Attention Birders (Or Anyone)! The Great Backyard Bird Count Is Coming To Tacoma!

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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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