Language learners, there is more out there than just Rosetta Stone!  And it can be much more accessible, with an unbeatable price. I'm talking about the newest library database acquisition: Byki.

     If you want to be entertained by the changing cleanliness customs through the ages and across the world, read The dirt on clean: an unsanitized history by Katherine Ashenburg. Dwelling in depth upon European and American customs, Ashenburg finds fun and amazing trivialities while laying out a case for American over-cleanliness. "'Clean'keeps receding into the distance," she says.

We have our winners:

Ages 5-7 - Hannah Lowden 1st - The Mistletoe

                 Alicia Rubio, Sean Reeves- 2nd-  Winter Castle

    As 2010 begins, the unemployment rate is showing some improvement, but there are still too many Michiganders out of work.  In 2009 the Jackson District Libraries ordered new materials targeting job hunters.