If you like watching the birds around your home, the Great Backyard Bird Count (GBBC) could use your help. The GBBC is a yearly citizen science project to track world bird populations. It’s sponsored by the National Audubon Society and the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, and Tacoma Library has helpful resources that can assist you…
Printz Award
The Printz Award is an award for a book that exemplifies literary excellence in young adult literature. Check out all of Tacoma Public Library's Printz winner and honor books. 2019 Medal Winner The Poet X 2019 Honor Books Damsel A Heart in A Body in the World I, Claudia…
Traveling in Style
Both the Bon Marche and Rhodes Bros. devoted a corner window display to a Hawaiian theme in late January, 1958. Mannequins are shown against a Diamond Head backdrop dressed in appropriate travel apparel for a journey to the Hawaiian Islands. Travelers were more formally attired in the 1950s than in later years. Women wore hats…
Great Courses from Hoopla
The Great Courses video series is uniquely crafted for lifelong learners, with engaging, immersive learning experiences that can’t be found in a lecture hall. Join us for a one hour learning session to explore over 130 Great Courses on a wide range of topics about better living, economics and finance, history, religion, high school learning…
Sleeping Beauty Stories For Brave Hearts Only
These five novels share the familiar landscape of Sleeping Beauty’s story, but each imagines the journey across that landscape in wildly different ways. Enchantment This novel tells of a love so strong it brings this pair of seekers together despite profound cultural differences. But now, stalked across worlds by a terrible darkness they have to…
Soviet Gold
In January of 1935, 9,600 tons of gold bearing ore were removed from the holds of the Soviet freighter "Brandon" by huge iron buckets at the ASARCO refinery in Ruston. In 1935, The Soviet Union did not have a large enough smelter of its own to process the tons of ore being extracted from its…
Self Service Food Court
Army personnel could choose from cold and hot snacks at the built-in vending machines at Fort Lewis in January of 1969. Milk, sodas and ice cream were located nearer the right wall and soups and dry snacks on the left. Bright red chairs coupled with turquoise tables provided a cheery atmosphere in which to dine…
Minutes of the Library Board of Trustees December 20, 2017 Meeting
The 2017-12-20-Library-Board-of-Trustees-Minutes were approved at the January meeting…
Minutes of the Board of Trustees October 28, 2017 Special Meeting
The 2017-10-28-Library-Board-of-Trustees-Minutes were approved at the November meeting of the Library Board of Trustees…
Minutes of the Library Board of Trustees November 15, 2017 Meeting
The 2017-11-15-Library-Board-of-Trustees-Minutes were approved at the December meeting…
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