The Second Floor Librarians

I can’t believe September is around the corner already! Where has this summer gone? We can help you ease the transition into fall with a great music event coming up in September.

We have just selected the new titles for our Summer and Fall Book Club meetings. If you have ever thought of joining a book club, now is a great time to start and the CBCPL Book Club is open to everyone.

April is National Poetry Month, a month when I hope to leave the “mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful” (e. e. cummings) world of Oregon winter behind. April 29 is Poem In Your Pocket Day. Choose a poem, pocket it, and carry it.  Share it with family, friends, and coworkers or just cherish it. The Academy of American [...]

Spring is here (more or less), and for many people, that means baseball. What does baseball have to do with libraries you ask? Well, besides our baseball book, DVD, and video game collections, we have a baseball author talk coming up in May.

As many of you know because you were there scooping up bargains, the Friends’ Big Book Sale was the last weekend in February.  What a whopping success with a record $37,000 earned!  It was the first book sale where folks could use their debit and credit cards and about 17% of the sales came from [...]

That is a awfully cheesy title for the post – I apologize. But it’s true! The annual model train show will be at the library next weekend.

The annual Big Book Sale, put on by the Friends of the Library, is coming up this weekend! You’ll find it at the Benton Co. Fairgrounds (map), and the dates and times are as follows: Friday, Feb. 26th, 5 pm – 9 pm Saturday, Feb. 27th, 10 am – 5 pm Sunday, Feb. 28th, 11 [...]

The eighth annual Tcha Tee Man Wi Storytelling Festival, with public performances February 18-21, promises another weekend of both traditional and unique entertainment and workshops for adults, and matinees for children. Most events workshops are in Corvallis, and free.

This coming Thursday, February 25th, at 7 pm, the library is proud to host the first Spring Creek Café, put on by the Spring Creek Project at OSU. Modeled on the popular Socrates Cafés, Spring Creek Cafés invite people to come together in an informal setting to participate in thoughtful, guided discussion on topics of [...]

The Friends of the Library do a great job locating presenters for their wildly popular book review series Random Reviews.