In 1867: Following U.S. Senate ratification of the treaty of cession, the largest state in the union, Alaska was formally transferred from Russia to the United States. While in 1989: The spacecraft Galileo was launched from a Space Shuttle on its mission, a first, to orbit the planet Jupiter and send […]
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The library has been experiencing some network issues over the past week which have at times blocked access to our website, Kentucky Libraries Unbound (Overdrive, our e-book and digital audiobook host), and Freegal (free and legal music downloads). We (hopefully) have everything straightened out now and apologize for any problems […]
Update: Kindle ebooks are once again available for checkout. We apologize for any inconvenience. We received a notice from Overdrive that Kindle Ebooks are temporarily disabled, while Amazon attempts to fix a problem with allowing these titles to be checked out.
Freegal 4.0 has just launched, and by the end of the summer the library’s digital music collection will top 7 million songs from over 28,000 record labels including Sony Music Entertainment. The collection also includes over 8,000 popular DRM-free music videos that are also available to download.
Muggles (non-wizard people in the Harry Potter world) everywhere are wishing Ms. Rowling a happy birthday.
Born this day in 1818, novelist and poet, Emily Brontë, was best known for her 1847 novel Wuthering Heights.
With two of this summer’s movies in the park under our belts, we would like to take a moment to thank the City of Williamsburg and Christopher Chiropractic for partnering with the library to make the magic happen. We would also like to thank everyone who attended, and we hope […]
Due to the weather, tonight’s (Friday June 28th) Movie in the Park is cancelled and will be rescheduled at a later date this summer.
Arriving in the library today, these new releases are guaranteed to fly off the shelves. Tami Hoag’s “9th Girl” New on DVD, the zombie romance Warm Bodies In our clean reads series, Barbara Cameron’s Heart in Hand Heather Graham’s paranormal romance Deep Midnight James Patterson and Howard Roughan deliver a […]
The library in partnership with the City of Williamsburg will be showing three movies in Bill Woods Park this summer on Friday June 14th, June 28th, and July 12th. All of the movies are family friendly and will start at dark (approximately 9pm). Christopher Chiropractic will be providing free refreshments. […]