New Michigan Poet Laureate

Nandi Comer, Michigan's Newest Poet Laureate The Library of Michigan is pleased to announce Michigan poet Nandi Comer as the Michigan Poet Laureate. Raised in Detroit and a graduate of Communications and Media Arts High School in Detroit, Comer received bachelor’s degrees in English and in Spanish with an emphasis on Latin American Culture from the University of Michigan. She has received fellowships from Cave Canem, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Vermont Studio Center, Callaloo, and a translation fellowship by U.S. Poets in Mexico. Comer’s writing received the Vera Myer Strube Award in poetry. Comer is the winner of Crab Orchard Review’s 2014 Richard Peterson Poetry Prize. In 2016, she completed a master’s degree in African American Literature from the Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies and a Master’s of Fine Arts degree in Poetry from the English Department at Indiana University. She is a 2019 Kresge Literary Arts Fellow. Over the years, Comer has been dedicated to youth development by serving as a writer-in-residence in Detroit Public Schools Community District and community centers. She has also worked in collaboration with organizations, including YArts and InsideOut Literary Arts Projects. Ms. Comer served as a curriculum developer and youth curriculum consultant for various arts organizations and in 2018 received the William Wiggins Award for Outstanding Teaching at Indiana University. Comer’s poems and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Callaloo, Crab Orchard Review, The Journal of Pan African Studies, Sycamore Review, and Third Coast. She is the author of American Family: Syndrome (Finishing Line Press) and Tapping Out (Northwestern University Press), which was awarded the 2020 Society of Midland Authors Award and the 2020 Julie Suk Award. Comer is currently the director of Allied Media Projects Seeds Program and the co-director of Detroit Lit, a program dedicated to providing reading and professional development opportunities to narrative makers of color in Detroit. Learn more about Nandi Comer and the Michigan Poet Laureate program by visiting Michigan.gov/PoetLaureate. View the full Michigan Poet Laureate announcement press release on the Michigan Department of Education website. A schedule of school and library visits will soon be posted on the Michigan Poet Laureate site.

NOSTALGIC MOVIE TO REMAKE

Your local Lawrence Memorial District Library has this and more. Our latest addition is Twister (2008 remaster from 1996) and Twisters (2024) for your viewing pleasure. These are just a few of the thing available at your library at 107 North Main Street, We look forward to seeing you to assists with your viewing and reading needs.

Nov 16, 2023 One Year Ago: Artemis I Lifts Off

NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS), carrying the Orion spacecraft, lifts off the pad at Launch Complex 39B at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 1:47 a.m. EST on Nov. 16, 2022. Set on a path to the Moon, this officially began the Artemis I mission. For those of you that signed up through your local library to add your name to go to space. The Artemis project will allow this to happen. Over the course of 25.5 days, Orion performed two lunar flybys, coming within 80 miles (129 kilometers) of the lunar surface. At its farthest distance during the mission, Orion traveled nearly 270,000 miles (435,000 kilometers) from our home planet. On Dec. 11, 2022, NASA’s Orion spacecraft successfully completed a parachute-assisted splashdown in the Pacific Ocean at 12:40 p.m. EST as the final major milestone of the Artemis I mission.

Onyx Storm the third in the Empyrean series is in and available.

Rebecca Yarros is an American author. She is best known for the Empyrean fantasy book series, which will be adapted into a television series with Amazon; Yarros will serve as a non-writing executive producer. Yarros graduated from Troy University, where she studied European history and English. The series has three books to date, and we have at least one copy of each. The author promises the series will have five books, in total. The Empyrean did not just explore new territory for its protagonist — it also marked a new literary adventure for Yarros, 43, who had tons of experience with writing about love prior to Fourth Wing, but fantasy? Not so much.

OverDrive ( Libby) Magazines have gone live.

On December 1, 2024 Magazines went live on Overdrive for the Lawrence Memorial District Library. Unlike Books the magazines can be used by multiple user at a time. We encourage you to look and see what is available. Please keep looking here on the Web page for other new and exciting happenings at the library.

OverDrive Magazines live on ( Libby)

Did you know, December 1, 2024 Magazines went live to patrons on Overdrive for the Lawrence Memorial District Library. Although it was soft opening, since that day we have had 87 magazines have been checked out by you from your local library. Unlike Books the magazines can be used by multiple user at a time. We encourage you to look and see what is available. Please keep looking here on the Web page for other new and exciting happenings at the library.

OverDrive to sunset Fire tablet app.

Sunsetting the OverDrive app for Fire tablets Due to a majority of Fire tablet users already using Libby, OverDrive will sunset the legacy OverDrive app on January 31, 2025. After this date, the OverDrive app sunset will be complete on all platforms.

Users with Fire tablets running Android 9 or higher can install the Libby app instead. We’ve been encouraging users to switch to Libby through in-app messaging and will display a new message about the sunset beginning on December 9, 2024.

OverDrive website design and accessibility updates To simplify the design of your library’s OverDrive website, we will make the following updates on January 6, 2025: Remove star ratings on title details pages. Simplify the hold notification display to direct users to their Holds page to take action on available holds.

