Talking to children about grief is not easy. Patron Service Specialist Abby Cornelison put together this list of books about grief for children after a patron asked her for help finding books to share with her children who had recently lost someone they loved.
As of May 1, 2023, hoopla and cloudLibrary borrows will be limited to 10 per month. Patrons will be able to borrow up to 10 titles each month from either service.
Today is National Right to Read Day, the first day of National Library Week. Throughout the week we’ll be celebrating the ways our staff serve our community, but there is a reason we are celebrating the right to read first and foremost.
In celebration of April as National Poetry Month, the library will host a Poetry Power Workshop for third through sixth graders at the Downtown Library on April 29 from 10 a.m. to noon.
Attention, OverDrive app users! OverDrive is discontinuing the legacy OverDrive app on May 1 and transitioning users to the Libby app. Libby is OverDrive’s newer app for browsing and enjoying digital content from our library.
Patron Services Specialist Alyssa Telecky put together a list of books she's recently enjoyed.
April is National Poetry Month, and we wanted to showcase some new poetry for adults in the library's collection.
When she was a child, Morgan Miller remembers her local library as the place she would run to when she needed to escape an abusive home.
“That was my safe space. It always has been,” she said. “The library is a safe place for anyone to be.”
Per the Iowa Code section 384.15A, documents for the City of Cedar Rapids total maximum property tax dollars: https://www.cedar-rapids.org/local_government/departments_a_-_f/finance/b
CEDAR RAPIDS – The Cedar Rapids Public Library invites the public to a free morning of poetry, storytelling, and songs with Iowa Poet Laureate Debra Marquart.
The Cedar Rapids Public Library was honored to accept the Jerry Kline Community Impact Prize during a celebration held at the American Library Association’s LibLearnX Conference in New Orleans on Jan. 30.
The Cedar Rapids Public Library Foundation will celebrate five years of bringing Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library to Cedar Rapids children and will mail the 300,000th free book to a Cedar Rapids child in early 2023.