Cook Memorial Public Library Podcast

Our local history librarian Jenny Barry shares news articles of animals running wild throughout Libertyville.

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• Loose Pigs in the Libertyville Briefs
• Horse in the Wagon
• Find more on our Local History Page
• Video: Ask Geoffrey: The Hawthorn Mellody Dairy Farm (WTTW)

April 3-9 is National Library Week and this year's theme is Connect With Your Library. In this episode we run down five ways to use the library that you may not have known about.

Read Bronwyn's National Library Week blog post

Explore the Digital Studios

Learn how to sign up for text notifications

Visit our Genealogy page

Check out Mango Languages and other online resources

Book a Pop-Up Playtime appointment

Becky and Nate are back on the podcast for the 7th year in a row to talk about last night's Academy Awards ceremony. They share some of their own opinions about the nominees and other favorite movies of last year. Hear about the night's memorable moments (and boy were there moments), the movies, the performances, and how you can catch up with all of these great films at the library.

To kick off the first podcast episode of the year, Andrea and Erica recommend four excellent books for your 2022 reading list.

This is an edited version of January's Bookies Live Facebook event. Follow the library on Facebook to catch future Bookies Live, every second Tuesday of the month.

In This Episode

• Dan Harris, 10% Happier
• Nita Prose, The Maid
• Charles Cumming, Box 88
• Malinda Lo, Last Night at the Telegraph Club

Believe it or not 2021 is wrapping up and Readers' Advisor Jo is back for our annual episode recounting Cook Library's favorite books of the year!

Make sure you visit either Cook Park or Aspen Drive library to pick up your very own copies of our Fiction and Nonfiction Favorites booklets. Or take a look at them online anytime.

Read Jo's blog posts summarizing the 2021 national booklists for Fiction and Nonfiction.

The Bookies are back just in time for Thanksgiving with some stellar November reading selections all about families.

This is an edited version of November's Bookies Live Facebook event. Follow the library on Facebook to catch future Bookies Live.

In This Episode

Alice Hoffman, The Book of Magic

Laura Dave, The Last Thing He Told Me

Liane Moriarty, Apples Never Fall

Angela Sanders, Bait and Witch

Lauren Groff, Matrix

Jocelyn Nicole Johnson, My Monticello

It's the podcast's 100th episode! And what better way to celebrate than by exploring the library's own 100th birthday. As part of Cook Library's Centennial Celebration, Local History Librarian Jenny Barry walks us through the first 40 years of the Cook Memorial Public Library up until 1960.

Hear what it was like using the library when it was in the Cook House, the early days of the bookmobile, the first summer reading clubs, cutting edge library technologies of the day, and more.

Don't miss our Centennial blog posts detailing the library's history decade by decade.

Register for Monday's program The History of the Cook Memorial Public Library via Zoom.