Carol Ann Robb, PPL Reference Librarian What better way to commemorate Kansas Day than by celebrating the lives of four women connected to Southeast Kansas? Of course, by celebrate I mean reading about them. Three of the four I’m highlighting were...
by AnnDee Peterson | Jan 20, 2023 | From the Stacks
From the Stacks By Carol Ann Robb, PPL Reference Librarian Make new friends, but keep the old. One is silver and the other’s gold. If you were in Girl Scouts, I’m sure you sang those lyrics as a round at many meetings (and will no doubt have it going through your head...
by AnnDee Peterson | Jan 13, 2023 | From the Stacks
From the Stacks By Carol Ann Robb, PPL Reference Librarian My mother worked at the Mulvane Children’s Library in Topeka during the late 1940’s, before the landmark Brown v. Board of Education court case became law. Although the library was integrated, meaning all...
by AnnDee Peterson | Jan 6, 2023 | Featured, From the Stacks
From the Stacks By Carol Ann Robb, PPL Reference Librarian Winter is not my favorite season. Why not, you ask. Well, first there’s the darkness that starts before I get home from work and lasts until nearly an hour after my walk the next morning, my car’s wonky TPMS...
by AnnDee Peterson | Dec 30, 2022 | Featured, From the Stacks
From the Stacks By Carol Ann Robb, PPL Reference Librarian I must confess, I’m not sorry to see this year end. Don’t get me wrong, it could have been worse but I was hoping for better. Particularly when it came to books. There’s always so much hope at the beginning,...
