Friday, January 13th, 2017, 5:00 - 8:00 PM.
Hang out in the library after everyone else has gone home. Eat pizza, create a personal time capsule for your future self with artist Jessica Van Swol, and watch Back to the Future. When high school student Marty McFly is accidentally sent into the past, he must get home in a time-traveling DeLorean.
As anyone who has lived in the Midwest knows, winter is a time of hibernation for residents. Nothing sounds better than cozying up with a blanket, a hot beverage, and enjoying a book or a movie, listening to a new album, or binge-watching your favorite show.
Your favorite idiosyncratic family of fast-talking ladies is back with Netflix's revival of Gilmore Girls. If you weren't a fan during its original 2000-2007 run, you're probably not going to be interested in the four all new, ten-years-later, 90 minute episodes available to view on Netflix starting today. If you were a fan, you probably know that single mom Lorelai Gilmore was raising her teenage daughter to be quite a bookworm. Over the course of the shows seven seasons, Rory read or talked about 339 specific books.
Things are continuing to change at Eisenhower. We’re creating a new teen space, expanding study rooms, and continuing to offer exceptional programming. In fact, our programming is so successful that programs fill up and people often find themselves on waiting lists.
In the past, I have used this column to highlight new services the Eisenhower Library will be offering you. This time, I am highlighting something we are taking away.
We love movies at Eisenhower and it shows in our programming.
My last newsletter column focused on how Eisenhower has the best customer loyalty program around. Over the last few months, we’ve added even more services available specifically to residents of Norridge and Harwood Heights.
It seems like almost every store has a loyalty program. There are some good ones out there. I am a fan of the Ulta and Sephora loyalty programs. Fannie Schmoe’s Bakery has offered a punch card that rewards customers after so many visits. However, the issue with many loyalty programs is that they track your purchases. Author Cory Doctorow has called this “putting a premium on privacy.” In other words, discounts are only offered when you agree to disclose some of your personal information.
We are grateful to Congressman Quigley’s office for nominating us for the 2015 National Medal for Museum and Library Service.
One of our goals at the Eisenhower Library is to make your experience using library services as easy as possible, including the process of finding materials.
Community. It’s what drives us every day. We spent all of last year celebrating the fact that, in 1973, the people of Norridge and Harwood Heights decided that a public library was essential to their communities.
