🎃 Drones, Main Streets and Westerns - October at your Library 👻

Drones, Teens, and Tumblebooks @ your library

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October Events

Drones 101
Saturday, 14 October 2-4 pm

Dean Poignant explains all thingsdrone . Weather and local flight regulations permitting, Dean has a flying demonstration and, participants may try out flying a drone and taking a “self-portrait” of themselves with a drone!

Teen Read Week
Monday thru Saturday, 9-14 October

Celebrate Teen Read Week with Karaoke Kraze, Anime Manga Club, Harry Potter Book and Movie Mashup, Costume Party and Drones 101. Check in with Colleen Martin for details

Birds of Prey
Saturday, 21 October 10-11 am

Northern Illinois Raptor Rehab and Education Center presents Birds of Prey. They are bringing 10 live birds of prey to the library including owls and hawks. Learn about raptors, their homes and the important role raptors play in our environment.

Genealogy Basics - Tuesday, 17 October 2-3:30 pm

Learn how to use the library's WorldVitalRecords database to expand your genealogy research past the library's walls.

John Lynn's Main Street, Illinois
Thursday, 19 October 6-7:30 pm

A fun-filled tour of our Illinois towns led by the only person who has visited and photographed all 2400 of them during a 30-year personal project to discover Illinois.

November's classes and events

Introduction to Smartphones
JC with Illinois Valley Cellular provides a hands-on introduction to your smartphone. Bring your phone fully charged for this action-packed class.

Friday Flix - to be announced

Know the 10 Signs: Alzheimer's Early Detection Matters
Find out how to recognize the warning signs and learn why early detection matters. Presented by the Alzheimer's Association, Illinois Chapter. Registration is required. Call 815-223-0229, email perulibrary@perulibrary or stop by the library to register.

Victorian Medicine
Wonder what a trip to the doctor was like in the 1800's? Tricia Kelly tells us about Victorian Medicine.

We are closed November 11th for Veteran's Day and November 23rd for Thanksgiving. Use our eRead Illinois, OMNI, Tumblebooks, Freegal Music, consumer Reports and WorldVital Records while we are closed.

Take me to Events

We have Tumblebooks!

Wanting child appropriate ebooks? Try Tumblebooks. TumbleBookLibrary is an online collection of ebooks for children with animated, talking picture books, read-along picture chapter books, math stories, graphic novels, and more. Tumblebooks is free and unlimited, but Internet access is needed to use TumbleBookLibrary. And it has no due dates or overdue fees.

In partnership with the Peru Elementary School District, we offer Tumblebooks for our younger patrons.

TumbleBookLibrary

Coming Soon - Launchpads

We are adding 6 Launchpads to our collection for use with children, parents, teachers and others. Launchpads are tablets with about 8-10 books and learning games pre-loaded to the device. The selections on our Launchpads will support early and family literacy, focusing on ages 3-7 to provide tools for reading and literacy skills. Since they are not connected to the internet, they can be used anywhere, anytime. We anticipate the 6 Launchpads will begin circulating by late October.

The Launchpads were purchased with a donation from the LaSalle-Peru Kiwanis Club. Thank you to the Kiwanis for their generosity.

I want to Read!

Westerns here, Westerns there - all for you

Like your reading with a hint of campfire smoke? Then check out our western collection!

Our Western books are in both regular and large sized print. The large print Westerns are shelved in the Large Print collection. Westerns in regular sized print are shelved on the reverse side of the new books display.

Authors on standing order for our collection include - Thom Nicholson, Ethan J. Wolfe, Paul Colt, Peter Brandvold, and William W. Johnstone among others. We don't have your favorite author? Let us know.

I want a Western