Time for today’s NoonDaily Update, our new approach to gathering information and sharing the good things happening in and around Barrington, Illinois. Each day we produce and publish a post at noon
Have you heard about TED, the nonprofit, global phenomenon devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading? Its goal is to make great ideas accessible and spark conversation. A TEDx event is a local version
Love being first to know about a great new find, an undiscovered treasure? Are you the kind of reader who goes through a stack of books every weekend – the more, the
For the last five years, the Barrington Area Library, like many libraries around the world, has offered a “One Book” reading selection. As we met to begin planning our 2016 “Barrington Reads”
It’s no secret that Barrington is full of amazing authors and storytellers. From novelists to poets to historians, many Barrington area authors have published works of the highest quality. However, 2015 will
It’s been way too long since I’ve written a Books & Beyond post on behalf of the Barrington Area Library! Since we successfully completed our renovation project in 2014, we are busier
When I am out and about in the community, I’m occasionally stunned (maybe depressed is a better word) by what people don’t know about the Barrington Area Library. They don’t know we
The Barrington Area Library is “taking over” 365 Barrington this week, (with permission from Liz Luby!) and I thought it would be a fantastic opportunity to tell you about some of the
I’ll never forget the night before our new Youth Services department opened. Everybody on the staff wanted to play with the giant Light Bright, the slide, the LEGOs, and all the other
Excited guests filled the Barrington Area Library for “The Remix” grand reopening event on Sunday celebrating the completion of 14-months of library renovations. From the library’s new “active play” Youth Services Area
We know there was a time when you thought the Barrington Area Library’s renovation project was never going to end. I even had residents spot me in restaurants to let me know
Summer reading clubs at public libraries are nothing new. Children, teens, and even adults register for the programs, log in the books they read, and earn rewards ranging from a free book
My father passed away about a year and a half ago. Losing a parent really leaves an emptiness in part of your heart, and it also diminishes your family’s collective memory. How
I started re-reading The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry this week to prepare for our upcoming interview with the book’s author, Rachel Joyce. The book is the fiction selection for Barrington Reads,
Barrington’s annual community reading campaign, Barrington Reads, is coming up this February featuring two books – one fiction and one non-fiction. Both books will be the focus of a series of fun