StoryLab's name has changed to Digital Media Labs StoryLab has undergone a name change in 2016 to Digital Media Labs. This change better reflects the actual services offered in this facility, located at the Main Branch of Tacoma Public Library. As before, we offer digital media production tools to help young artists create their own…
Cubelets: Modular Robots
Through play and experimentation, Cubelets transform from a block set to robots. Click the magnetic blocks together and each arrangement results in a sound, light, or motion. There's no wrong way to build! Ages: 5 – 18 (manufacturer recommended 8 and up) Required: Helping adult and registered child Find the nearest times and locations to…
Great Invention – or Was It…
An interested crowd gathers at the Kent Auto Marshaling complex on August 17, 1970, to see the Vert-A-Pak bulk compact carrier in action. It appears to be a unique way to transport new automobiles. Present in the group is C.E. Crippen, president of the Milwaukee Road, whose organization developed the automobile unloading center. The system…
Monster from the Deep
An unidentified beauty posed with a very strange sea-beast in this photograph taken for the Tacoma Times in August, 1948. Al Meissner and E.C. Berg were trolling for salmon off Neah Bay when this denizen of the deep, an unidentified fish came swimming by their boat. They brought him back to Tacoma with them and…
Minutes of the Board of Trustees June 20, 2018
The 2018-06-20-Library-Board-of-Trustees-Minutes were approved at the July meeting of the Library Board of Trustees…
Stephen Minch Strikes a Pose
Stephen Minch strikes a thoughtful pose in this August 8, 1972, studio portrait. Mr. Minch would author more than 30 books on magic and mentalism, many published by his own publishing house, Hermetic Press of Seattle. See more featured images and posts…
Reason to Picket
In mid-June of 1952, the Pacific Northwest Newspaper Guild, representing the Seattle and Tacoma newspaper reporters, advertising and circulation representatives, and photographers, went on strike against the Tacoma News Tribune over wages. Union pickets, such as Herman F. Hunt (pictured), appeared outside the newspaper's headquarters. The paper's other unions, including the Pressmen, Typographical, Mailers, Stereotypers…
Book Club – In the Garden of Beasts
Join us at Wheelock Branch to discuss, In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson, September 5, 6:30 pm to 7:30 pm. Bestselling and award winning writer Erik Larson offers his most compelling story with In the Garden of Beasts, an intense account of one professor's experience with the "New Germany" in 1933. Suffused with the…
Dying from the heat?
Feeling the heat? Consider visiting Tacoma Public Library, a free, cool, air conditioned space where you can: Meet friends Use computers Study Play games Attend programs like Pokemon League, Robots, My Little Pony Watch a movie Read books and magazines Use the drinking fountain or bathroom Just cool off and take a break…
Point Defiance Boat House
This aerial photograph of the Point Defiance Boat House and Pavilion was taken in August of 1948. Built on the site of the park's first pavilion, this large complex of buildings was the last project completed by the W.P.A. in the park. The pavilion was used for a number of years as the site of…
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