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At the St. Joseph Township- Swearingen Memorial Library, you will find big city library services provided with a small town friendliness.
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Now it's easy to manage multiple accounts, keep track of checkouts and due dates, and renew items from your mobile device using the SHARE Mobile Library, the St. Joseph Township-Swearingen Memorial Library's new app! Search for books, DVDs, video games, audiobooks, e-books, and more. Find it now in the Apple App store or Google Play Store.
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Celebrate the Holiday Seasons with Biblio+
Santa has officially come down Fifth Avenue which means it’s time to get a jump-start on the Holiday Season! This month we’re featuring a heartwarming selection of Hallmark Christmas movies in our Holiday Favorites category, as well as exciting, star-studded BBC movies and series for the whole family, including our Editor’s Pick: Harry Potter, A History of Magic.
We’re also rounding out the year with the Most-Watched Movies and Series of 2022, featuring “The Librarians” (season 1), “The Bookshop,” and “Sue Thomas F.B. Eye” (season 1).
Our New Releases and New Discoveries programs feature hours of binge-worthy movies and series, from acclaimed documentaries “The Booksellers” and “Moby Doc” to an exclusive LIT Videbooks Lifelong Learning selection “Your Next Five Moves” based on the #1 Wall Street Journal Bestseller, and the popular BBC series “A Young Doctor’s Notebook,” starring Jon Hamm and Daniel Radcliffe.
Remember! Accessing BBC content on biblio+ will require you to update your mobile or TV app. So tap or click on over to your favorite app store and download the latest version of biblio+ to start streaming today!
Explore some of our December featured titles available on biblio+:
• Harry Potter: A History Of Magic
• Your Next Five Moves: a LIT Videobooks Exclusive
• The Booksellers
• A Young Doctor’s notebook (new from BBC)
• The Librarians (s1)
• The Bookshop
• Sue Thomas F.B.Eye• Broken (s1: new from BBC)
• Cranford (s1: new from BBC)
• DCI Banks (s1: new from BBC)
• 2nd Chance for Christmas
• Miracle on Highway 34
• Snowbound for Christmas
• Starlet
• Moby Doc
The library is excited to offer Biblio+, a free video streaming service for all St. Joseph Township-Swearingen Memorial Library card holders in good standing. You will need your library card number and pin number to register. Please stop by the library to pick up the flyer! To get to Biblioplus, go to www.biblioplus.com
Join Shauna Sever, cookbook author, TV and radio contributor, and native of the great Midwest, for this special Illinois Libraries Present holiday season event. Shauna will share her love of food, baking, and some tips to make your holiday gatherings delicious.
As a writer, Shauna’s work is best defined by her baking-centric cookbooks. Her fourth, Midwest Made: Big, Bold Baking from the Heartland, was named aBest Baking Cookbooks of 2019 by The New York Times. She has also contributed food stories and recipes for The Wall Street Journal, Food52, Bon Appetit, The Kitchn, Real Simple, Midwest Living, Food and Wine, O Magazine, and many more. Though her career began in broadcast journalism, and she now talks about pie instead of Hollywood, she uses the same skill set for her regular television appearances on TODAY Show and Food Network. After 12 years of California living, Shauna and her family returned to Chicago, where she now bakes, writes and is always on the hunt for great old-school Midwestern bakeries.
Louisa Chu will join Shauna in conversation. Louisa was named a Chicago Tribune food critic in 2021. She received a James Beard Foundation nomination for the Craig Claiborne Distinguished Restaurant Review Award in 2022. Born in Hong Kong, but raised in Chicago, Chu lived in Los Angeles, then moved to Paris, where she graduated from Le Cordon Bleu. She staged at El Bulli in Spain, then worked as a correspondent for Gourmet, a chef in Alaska and a fixer for Anthony Bourdain. Chu joined the Tribune in 2016 as a reporter, and currently co-hosts the Chewing podcast.
This event is made possible by Illinois Libraries Present, a statewide collaboration among public libraries offering premier events. ILP is funded in part by a grant awarded by the Illinois State Library, a department of the Office of Secretary of State, using funds provided by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services, under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA). ILP is committed to inclusion and accessibility. To request accommodations, please email illinoislibrariespresent@gmail.com.
To register, please click here!
The library has joined the Illinois Libraries Present (ILP), a statewide collaboration among public libraries offering premier events. ILP is funded in part by a grant awarded by the Illinois State Library, a department of the Office of Secretary of State, using funds provided by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services, under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA). ILP is committed to inclusion and accessibility. To request accommodations, please email illinoislibrariespresent@gmail.com. The library is excited to be a part of ILP.
Check back here for more events in 2022 and 2023!
These are our current COVID rules! If you have questions, please call or email us.
1. Masks are not required, use your best judgment.
2. You are limited to 60 minutes or less a day.
3. Curbside service is still available.