Did you know there is a Civic Season? Led by museums and libraries around the country, Civic Season is two weeks every year devoted to programs and events the build our civic skills between the Fourth ...

Have you ever dreamed of writing the next Great American Novel? Do you have a torrid romance burning inside you? Do you know why the aliens are coming to get you, and you have to share the secret of ...

A library location will be open in each ward on Monday, Oct. 14 in observance of Indigenous Peoples Day. Neighborhood libraries will be open from 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial ...

Rosh Hashanah is a Jewish holiday celebrating the New Year. Key customs include blowing the shofar (a ram's horn), attending synagogue services, and eating symbolic foods like apples dipped in honey.

Attending the Know Your Power (KYP) showcase was the best way to end the summer on an inspiring note. Those in the audience included the teen council, members from Pepco and the Library Foundation ...

The Memory Lab provides equipment for personal archiving of documents, home movies and photographs. It's a do-it-yourself (DIY) model, meaning we provide step-by-step instructions, but you control the ...

Create our 2025 bookmarks! Submit your design for the 2025 Southwest Library bookmark by Dec. 1. Winners will receive a gift card to Politics & Prose and have their design printed and available for ...

Pesto the Penguin, the largest penguin chick the Sea Life Melbourne Aquarium in Australia has ever had, has taken the internet by storm. Weighing in at more than 50 pounds, he is larger than his ...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) models such as Google Bard and Microsoft Copilot can do math, generate code, summarize an article, and write realistic, even authoritative-sounding product reviews, ...

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