The Iowa City Public Library was honored at the Iowa Cultural Corridor Excellence in Innovation Awards in 2010. For the event, ICPL staff created this video that celebrates the 5th Anniversary of the ICPL building and all that goes into a year at your library. Check it out!

THE BIG READ KICKS OFF JAN. 31ST!
The Big Read kickoff: 1-4 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 31; Coralville Winterfest, Coralville Marriott
What better way to spend a cold winter day or night than curled up with a good book? The Big Read will kick off at Coralville’s Winterfest on January 31st. Come find out about the program and [...]

This week’s headlines at a glance.
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Iowa City has lot to offer
Zach Wahls • Writers’ Group • January 17, 2010
Iowa City Press-Citizen
Source: www.press-citizen.com
Excerpt: OK, the library has its critics. But I’ve got to say, the library is awesome. Free meeting rooms. All the DVDs you could ever care [...]

Join your friends and neighbors as we read Ray Bradbury’s classic novel, “Fahrenheit 451,” together in February 2010. The Iowa City Public Library is participating in The Big Read with many community organizations including Summer of the Arts and the Public Libraries of Johnson County.
Towards the end of Fahrenheit 451, the main character Montag, who [...]

This week’s headlines at a glance.
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Rediscovered author’s book to be read statewide
By Mike Kilen
The Des Moines Register
November 1, 2009
Source: www.desmoinesregister.com
Excerpt: “The relationships of the people in the book will provoke all kinds of discussion,” said Susan Craig, the co-chair of All Iowa Reads and Iowa City Public [...]

Did you miss Books & Bagels? Wondering what our staff recommends as their favorite reads for the year thus far? Check out this list of recommended reading from ICPL employees.
Jason Paulios, Adult Services:
The Chalk Circle Man by Fred Vargas
The Magicians by Lev Grossman
Maeve Clark, Information Services:
Homer’s Odyssey: A Fearless Feline Tale, or, How I Learned [...]

With “Driftless,” Rhodes returns to the Midwestern landscape he knows so well, offering a fascinating and entirely unsentimental portrait of a town apparently left behind by the march of time. Home to a few hundred people yet absent from state maps, Words, Wisconsin, comes richly to life by way of an extraordinary cast of characters.

In one of literature’s most haunting denunciations of censorship, Ray Bradbury uses the materials of science fiction to tell the story of a fireman forced to burn books. Join your friends and neighbors as we read Ray Bradbury’s classic novel, “Fahrenheit 451,” together in February 2010.

Looking for a good read or gift idea? Join Iowa City Public Library staff as they recommend a favorite book they’ve read in the last year at this Community Reading Month book discussion. Bagels and beverages will be provided.
When: 10:30-11:30 a.m. Friday, October 30, 2009