Saturdays at 11 am in English and 11:30 in Spanish
Mahjong
Are you interested in learning a new game to play with family and friends? Every Wednesday at 10 am and Friday at 1 pm, we will get together for a fun game of Mahjong here at the library. Learn the rules of this traditional Chinese game and play some Mahjong. No experience necessary. For adults only.
LEGO Play Day
Kids, unleash your imagination! On Tuesday, November 21st at 4 pm, join us for free-play with LEGO bricks galore.
Closed for Thanksgiving Holiday
Have a happy Thanksgiving everyone! The library will close early at 1 pm on Wednesday, the 22nd and will be closed Thursday and Friday. We will reopen on Saturday at 9 am.
Teen Club
Are you in middle or high school? On Wednesday, November 29th at 4 pm, come hang out with your friends to do crafts, watch anime, and decompress from the stresses of life.
Holiday Open House
On December 7th starting at 6 pm, we are having a holiday celebration at the library. There will be cookies, musical performances, and a special visit from Santa. Bring the kids to listen to Santa tell stories and to take their pictures with Santa.
hoopla BingePass
A hoopla BingePass gives you unlimited access to great online content for seven days – with a single borrow! hoopla is available FREE with your Liberal Memorial Library card.
If you haven’t tried hoopla yet, it is an all-in-one media service where you can borrow titles in six different formats—audiobooks, eBooks, comics/graphic novels, full music albums, movies, and TV.
Borrow up to 6 titles (also called borrows) per month. You can access the titles you borrow instantly on your computer, tablet, or smartphone. With hoopla, there are no holds or waiting!
To register, please visit your device’s store and download the hoopla digital app, or visit www.hoopladigital.com and go to “Sign up Today”. Enter your email address and create a password for hoopla. After that choose Liberal Memorial Library from the list of nearby libraries.
It will ask for your Library Card Number and Library PIN (password) to finish creating a hoopla account. If you are unsure of your library card number or password, please call us at 620-626-0180 and we will be happy to help. After you are finished, you will log in to hoopla with your email address and the password that you created.
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If you choose to use one of your borrows on a BingePass, you can access all of the content in that collection free for seven days. Here is a list of the currently available BingePasses
Empowers kids to be active participants in every story. Your child can enjoy skill-building activities and hands-on fun for seven days, at no cost to you.
Note: You must download the Hellosaurus iOS or Android app to your mobile device to play this content. No signup is required.
Looking for an easy way to encourage your emerging reader? With Read-Along eBooks, young readers can explore independently or with narrator support and word highlighting.
Does your child love Highlights magazine? Now they can check out fun, interactive content straight from the magazine’s publisher — including puzzles, videos, activities, and more.
Bring story time to your home or take it on the go! With this BingePass, you can view The Reading Corner’s entire collection of more than 900 videos. Designed for kids of all ages.
Saturdays at 11 am in English and 11:30 in Spanish
Facebook Storytimes in English and Spanish
Closed for Thanksgiving Holiday
Have a happy Thanksgiving everyone! The library will close early at 1 pm on Wednesday, the 23rd and will be closed Thursday and Friday. We will reopen on Saturday at 9 am.
Holiday Open House
On December 8th from 6 to 8 pm, we are having a holiday celebration at the library. There will be cookies, musical performances, and a special visit from Santa. Bring the kids to listen to Santa tell stories and to take their pictures with Santa.
Library and Lunch
OnTuesday, December 13th at Noon, our book club will meet to discuss “Seven Days of Us” by Francesca Hornak. Bring your lunch and join the discussion.
Polar Express Party
Kids, wear your pajamas to our Polar Express party on December 15th at 5:30 pm. We will have snacks and hot chocolate while we watch a movie. You can also bring along a pillow and blanket to be more comfortable.
Game Day
On Thursday, December 22nd at 5 pm, come to the library and play video games, board games, and card games. This event is open to all ages, bring a friend or family member to try out a new game! We will also have occasional tournaments on Mariokart and Super Smash Bros.for those interested.
Movie Time
On Friday, December 16th at 4 pm, Come to the library and enjoy a movie and free popcorn! An eight-year-old troublemaker must protect his house from a pair of burglars when he is accidentally left behind by his family during Christmas vacation.
hoopla BingePass
Here is something else to binge after you have finished your holiday feast.
A hoopla BingePass gives you unlimited access to great online content for seven days – with a single borrow! Hoopla is available FREE with your Liberal Memorial Library card.
If you haven’t tried hoopla yet, it is an all-in-one media service where you can browse 950,000+ titles in six different formats—audiobooks, eBooks, comics/graphic novels, full music albums, movies, and TV—and instantly borrow, then download or stream, the titles of your choice!
Borrow up to 6 titles (also called borrows) per month. You can access the titles you borrow instantly on your computer, tablet, or smartphone. With hoopla, there are no holds or waiting!
To register, please visit the Apple or Google Play store and download the hoopla digital app, or visit www.hoopladigital.com and go to “Get Started Today”. Enter your email address and create a password for hoopla. After that choose our library from the list of nearby libraries.
It will ask for your Library Card Number and Library PIN (password) to finish creating a hoopla account. If you are unsure of your library card number or password, please call us at 620-626-0180 and we will be happy to help. After you are finished, you will log in to hoopla with your email address and the password that you created.
If you use one of your borrows on a BingePass, you can access all of the content in that collection free for seven days. Here is a list of the currently available BingePasses:
hoopla Magazines – Read current and recent issues of popular and in-demand magazines.
Curiosity Stream – Watch high-quality and engaging documentaries and nonfiction series.
Great Courses Video – Access to hundreds of the most popular Great Courses Library Collection courses. Use one borrow to access one or multiple courses – whatever you choose.
The Highlights Collection – Delights kids with its positive messages, puzzles, and “things-to-do.”, with more than 200 multimedia series including the Timbertoes, Listen & Learn, Tex and Indi, and Ask Arizona.
Read-Along 2 Learn – Read-Along eBooks allow young readers to explore independently or with narrator support and word highlighting. With topics like sports, animals, emotions, STEM, and more, kids can dig into the world around them at their own pace.
Kids’ Books in Action – As their favorite picture books come to life, kids will get excited about reading while watching the events of their favorite stories unfold in movie form.
KidzVidz – This collection of movies and TV series covers animals, inspirational children in history, and the planet, plus a how-to-draw animals series to jumpstart their creativity!
Hellosaurus – Incredibly engaging, interactive, and educational, Hellosaurus puts kids ages 2 to 8 in their favorite shows. Featuring popular titles like The Wiggles and Love, Diana, children develop life skills independently and safely by having fun. One borrow gets all the Hellosaurus they want for 7 days.
You must download the Hellosaurus iOS or Android app to your mobile device to play this content. No signup needed.
Are you determined to make 2022 better than 2021? Is your resolution to get healthy? Eat better? Develop a more positive outlook? Check out our New Year’s Resolutions book display to find some inspiration.
With hundreds of clear, helpful illustrations, this essential reference covers such topics as how to install a ceiling fan; determining the right amount of paint to buy; how to repair a loose stair tread; choosing the proper child safety gate; and many more.
More importantly, you’ll get expert advice on when a repair is something you can do yourself and when it’s best executed by a professional. In the process, you’ll learn more than enough to speak knowledgeably about any problem with a hardware store clerk, a repairman, or a contractor.
Ego Is the Enemy draws on stories and examples, from literature to philosophy to history. We meet fascinating figures who all reached the highest levels of power and success by conquering their own egos. Their strategies and tactics can be ours as well.
In an era that glorifies social media, reality TV, and other forms of shameless self-promotion, the battle against ego must be fought on many fronts. Armed with the lessons in this book, as Holiday writes, “you will be less invested in the story you tell about your own specialness, and as a result, you will be liberated to accomplish the world-changing work you’ve set out to achieve.”
We all know that we should exercise and eat right, so why is it so hard to follow through? We make excuses for why we aren’t taking better care of ourselves, saying things like, “I’m too tired,” “I don’t have time,” or “I’m just not built to look that way.”
The No More Excuses Diet combines short term goals with healthy habit-forming behaviors to create permanent lifestyle changes. Using a specially designed transformation calendar, readers set clear, personal goals and make an easy-to-follow plan for each day.
The No More Excuses Diet also provides a completely customizable workout guide, with over 50 illustrated exercises designed to build strength, flexibility, endurance, and to shed fat.
Listening is an essential skill worth every effort to learn and to master. Listening takes us out of our tendency toward self-absorption and self-protection. It opens us to the world around us and to the persons who matter most to us. When we listen, we learn, we grow, and we are nourished.
Why do we often feel cut off when speaking to the people closest to us? What is it that keeps so many of us from really listening? Practicing psychotherapists, Donoghue and Siegel answer these questions and more in this thoughtful, witty, and helpful look at the reasons why people don’t listen. Filled with vivid examples that clearly demonstrate easy-to-learn listening techniques, Are You Really Listening? is a guide to the secrets and joys of listening and being listened to.
hoopla BingePass
hoopla BingePass gives Library patrons unlimited access to collections of streaming content for 7 days…with a single borrow. It’s a new way to explore great online content—and a lot of it!
BingePass launched with the introduction of hoopla Magazines and The Great Courses Video Library Collection and the Curiosity Stream BingePass is coming late January.
hoopla Magazines offers 50 popular and in-demand magazines for all ages and interests, such as HGTV, Elle, Popular Mechanics, Fast Company, Inc., Men’s Health, Time for Kids, Woman’s Day, Runner’s World, and many more. These 50 titles are just the beginning—the catalog will evolve and grow steadily over time.
The Great Courses BingePass offers a collection of popular courses curated specifically for Libraries. The collection features more than 300 courses, with each containing numerous lectures. That means patrons can access thousands of learning sessions with a single hoopla Instant borrow.
The Curiosity Stream BingePass will give access to the Curiosity Stream platform that showcases all their documentaries and nonfiction series! With a single hoopla Instant borrow, Library patrons can watch thousands of high-quality videos about science, history, technology, nature, society, and lifestyle, plus some great content for kids! Watch films like The Year That Rocked the World, Royals: Keeping the Crown, Rescued Chimpanzees of the Congo with Jane Goodall, Ancient Engineering, Underworld, Psychology of Con Artists, and thousands more.
All Liberal Memorial Library patrons can sign up for a free hoopla account. If you haven’t signed up yet, call 626-0180 or come in and we can help you get started.