The simplified “hold ready” notification.

In the coming months, we’ll also make these additional updates to improve accessibility for your library’s OverDrive website: Remove high contrast mode as a user setting, and instead, improve color contrast throughout the site. Redesign the title details page. We’ll send a follow-up communication when the accessibility updates are live. If you have any questions, please reach out to your OverDrive Account Manager.

Thank you, OverDrive

PRELIMINARY BUDGET FOR 2025 AND 2026

The Lawrence Memorial District Library Preliminary Budget is now available for viewing. The preliminary budget will be available during normal operational hours for citizens to review and give comments. At the Library,107 N Main Street Climax MI ,Until March 25, 2025 . A 2025 - 2026 budget hearing will be held during the regular meeting of the Lawrence Memorial District Library boards regular meeting, 107 N Main Street Climax Michigan. The hearing will be posted in the local news paper, The Climax Crescent. The budget will be voted on for approval at the regular meeting after the hearing.

Prom dresses, make your prom special

We can help with that, dresses will be available for you to choose from from our rack of around, One Hundred dresses. Come visit Brenda Eddy on February 22, 2025. Where you ask, The Climax-Scotts High school located at 372 South Main Street Climax Michigan. Dresses will be available from 10:00 AM until 2:00 PM. At low cost to no cost.

TV SERIES, WE HAVE THEM

Come to your local library, Lawrence Memorial District Library at 107 North Main Street, we have TV DVD series. Come by for your binge watching. We have the old and new, we are processing to allow you the patron to take series out in the entirety of a season. Alone with that we are adding series and welcome your input as to what series that you would like in your library. Come buy and see the news addition Tulsa King season1 with season 2 ordered.

World Mental Health Day

October 10, 2024 is World Mental Health Day. The overall objective of World Mental Health Day is to raise awareness of mental health issues around the world and to mobilize efforts in support of mental health. For more information on mental health go to: https://www.who.int/campaigns/world-mental-health-day

ANNUAL COOKIE FEST (Scotts United Methodist Women’s )

Scotts United Methodist Women’s Annual Cookie Fest Saturday, December 13, 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM Scotts United Methodist Church 8458 Wallene Street Scotts, Michigan 49088 Delicious Assortment of Homemade Cookies for the Holidays Prices vary, depending on container size

CLIMAX UNITED MEDTHODIST CHURCH

Community Blue Christmas Worship service Climax United Methodist Church 133 Maple Street dec 21, 2025 6:00 PM

CLIMAX UNITED METHODIST CHURCH

The UMC invites you to join them for a performance on Saturday Oct 18th at 6PM. Open to the public.

Library quotes From Presidents of the United States Of America

Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.

2025 MICHIGAN RENAISSANCE FESTIVAL OPEN WEEKENDS AUG 16th-SEPT 28th PLUS LABOR DAY, SEPT 1 & FESTIVAL FRIDAY, SEPT 26 9AM - 7PM | RAIN OR SHINE!

One of the most common MAP related questions we get is "Will Michigan Renaissance Festival be a MAP partner destination this year?" We reach out to MRF concerning our interest in having them as a MAP partner every year, usually in April. Most years the answer is yes. But there have been a couple of "no" years, too. And full disclosure we never know for sure what MRF's plans are for MAP until August. Today we are pleased to announce that Michigan Renaissance Festival has chosen to partner with the Michigan Activity Pass for 2025. Patrons who use the promotion code Corp2025 will save $5.45 per ticket. Here are the steps to follow with regards to this: Go to the Michigan Renaissance Festival website https://www.michrenfest.com/ Click Tickets Click Ticket Pricing & info Click Purchase Tickets Click Corporate Online Consignment Program Select the number of tickets you want from the dropdown menu Enter Corp2025 in the promotion code field Click Add Tickets Click Continue Enjoy! MAIN ENTRANCE 12600 Dixie Hwy., Holly, MI 48442

LIBBY BIG NEWS !!!

You have more access to even more books Through your Libby APP. Just look below to see how this is possible. Through an RLA ( reciprocal lending agreement) between library Cooperatives in the state of Michigan this is possible. the Southwest Michigan Cooperative, that your local Lawrence Memorial District Library is a member of this was made possible. The Southwest Michigan Library Cooperative is a multi-type library system that is based in the southwest corner of Michigan. SMLC is made up of Public, Academic, School, and Special Libraries.

Library quotes From Presidents of the United States Of America

“If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more new ideas for more wise men reading more good books in more public libraries. These libraries should be open to all—except the censor. We must know all the facts and hear all the alternatives and listen to all the criticisms. Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors. For the Bill of Rights is the guardian of our security as well as our liberty." ― John F. Kennedy

Library quotes From Presidents of the United States Of America

"The libraries of America are and must ever remain the home of free and inquiring minds. To them, our citizens-of all ages and races, of all creeds and persuasions-must be able to turn with clear confidence that there they can freely seek the whole truth, unvarnished by fashion and uncompromised by expediency." Dwight D. Eisenhower