Okay, this is a fun one:HPLD staff member Michelle won this year’s Pattie Johnson Outreach Award at the national Association of Bookmobile and Outreach Services conference! The award goes to “a bookmobile or outreach support staff member who has provided exemplary service to their community through bookmobile and outreach services,” and here’s a bit from the ABOS press release: “Through her interactions with students, Michelle has built meaningful relationships that extend beyond book checkouts. She takes the time to engage with students, she provides the spark that fosters curiosity and learning. The bookmobile program, under her leadership, has been a vital resource

Let us take you on a brief journey about the importance of CDs, ending with a bunch of recommendations from HPLD’s catalog. Get all these albums in HPLD’s catalog: Babymetal: The Other One Of Montreal: Lady on the Cusp Babymetal: Metal Galaxy Steel Panther: Live from Lexxi’s Mom’s Garage The Killers: Pressure Machine Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit: Georgia Blue Fall Out Boy: So Much (for) Stardust The Drive-By Truckers: Welcome 2 Club XIII Bon Iver: Sable, Fable Chappell Roan: Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess Yungblud: Idols Thunder: Dopamine

THE HPLD 2025 OCTOBER CULT MOVIE VAULT CHALLENGE! The Rules Below is the full list of categories/movies. This list will remain full and intact for the duration of the challenge. This is a group effort, so as people check movies off from the form, they will disappear. So if you find your category missing from the form, someone else beat you to it! But don’t despair, see if your movie might fit another category. If not, well, you’ll just have to watch ANOTHER! You can check off multiple categories with the same movie, so if something fits two different things,

There’s a big change in the way Libby manages suspended holds! Previously, let’s say a hold was about to come in, but you knew that for the next week, you were dialed in on catching up on your horror movies in preparation for early October. You could suspend that hold, and Libby would ask you, “How long would you like it suspended?” This suspension would keep you at the top of the list (or moving up the list if you weren’t already at the top), but Libby wouldn’t actually deliver the suspended item until the timeframe you chose. So, let’s