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December 21, 2023

Flexible Tech: ALEX Anywhere, Anytime & Share Your Book Love

December 18, 2023

Awesome Picture Book Reads for 2023-24

International Children’s Book Day is on April 2nd. If we didn’t already have a good enough excuse to read children’s books, this day is for sure one!
December 13, 2023

A Tech-Savvy Library: Transforming Your Services through Automation

December 12, 2023

Wondering What Your Library Management Software Can Do for You? Find out!

December 6, 2023

Winter Wonderland Library Posters

Walkin' in a Winter Wonderland! What are some of your favorite things? Whiskers on kittens is definitely on our list, but so are fantasy novels and reading books cozied up with a cup of hot cocoa. Inspire your students to make reading one of their favorite things with our 2023 winter poster set!
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April 7, 2017

Pick-a-Poet Fortune Teller

It's National Poetry and you can find out which poet your patrons are most like by making this Pick-A-Poet fortune teller.
August 10, 2016

Last-Minute Summer Non-Fiction

School is almost back in session! Did you finish your summer reading lists? If you’re anything like us at Alexandria, you’ve got stacks on stacks of books to finish by the beginning of the school year, end of the calendar year, whatever it may be. Not to throw a curveball […]
August 19, 2015

BOOK REVIEW: THE WINNER’S CURSE

Guest Post by Mia Seventeen-year-old Kestrel lives in an empire where adulthood offers only two choices: get married or join the military. Her father, a general, expects her to choose the latter path, while certain eligible young men hope for the former. Kestrel desires neither. One day while wandering the […]
June 16, 2015

Book Review: Escape Reality with Candy and the Creepy Creatures of Abarat

In Clive Barker’s Abarat, readers meet 16-year-old Candy Quackenbush, a small-town girl with an alcoholic father and weak-willed mother. Candy knows there are more interesting places out there and longs for something weird. When Candy meets the John brothers, a creature with 1 body and 8 heads, she brings the […]