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Southwest Library Annual Bookmark Design Contest
Create our 2025 bookmarks! Submit your design for the 2025 Southwest Library bookmark by Dec. 1. Winners will receive a gift card to Politics & Prose and have their design printed and available for patrons at the Southwest Neighborhood Library.
Sweet as Honey: Picture Books About Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur
This October, the Jewish community celebrates three major holidays, Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur and Sukkot. Does your family celebrate or are you interested in learning more about these holidays? Check out these great picture books with your DC Public Library Card!
Pesto Inspired Pasta Cookbooks
Pesto the Penguin, the largest penguin chick the Sea Life Melbourne Aquarium in Australia has ever had, has taken the internet by storm. Weighing in at more than 50 pounds, he is larger than his parents, Tango and Hudson combined and is currently eating more than 25 fish a day! If all this talk of pesto has been making you as hungry as Pesto himself, we have just the reading list you might be looking for. Check out these great books on pasta and add a little more pesto to your dinner routine!
Memory Lab Scanning Guides
The Memory Lab provides equipment for personal archiving of documents, home movies and photographs. It's a do-it-yourself (DIY) model, meaning we provide step-by-step instructions, but you control the process from start to finish. Please review scanning instructions for the format you are digitizing.
Know Your Power Showcase and Ceremony Recap
YFS and DCPL Foundation intern, Selam Weimer, reports on the 2024 Know Your Power Showcase and Ceremony, where the 2024 winners of the contest were announced.
Cathartic Horror (and Terrible, Horrible, No-Good, Very Bad Days)
It used to feel strange to me that people liked horror, liked anything that made them uncomfortable. There are still many things that I’m unwilling to read, even as a librarian and even as someone who tries to read pretty broadly. But I can enjoy it now and even appreciate it as a vital part of storytelling tradition. The below book suggestions and thoughts are a suggested entry point to appreciating October's Scary Reads.