Overdrive

Overdrive

Formally known as Library on the Go, Overdrive offers e-Books and e-Audiobooks, as well as music and videos for certain devices. The Overdrive app can be installed to a variety of different devices, and you can also read and listen to items from Overdrive on your...

August 2015 Prompt: Happiness Happens

August is Happiness Happens Month, a month to celebrate happiness and all the things that make us happy. This month’s Writer’s Station prompt is “The Happiness Box.” The box at the Writer’s Station inside the Library is filled with...
Cloud Library

Cloud Library

The Cloud Library, offered to Rochester Patrons through the Illinois Heartland Library Consortium, features dozen of recent book and audiobook titles. There are Cloud Library apps available for Android devices, iPads and iPhones, Nooks, and Kindle Fire, as well as for...

July 2015: American Dreams

  As we celebrate the birth of America in July, this month’s prompt asks you to think about “American Dreams”. Write a personal reflection (3-5 pages) about what the American Dream means to you. Do you think there is a single American Dream...

May 2015: “A Serious Person” by Steve Knobloch

Sometimes, when a big part of your life ends in a disaster and before you can say, “O, woe is me,” something else comes along and starts you in an entirely different direction.  Sort of like the saying about a door hitting you in the backside as it closes while a ray...