Good-bye to one of children’s literature’s most influential authors:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/09/books/maurice-sendak-childrens-author-dies-at-83.html?smid=pl-share

Love to read mysteries? Here are the Mystery Writers of America’s choices for best mysteries of the past year:
http://www.theedgars.com/nominees.html

The prestigious journalism prizes were named Monday, find the results here. Controversy surrounds the jury’s decision not to name a fiction winner. Novelist Ann Patchett writes on this subject in the New York Times today.

Thanks to everyone who made National Library Week 2012 a success. We’re looking forward to next year!

National Library Week has arrived! Check out the schedule of events here. Choose at least one event and come!

Drop by the library soon, to see the newest 2012 READ posters!

Loras College Library is trying out the fully-featured version of EasyBib; it’s available through mid-April. Give it a try here. Send feedback to heidi.pettitt@loras.edu.

The 1940 census population schedules will be available for research on April 2, 2012, at 9:00 AM (Eastern Daylight Time). This access is highly anticipated and prized by geneaology researchers and local historians.

A name index does not exist for the 1940 census yet. Ancestry.com and FamilySearch have both announced plans to index the census after it opens. But you can locate people by identifying the enumeration district in which they lived in 1940 and then browsing the census population schedules for that enumeration district.

Start your research in the 1940 Population Census here.

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This database contains the full-text of the newspaper from September 18, 1851 through December 31, 2008. It is a digital archive offering full-text and full-image articles dating back to newspaper’s origin. Every issue includes the complete paper cover-to-cover, with full-page and individual article images in easily downloadable PDF format.

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