Join us on Thursday evenings for four gardening programs. Each program begins at 7:00 p.m., and pre-registration is appreciated (call 734-4927, email mmlib@comcast.net, or stop by the library.)

April 19:  Lasagna Gardening.  Get your garden off to a good start with the no-dig, no-till organic gardening method that results in rich, fluffy soil with very little work from the gardener.

The year was 1909. The place was Cherry, Illinois. Lives lost numbered 259 men and boys. Come hear  the story of the Cherry Mine Disaster and the events that surrounded this tragic fire as told by historian Mike McBride. The program will be Sunday, May 20, at 2:00 p.m.  Please let us reserve a place for you by calling 734-4927, sending an email (mmlib@comcast.net), or stopping by the library. Refreshments will be provided by the Mt. Morris Community Library Foundation.

The Mt. Morris Library has joined the OMNI eBook consortium. Mt. Morris Library card holders are now able to access thousands of eBooks, free of charge, through the library website. You must have a valid library card (either resident or non-resident) in order to access this collection. The eBooks are downloadable to your computer or laptop, and are supported by popular reader devices such as the iPad, Kindle,Sony Reader, Nook, and Apple and Android devices. Some audiobooks are also available through OMNI.

Check out our latest book displays, located by the front door. See 50 of the Best Books of 2011 as determined by book critics and readers. These are titles that appeared on lists created by Publishers Weekly, Booklist, New York Times, Amazon, Library Journal, Chicago Tribune, and many others. The most acclaimed books of the year were The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides, In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larsen, The Tiger's Wife by Tea Obreht, State of Wonder by Ann Patchett, and 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami.