It isn't often that we see brightly colored golf balls rolling through the mysteries, past the investment table, and down the stairs at a library, but that is just what we saw on Sunday at the Downers Grove Public Library. Bonnie and I were among the people who played an unusual and quite challengin...

PVLD is in the process of developing a new strategic plan which is forcing us to both take a hard look at what we currently do and how we do it, and to think about what we want the library......

Just a quick post to share a few articles and links that I have found interesting/useful/funny -- and sometimes all three. These are in no particular order and with no particular theme. Why Facebook is for Old Fogies: A humorous article from TIME with lots of truth mixed in about why adults want and...

Last night seventeen people attended my presentation "How to Manage Your iPod," which we held in our community room at the Thomas Ford Memorial Library. I had asked attendees to bring their iPods and most did. One gentleman also brought his laptop and repeated for himself everything that I demonstra...

I've been spending some time today sorting through the piles on my desk trying to create some order before I head off on vacation.  There is nothing worse than coming back from time off to a chaotic office....and somehow it is even worse when the return to work coincides with the start of ...

What a night! Sixty-three people came to the Thomas Ford Memorial Library on a very cold January evening to hear Joe Filisko, a Chicago-based harmonica artist, play the blues. With the meeting room nearly full, he did just that and more. In the end, he got a standing ovation, something rare for our ...