Longest Day Parkway 2022

 We'll be bringing games and books to the Longest Day Parkway this year! 

The Longest Day Parkway is an annual event hosted by the City of Sandy.  This parkway event promotes healthy living and safe transportation by closing the streets of a different residential area every year to visitor traffic in favor of encouraging citizens to walk, bike, skate, and roll. 

Please plan on joining your neighbors to have some fun.  Free hot dogs and other refreshments are served.  A commemorative bag is given out and you can fill them by visiting each department and collecting a special giveaway at each stop.  This is an opportunity to meet City Council and learn more about  SandyNet, Transit, Community Services, Library, Development Services, Police, Public Works, Parks and Recreation, and Administrative Services here in Sandy. The Sandy City Council and staff invite you and your family to join us.

Residents are encouraged to walk, skate or ride their bicycles that evening. While sections of streets will be blocked off for riders, walkers and rollers, there will be police posted at each intersection to assist vehicles to and from their homes. Please use caution while on the roads as unexpected vehicles may appear.

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ebooks & eaudiobooks update

Changes are coming!

Libraries in Clackamas County (LINCC) are simplifying the way we provide ebooks, eaudiobooks and emagazines to our patrons. Beginning Monday, June 27, we will no longer offer content through the cloudLibrary app, and instead will offer ebooks, eaudiobooks and emagazines through the Libby app, starting Friday, July 1. This change does not apply to any other online services. As we approach this transition, we recommend you download and familiarize yourself with the Libby app. Because holds placed in cloudLibrary will not transfer, you should begin to place holds in the Libby app. Wait times for items will appear long until the transition is complete, but afterwards you will enjoy shorter wait times and a better selection of titles. We apologize for any interruption in your reading/listening this change may cause. Please see the list of frequently asked questions or contact your library for more information.

Fanning the Flames of Hate - ilovelibraries.org

“Those who burn books will in the end burn people.”

Edna Friedberg, a historian at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., opened the April 6 online discussion, “Fires of Hate: How the Nazis Targeted Books and Free Thinking,” with an ominous quote from Heinrich Heine. Heine wrote the line in 1821 for a play about the Spanish Inquisition, but it’s become more and more relevant in the 200 years since it was penned, Friedberg said.

“When Heinrich Heine wrote those words … he could not have known a century later that Nazis would burn his books or that they would go on to murder 6 million Jewish people and other individuals throughout Europe,” she said.

Friedberg was joined by Deborah Caldwell-Stone, director of the American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom, and Lindsey MacNeill, a historian at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, for the discussion on Nazi book burning and its contemporary parallels. But it’s not a new phenomenon, Caldwell said.

“We’ve had book burnings from the very beginning, ever since ink was placed on paper or when printing presses began to produce books,” she said.

Watch the talk in its entirety here: 

Reposted from ilovelibraries.org

May Book Clubs 2022

May Book Clubs by Sandy Public LIbrary