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JCPL offering free Financial Rating Service during Money Smart Week

In celebration of Money Smart Week, Grey House Publishing is providing libraries and their patrons free access to its Financial Ratings Series Online informed descisions about their insurance, Medicare, banking, and investment options. This resource tells users:

Posted: Monday, April 18, 2016 - 12:00am
Bird's-eye view of a woman tending a vegetable garden.

Get refreshed on Earth Day with books from your library

CELEBRATE EARTH DAY APRIL 22nd

On Earth Day, take a long walk and enjoy the breeze and soak up the sun.  Why not plant a tree, vegetables or flowers?  Refresh yourself by walking through a nearby woods and listen to the birds sing.

Posted: Wednesday, April 13, 2016 - 12:00am
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Step back in time with local yearbooks archives

Treasured memories from your high school days can now be accessed digitally via the Jasper County Public Library’s website, where you can find a link to our Yearbook Archive on the library’s homepage.

Posted: Monday, April 11, 2016 - 12:00am
Big Library Read logo and photo of American Sniper cover on tablet and phone.

OverDrive offers free read of American Sniper through March 31

Now through March 31, users from over 21,000 libraries around the world can borrow the eBook and eAudiobook of the #1 New York Times best selling American Sniper without any wait lists or holds via the OverDrive digital service.

Posted: Wednesday, March 23, 2016 - 2:55pm
Man riding a motorcycle while a woman in the sidecar looks on affectionately.

The two-wheeled signs of spring

Is winter officially over with the first motorcycle sighting? I would like to think so. Certainly these brave souls on their (mostly) two-wheeled contraptions must be the harbingers of spring.

Or, perhaps they’re overwhelmingly optimistic. Either way, seeing several riders between our recent “snow events” made me think about motorcycles in general.

Posted: Friday, March 18, 2016 - 9:24am
Walter and Alberta Roorda

Names in Jasper County History - Walter Roorda

Walter J. "Walt" Roorda played an important and vital role for the town of DeMotte, as well as Jasper County. A lifelong resident of DeMotte, Mr. Roorda was a businessman, politician and statesman.

Posted: Monday, February 15, 2016 - 5:48pm
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Indiana State Park Pass available for checkout

In 2016, Hoosiers can check out state parks by checking out an entrance pass from a public library.

Each branch of the Jasper County Public Library now has one Indiana State Park Pass available for checkout to adult cardholders who are residents of our library district.

Posted: Thursday, January 14, 2016 - 1:00am
David Bowie as Jareth the Goblin King in Labyrinth.

Remembering David Bowie

Few artists can boast a career and fame equal to that of David Bowie. For 50 years he influenced music, pop art and culture from Asia, to America, to his native U.K.

Posted: Tuesday, January 12, 2016 - 12:52pm
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How can you help with Human Trafficking?

January 11th is Human Trafficking Awareness Day. It’s sad but true: here in this country, here in this state, people are being bought, sold, and smuggled like modern-day slaves.

They are trapped in lives of misery—often beaten, starved, and forced to work as prostitutes or to take grueling jobs as migrant, domestic, restaurant, or factory workers with little or no pay.

Posted: Friday, January 8, 2016 - 1:00am
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State offering grants for visually impaired readers

If you or a loved one are in need of assistance to see better -- using magnification or other devices -- the Indiana State Library is offering help.

Posted: Wednesday, December 23, 2015 - 5:16pm